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airstrike · 2026-03-12T06:50:01 1773298201

You should really keep the original title.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

airstrike · 2026-03-10T22:40:46 1773182446

Wasn't it Shopify who had a system for tracking how much each meeting cost based on attendees? I may be misremembering the company though

LPisGood · 2026-03-11T00:50:46 1773190246

I was thinking about this in recent weeks and I think I’ve actually changed my mind on it.

It’s not really possible to measure how much it would cost to not have a meeting, and I think it’s pretty obvious that if there were no meetings ever, it would hurt a company a lot

airstrike · 2026-03-11T01:17:33 1773191853

Yeah, I agree it's a silly metric. But it's kinda also a good reminder that meetings do have a cost associated with them, so they should stay short, focused, and held only when necessary.

"This could have been an e-mail" should never need to be said.

airstrike · 2026-03-10T20:29:56 1773174596

People make stupid acquisitions all of the time.

airstrike · 2026-03-10T13:53:16 1773150796

Why, oh why, would you give them the long term benefit of the doubt for literally no gain to you whatsoever?

Aurornis · 2026-03-10T14:09:19 1773151759

> for literally no gain to you whatsoever?

I literally gain from using their services for communication and voice chat with friends.

“Literally no gain whatsoever” is completely wrong.

I’ve tried Matrix/Element for years. I’m still in some IRC channels. I know what the alternatives are I can confidently say I’m gaining value from the ease in which Discord allows us to voice chat, screen share, and invite less technical people to join.

airstrike · 2026-03-10T14:38:32 1773153512

You will gain nothing relative to the status quo today. You're giving up your identity in order to just... stay the same. This is a textbook definition of no upside.

They are extorting your identity from you and you're somehow OK with that.

airstrike · 2026-03-09T15:21:39 1773069699

Only tangentially related, but this is a good research starting point: https://www.gt-pressura.com/

airstrike · 2026-03-07T03:21:36 1772853696

I'm very happy for you and hope when I'm nearing 80 I get to be doing something similar.

airstrike · 2026-03-06T04:45:51 1772772351

> It used to be called the department of war, and it had a better track record with regard to foreign conflict, under that name then it did under the DoD name.

The flaw in this logic is maddening

airstrike · 2026-03-05T15:59:57 1772726397

A travesty, to be sure, but not insider trading.

airstrike · 2026-03-05T14:13:46 1772720026

> Someone else downloads it as an xls and manually writes (not copy pastes) the numbers into a power point presentation and makes graphs by drawing shapes. This is then presented at some bi-monthly meeting.

I made an app that fixes this part of the problem. The rest is cultural.

airstrike · 2026-03-04T16:12:14 1772640734

if you add 2 spaces at the start of the line, you turn it into a code block

  like this

andai · 2026-03-04T16:58:26 1772643506

  | Model | DocType% | Year% | Subject% | In $/MTok |

  |----------------|----|-----|----|-------|

  | llama-70b -----| 83 |  98 | 96 | $0.72 |

  | gpt-oss-20b ---| 83 |  97 | 92 | $0.07 |

  | ministral-14b -| 84 | 100 | 90 | $0.20 |

  | gemma-4b ------| 75 |  93 | 91 | $0.04 |

  | glm-flash-30b -| 83 |  93 | 90 | $0.07 |

  | llama-1b ------| 47 |  90 | 58 | $0.10 |

azath92 · 2026-03-05T09:04:22 1772701462

thank you so much! i suffered with this, and now i never will again!