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This sounds like a non sequitur to me, when did I ever say I disagreed with the fact that "they just want to get shit done?" I am not sure what your comment has to do with the part about misconstruing features for moving parts, for those are two independent things, and still more generally, like I said, people do pay for software that has more features than fewer.

Every delivered feature is a liability not an asset.

If you don’t believe me, consider two products that make customers equally happy and one has half as many moving parts. Which one is more profitable to maintain?

Wrong analogy, use the word feature in both emphasized terms. Consider two products and one has half as many features, which is more profitable to maintain? Well, it depends whether people are paying for the other half of the feature set or not, as oftentimes people will pay for more features than fewer.

Exactly, these two sentences seem at first related,

No deadlines, minimal coordination, and no managers telling you what to do.

In return, we ask for extraordinarily high ownership and the ability to get a lot done by yourself.

but can be insidious if implemented incorrectly. High ownership to do what you want, but what happens if what you decide goes against the goals of the manager or the company itself? No company can succeed without at least some sort of overarching goal structure, from which employees will naturally avail and seek to benefit themselves.

There are keyboard cases like https://www.clicks.tech/ which attach to your phone directly.

The same with movie sound mixing, where directors like Nolan are infamous for muffling dialogue in home setups because he wants the sound mixed for large, IMAX scale theater setups.

One, people should be using uBlock Origin as you mentioned. Two, there are many search engines without such ads. Three, qBittorrent has a search right inside the client, there is no need to even access the websites to perform searches.

For every apple I take, you still have your apple on the tree, because my apple is only a copy of yours.

Why ask questions you already know the answers to?

How would the product work if for example I just wanted to get basic information from various websites, such as "how many calories are in a McDonald's hamburger?" I'm creating a product that tracks calories via natural language and I'd want a structured JSON back of calories, grams of fat, protein, carbs etc. What API would I use for that, the Chat API one?

You're not the average user if you have auto updates disabled. Notice you also said "some" apps, well, most do need to keep up with OS updates or fall behind.

Parliamentary systems are not comparable to presidential ones when it comes to voting systems.

What I said is factually true, neither mocking, judging nor telling you off. If you believe saying something like, don't look at the sun or you'll hurt your eyes (and then you look at the sun and say that your eyes are burnt) is telling you off, then we have different definitions of the phrase.

Good thing Mamdani is doing both, cutting red tape and constructing new housing, at least that's his plan, we shall see what others in his governance think about it.

Mamdani is doing both though, in a controlled manner. He voted to oppose NIMBYism as well and has a plan for new construction.

More housing, regardless of type, is directly correlated to cheaper average rents [0]. So Thiel is right in that regard, the red tape for construction and opposition from NIMBYs must be curtailed.

[0] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/733977

And what if the executive does not care to administrate and follow those laws, and Congress does not care or more truthfully cannot do anything even if it did?

It's more that voting third party in a first-past-the-post voting scheme is systemically pointless.

Maybe it's Gemini, maybe it's another one of their models, but I'm specifically talking about LLMs like Gemini, or, if you want a better example, Perplexity, which crawls web pages first and then cites them, so that there aren't bogus citations.

The exceptions that prove the rule.

That's fine, people like you aren't my customer anyway and thus do not need to be listened to. Free users generally have value if they can convert to paid, because nothing is truly free in life.

Sounds good, doesn't work. How would I sell a major version on a store like the Apple or Google app stores [0]? How will I fund my salary as well as my employees' salaries from only major versions, what if people buy now but not later on, do I lay them off? For what it's worth I do offer lifetime plans that are basically 2 to 3 years of the annual plan, as that's the expected lifetime value (LTV) of some of my apps.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810856#45815972 (this comment gets it right on why you can't do this on said app stores)

That's the only sustainable model these days, speaking as a mobile dev myself.

The author should read Blindsight by Peter Watts to understand the difference between thinking and consciousness, because their not understanding so is a fundamental flaw of their argument.

Probably because those examples arose in an environment with harm, the Earth, and thus had incent to evolve the capacity to suffer. There is no such case for AI today and creating a Pascal's wager for such minimization is not credible with what we know about them.

Would we call it “thinking”?

Yes I would.

Both paragraphs are addressed in the article.

No it's gemini.google.com

Change the domain name, you will likely get a cease and desist otherwise.

TanStack is the sane option here, whether their router or their start product.

That's not the type of citation they're talking about. Gemini uses a tool call to the Google search engine and thus can cite and read proper links. You're talking about an LLM that just hallucinates citations which don't exist.