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yogibear678142··on Ask HN: What browser do you use?
EWW from Emacs. If Emacs can't render the HTML then the website is not worth using. No JavaScript. I don't want to accidentally run non-free code on my processor.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: How's Everyone Feeling Today?
Bro you gotta fight AI with ai. Just have u AI chat with their Ai while you take a break.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: Is there a marketable "skill" to using AI?
Most developers don't have any experience using AI to it's full potential. If only because it's cost prohibitive.

Commanding legions of AI bots to attack problems. The the skills and best practices of using AI as copilot are different than being a Roman emperor managing a civilization and conquest over your enemies.

yogibear678142··on X permanently banned my 15-year-old account for sharing my own open-source lib
Posting a link could be considered aggressive behavior. I feel much safer knowing AI is the new judge, jury, and executioner of the public square of the internet.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: Advice for first-year CS students?
Yea brah. If AI take over the jobs u gonna be pissed you wasted all u time learning when you could have PARTAYED.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: Thoughts on AI in Personal Finance?
For big stuff like portfolio allocations? Hell no. It's a solved problem with a few good solutions already. Broad market cap weighted indexing, target date funds. Any custom themed portfolio the ai comes up with is bonkers. It may chase recent past performance and load you up with a DRAM themed portfolio. Which may be great for a few years but then you get left behind when you fail to rotate out of dram at the right time. Cap weights have rotation baked in.

For small stuff? Maybe. If it can give some insight into total cost of owner ship. on things like cars. Used vs new. The ai could compare price charts, depreciation, etc to rank some good value buys. But that can be calculated with traditional non-ai logic, just needs data.

yogibear678142··on Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars
3 chicks at the same time.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: Prediction for SpaceX IPO?
Starlink internet is bought and used by normies.

Starlink also has huge military use in modern war. Also the ability to rapidly replace satellites faster than the country you're at war with will be a game changer. fast, cheap, low orbit satellite deployment will determine which AI robot army dominates.

yogibear678142··on Ask HN: Prediction for SpaceX IPO?
Early investors will sell out once the index money hits. No one is going long at current valuation.

After the dump it may be a good time to buy. No doubt conquering space is the next big human endeavour. It's science fiction today but the human race will need to live on spaceships in the future to avoid extinction. As the sun swells to a red giant and engulfs the Earth.

yogibear678142··on Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
Oh yea ticket master owns the venues. The artists can't revolt if they want to put on a big show. Software companies can't compete without dipping their toes into big money real estate property.

Software start ups are all about that 0 cost replication of software. One webserver spawns millions of threads for free. Start ups crack under the pressure of real world costs. Like sure anyone can make a website where users send tweets to each other. But if you have to spend billions of dollars constructing stadiums so Swifties can have an ex-ticket master experience... That's a hard sell to the software guys.

yogibear678142··on Ask HN: How do you stay focused while working from home?
Inertia. The hardest moves are the first few. They must be forced.

Once inertia is created it's easier to keep the ball rolling. You have so much context loaded in your brain you don't want to stop as you know how slow it is to reload into cache.

I'm not a fan of pair programming, especially for things requiring deep thinking. But it does seem to jump start momentum in a painless way.

Don't forgot to have a Zen like coffee break and walk. We are not robots. Squeeze too hard, for too long and no more juice comes out.

yogibear678142··on Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight
AWS may be better than Google on automated authoritarionism. But that's a low bar to beat. Your fate not in your own hands.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
I type in a text box and tell the AI wat to do. Yea my tooling is just a text box. Like Google search is just a text box.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: What game have you replayed more times than any other?
Ditto on minecraft. I get sea sick playing it. But other 3D, first person games like skyrim are OK. Not sure why.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: Why do we snore? And what to do about it?
I thought T2 diabetes was an effect of weight, not a cause of weight. Ie an effect of eating too much sugar.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: What game have you replayed more times than any other?
Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn

A true unicorn of a game. Got the 4 CD pack and ringed instruction manual at Staples in the late 1990's. I think it was $4. Quality across the board. The cd case had incredible fantasy artwork. The thick manual with color commentary from wizards. And the game itself was deep. Unmatched for the 90's.

I don't think of it as a game anymore. It's a masterpiece of art. Nothing will ever be quite like it again. Not nostalgia, just the fact of the matter.

Fallout 1,2 also. Not quite on BG2s level but I still play them. I got both 1,2 as a $10 pack in the late 90s or early 2000's. deep F'ing value.

yogibear678142··on Ask HN: Do you know the ethics of Developers?
Ethics are dumb. There's only actions and effects.

You can make a great ethical decision. Supply a poor country with free food indefinitely. The effect is destroyed farms and starvation the moment a minor conflict disrupts the aid distribution. The road to hell is paved with ethical decisions.

yogibear678142··on Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author
I know right? Ed is so bloated, using your systems memory to hold file contents! When I code I stream via sed for maximum efficiency.
yogibear678142··on Ask HN: What's your favorite Emacs package?
ido. Still the fastest find-file replacement. None of the modern options can match it in keystroke count since they fail to pre select from history.
yogibear678142··on China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000
Well first, the US is not restricting oil through hormuz, even Iranian oil.

Second, the oil market would disagree that blockading a choke point is not effective. The threat of Iranian missiles has reduced the volume of oil on the market. It's a measurable reduction.

And no China does not have pin point accurate missiles. The missed hits on Diego base with Chinese missiles demonstrate that. The nice thing about Iran is they use Chinese tech, and Chinese contractors. It's a good trial run to asses Chinese offensive and defensive abilities. So far they have proven ineffective against western militaries.

Even Chinese deep bunker defense is proving ineffective. Iranian officials are now taking their chances sleeping in tents as the deep bunkers are death traps.

yogibear678142··on China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000
People thought the same on Iran, untouchable. China has the same air defense and tech as Iran, not effective in real world situations.

Blockades go both ways. China is energy dependant so very vulnerable to blockade response by the US and Japan. A few choke points make it easy, the ocean is not open ended.

yogibear678142··on Ask HN: What are you proud of about doing for you health and wellness regularly?
Kettlebells. Double bells I can bang out a quick set in my home. So it's easy to make a daily habit.

cleans, press, squat, rows, farmers carry. It may not be the best tool for all things, but it gives you a bit of everything. Strength. Power/explosiveness with cleans. Endurance, heart pumps.

yogibear678142··on Ask HN: What are the ethics at YC?
Innovative and heart warming. Great way to combine feeding and monitoring in 1 fel swoop. I can think of all sorts of ways this can generate value for shareholders.

Merry nondenominational culturally neutral winter season everyone!

yogibear678142··on Is making the rust compiler slow a billion dollar mistake?
Ya it's a mistake. But there's a trade off for everything. You can't have every positive attribute as some are mutually exclusive.

You could remove generics and speed up the compiler a ton. Then people will be asking if lack of generics was a language design mistake.