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jrs235 commented on What is going on right now? catskull.net/what-the-hel... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

I don't know, man. I really don't know. I can't tell whether I'm really good at making inferences from tidbits of information, or really good at speaking confidently.

jrs235 · 21 hours ago

I think I'm good at making inferences from tidbits of information (or so I think) but I don't think I'm good at speaking confidently, other than speaking confidently that I don't know everything.

jrs235 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

Ekaros · 3 days ago

So why we are even using it anymore? Why not then close down all the prisons? If there is no deterrent effect or rehabilitation effect. Wouldn't it be greater savings just to close it all down and let everyone out?

jrs235 · 3 days ago

Because private for profit prison businesses can make money off them. Public is paying for private profits.

jrs235 commented on Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts petapixel.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/mikece

pastage · 3 days ago

Rehabilitation and support is not what "people" want. Political parties that want more punishment seldom want to spend money even on punishments. So it becomes impossible to put people on a straight path. Having courts do their job is very expensive as well so instead people build their careers on getting fast convictions of people. The thing that helps is consistently building a society that cares, you have to know that the society will certainly react to your actions.

Having a hidden social credit system hidden and managed by a private actor seems like the worst way of doing it.

jrs235 · 3 days ago

Pro money/business party wants/needs more people in prison so their private for profit prison businesses can make more money on legal slavery.

jrs235 commented on Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero mindflash.org/coding/ai/a... · Posted by u/AntwaneB

bigiain · 3 days ago

My guess? The AI companies will keep the free and $20/month plans to entice developers and their managers. They will have $200/month plans with bigger context windows to allow effective work on larger that toy codebases. But sooner or later companies with large scale projects are going to need a much larger context window, that _that_ will suddenly become a $200k/year/developer subscription. There's a lot of correlation between "institutional knowledge" and context window I think.

jrs235 · 3 days ago

Interesting. I just posted a similar comment as a sister comment to yours above (at least at the time of reading the thread) to another persons comment about cost of AI code going to zero... Which was basically the same as you believe here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44970251

jrs235 commented on Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero mindflash.org/coding/ai/a... · Posted by u/AntwaneB

kmoser · 3 days ago

As the cost of AI-generated code approaches zero (both in time and money), I see nothing wrong with letting the AI agent spin up a dev environment and take its best shot. If it can prove with rigorous testing that the new code works is at least as reliable as the old code, and is written better, then it's a win/win. If not, delete that agent and move on.

On the other hand, if the agent is just as capable of fixing bugs in legacy code as rewriting it, and humans are no longer in the loop, who cares if it's legacy code?

jrs235 · 3 days ago

Will the cost of AI-generated code approach zero? I thought the hardware and electricity needed to power and train the models and infer was huge and only growing. Today the free and plus plans might be only $20/month, once moats are built I assume prices will skyrocket a order of magnitude or few higher.

jrs235 commented on Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription dexerto.com/entertainment... · Posted by u/taubek

jrs235 · 5 days ago

I'd like to patent to Edition Display now. I mean if folks are paying for the better performance I'm sure they'd like their LCD Edition Display to show the world they're special! Static edition emblems won't suffice anymore. Oh, and if you stop paying or cancel your subscription, your Edition Display reverts back to saying "Basic" again.

jrs235 commented on White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake wsj.com/tech/intel-us-gov... · Posted by u/sugarpimpdorsey

tick_tock_tick · 5 days ago

I mean the Republican part is now the party of the poor and working class while the Democrats are the educated and rich. As in who votes for them not necessarily who they pay lip service too. For example the Democrats still deeply message on them being the party of the working class even as the working class no longer votes for them.

They literally flipped inside the last decade.

jrs235 · 5 days ago

The Republican party is now the party of billionaires, grifters, the dumb, and the duped.

jrs235 commented on Good system design seangoedecke.com/good-sys... · Posted by u/dondraper36

no_wizard · 7 days ago

Something about my old CTO and VP of Eng I respected is they were still technical enough to call out this kind of thing. For as big as that company was they really held down complexity and overengineering to a real minimum.

Unfortunately the rest of the executive has leaned on them so hard about AI boosting productivity they aren’t able to avoid thst becoming a mess

jrs235 · 6 days ago

In other words they believed in principles other than increasing personal power

jrs235 commented on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data neowin.net/news/report-mi... · Posted by u/bundie

jrs235 · 6 days ago

Great. So this might be the cause of ally problems. I just happen to cloning drives to swap out with a larger one and Windows 11 is so slow. Also seems there were issues found that needing fixing after cloning.

jrs235 commented on White House loyalty rating for companies axios.com/2025/08/15/whit... · Posted by u/petethomas

pavlov · 8 days ago

Which is exactly what I wrote…?

jrs235 · 8 days ago

Sort of. I was still too quick. In the first paragraph you didn't but that's because you were trying to be charitable. Your final sentence brings it full circle.

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