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Re:US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:17AM (#50335822)
These right wingers are just not serious people.
Re:US Jobs Pickup May Keep Fed on Track to Hike Rates Again on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:16AM (#50335815)
If we’ve seen anything lately the revenues will be in ads, surveillance, propaganda and “defense”.
Shocking. /s
Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:28PM (#50307241)
It’s of course not “just privilege” but privileged people get to take “risks” that unprivileged certainly can’t.
Not the model I rented (not my first choice anyway) in Jan 2022.
Re:Alberta-made low-tech tractor getting attention worldwide on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:21PM (#50307125)
I own a Kubota and it’s a lovely machine, but I’m also happy to see companies like this trying to solve a problem.
Never forget that McConnell is responsible for the shit state of the country. His Supreme Court bullshit was treason.
The investment to date has been ridiculous and undisciplined. It’s very hard to understand the valuations of these companies. If this wasn’t an election year I think there would be more oversight and critical review. But we have a very unserious party in charge right now.

It’s good that it’s being discussed. We’re tired of the wealth class privatizing the profits and leaving us to cover the costs.

I found the user experience terrible as well - just trying to turn on the wipers or change the heat required trying to remember where they were in nested menus on a touchscreen while driving at 100kmh on the 401.
All articles that expose the Trump crime family and its cronies get pushed to irrelevance on HN.
Re:An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:17AM (#50287763)
I live semi rural and have an oak, maple, hickory and birch on the property. Half an acre is being restored to native prairie. But I do have to “rake” some, and mulch some or the grass will die and the hill I live on will erode.

I do leave as much as I can, and I leave them on the ground as long as I can for insects to hatch. In 3.5 years I think I’ve seen an impact with more fireflies, plus more wildlife activity in general.

Yeah, Madison
Re:Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure on Thursday October 29, 2026 @08:02AM (#50287632)
Or even a little skin in the game for staff that are interested in it.
Re:Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:48PM (#50277843)
I consulted for iridium for 8 years from like 2009-2018. They very much still exist?
Funny how the party that always screams the loudest about election fraud is the party that keeps getting caught (but somehow not really punished) committing election fraud.
Re:Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:48AM (#50272080)
So bezos’ parents were in a position to fund him to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Enron musks dad owns mines, bill gates mom was on the IBM board. It very much has little to do with skill.
You know what MS also did on Friday? Used auto update to wipe out all Mac Office 2021 Licenses to try to trick people in to 365 subs.
Platform was super unreliable for a while after that - although that might be related to making all the software changes to turn it in to an even worse cesspit.

Edit: Enron Musk apologists will always crack me up.

Wow, while I think that large headcount often leads to terrible products (looks at Apple for the last 5 years), MS platforms and software are SO BAD and more un-supervised AI slop code isn't going to fix it. I never want anyone to lose their job but this seems like a massive reduction.
Or both.
Re:Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:29PM (#50224897)
I hate to say this butt I wonder if you could just generate a CSV (I use python for this sort of thing) and send to a vendor to just make the labels for you? (Admittedly this is a North American view point) but it might actually be less effort (time for you) and cheaper.
Re:Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:26PM (#50224860)
Eh, maybe. The ones I know that exhibit this type of behavior are either deeply unhappy or deeply insecure, or both.
Re:Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:23PM (#50224832)
Funny the stuff that gets flagged on HN. Tongue and boots.
Re:No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:22PM (#50224822)
There are some things that current generation LLMs are extremely good at. They also suck for a lot of reasons and appear to be prohibitively expensive to train as "general" models.

hey are amazing tools, but every time I see a task that LLMs helped me complete in 30% less time, I see 5 more tasks that took me 30-50% longer to complete because of errors, lies, mistakes, hallucinations, context limits.

Do not tell me I'm holding it wrong.

Re:Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:05PM (#50214565)
Why does HN want to bury this conversation? It says now it's dupe, but then where is the other one? I looked 7 pages deep. This has 278 point.

HN, SV, it's so gross now.

Re:Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:07AM (#50207671)
The typical supporter and typical MAGA politician, well, they’re just not serious people. Too bad they have done so much damage.
Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:31AM (#50179825)
If people were honest this is probably it true of most. I can do light physical work for 8 hours pretty easily. I can only do knowledge work to a high level 3-5 hours a day.
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:47AM (#50168181)
One can hope.
Re:Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:58AM (#50167423)
Re: feature creep.

I wonder if Apple simply has too many employees?

It’s unfortunate that new features that no one asked for and that degrade the user experience are added to releases with increased frequency ever year.

Re:Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:50PM (#50157172)
I’m not sure anything is worse than Trump. He’s an amazing case study of a complete incompetent that somehow has a solid base of supporters. It’s baffling to me as I’ve always thought he was a crass blowhard and I fundamentally cannot understand his appeal.

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