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gman2093··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
This seems to have kicked off a bit of an arms race. Smaller cars are more dangerous to drive as other cars get bigger.
gman2093··on Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE
Many people have advocated for this to reduce the speed of impact. Rugby has similar amounts of hitting, but fewer concussions.
gman2093··on AWS Lambda Web Functions
AWS also tends to have hardware that is available for you to use.
gman2093··on DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
Wow, that is wild.

"Is an expert at making pasta salad"

I am pretty good. I forgot I got those ingredients at WF. I guess it liked that recipe.

gman2093··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
Really depends on where you live. I find it's much better in bigger cities. Universities will have commercial-free stations. Also, more competition for the larger listener markets.
gman2093··on Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)
Property taxes are too low.
gman2093··on A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
Arbitrary remote code execution, maybe sold to the highest bidder like some shady cloud provider?
gman2093··on Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't
Also, I don't think LLMs have invented a way to make our applications maintenance-free. At some point outages become very costly, and a 24/7 support schedule for 1 dev is going to have trouble scaling. When production is down, we generally don't have some frontline staff vibecode it back up.
gman2093··on Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw
Black hat hacking seems to be a well-fit use case for these LLMs. Attackers only need to be right once, so the sometimes-wrongness of the attacks might be trivial. This probably devalues stashes of zero-day exploits for those that have been witholding them.
gman2093··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
Alternatively, and sometimes more cost-efficient: you can find a developer who can write bespoke if statements. There are dozens of us!
gman2093··on Honda is killing its EVs
Not just bikes did collect some data for a youtube video here: (Skip to 13:03 for EVs specifically)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

In summary, ICE vehicles are louder, but not by as much as you might guess.

gman2093··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
It also decreases the consumption rate. introduction of immigrant populations has not been shown to increase the unemployment rate, rather the opposite.

https://www.epi.org/blog/immigrants-are-not-hurting-u-s-born...

gman2093··on Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers
Most systems use fresh water for cooling. Salt water can corrode pipes and deposit sediment, but maybe there's a way to use ocean water efficiently.

They also need to be powered and connected to a network, but that seems like an easier problem.

gman2093··on RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
Excel/google sheets can be no-code, low code, or full-on VBA macros. I think they are pretty helpful.
gman2093··on America's economy looks set to accelerate
Beans, boots, and bullets. You can't eat gold.
gman2093··on I Test Drove a Flying Car. Get Ready, They're Here
This seems worse than the Dubai quadcopter taxis in general, but it would be cool in niche situations. I wonder if it can be adapted to land on water with inflatable landing gear.
gman2093··on DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix
We have these smaller wheeled vehicles on a college campus, I'll note that they are not autonomous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1yDtLhRygs
gman2093··on Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems
apex predator of grug is complexity
gman2093··on Why We Should Care About This War over the Future of Money
I would have considered this article as overly grandiose a year ago. Part of me wonders if there is some possibility that this is becoming a more prevalent thinking. Even if bitcoin crashes to $0.01 USD, it still has some usefulness as a way to transfer value (Western Union's market cap: $2.77 billion). If the mighty dollar eventually falls out of favor, is the volatility enough to drive people away? Can it become a collective delusion to rival gold? For the near and medium term, I think giz user 'curry for breakfast' had a relevant comment:

"Money? No, not money, just dollars, and specifically dollars because that's all that are at stake here.

The bitcoin bubble could burst tomorrow and the rest of the world, and their currencies, which are backed by their nation's economies, will trundle on as happily as they've always done.

The only real losers would be the unlucky crypto gamblers. Wrong bet, wrong time. "

gman2093··on A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs
"We'll burn that bridge when we come to it"

- one of my favorites

gman2093··on American Disruption
If this were a goal, the USA would not want to push other countries into China's sphere of influence. The simpler explanation is that non-tariff taxes require congress and are not fully under control of the executive branch. This allows the executive branch to seize the power of the purse.
gman2093··on Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage
Also, don't shrink away from toil or lack of pleasure- to an extent.
gman2093··on PagerDuty to Lay Off 7% of Staff; Revenue Officer to Exit
I work for a company called "Fetch" and I call us "Fetchens"
gman2093··on Plant-based meat is turning out to be a flop
>JBS, Tyson, Danone

It is in the best interests of these companies to preserve the status quo of sub-par veggie burgers

gman2093··on Is forced treatment for the mentally ill ever humane?
With respect, your statement about ECT is not aligned with reality. ECT is evidence-based and effective, with side effects that are less pronounced in many cases than drug-based therapies. It is approved for use in pregnant patients in the USA. One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest is not peer-reviewed.
gman2093··on Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?
Some places make money selling software, some places make money selling out their employees!
gman2093··on Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire
You jest, but they are absolutely on it
gman2093··on The Fed has made a historic mistake on inflation
You can't eat gold or bitcoins.
gman2093··on Ask HN: Does your team use feature flags?
Seems like a lot of folks here and at spotify do, as do we at my gig. Where do you keep your feature flags? Do you have to perform a reset to update them or do you cache them for X minutes?
gman2093··on Living Like It's 99, No Social Media, No Smartphone
I think there's still a market for slide-out keyboards on devices. They felt a bit janky in the 00's but I would still be first in line for the next android (or even ios, unlikely) device with such a feature. In high school I could send texts without having to look away from my counter-strike games.
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