MiguelX413's comments

On: X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to boos...

[MiguelX413]

I have no idea why this post is being downvoted and nobody else has bothered to reply and actually provide substantial objection.

On: Caltrain's electrification project is paying off

[MiguelX413]

Well the main affordance is higher frequency and better travel times.

On: Caltrain's electrification project is paying off

[MiguelX413]

Nobody asks if roads or airports pay for themselves.

On: Caltrain's electrification project is paying off

[MiguelX413]

It wasn't a subsidy so much as it was an exchange of electrification for state trackage rights.

On: Maybe Bluesky has "won"

[MiguelX413]

I'm still not gonna use anything besides the Fediverse.

On: Generative AI doesn't have a coherent understandin...

[MiguelX413]

I also never considered chess engines or video games to have AI.

On: Maybe Bluesky has "won"

[MiguelX413]

I see a few in some Telegram chats that I'm in

On: Please stop the coding challenges

[MiguelX413]

Tech jobs should be more like interviews instead, rather than making interviews more like tech jobs. I'd rather solve algorithmic puzzles all day.

[mhog_hn → MiguelX413]

Can we create an abstraction on top of modern day CRUD work and turn it into the solving of algorithmic puzzles?

On: Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to t...

[MiguelX413]

Where is “over there”?

[RajT88 → MiguelX413]

Japan namely. While I cannot say whether or not a store would sell beer to a 5 year old, no longer can anyone just buy beer or cigarettes (and more) from vending machines.

[RajT88 → MiguelX413]

If you are asking the part of Japan - Tokushima.

On: Bluesky Is Not Decentralized

[MiguelX413]

I ultimately came to the conclusion that both those who advocated for the fediverse as a Twitter replacement and those who complained that it was inadequate as a Twitter replacement were both wrong. People don't need “a Twitter” in the first place. It's a terrible website designed to maximize engagement, including negative engagement, for its profit.

I quite agree with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38445649

[threeseed → MiguelX413]

> terrible website designed to maximize engagement

It really does show why engagement should never be monetised.

It's just full of fight videos, repackaged memes, controversial takes etc. all designed to get some extra money for the poster. Even VCs and the startup community gets in on it.