jkubicek

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by jkubicek 6d ago
A React Native app would have all the same access to your personal data that a native app would
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by jkubicek 9d ago
I was on a work trip to Indianapolis last week and encountered two separate urinals with plastic screens branded by the same supplier. One screen was branded so that the plastic fingers point towards the user, one was branded so that the pl
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by jkubicek 23d ago
If I had $122k/month to spend on tokens I would simply.... not. $1.5mm/year buys more of everything I want out of life than I could possibly consume.
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by jkubicek 23d ago
> We got here by putting two of the most hated people in the country on the ballot against him, twice. I hate this victim-blaming. Democrats deserve heaps of criticism for how they handled the last few elections, but Clinton was the most
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by jkubicek 2mo ago
If a human hacked into HuggingFace in the same way OpenAI’s model did, what would the penalty be? Civil suit? Jail? If some human at OpenAI doesn’t face the same penalty for this incident we’re only going to see the rate of accidents like t
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by jkubicek 2mo ago
I wish the entire world could just ignore Elon Musk. What an absolute waste of our global attention.
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by jkubicek 3mo ago
> I suspect the gray area would be around terrorists Maybe this is a gray area in theory, but practically speaking I don't think it matters. The child has nothing to do with the parent's choices in life, do they deserve to be t
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by jkubicek 3mo ago
What do you use it for? I’m perpetually interested in using DuckDB, but it doesn’t seem to do anything I need.
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by jkubicek 3mo ago
Do you wear glasses and do you have the prescription inserts for the AVP? I have a very mild prescription, no inserts, and I find text in the AVP to be distractingly blurry. Enough so that I’ve never been able to use the virtual monitor for
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by jkubicek 3mo ago
URL-opener, bookmark opener, URL expander (type JIRA-1234 and it’ll automatically open the correct ticket), basic text replacement stuff.
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by jkubicek 3mo ago
I started a new job that requires a much more locked-down laptop than I'm used to. No macOS App Store, no random 3rd party apps. I miss a lot of the convince apps I used to use HOWEVER we have unlimited access to Claude CLI. I've
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by jkubicek 3mo ago
> There are 2 potential outcomes: either the sky really does fall, and there's a meaningful uptick in bad things happening to iPhone users, in which Apple can easily point the finger at the EC and say "they made us do this&quot
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by jkubicek 4mo ago
> The problem is: what are you going to do with these 35%? where should the people who shouldn't be there be? Doing the exact same thing they’re doing now, just without wasting 4 years in college and being $100k in debt
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by jkubicek 4mo ago
I’m surprised that 6 out of 10 people even use AI, let alone that many people use it as a therapist.
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by jkubicek 4mo ago
OK sure, but back when old heads were complaining about the kids not knowing assembly, those same kids knew C or Fortran or something. In 2026, if you call yourself a developer and can't solve FizzBuzz without help, it's hard to a
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by jkubicek 4mo ago
100% agree. I always type the sample code when I’m trying to learn something. Debugging my own stupid transcription errors is half of what I’m learning.
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by jkubicek 4mo ago
It’s a quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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by jkubicek 4mo ago
Original discussion on Nextpad++ release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019486
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Nextpad++(daringfireball.net)
8 points by jkubicek 4mo ago|3 comments
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by jkubicek 4mo ago
https://www.readtangle.com/the-everything-everywhere-all-at-... This article doesn’t even remotely itemize all of Trumps corruption, but it’s long and extremely damning. I would hope that anyone still supporting this admi
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by jkubicek 5mo ago
This is why you always mount outlets with the grounding pin facing up!
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by jkubicek 5mo ago
I’m not a vegetarian and have no plans on becoming one but.. just because eating meat is normal doesn’t mean it needs to stay that way. There’s an endless list of atrocities committed by our ancestors or our peers in the animal kingdom that
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by jkubicek 5mo ago
I’m learning the opposite lesson. The US is surprisingly fragile and a single president with no morals or ethics can do far more damage than anyone could have imagined.
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by jkubicek 6mo ago
Or if decision makers start using the gambling markets to drive their decisions, the value of these things will go extremely negative . The headline bet in Polymarket right now is on when US troops will invade Iran. If some unscrupulous of
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by jkubicek 6mo ago
I think you’re responding to the wrong comment
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by jkubicek 6mo ago
America needs a Snow Leopard. No new features, just bug fixes.
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by jkubicek 6mo ago
If a person writes 100 lines of code there’s a (valid) assumption that someone thinks this 100 lines of code is worth writing. With AI it takes no effort to write 10,000 loc. Asking someone else to figure out if that code is worth merging j
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by jkubicek 6mo ago
> It’s pretty clear from the text that they have debunked the idea that modern synthetic materials have outstripped older materials in performance... That single coat is also effective over a much larger temperature range than the older
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by jkubicek 6mo ago
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
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by jkubicek 6mo ago
It’s not possible to make the AI smart enough to avoid being tricked. If the AI can run curl it will run curl.

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