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mlinhares··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Yeah, service areas between between PA-NJ-NY were always pretty good, I miss those today driving here in FL today, where its mostly shitty gas stations where you have to ask for a key to use the restrooms.

You don't get the Norway views but its also not a complete mess.

mlinhares··on Zillow to pay $212.5M to settle class action over failed real estate venture
Everyone is a genius in a bull market. I remember a friend saying they were going to buy teslas to then re-sell them at a higher price around the same time because "teslas aren't like normal cars, they're an appreciating asset".

Thankfully he ended up not having enough money to pull this off so didn't lose everything either.

mlinhares··on Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
Why?

Media control has been a mainstay in the US government for centuries, the only way to be surprised about this is by not having studied anything about US history.

mlinhares··on Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce
The market is depressing.
mlinhares··on Despite Iran's Attacks, Gulf Oil Exports Exceed Prewar Levels
Money finds a way.
mlinhares··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
nah dude, my mom and dad both worked full time, if they ever dreamed i was disrespectful to a teacher i'd be grounded for a month.
mlinhares··on Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?
It has and parents are very much to blame for this.
mlinhares··on Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
In this very specific case I don’t think this is what is happening. Data center investment is the only thing keeping GDP positive, the moment this stops the real situation of the economy will become visible to everyone and they don’t want that.
mlinhares··on A warning about 'model welfare'
yeah man, someone needs to turn on the server, install shit and get the agent go. agents don't take action without a lot of people wanting them to take action, so this is all bullshit.

if the same people can't prevent the agents from doing crazy shit then they should go to tail. guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people.

mlinhares··on A warning about 'model welfare'
agents don't swarm anything unless people go and direct them to do that.
mlinhares··on The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
That’s not common and effective, it’s buzz feed style articles.
mlinhares··on Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)
Same. I do not use LLMs for writing and I recommend everyone i work with to do the same. Even for code, I come to the code with the idea of what I want and provide that to the agent, then we iterate on what needs iteration or decisions.

Just did this for some caching, started with the structure of what I wanted the cache to look like, asked the agent to start the work, didn't like how the architecture came about, scratched it and rewrote the whole thing, so it fit the model I now wanted.

Was also just having this discussion with friends, that I can only think seriously about a subject if i can put it to paper (even virtual paper). Writing lets me organize my thoughts, clearly define my assumptions and see if any of it make any sense. I can't imagine what it would be like if i couldn't write, my brain just doesn't work without it.

mlinhares··on The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
I have a 2023 Yukon that i like very much but i'm not going to ever replace it by another Yukon without carplay. By the time its not drivable anymore the kids won't need strollers and I'll likely pick a smaller car with car play.

They could have had me trading it in this or next year for the newer model (that does have some nicer things i'd like to have, like the larger infotainment screen) but the lack of carplay and the shitty native google maps and spotify products that come installed on it are are not acceptable for a car that sells for 90K USD.

GM decided it had all the cards, looks like they don't.

mlinhares··on When declaring an incident becomes everyone's favorite workaround
Maybe there's the option of hiring better people as well so you don't have to babysit them at this level. If you can't trust teams to open incidents maybe the problem lies somewhere else.
mlinhares··on 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online
Some people survive by sheer luck.
mlinhares··on Why do I lose my passion and want to do nothing?
Because the factories of factories is mostly bullshit. OpenAI blogged about how it was complicated for them to build a project using AI alone and the specs in the repo, how easy it was for models to get lost, not do what was expected of them and the burden it was on the team.

I don't think we will never get there but we're definitely not there yet. Models still require a lot of handholding to get things done.

mlinhares··on I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
No one gets promoted for writing good docs.
mlinhares··on Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter
Being poor sucks but at the same time being poor also makes you find alternative solutions to the incredibly expensive solutions first world countries use today. I really wish Brazil can invest heavily into renewables and free itself from oil and electrify even more of everything we do.
mlinhares··on Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”
what an insane thing to have a patent for.
mlinhares··on Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones
I use claude and codex to write nearly all my code today but i can't accept using it to write prose. I still handwrite every single document I have to write and have them review and propose changes, i feel like if i can't put my own ideas into words for people (and claude) to work on i've completely lost it.
mlinhares··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
The agents will leave the data center and buy stuff from the local economy, didn’t you hear that?
mlinhares··on Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
The number of geniuses in every field that congregate in HN is incredible, too bad they're here responding to comments instead of revolutionizing nuclear energy, math or medicine.
mlinhares··on Did they ghost you?
The chance of a single hire being a make it or break it for the the business is pretty much null, so a single recruiter not having continuity in the processes they were doing once they get fired isn't really something to optimize for.
mlinhares··on Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI
Yes, the administration is definitely and would not start a war for no reason other than to start a war.

People really have to stop sanewashing the government, it doesn't work anymore, these people are not thinking through what they're doing.

mlinhares··on John C. Dvorak has died
same, read a lot of what he wrote back then.
mlinhares··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
The landlord also pays property taxes, so this comment must be trolling.
mlinhares··on New US homeownership measure puts people first
Life is much harder when you don't have a roof over your head or when that roof can be taken away from your or take more from your salary than you were anticipating. I don't think people understand the psychological safety of knowing you will not pay a single dime more on a loan for your home for 30 years. It completely erases that worry from your head.
mlinhares··on What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
I had a pretty high rank on ruby and java answers, with some high traffic stuff, there were always people trying to completely edit my answers into something else entirely, it was such a shitty experience that I just decided the effort wasn’t worth it.
mlinhares··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
The last thing a billing system should have is defaults, this is such an insane thing.
mlinhares··on My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded
Hard to meet a modder that isn't a loser like this.
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