Yes, and I hope everything they voted for happens to them personally
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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
tvaughan commented on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens github.blog/news-insights... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
The goal has always been to eliminate programmers.
Nobody wants to pay a bunch of desk workers six figures to make their business go brr, but they currently they have no choice. Trust me, every executive resents this to their core and they want all the programmers to go away - including github executives.
20 years ago you would hire a few expensive architects who would try and design the product in so much detail cheap jr programmers could build it. It didn't go well.
4GL languages tried to abstract away all the hard stuff - again it didn't go well.
"Low code" was big just before the AI thing. It didn't go well.
Attempts are outsourcing are constant.
Now we have LLMs. So far this has come the closest to the dream of eliminating expensive programmers. We'll see how it goes.
Yup. Even in the 90s it was Microsoft’s plan to turn software development into just clicking buttons, e.g. Visual Studio. Just think of all of the business value the middle managers at a Fortune 1000 could produce with a bunch of cheap labor in some underdeveloped country with only three months of training (paid by them) to learn which buttons do which