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This is/was absolutely a thing and I saw it happen to others and switched to y’all, I got called out for using “dude” and come on dude, dude is extremely gender neutral in this sense.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @09:10PM (#50217469)
Then maybe you’re onto something here: the hardware is subsidized. Point being that if you want the cheaper, subsidized device, you have to make some compromises.
Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long? on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:23PM (#50098378)
Or a recipe at the end because SEO. Really long articles are a negative signal for me unless I know the author to be good.
Maybe, but even if that were the case nobody is getting a human expert in everything in their pocket for freeish.
Re:Programming Tutorials Are Dead on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:40PM (#49839605)
What was the motivation?
Re:China's Regulators Take Aim at "AI Boyfriends" on Monday September 14, 2026 @02:35PM (#49701730)
This seems like an excuse/conspiracy theory. Hot people could always find hot people: go to where hot people hang out (clubs, hipster bars, art galleries, yoga, etc). What has definitely increased is access to people complaining about hot people not dating them.
I got a 2yr supply just in case…
Re:Carmakers Have a New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:12AM (#49627911)
Also I’d separate HEV and PHEV. I agree a HEV is kinda of meh but PHEVs are, at least for me and getting around the city, the best of both worlds.
Re:A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @11:15AM (#49537586)
Love the logos, colors, and at the same time simplicity. These are so much more memorable than what you see today which I find to be bland or over the top “grafix”.
I thought Sol was on par with Opus, so comparing it to Fable is apples and (very expensive) oranges?
I think your interviewing experience is valid because tech interviews have been designed to filter out people without DS&A experience which a CS degree will give you a big advantage at. Day to day job performance (for the most part, in most roles) will have nothing to do with DS&A though. If you know when to use an array vs a dictionary then you’re good for 99.99% of actual software development day to day tasks.
Classic gatekeeping argument insisting a CS degree is necessary to write good software. I don’t have one and have 20+ year successful career with accolades, know many others in the same boat. Obviously there are CS degree people who were also successful, and the flip side comes for both camps, I’ve worked with absolutely awful engineers with or without a CS degree.

It is a signal, not the signal.

Re:Japan's Gen X workers are struggling on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @10:09AM (#49361863)
Can you explain?
I messed up a recent DIY construction project because I didn’t read it all the way to the end first. My chef wife comes in with “you always read the recipe to the end before starting”…
Re:People are worried about America's solvency on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:36AM (#49332761)
Just finished “Super Sad Love-story” and worrying about this hits hard :grimace:
Is the Taliban a recognized government trying to maintain legitimacy on the international stage that the US pays billions to?
Can’t you just paste the copy into an editor that doesn’t support weird characters like EMacs or BBEdit?
Re:I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video] on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:30AM (#49273972)
Lots of Children of Ruin (Tchaikovsky) vibes here.
Let’s assume we both have nice ranges.

- I can temper on my 7k BTU burner

- I can boil water quick AF on my 18k BTU burner

- setting pan temp isn’t a thing, there are no recipes that call for a pan temp. Oil temp? Sure and that is why you have a thermometer, very solved problem. For browning etc you do it by time and feel, even if you could set a pan temp you wouldn’t just leave your meat on it for some temp x time amount.

Maybe it’s because my wife is literally a chef but you’ll have to pull her gas range/oven out of her dead hands. She’s worked with induction before for years, it is not the same league. For instance, you can’t tilt the pan.
If you do the deep research on this there are many qualifiers to get the result they’re purporting. The main issue is you have to have little to no ventilation to make their numbers work. If you have a hood and or good indoor airflow to a window then this is all propaganda.
Or put differently: code as a means to an end vs code as the end. You need both types, the ratio changes as things change, neither is The Way.
But are either of these Capitalism? Sure they’re capitalist in the way the world works but the OP is touching on ideals and theory.
Maybe but it feels like 1 step forward and 2 steps back. It feels like in the end they’re (companies) still getting 99% of what they had before and the user experience of everything is much worse.
This definitely happened, all my yard/lawn items (mower, chainsaws, hedgers, etc) are all battery. So much better.
Looks and feels like an Android app from 10 years ago and all this hides whatever setup and management went into getting this going. Plex Just Works, and is very easy on the eyes.
Why do you think universal healthcare will make it easier to get the drugs you need? I’d imagine the opposite with additional bureaucracy.
In the short term, in the long term everyone else loses confidence in the country to be a good actor.
Re:Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI? on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @12:53PM (#48909698)
Focusing just on AI wrt our work (let’s say software engineering for now) and letting go the other items. I see a like when this comes up the story is if the AI is doing the arch/impl then what are you even doing anymore? That is honestly not where my value add is, many people can do those two things plenty well, it’s basically commoditized at this point (at a certain experience level). What I bring is all the soft skills and intuition to glue it together and ship and maintain it.

Let the impl go.

Re:Just Pay the Subscription on Thursday July 09, 2026 @10:54AM (#48846944)
You can cancel immediately and still get that initial trial/month! I always do this, especially for apps i aspirationally purchase a subscription for a year for (fitness/language apps).

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