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Re:UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s on Sunday June 14, 2026 @11:29AM (#48528267)
The posters account is 89 days old, it's a shill.
The irony of your comment...
Re:Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:04AM (#48033984)
> You can do REST in many different formats, it mainly just needs to be structured data and self-discoverable.

REST has nothing to do with structured data or discoverability.

Re:Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident on Monday April 13, 2026 @07:54PM (#47759496)
You're right but it seems there's no room for sarcasm in a place full of autism...
Re:Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident on Saturday April 11, 2026 @01:44PM (#47732501)
Because government violence is not the same as individual violence!
This sounds like a place I want to work at.
> With AI, it is like coding is on GOD mode

Which mythical AI are you using that does this?

All the ones I've tried feel like little toddlers that completely miss the point, forget half the requirements mid way, are adamant that they are completely correct then have the gall to act an authority when you point out glaring issues.

I take way less time doing it myself vs coaxing an AI to get a decent solution that catches all edge cases.

AI for me is only useful on subjects I know nothing about, and even then, given I know how bad it is in subjects I know everything about I take everything it says with a megacrystal of salt.

No driving technique will let you see the toddler that ran to your rear wheel by the time you got into the car.
Re:Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML on Sunday December 28, 2025 @01:34AM (#46408965)
All of those can be done with pure html/css, eg. https://codepen.io/mikestreety/pen/yVNNNm
You didn't answer the question, it's your reply that is useless.
How is lmgtfy rude?
This is exactly what happened.
Re:McDonald's is losing its low-income customers on Friday November 21, 2025 @07:15PM (#46010699)
Profit is after costs+investments removed, not just payroll.
Re:McDonald's is losing its low-income customers on Friday November 21, 2025 @07:13PM (#46010679)
You're correct, it's wrong. I googled it, guessing AI just hallucinated that.
Re:McDonald's is losing its low-income customers on Friday November 21, 2025 @01:32PM (#46007311)
Amazon made $311B in 2024, they employ 1.5 million people.

That's $200k an employee, on top of what their regular salary is.

McDonalds made $15B and employ 150k people, that's $100k per employee.

So no, not negligible in the slightest.

This sort of work culture ruined the world way more than social media ever did.
Re: on Saturday November 01, 2025 @06:50AM (#45780679)
https://frame.work/gr/en/products/laptop13-diy-amd-ai300/con... with the AI 7 350 because I was concerned on heat but given the choice to buy again I'd go with the HX370.
Re: on Friday October 31, 2025 @10:27PM (#45778777)
I have done real work, using a computer 10+ hours a day on every ecosystem, Windows, Linux, Mac. I've used each for ~10 years a piece.

My most recent laptop died and it really showed me what I appreciate in a laptop, performance, build quality, lightweight, good battery, low noise, good ergonomics.

I was sick of the recent overheating generation of pc laptops that don't last more than a couple years under my usage.

As a result I decided to try to switch back to a macbook after a decade hiatus.

The hardware is good but the software is absolute garbage. Trialing it for a week the amount of bullshit that is MacOS was enough, and Asahi wasn't there yet either. Instead I decided to get an AMD framework laptop.

Best decision ever.

I have a laptop that's got great quality, can be upgraded without paying a $5k tax, can replace the keyboard for $100 instead of $700, it works with me rather than against me and my wallet.

Re:I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86 on Thursday October 30, 2025 @06:27PM (#45766144)
Windows 7 couldn't run Windows 7 software either.
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:29PM (#45741153)
The real wtf is that they consider $33k for four hours of 'treatment' a win.
Re:Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice? on Saturday October 25, 2025 @06:06PM (#45707365)
Lmfao at direct and harsh, that's not a leader, that's a boss. Leaders show the way, bosses tell the way, you my friend are neither.

The difference between you and me is that I've got the experience to have seen this play out multiple times, you on the other hand are making baseless assumptions.

Don't ask my rate, you can't afford it.

Re:Ask HN: Not treated respectfully by colleague – advice? on Saturday October 25, 2025 @03:22AM (#45701958)
You don't seem to have gained his respect with your engineering skills.

Publicly challenge (and beat) him in a small engineering contest, otherwise he will never respect you.

Make it time limited, eg. 3 hours to implement a specific goal with clear indicator of what is "better" as a score, ie. to avoid arguments that eg. "mines fast, mine scales". Have a neutral party pick the challenge.

Too bad parsing english wasn't your strong point.
This conversation isn't for you, you're not a programmer, you're a developer, a modern day script kiddy.

Programmers wrote the StackOverflow answer and wrote that library.

Re:One-man spam campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @08:21PM (#45522109)
> EU politicians exempt themselves from this surveillance under "professional secrecy" rules

This right here is the problem, a good leader leads by example, not exemption.

Re:KDE is now my favorite desktop on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:09PM (#45295053)
"old-school" ... I remember when they were the hot new thing...
Re:Irssi: IRC Client in a Docker Image on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @04:15AM (#45273208)
Don't be ridiculous, IRC is not a protocol that remembers, you need High Availability otherwise if the IRC client goes down you've lost important messages from bloodninja that you can never find again.
> ending up in a mess such as 20 columns named is_something_enabled

Mess? I'd call a column called `flags` containing a bunch of arbitrary numbers the mess.

Bitflags have use cases, but this isn't one of them.

Well actually....

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