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nozzlegear

4,714 karmajoined 11 years ago
Tastemaker, gadabout, puckish rogue, unqualified ideologue. I built and maintain ShopifySharp, the open-source .NET package for Shopify's GraphQL and REST APIs.

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My website: https://nozzlegear.com

My Github: https://github.com/nozzlegear

My SaaS product: https://getstages.com

Submissions

If you're a button, you have one job

unsung.aresluna.org
592 points·by nozzlegear·6 days ago·275 comments

All non-drone militaries are obsolete

noahpinion.blog
10 points·by nozzlegear·2 months ago·0 comments

Apple Releases iOS 26 Adoption Rates

daringfireball.net
3 points·by nozzlegear·5 months ago·0 comments

Facebook.com has 140 layers of React context providers

old.reddit.com
2 points·by nozzlegear·8 months ago·0 comments

Walmart deploying millions of new ambient IoT sensors by end of 2026

cnbc.com
4 points·by nozzlegear·9 months ago·0 comments

comments

nozzlegear
·10 hours ago·discuss
Which surveys have anti-AI sentiment numbers that low?

> I find the anti crowd increasingly to be hateful and close-minded and it is disappointing because I have a lot of friends in it. There's a moral puritanism which gives people feelings that they are on the "right" side and thus any level of rudeness or hatred is justified and it only hurts their side.

I find the pro crowd to be increasingly zealous and close-minded, sticking their thumbs in their ears and proselytizing their new way of thinking like the priests of a new religion. It's disappointing because a lot of otherwise intelligent people here on HN – who would otherwise consider themselves rational and "immune" to that kind of thinking – have become some of the most fervent converts.
nozzlegear
·11 hours ago·discuss
> The wording wasnt very good

Writing isn't so easy after all.
nozzlegear
·11 hours ago·discuss
Yes, definitely.
nozzlegear
·yesterday·discuss
> ASI can't come fast enough.

ASI is a myth used by these companies to justify their pursuit of regulatory capture.
nozzlegear
·yesterday·discuss
It's less a screed and more of a reasoned argument, in this case. The Claude app is ass, as are most electron apps compared to native.
nozzlegear
·yesterday·discuss
Degrowth is a deeply unpopular policy around the world. Where would one even go to find a degrowth rally? I have to imagine everyone there would be there ironically.

> * they net shutting down grade schools or building them in your neck of the woods?*

My area (rural Iowa) has had several new schools built in the last 10 years. Net gain for sure.
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
Obviamente people care when the one guy is notorious for having particularly shitty/edgy opinions.
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
> what say you now?

I think that when you have a $165,000 hammer, all of your problems begin to look a lot like nails.
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
Thanks for the reply. I only use local/open models, and don't use them for security work, so I don't have much exposure to frontier alignment and Fable/Mythos stuff beyond what I read from others here on HN.
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
Thanks, that's does sound like a tricky edge case for the other "censored" companies.
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
Why would I do that? I'm not a domain expert in chat apps, and I've already got my own projects and software to fix. If I'm going to take on the maintenance of some chat app, why wouldn't I just build the whole ass thing myself from the beginning? Or, more prudently, why wouldn't I just skip over this one and find a chat app that's got a track record of continuing support so I don't give myself a headache down the road?
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
I don't know what you're referencing.
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
Is uncensored a selling point? What do people use uncensored Grok for (like, real use cases) that they can't or won't use other LLMs for? Literally the only thing I can think of is generating bad porn of unconsenting people.
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
Bug fixes and security patches, for one.
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
Who says this? "Beautiful" vibecoded apps are a dime a dozen. Getting support or continued feature development for those beautiful apps after the developer's AIDHD moves on to their next half-baked idea is usually the differentiator between a good vibecoded app and a bad one.
nozzlegear
·2 days ago·discuss
I liked Maverick a lot, but I've never seen the original or any of its other sequels :P
nozzlegear
·3 days ago·discuss
Within the last 30 years? Last 20? We had a high point, and we're not there any longer – certainly not in my state (Iowa).
nozzlegear
·3 days ago·discuss
> I was somewhat surprised to find out that illiteracy does not mean that someone needs to be a total (or near) analphabet - but rather that it is a broad and wide spectrum. I always imagined that “teenagers can’t read” meant that they couldn’t read at all, but then I never met such a person.

Indeed, and this is the source of the discrepancy in the reddit-style gotcha that gets repeated about Americans being illiterate. It's not that they can't read, it's that illiteracy (as measured by whichever agency in the US does the measuring) means something more than just "can't read at all."
nozzlegear
·3 days ago·discuss
How does this viewpoint account for the times when "capitalism" was, by all objective measures, worse for laborers? I.E. the early industrialization period when laborers worked 14-16 hour days alongside children in factories and mines, risking life and limb?
nozzlegear
·3 days ago·discuss
No True Cinephile would enjoy a movie like Top Gun: Maverick, Obsession or Project Hail Mary.

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