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f30e3dfed1c9··on Apple capped engineers at a $200 daily AI budget
> That's why those plans are only available to small companies with 150 employees or less.

As far as I can tell, that's not the limit. A team plan may not have more than 150 members but the size of the company doesn't matter. I you have 150 people who need to use it inside an organization of 200, 500, 5,000, whatever, that's fine.

f30e3dfed1c9··on Sam Altman says DRAM capacity should go to data centers, not personal computers
Don't know who Dara is but anyone who "implores" me to watch a video can get lost.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'
> de-googling is itself has its costs

It can, but it depends on how "googled" you allowed yourself to become in the first place. For me, that's not much at all. But if you've been all-in (or near it) for years, with tons of docs, your photo archive, etc. all tied to google, then yeah, moving away is gonna be difficult.

f30e3dfed1c9··on Cormac McCarthy's Library
> Could be that I liked "All The Pretty Horses" even more than "The Road".

Have you read the others in the Border Trilogy, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain? If you liked Pretty Horses, you'll probably like them, too. Pretty sure I've read all three twice.

f30e3dfed1c9··on Cormac McCarthy's Library
> how grim is the the Road?

Not all that grim, at least compared to some of his others. Grimmer than No Country for Old Men, less so than Blood Meridian or Outer Dark. There is at least one very grim scene, though, and maybe some others I'm not thinking of at the moment. Been a pretty long time since I read it.

Grimness aside, I'd rank it simpler, at the level of reading difficulty, than some of his others.

It's a good book but personally, I don't think it's among his best.

f30e3dfed1c9··on Websites Should Be Printable
Too many people are thinking that "printing" here necessarily involves paper. I almost never print on paper but I "print" a lot of stuff to PDF. A lot of that is just record-keeping but some is for other reasons.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Websites Should Be Printable
Maybe it's a weird, unusual edge case but maybe not. Lots of people need to keep records of various things for various reasons. In my personal life, I also "print" lots of stuff from various web sites to PDF for record-keeping purposes. This is absolutely routine for me, I do it all the time.

Thankfully, most of the web sites for which I want to do this — banks and other financial institutions, but others also — have easy ways to create printable receipts because they know that people want to do things like this.

And you can disagree, but when I come across some e-commerce site where printing what I want or need to PDF doesn't work because the site just makes a horrible unreadable mess out of it, I think, well here's a set of "web developers" who are just not good at what they do.

(And yes, I fall back to screen shots when I must.)

f30e3dfed1c9··on Websites Should Be Printable
>I politely disagree. The original intent Tim Berners Lee had [1] was to create a navigable way of finding documents and information. Not printable.

And I politely disagree right back. My particular problem with this has to do with purchasing. When I make a purchase at work, I need something I can attach to a purchase request as a quote. Note that this is often not a formal quote, but rather evidence of what whatever I want to buy will cost.

A simple way to do this is to print a shopping cart to PDF and attach that to the PR. Some web sites do this just fine and others do it horribly. They should do better.

f30e3dfed1c9··on Kevin Bacon's missing clothes finally delivered in Ireland
Oh good, can't tell you how concerned I was about this. What a relief!
f30e3dfed1c9··on Microsoft Teams is a red flag
I don't know whether Teams is worse than Slack. I do know that I loathe Slack, though. Of the software I use almost every day, it is the worst by miles.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Ask HN: Why do developers hate Confluence?
The editor is execrable.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Tesla Roadster
Not beating the "Elon is 12" allegations any time soon.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Tiny Little Office
"violating patent law" is not a "crime."
f30e3dfed1c9··on Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Mathematics Is Not Real
On the contrary, only math is real and everything else is an illusion.

Weird, I thought everyone knew this by now.

f30e3dfed1c9··on We are going to kill "unalive"
"Social media is a big part of people's lives"

Well, there's your problem right there.

f30e3dfed1c9··on We are going to kill "unalive"
"The average person really does not care about any of this, they'll happily write 'seggs' and not think any deeper about why they are writing it."

I'm more online than I should be and don't have the slightest idea what this is supposed to mean. And no, I don't want to, either.

f30e3dfed1c9··on Musk, the Movie
"you can test drive a Tesla for free in most parts of the world"

(1) Test drives are free everywhere. WTF?

(2) Tesla sells cars in about 40 or so countries; Toyota sells in more than 170.

(Fanbois need to learn that the best, most successful car company in the world is Toyota.)

f30e3dfed1c9··on Musk, the Movie
I didn't expect the difference to be quite so large, but apparently, Tesla has sold about 9.72 million cars since 2008; in the same time span, Toyota has sold about 183 million.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Musk, the Movie
"best selling car in the world"

The best-selling car in the world all-time is the Toyota Corolla. The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling car in a single year, 2023. Every other year since 2020, the best-selling car was a Toyota.

(Fanbois are weird.)

f30e3dfed1c9··on CEO of Mistral: AI is software. It can be controlled
"For some crimes the tolerance level is pretty much zero."

Seems hard to think of types of crime for which that's actually true. In the US, at least, it's certainly not true of murder, rape, or other violent crimes. We tolerate quite a lot of that, at least to the extent of never arresting, charging, and convicting anyone.

And it is most definitely not true of non-violent "white collar" financial crime.

f30e3dfed1c9··on I don't like passkeys
Settle down. I responded to the statement "SMS is an ugly user experience and more importantly is expensive" to point out that from my perspective, neither one of those things is true. The "user experience" is fine and to me, the cost is zero.

Then you decided, for some unknown reason, to jump in and... do something, but I'm not sure what. Seems like you're trying to convince me that my own view of my own experience is wrong somehow but — and one might think this would be obvious, but apparently not to you — that's not gonna work.

f30e3dfed1c9··on I don't like passkeys
"This is a discussion about passkeys."

No, that's not the way it went. I joined the conversation, such as it is, to respond to the guy who said "SMS is an ugly user experience" to say no, it's fine.

I haven't shifted any goalposts: I've basically just reiterated to you that I think it's fine and better than the alternatives. Not a word about passkeys from me.

f30e3dfed1c9··on I don't like passkeys
"Good news then, this also works on desktops, even ones without cameras or touch sensors."

All of the 2FA methods forced on me by my employer and most online services that require it require a phone app. So no, it doesn't work on a desktop.

f30e3dfed1c9··on Aging may be a program, not a breakdown
Done with all that, thanks, but not for such narcissistic reasons.
f30e3dfed1c9··on I don't like passkeys
Glad that works well for you. Does not work well for me. I do not care for laptops except when necessary and have come to loathe my phone. Everything important is done with desktop computers that do not have cameras or touch sensors, so biometrics can't work.

In general, I do not have a "device currently in my hands" and having to pick one up and unlock it is annoying.

f30e3dfed1c9··on Ask HN: Why is there so much hype around Jev ?
The flood of posts related to this thing does not seem organic.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Ask HN: Jev - Anyone built anything useful for day to day work with Jev?
The flood of posts related to this thing does not seem organic.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Does an open-weight decision model beat a hosted one? Jev vs. Laya
The flood of posts related to this thing does not seem organic.
f30e3dfed1c9··on Aging may be a program, not a breakdown
"I want the world to look a little bit more like me and my wife."

Yikes.

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