Free, paid by whom?
Tariffs.
Readit Newstvaughan commented on In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All wsj.com/us-news/in-a-u-s-... · Posted by u/nairteashop
tvaughan commented on $1T in tech stocks sold off as market grows skeptical of AI gizmodo.com/1-trillion-in... · Posted by u/pabs3
This says it all.
> There are also companies like Sweetgreen, the salad company that has tried to position itself as an automation company that serves salads on the side. Indeed, Sweetgreen has tried to dabble in a variety of tech, including AI and robots
Please just make me a good salad.
> Please just make me a good salad.
No.
> sudo Please just make me a good salad.
Ok.
tvaughan commented on US to rewrite its past national climate reports france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/mdhb
Yes, and I hope everything they voted for happens to them personally
tvaughan commented on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir
The reason why Apple has failed to integrate AI successfully into the iPhone isn't because we need an AI-first device, it's because AI is still universally being strategized as a solution in search of a problem. An AI-first device at this stage will fail for the same reason: it doesn't have a mission statement to solve particular problems for real people, it has a mission statement to be an AI device.
The absolute best case scenario for an AI-first device at this stage is that it ends up like the Vision Pro, which had a similar mission problem.
How quickly we’ve forgotten about the Rabbit R1.
tvaughan commented on Getting Older Isn't What You Think katycowan.co.uk/blog/gett... · Posted by u/speckx
Often the wants dissipate over time. One craves sleeping in, having a coffee and not arguing with your spouse. Sure if you push people they might confess about abandoned dreams, but my experience is that most people over 45 are quite content. Maybe it’s a Swedish thing.
Can relate to both. There aren’t a lot of winters left where I’ll be able to ski. The future no longer feels infinite. I do not have all of the time in the world to do the things I enjoy. But, and my younger self would be very upset with me, I am very happily done with the hussle.
> But these days, there’s nothing lovelier than a Saturday morning with a bit of jazz or classical playing, pottering about the kitchen, and then being tucked up in bed before 10pm. Wild.
Play with the dogs. Smoke some weed, a nice meal and play cards with the wife. Don’t need much more.
tvaughan commented on Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs nytimes.com/2025/04/04/bu... · Posted by u/Anon84
Wonder whether Americans or the Chinese can weather tough times better.
Chinese don’t get to protest or voice dissent and Americans can’t be bothered to
What? The US President has said repeatedly that tariffs are an easy money maker with no adverse side-effects. China is about to experience the boom times just like everyone in the US is now. You heard the US President’s comments about the recent jobs report, right?
It's not an accident if the government intentionally circumvents all checks that usually would apply to cases like this and denies them due process. It's also intentional that they send these people to a prison in a different country (and for most of them not the country they are originally from) with conditions that would certainly be illegal in the US itself.
This is also about more than just this single case. From the little we know so far it seems that being from Venezuela and having any kind of tattoo is sufficient to be targeted.
This isn’t an accident. They said they’d do this. People voted for this. This is what some people want to happen. No one should be surprised by this. On the campaign trail Trump promised to deport 20 million people. They’re aren’t 20 million undocumented people in the US. The only way you can deport 20 million people is to deport a lot people who have no reason whatsoever to be deported.
tvaughan commented on Self-Hosting like it's 2025 kiranet.org/self-hosting-... · Posted by u/finnlab
For our startup, I decided we’d self-host as much as possible. We have one server in our office with Traefik for “firewall” and SSL termination, and our backend services are handled by Incus. Our only paid services are Tailscale and Postmark. We run things like forgejo and mattermost for our internal development work, as well as things like elasticsearch and kibana for observability into our products (100ish embedded devices distributed globally). So far so good.
What’s political activism?
tvaughan commented on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-... · Posted by u/ahurmazda
Had to check the numbers. IPO at $80 and sold to IBM for $35.
Not great for investors, but insiders benefitted a lot!
IPOs became exits in 2008. They’re no longer about raising capital