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candiddevmike

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    Biggest thing hurting folks is RTO. Unless you live in a large metro, tech jobs are slim/none.

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    Comment #47281247

    That has been undone now, though.

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    Comment #47267047

    More and more I realize I am completely obvlious to all of the class signaling happening here. I couldn't imagine spending that much on anything, let alone a watch. And I certainly…

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    Comment #47266267

    Everything is out of stock for me. Also seeing weirdness where I can't see product details unless I add it to my cart.

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    Comment #47263083

    I'm getting some kind of chrome security warning when using zscaler now. Discussing all of this with non-techies, I think folks are overwhelmed by all of the security warnings they…

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    Comment #47262045

    Yea, I'm done hearing "the wheels of justice turn slowly..." bullshit. People have had their lives ruined, far quicker, for far less.

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    Comment #47262014

    Colocating data and discounts. Cross cloud transfers are painful, and Google has a ton of on-cloud easy button integrations with Gemini and their data products.

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    Comment #47261977

    There are direct ties from the administration to companies offering hedges against tariffs. There was absolutely an evil plan, IMO.

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    Comment #47261800

    It's COVID PPP all over again... Expect more asset inflation.

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    Comment #47257286

    I mean, they are? GCP usage/revenue is growing faster than AWS and Azure. Mostly driven by Gemini pushing folks onto the platform and them deciding "why not move everything else to…

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    Comment #47246755

    The "time to market" folks finally have everything they could hope for, let's see all of that business value they claim is being missed due to pesky things like security, quality, …

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    Comment #47241446

    > and it wasn't long ago before LLMs couldn't do math They still can't do math.

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    Comment #47223081

    How do you do on-device inference while preserving battery life?

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    Comment #47221186

    > every type must have a default/zero value in Go Hot take, maybe, but this is one of the few "mistakes" I see with Go. It makes adding QoL things like you mentioned difficult, req…

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    Comment #47213655

    AMP lives on, mostly as AMP for Email and used by things like Google Workspace for performing actions within an email body (allow listed javascript basically).

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    Comment #47212417

    But we have OpenAPI at home

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    Comment #47212227

    A brave new world for fraud and returns. Also I just recently noticed Chrome now has a Klarna/BNPL thing as a built in payments option that I never asked for...

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    Comment #47210681

    The irony of living in poverty and then owning a house that you list on Airbnb "for extra income". And deluding yourself into the key to financial success is being a bag holder for…

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    Comment #47185431

    > They just need to put all of the engineers on HN out of work. I think you've crossed the line from being an AI maxi to just rage baiting. This comment is a pointless anecdote at …