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spiderice··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
How is a Tesla a "statement car"? A Cybertruck, sure. But Tesla's are as normal as anything on the road nowadays.
spiderice··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
Nobody thinks you share the same views as the CEO of your car company. Jesus. GP is right. It makes them seem utterly self-conscious.
spiderice··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
Nice. Just signed up for their pro plan.
spiderice··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
If your organization's "ecosystem" is tied to a specific editor, your organization has major issues.
spiderice··on Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got
You seem way too concerned with "nickle-and-diming" your employer. Which is just as sad as an employer who nickle-and-dimes their employees.
spiderice··on Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards
A random tool like this would be the most entertaining possible way for something like that to be unleashed on the world
spiderice··on Blender Lab
> objectively

I do not think that word means what you think it means

spiderice··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
Better is very subjective here. I hate the colorful, plastic, canadian money. It feels toyish, like monopoly money. Whereas USD feels much more nice to deal with.
spiderice··on Ask HN: Startups should brag less and ship more (guilty as charged)
How long until LLMs learn not to use em-dashes? Literally 100% of the comments on this account have an em-dash in them.
spiderice··on Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
Every ancestor of yours since single cell organisms has reproduced. If they could all do it, you can to. Especially given that you live a more cushy life than 99.9999% of them.
spiderice··on Sam Altman's pants are on fire
Care to enlighten those of us that know nothing about Gary's track record?
spiderice··on Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS
What changed that made selling software (as opposed to renting) work before that prevents it from working now?
spiderice··on Affinity Studio now free
Pixelmator somewhat fits that (minus the half-assed part). Pixelmator is, at least for now, pay once. And given Apple's size I don't see them trying to squeeze customers for Pixelmator subscriptions. It definitely isn't a full vector program at the level of Illustrator/Affinity. But for a lot of people it probably has powerful enough vector editing.
spiderice··on Affinity Studio now free
Yeah I'm not sure throwing away their single advantage (that's not hyperbole) over Adobe is a smart play
spiderice··on Affinity Studio now free
> It will probably be ad-supported by this time next year

It already is. It's an ad for Canva Premium.

I know you mean something different than that. But it literally already only exists to push people to pay for Canva. And they will only get more aggressive with that.

spiderice··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
Apparently ^H is a shortcut for backspace. Good to know!
spiderice··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
Unfortunately changing 2027 to 2030 doesn't make the math much better
spiderice··on Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful
> activity unrelated to what you opted out of

Going to see a movie is obviously not unrelated to buying a movie ticket.

spiderice··on Migrating to React Native's new architecture
How genuine are you being here? Because I've tried doing native apps using LiveView Native and it is ROUGH. The reason I ask is because I would consider using Hotwire Native for a future project if it really is good.
spiderice··on macOS Tahoe
Oh very cool! If you hit CMD+, with Spotlight open it even opens you right to the checklist of sources. Thanks for the tip.
spiderice··on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
So confidently incorrect. The proof that they add value is in their popularity. They also do, in fact, contain ingredients that people don't have at home, which matter.
spiderice··on Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
My mom always used Campbell's Cream of Chicken soup as gravy to put on white rice when I was a kid. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I learned it was actually a soup. Mentally, there is now way I could eat it that way. It'd feel like I was just eating gravy.
spiderice··on Ships are sailing with fake insurance from the Norwegian Ro Marine
TL;DR - If you spend money to fix a broken window, you don't spend that money to replace your shoes.

Thanks, I hadn't heard of that parable before

spiderice··on OpenAI Grove
No, before that
spiderice··on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban
"Louder lunchroom" is a measurable outcome. So is kids playing Poker
spiderice··on From burner phones to decks of cards: NYC teens adjusting to the smartphone ban
> There is no engineered addiction to reading the New York Times, so people just put it down when something else wants their attention.

Tell that to all the absolute news addicts out there. News is very clearly addicting, just like loot box games.

spiderice··on Sequoia backs Zed
If they were already having trouble keeping up, then perhaps taking years off and building Sublime Merge wasn't the right strategy.
spiderice··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
Did they update the blog post? For me, of the 4 examples in the post, 2 are men and 2 are women.
spiderice··on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack
> a nation-state. Let's say the US, EU, or China decided for some reason that it was in their national interest to blow up Bitcoin

Irrelevant and impossible to "know", given that it hasn't happened yet (if it ever does)

spiderice··on Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
How does one even copy their entire codebase? Are you saying you attach all the files? Or you use some script to copy all the text to your clipboard? Or something else?
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