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seanclayton··on Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds
> Movember stuff or International Men's day stuff

Which one was it?

seanclayton··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
a loss of 7 million dollars in a 49 million dollar account is tiny, TIL
seanclayton··on GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
> Maybe we should train them to be evil

"jarvis, learn to be evil. no side effects. no unintentional behavior."

seanclayton··on Show HN: Rustable is an open source database client built in Rust
Language changes.
seanclayton··on Show HN: Rustable is an open source database client built in Rust
Meanwhile macos prompts users to not run signed software?
seanclayton··on Alleged Mythos Class Anthropic Checkpoint Leak
That seems to be reality, and reality is as realistic as it gets
seanclayton··on DoorDash to acquire Instacart
Profit? Who cares about profit today in tech? It's tomorrow's profit that matters. Whenever that is.
seanclayton··on DoorDash to Acquire Instacart
A resounding victory for workers and customers, right?

Right?

seanclayton··on Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI
Exactly. The person or people above him who wanted AI to be used against his will will ultimately achieve their goals---no matter what his beliefs are. At the end of the day, his views of humanism are futile against the force of those in favor of AI acceptance.
seanclayton··on Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce
What's bad about the Luddites, in your opinion?
seanclayton··on Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code
Code being highest priority is the last line of defense against human intent being misunderstood. If it isn't given the highest priority, the last line of defense for human intent is done during the spec creation. Am I getting that wrong?

I'd rather have a car built by people who made sure the code was highest priority and the code driving the assembly line robots was up to spec, versus having a car built by people who made sure the spec was highest priority, and the code driving the assembly line was not.

seanclayton··on Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless
> It only makes Google look unprofessional and paranoid

Yet, the stock ticker kept on rising after the incident.

seanclayton··on Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
seanclayton··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
> Steam hasn't meaningfully changed in a decade

They completely rewrote their UI? Do you not remember the old library? The old downloads page? The old big picture mode? You may be suffering from selective memory

seanclayton··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
But why would I ditch Firefox?
seanclayton··on Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
As someone swimming in debt and on the verge of homelessness, I wish I could afford that life of complete luxury.
seanclayton··on Heat May Kill 451,000 People in First 9 Months of Super El Niño
A small price to pay, but the stock market is doing great.
seanclayton··on Xbox continues its “reset” with dramatic restructuring
343? Do you mean Activision?
seanclayton··on I think I hate the internet
What seems more likely: There are literally zero people working on a web alternative, or all existing alternatives and forks are so unpopular that you have never heard of any of them?
seanclayton··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
What hardware player other than Apple would you give that same trust to?
seanclayton··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Businesses trust brand names, not efficiency.
seanclayton··on CDs vs. NIMBY
> most people

Citation needed*

seanclayton··on Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth
Love the tariff refund coming back to the customers pocket in a strong and meaningful way. A good move from Tim Apple here.
seanclayton··on Why some US restaurants are banning tips
No tips for the wealthy! Sucks to be poor in America, get rich losers!
seanclayton··on Erik Brynjolfsson says an AI "job apocalypse" is unlikely
You're right, it's going to be an AI bubble pop job apocalypse. Good luck finding jobs when no one is hiring after a crash.
seanclayton··on Stop Making TUIs
Ah, people who build and enjoy TUIs have never built a GUI. What a wonderful assumption to make about people :)
seanclayton··on HTML Can Do That
> All these great built in features, especially typeahead, wont be mainstream until they can be excessively styled.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/a-customizable-select

seanclayton··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Things can easily change for the worse, such as a stock market crash. Who knows? Will we get AGI or will we see more homeless? History says... AGI for sure!
seanclayton··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
Unlike GitHub's universal standard? Forgejo already has a near 1:1 github action format for forgejo actions. You can even use github actions in forgejo. You cant have AI build it out for a few tokens? Why are you so certain of failure?

Interfaces exist in programming languages. The strategy pattern is one of the gang of four patterns. I'm sure a good engineer or an AI can figure it all out or is that too hopeful? Unless Sentry engineers or AI are too incompetent to make adapters? I hope not, the market is in big trouble if a dev tooling org cant make tools for where devs are

seanclayton··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
> a standard

Like a specification[^0], which is exactly what ActivityPub is and what federation in Forgejo is built around?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub

I'm sure that sentry and co could spend a few bucks and commit a KPI in one of their upcoming quarters to figure out the activity pub spec and support integrating with it if their hearts desired. It's a chicken egg problem and we all know chickens exist. It's clear that the centralized model is getting left behind, especially as the EU is moving away from US services and they continue to invest in open source, European-based alternatives like Codeberg and Forgejo.

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