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lab14··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
Capitalism doesn't work like that. The promise of "less work" is only possible if you're the only one that can unlock those productivity gains, but if your competitors are also able to access those gains, they will eat your marketshare if you just work less.

The whole post is just a deep misunderstanding of what it means to live in capitalist societies.

lab14··on Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
Tried it a few times with English, Spanish and French and the quality/accuracy is pretty "meh". If the model doesn't really work, it doesn't matter if it fits in 1MB.
lab14··on Decisions API is in public beta
How is the pricing vs Jev?
lab14··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
BS. They just replaced alcohol with weed and a bit of amphetamines.
lab14··on Apple Watch Ultra 4
How much of your networth have you donated to the starving people? Nature is pretty metal and doesn't care about justice. I thought we all learned this in school.
lab14··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
Surely those won't ever get fixed...
lab14··on Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
"Punching card expersite is going to collapse from interactive terminals reliance"
lab14··on Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
Tell that to Shopify that handles 8.15 million requests per second and processes $5.1M USD per minute in sales during Black Friday. You scale your architecture, not your programming language.
lab14··on Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?
tell that to Shopify that handles 8.15 million requests per second and processes 5.1 million per minute in sales during Black Friday. You scale your architecture, not your programming language.
lab14··on Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
STE is part of the training set, so the skill is redundant and only pollutes your context window.
lab14··on Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here
Workflowy is awesome.
lab14··on MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control
I'm assuming you can launch them again after 8 hours.
lab14··on FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home
i'm OK with meditation, as it doesn't require believing in superatural, all powerful beings
lab14··on FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home
I mean, you see smart people all over the world talking to imaginary, supernatural, all powerfull beings asking for favors via prayers, like that would have any effect on their lives.
lab14··on Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler
"plansturbation" is a real industry, there are tons of successful YouTubers that sell millions of dollars in tutorials, courses, books, etc on how to setup your productivity harness
lab14··on GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
it's not that deep, once a company reaches a certain size it gets ridden with middle managers looking for their next promotion. middle managers are gonna middle-manage.
lab14··on What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog)
"most of the time" != 100% pass rate
lab14··on What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog)
a test pass rate of 100% is a fairy tale. maybe achievable on toy or dormant projects, but real world applications that make money are a bit more messy than that.
lab14··on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
my point wasn't about using the "original rules", on the contrary it was about discarding uneeded ones. totally missed the point, but hey thanks for your contribution.
lab14··on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
totally missed the point, but you do you.
lab14··on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
> It's hard to take your argument of "removing capitalization has made my writing better" seriously when your comment history shows that you do capitalize your written text.

right, because i couldn't have adopted this writing style in the past few weeks.

to address your second point, i could probably make better use of punctuation, but the original message is still delivered without all the fluff IMO.

lab14··on Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar
to me, the goal of written text is to put an idea or a concept in the mind of another person. _capitalization_ is one of those "arbitrary rules" that add absolutely nothing to this process unless you're using an obscure acronym. in my mind, it's one of those ancient rules that are completely obsolete in the modern world. its only purpose is to allow others to say "i am better than you because i use this ancient rule that someone came up with a thousand years ago, so i'm smart and you're dumb".

being a non-native english speaker, removing capitalization from my writing removed a ton of anxiety when writing text and didn't change at all the landing of my messages or my ideas.

lab14··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
- meh, i asked what happened to Virginia Guiffre and it told me that she's alive and well living with her husband and children in australia

- i pointed out that she died on 2025 and then it told me that my question was a prank with a gaslighting tone because that date is 11 months into the future

- it never tried to search the internet for updated knowledge even though the toggle was ON.

- all other AI competitors get this right

lab14··on DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data
"why do you get mad at me when I do bad things? don't you see others are doing bad things too?! is it because you hate me?"
lab14··on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup
Perhaps for extremely basic products. Most non-engineers can barely write and untangle their messy thoughts and you think they can just build a spec for an AI to build a product? Hopefully I'm wrong, but I doubt it.
lab14··on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
Ah, thanks Internet stranger. TIL.
lab14··on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres
> so if you’re hosted there, it should be about the same latency as using their managed DB service.

yes and no. In my AWS account I can explicitly pick an AZ (us-east-2a, us-east-2b or us-east-2c) but Availability Zones are not consistent between AWS accounts.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

lab14··on Rob Reiner has died
(tangent) for those of us who had close experiences with addiction in our families, it's so obvious why "give them money" or "give them homes to live in" isn't a solution to homelesness. A close family member owned 3 properties and still was living in the streets by choice because of his addiction which evolved into a full blown paranoid schizophrenia. He almost lost it all but he was forcefully commited into a mental institution and rehab saved his life.
lab14··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Is there any time in human history where this wasn't the case? Genuinely curious.
lab14··on Show HN: Centia.io – Open PostgreSQL/PostGIS back end for developers
Does it work with pgbouncer?
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