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officialchicken

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    Comment #49185894

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49111515

    Also, "better" is doing a lot of lifting here, meaning it still fails regularly.

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    Comment #49110764

    This isn't the first year either; maybe US tech companies should start obeying the laws.

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    Comment #49107922

    Totally agree; we're approaching a time where a single processor has hundreds of threads - it's a conceptual limitation of the author's preferred language that was never considered…

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    Comment #49101265

    I don't use the the builtin testing framework, or std, and I often explicitly use a no-heap crate. Check out Embassy and you'll be free to ignore pretty almost everything suggested…

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    Comment #49069437

    Being a curmudgeon is not good engineering leadership. "Seeing everything" is just old people being wistful, not actually contributing or doing in the now. I deployed (via ftp) my …

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    Comment #49057834

    What does this have to do with startups?

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    Comment #49056523

    > I had to look what "clinical failure rate" means That should have been the end if the comment; the follow-up by demonstrating such expertise just has me laughing.

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    Comment #49047945

    Are you the person paying for the hallucinations, or do you just like the free high?

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    Comment #49035377

    Bottom line: How do these layoffs increase the successful outcome of product launches on the platform in any way?

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    Comment #49035001

    Knots? Spindle? Bobbin? And they say skeuomorphism is dead.

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    Comment #49033460

    If your product MSRP goes up 10x because of a single OPEX line-item, the failure isn't the product, it's the business leaders.

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    Comment #49023580

    Why jump to complex technical and policy solutions when an Open Weights AI champion trophy, in solid gold, is being requested by the Commander in Thief?

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    Comment #48930942

    > I am prone to a sort of grandstanding that can elicit such responses, which I believe to actually That's HN being HN.

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    Comment #48918542

    After all of that, you still seem to be familiar with the concept of "fairness". And yet you feel you shouldn't try anything because you don't have the perfect universal answer... …

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    Comment #48886487

    Compulsion to respond to random posts

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    Comment #48849400

    "Internet" enabled devices, or "railroads" - for example.

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    Comment #48815507

    ... and engineers don't have to consider this a good look coming from the head of YC. These are rookie mistakes - generated by both the human and AI model in a collaborative proces…

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    Comment #48775688

    Sure the term has been enshittified - but this is MIT licensed. I think that helps rebuild the integrity of the phrase "Open Source".

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    Comment #48763965

    > unmodifiable blockchain Ahhh, this old trope. Fork it - trivial to do when you have consensus.

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    Comment #48763736

    How many other 40+ year old keyboard models do people still regularly use today? The Model-M reputation earned more than a click.

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    Comment #48641788

    > You can either be resourceful and find a way or find a whole bunch of excuses. How about addressing this false dichotomy with the likelihood that someone who is new or interested…

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    Comment #48566797

    > This is bananas to me. Theres been successful entries to snow plow competitions for ages. Why do you hate subscriptions? What if you get a summertime snow storm?

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    Comment #48477730

    How are corruption and enshittification related?

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    Comment #48473541

    "Legally required" ... gotcha, script writing on Melania Movie 3 has begun in exchange for a national security letter requiring Amazon to both keep the data and not exclude it from…