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robotburrito··on Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany
They should instead recognize free software.
robotburrito··on Technical Deflation
Does anyone really read any of this stuff anyway?
robotburrito··on Rivian's TM-B electric bike
Throttles are so lame. They make these things motorcycles that pretend to be bicycles ridden at 20+ mph in bike lanes by people who mostly haven’t ridden anything at all for 20 years so they lack the knowledge of etiquette and bicycle handling skills putting a bunch of us a risk IMO.
robotburrito··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
I love Zulip. We used it before our small firm was purchased by a large company that moved us to teams. Great software!
robotburrito··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Join us now and share the software. You’ll be free.
robotburrito··on Why is GitHub UI getting slower?
Can’t they use their AI to rewrite the entire thing to be faster?
robotburrito··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
Does this matter? Aren’t we like a year from AGI? /s
robotburrito··on Bluetooth Jammer
This would be quite useful for taking out people who use Bluetooth speakers on hiking trails :)
robotburrito··on Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities
So will this end up destroying public transit for them to eventually 6x the price?
robotburrito··on San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time
Weird. I’ve lived here for 12 years. Things seem slightly better if not the same.
robotburrito··on Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System
I’ve tried a few times to use software like this but nothing for me competes with the simplicity of a shared file folder and VLC.
robotburrito··on Axum 0.8
I want to try this sometime. I’m in the process of learning rust by creating something using rocket.rs. Apparently this is out of style and more people use Axum now. But I’m going to keep going with rocket.
robotburrito··on It's okay to code on nights and weekends
I’m the type who always has a side project going. But I do sometimes wonder why we don’t expect plumbers to go home after their 8 hours and mess around with their home plumbing lab in the basement for another 2 :)
robotburrito··on Most people don't care about quality
If everyone cares about quality in their specific domain it just adds up to a society being higher quality in general.
robotburrito··on Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
I will work on actually connecting with people IRL. It’s always been my tendency to retreat socially but Covid was the final nail in the coffin for my social life. So I will go out of my way to spend time with others.

Also I will keep working on learning rust for no particular reason at all :)

robotburrito··on Remembering Cyberia, the first ever cyber cafe
I had an account on the cyberia BBS. I think it was my first BBS ever.
robotburrito··on In 2024, it really is better to run a startup in SF
Sure is nice to meet your co workers in the Golden Gate Park and live near arguably, the most beautiful locations in the US.

If you’re working yourself to the bone at a startup may as well do it somewhere nice.

robotburrito··on Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech
I like this project. I used it to create a website that lets me turn a list of articles on the web into a podcast I can subscribe to via my phone.
robotburrito··on Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?
I'd probably just own some kind of cycling adjacent coffee/bicycle shop where I barely do anything but nod towards my workers and talk with everyone who visits.
robotburrito··on Quill v2 – Rich text editor
For a second there I thought this was https://quill.art/
robotburrito··on Employers feel the side effects of drugmaker control over Wegovy, Ozempic costs
It would be interesting if some insurance companies ended up offering you a "healthy life" service where they give you time w/ a nutritionist/therapist or even provide healthy foods. Maybe this would be cheaper for them and would stop you from having to take these pills to begin with.
robotburrito··on Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels
Most of the "tech bros" and "SaaS sisters" I know came from working class means. They might make six figures, but still can't afford a home.
robotburrito··on How much faster are the Gnome 46 terminals?
It's crazy to me we exist in a world where we can render hyper realistic 3d scenes and play games that once felt like they would be impossible to render on consumer grade hardware AND in the world where we are still trying to perfect putting text on a screen for a terminal LOL :)
robotburrito··on California fast-food workers will get $20 minimum wage, starting Monday
Goofy question, but what stops any restaurant in CA from just running out and buying a $200 bread machine?
robotburrito··on Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for 'low skill, repetitive' tasks
I wonder what happens if your consumer base has all had their incomes replaced by AI? Who buys your product your now making with it? Does AI just lead to the end of capitalism as we know it?
robotburrito··on The public needs to know the ugly truth. Students are SIGNIFICANTLY behind
I have to hope this is mostly FUD or these teachers are using examples from dysfunctional communities drowning in poverty and crime.

Otherwise we are headed towards idiocracy where anything complicated was just automatically handled by AI created when the populace was capable which let the society stagnate on auto pilot.

robotburrito··on 23andMe's Fall
I understand your take, and in many ways regret sending my data to them, but through this service I did find 6+ siblings I was not aware of, as well as my father. So it does provide some benefits.
robotburrito··on Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
I wonder if he will end up bringing Carmack back?
robotburrito··on Sorry. Your car will never drive you around [video]
Agreed. You could also maybe have special tracks in these roads that the cars could attach to so they would not need tires. Additionally I bet you could link them together so the robots could carry hundreds of people at once. I bet you could even run them on a regular schedule so people can use them to commute on the regular.
robotburrito··on Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36M Xfinity customers
This might be bad for Xfinity. A lot of their customers may leave them for a variety of readily available competitors created by the dynamic free market economy.
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