PedroBatista (u/PedroBatista)

PedroBatista commented on Apple, What Have You Done? onlinegoddess.net/2026/01... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

They're making some historically terrible decisions.

Now we're all going to have to pay for Gemini model storage, probably 2 to 4 GB.

That means we're probably paying $10 per-device for the storage required to have Google's model on "our" devices. Which we never asked for.

They could just make it an optional part of the install. Does anyone really care about the on-board "intelligence"?

Gemini FFS.

PedroBatista · 15 days ago

Ironically, Google is the safer bet and this might have been a correct decision from Tim Apple.

AI is changing at a rapid pace ( still ) and OpenAI is no longer the only game in town at the top, plus their finances are.. something we’ll hear about the next year and Sam Altman is an incredible unscrupulous person with past actions and decisions catching up to him. Not exactly the situation you want to partner with.

At this point you don’t need your AI on Apple devices to be revolutionary, it needs to work and be better than the current situation which is not difficult.

Gemini 3 is quite good for the general public, Google has the money to keep playing the AÍ games and also played ball with Apple, OpenAI only has 1 or 2 of those going for them.

PedroBatista commented on Apple, What Have You Done? onlinegoddess.net/2026/01... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

coldpie · 16 days ago

It's so funny watching the proprietary OS folks despair as their software falls to pieces to make shareholders richer, meanwhile my Linux distro has "just worked" since 2007. You don't have to keep running on this treadmill, folks.

PedroBatista · 15 days ago

The delusion of the “Mac just works” crowd is only matched by the delusion of the Linux “year of the Desktop” crowd.

They share the same trait of “it works on my machine, I like it, therefore it’s my identity and everything else is wrong”

I use Linux regularly as a second OS for more than 15 years. Driver compatibility improved, software design and quality didn’t, in fact it suffers more or less the same problems of other mainstream OSs.

Linux on the desktop has been winning because the others got bad at a faster pace, I’m not sure there is anything to be celebrated.

PedroBatista commented on Elasticsearch was never a database paradedb.com/blog/elastic... · Posted by u/jamesgresql

toenail · 25 days ago

Dunno, I've had three node clusters running very stable for years. Which issues did you have that require a full team?

PedroBatista · 25 days ago

Even most toy databases "built in a weekend" can be very stable for years if:

- No edge-case is thrown at them

- No part of the system is stressed ( software modules, OS,firmware, hardware )

- No plug is pulled

Crank the requests to 11 or import a billion rows of data with another billion relations and watch what happens. The main problem isn't the system refusing to serve a request or throwing "No soup for you!" errors, it's data corruption and/or wrong responses.

PedroBatista commented on Elasticsearch was never a database paradedb.com/blog/elastic... · Posted by u/jamesgresql

PedroBatista · 25 days ago

I really never understood how people could store very important information in ES like it was a database.

Even if they don't understand what ES is and what a "normal" database is, I'm sure some of those people run into issues where their "db" got either corrupted of lost data even when testing and building their system around it. This is and was general knowledge at the time, it was no secret that from time to time things got corrupted and indexes needed to be rebuilt.

Doesn't happen all the time, but way greater than zero times and it's understandable because Lucene is not a DB engine or "DB grade" storage engine, they had other more important things to solve in their domain.

So when I read stories of data loss and things going South, I don't have sympathy for anyone involved other than the unsuspecting final clients. These people knew or more or less knew and choose to ignore and be lazy.

PedroBatista commented on Ask HN: Share your personal website · Posted by u/susam

PedroBatista · a month ago

https://pedrobatista.eu

PedroBatista commented on Mozilla's open source AI strategy blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/nalinidash

PedroBatista · a month ago

Good decision for a change, now looking at execution track record and ability to stick with it..

yeah, that's where the bad news start.

They have a tendency to go from trend to trend and always a "me too, I'm here" player. Deliver first and stick with it, Mozilla's goodwill fund is long gone to be excited about "mission statements".

PedroBatista commented on Indifference is a power (2015) aeon.co/essays/why-stoici... · Posted by u/suioir

PedroBatista · a month ago

Stoicism is like recommending having a couple drinks ( literally ) to a "normal" person with mild social anxiety with a need to go out in the World and live life.

It works and it's good advice.

Unfortunately it gets recommended to everybody at every point in their lives, which include alcoholics and people in crisis.

In a more direct way: Stop with this "no emotion" "I'm a fortress" bullshit. It only helps a narrow group of people in specific circumstances of their lives but wreaks havoc on everybody else because it's misplaced and mostly a lie or at least a very incomplete picture.

PedroBatista commented on Why Ontario Digital Service couldn't procure '98% safe' LLMs (15M Canadians) rosetta-labs-erb.github.i... · Posted by u/csemple

PedroBatista · a month ago

"In most organizations, knowledge increases as you go up the hierarchy. CEOs understand their business better than middle managers. "

I chuckled on this one.

I'll give the author the benefit of the doubt and imagine he's was referring to the act of running a "business"/agenda in parallel of the business that is conducted day by day by normal people.

Yes, employees and managers can be doing the business of selling paper while the CEO is conducting the business of inflating the stock and massaging the numbers in order to fulfill the objective the board told him privately because the owner wants to sell the business to buy a bigger boat and buy a nice apartment in NYC for his angel of a daughter.

PedroBatista commented on Htmx: High Power Tools for HTML github.com/bigskysoftware... · Posted by u/tosh

PedroBatista · a month ago

As CEO of Htmx, I would like to express my gratitude for your ongoing support as we continue our journey of strategic execution and operational excellence. I remain steadfast in my commitment to delivering incremental yet impactful value to our stakeholders, optimizing synergies where possible, and increasing market share in a manner that will look excellent in future investor updates.

Can't wait for all the profound and fulfilling work ahead of us in 2026!

Go team!

PedroBatista commented on 2025 Letter danwang.co/2025-letter/... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer

scubbo · a month ago

A fascinating and eye-opening read.

One of my intentions for this coming year is to critically examine and (if appropriate) alter or dispel some preconceptions I have. To that end, I'm curious about this part:

> You don’t have to convince the elites or the populace that growth is good or that entrepreneurs could be celebrated. Meanwhile in Europe, perhaps 15 percent of the electorate actively believes in degrowth. I feel it’s impossible to convince Europeans to act in their self interest.

Can someone elaborate on how growth is aligned with the general interest? To my mind, although growth could _theoretically_ lead to a "lifting all boats" improvement across the board, in practice it inevitably leads to greater concentration of wealth for the elite while the populace deals with negative externalities like pollution, congestion, and advertizing. Degrowth, on the other hand, would directly reduce those externalities; and, if imposed via progressive taxation, would have further societal benefits via funded programs.

I'd very much like to hear the counter-argument. It would be pleasant and convenient to believe that growth and industry are Good, Actually, so that I needn't feel guilty for contributing to them or for furthering my own position - but (sadly!) I can't just make myself believe something without justification.

PedroBatista · a month ago

For all the insightful takes about everything under the Sun, Dan's cynicism and skewed view towards "Europe" are shown in this letter.

It's not that all his takes are wrong, it's the exaggeration, the doom and gloom and a somewhat dismissal or some unsolved personal issues he has with "Europeans".

The irony is not lost that Dan acts as smug and dismissal as he accuses Europeans to be.

Regarding the whole "Degrowth" thing: yes Europe has those and they found their gold in Governmental entities and they entertain the rich. But.. that's exactly what happens in the US too and Dan as knowledge as he is should know this was mostly an American academia export, he just needs to talk with some people in the very same colleges he regularly set foot into.

Also, he should take a hint when he says historically liberal societies have fared much better than autocratic ones even if those are very focused and appear to make progress very quickly. Having a few mega-bilionaires directing what the populace do or not do might not be a smart move as it sounds. We'll see when the AI musical chairs stops.

Btw, Europe has been dead and on the brink of destruction for a few centuries by now. And according to experts the EU is about to collapse 3 or 4 times a year - minimum.