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jjmarinho··on Show HN: Mercury – No-code orchestration for human and agent teams
Honestly I don’t even bother with interfaces anymore as I really like using voice dictation with Whispr + Claude, feels much more natural.

But actually building these teams of agents is a thing I didn’t try yet. So would be interesting to see how the platform evolves to support power users like me.

jjmarinho··on Biohackers take aim at big pharma’s stranglehold on insulin
It's still the wrong question to ask.

We should ask what are the outcomes that these systems produce, not how new the drugs are.

A cutting-edge healthcare system plagued by inequality and extreme costs can produce worse results than a more efficient healthcare system which is not as high-tech.

jjmarinho··on Docker for Mac M1 RC
I mean, its 2021 and you still cannot fractionally scale the resolution without slashing your battery life and losing 30% of your processing power (and some random stuttering on all applications).

Having a 15.6" 1080p screen basically means i need to choose between using my glasses all day or using Windows.

jjmarinho··on We bootstrapped to $11M in ARR
> Spare me the "Life is cheaper in the 3-world non-sense"

You obviously don't know what you're talking about.

I'm from Brazil. If you paid me $40.000 yearly to work remotely i would be a top 3%~ earner.

This would entitle me to:

- Renting a 60m2 2bdr, 2bath appartment in a top neighbourhood of São Paulo

- Having a really nice car (by brazillian standards)

- Top notch health insurance in the most respected hospitals in Latin America

- Easily keeping 1/4 of the money for investments and private pension

jjmarinho··on Docker Raises $23M
WSL is not even close to 5-6GB of RAM.

My current instance of Ubuntu 20.04 is hogging around 1200MB while running rust-analyzer and some other devtools.

jjmarinho··on How Amazon Crushes Unions
If ALL jobs around you are underpaid, maybe it's your work that is not as valuable as you think.

I'm not saying this is fair.

jjmarinho··on The Y Combinator Experience – Remote Edition
Someone from Latin America here.

Your impressions are correct. While some violence is greatly exagerated to paint a picture (For instance, Chicago, St Louis, Baltimore, Washington are more violent than São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro), it still is MUCH safer in Europe or Sillicon Valley/New York.

jjmarinho··on We Don’t Use Docker
If multiple cores/threads shouldn't be considered vertical scaling, what should?

Overclocking a single-core processor from 2.8Ghz to 4.2Ghz can only take you so far after all...

jjmarinho··on Rockstar thanks GTA Online player who fixed load times, official update coming
If the 500 million figure is correct, you would need only a 0,02% (1/5000) increase in spending for a change to be worth $80.000.

Diminishing the notoriously bad load times of GTA:Online by 70% could probably do that. I actually never got into the multiplayer because at the time my HDD was taking several minutes to load the game.

jjmarinho··on Toronto swaps Google-backed, not-so-smart city plans for people-centred vision
Too bad that from 2010 to 2020 Toronto experienced its lowest population growth ever. But go on and keep believing that it's somehow the immigrants fault...

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/20402/toronto/population

jjmarinho··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
That's Big Sur. It's actually versioned as Mac OS 11 and brings macOS much closer to iOS in terms of feel and looks.
jjmarinho··on Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
Dropbox has 2500~ employees, and obviously this is just an anouncement. In some years we will have a clearer understanding of the tradeoffs.

My suspicion is that companies that will fully embrace the "internet way" of doing things will have success.

jjmarinho··on Dropbox Converts to Permanent WFH
It's not a zero sum game. WFH can simultaneously save money for the company and for the employees.