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I just don't like red badges on icons.

Especially when the implication in the article is the police tried to delete a video from evidence -- and still ended up getting to hide behind qualified immunity.

Ugh.

I don't know how you can claim to love technology but hate AI so much -- it's a technological achievement. Yeah it's disruptive and that makes it dangerous if not managed, and I'm not exactly optimistic we'll manage it, but why aren't you curious about how it works? How to make it integrate with society better? How to deal with the myriad issues surrounding IP, rights, likeness stuff... there is a lot of fascinating work being done around AI to figure this all out.

Were you only interested in technology so you could be one of the chosen elders holding a rare and valuable skill? Bummer if so, I think that ship has sailed. If not sunk altogether.

Otherwise? I guess learn plumbing? I think we're still a few years away from Claude telling me "You're absolutely right! Let me unclog that toilet for you" :D

There's a fast-follow "You're absolutely right!" from Claude pending here. :)

Oracle's icy touch. It was foretold. :D

I do think Claude does jiggery pokery with its model quality but I have had Clod appear any time of day.

What i find IS tied to time of day is my own fatigue, my own ability to detect garbage tier code and footguns, and my patience is short so if I am going to start cussing at Clod, it is almost always after 4 when I am trying to close out my day.

This bums me out so much. It means that we need the concept of "late-stage internet" to join capitalism describing things that were awesome and now they're much worse and getting worse-rer. :/

Here's mine. I use it in lieu of a cover letter if I'm trying to make a new connection. If this doesn't explain who I am at a glance, I'm doing it wrong. :)

https://msxpert.com/cv/

...which is to say nothing of the interchange fees they earned on that "free loan"

> A triangle-shaped piece to guide the extending kitchen sink sprayer hose so it stops getting caught on stuff under the cabinets

Holy hell that's genius. I know what I'm printing tomorrow! :D

I assume people in government, at some level, are weighting constituent inputs by taxes paid. Which keeps it upright. :)

my life was ever so slightly better prior to reading this rantlet. I'm glad someone flagged it. If ever there was a use of the expression "go touch some grass" -- this is it. Of course author has already pre-avowed to never read any reactions to his screed.

I fully expected to age out of tech by the time I hit 40 (just hit 49, still in tech) -- so I do flight instruction, aircraft inspections and relocation. It's tech money but not tech consistency, and has basically pivoted my favorite hobby and turned it into a job, which has its own challenges.

I'm still building it out. Going for my Repair Station license next year and hoping to add pitot-static and transponder calibration to my services menu. I wrench on my own plane, but the liability exposure is insane, so I won't sign work for others.

It's really odd, but I think when I disclose this to my tech masters, there is something of a novelty value, and they appreciate that I can sling code... and also other things. That old "well rounded" trope I guess.

I would think there is some >0 value, if only to find the coveting person and destroy the object in front of them.

People with 4MM lamp money have grand scope for their spitefulness :)

I run Claude Max 200 as my primary. I also have GPT Plus (so Codex) and OpenRouter for MCP calls which I can load via IDE in a pinch.

I seem to have access to Gemini CLI due to one google sub or other, but each time I have a reason to try it, it underwhelms me.

I feel like the recent and strange habit of people telling me, unprompted, all about their assorted minor medical maladies, syndromes, and treatments -- is a form of "I don't always do the right thing because of these tribulations that I suffer"

Like it's pre-loading being an asshole. I hate it. Have your bad day in a way that doesn't continue the dominoes falling and causing other bad days, however much misery loves company.

You stole their username :D

Thank you for FAXing this comment in :)

Seems like the word for this is "complicit"

Imagine hand-crafting a PR and fighting through the AI-generated review comments with no cultural support for pushing back. It's like Brandolini's Law but in github.

Thanks for this. I've been daydreaming about something like this to replace my Lantronix Spider, but... sounds like I'll stick with the steampunk old-tech for a little while longer :)

Moats cost money. Thinking that everything can be commoditized once there is inertia is how we all get Alibaba Maps in a few years.

I would not presume to request changes to HN. I think it's sublime and I love what I discover here.

...but if I did, it would be to wish for a tip jar or some way to give back to the unflappable mods.

I wonder what % of the country (much less the world) make less than 150k and this thread is just shitting all over them. 90%? 95%? 98%?

I'm embarrassed by this whole thing.

I use OpenRouter for similar reasons -- half to avoid lock-in, and the other half to reduce the switching pain, which is just a way to say "if I do get locked in, I want to move easily"

I'm surprised at this expectation.

I work hard to cultivate hobbies outside of programming, but inevitably, I find a way to improve that other hobby with software. I'm just wired like that I think. I love systems. Code is my love language. :)

I'm currently trying to digitize a hopelessly analog procedure to calibrate aircraft engine fuel injection systems. Rpi, transducers, and python to the rescue! :D

I'm good at ignoring these "deals" but oh man my kryptonite remains "spend X more to get free shipping" -- Prime has ruined me for valuing shipping cost.

Literally in buyer remorse right now because I overbought about $80 worth of very lightweight aircraft parts from Wichita to score the free shipping. Shipping of a few ounces of aluminum.

I'm a gullible idiot :D

For my case, and my workload, the answer has always been "RAM is cheap, and swapping sucks" -- but there are folks using Rpi as a NAS platform so really... my anecdote actually sucks upon reflection and I'd retract it if I could.

For every clown like me with massive RAM in their colo'd box, there is someone doing better and more amazing things with an ESP32 and a few molecules of RAM :D

"More RAM than you think you'll need" -- particularly if you virtualize. :)

Blocking is a "no" and also a "I don't even respect you enough to deliver my answer to you or acknowledge your question". About as tactful as ghosting.