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That logic doesn’t make any sense to me. Game programming, art, and even marketing are highly specific niches within those broader fields. You can’t pick any random programmer off the street and get them up to speed on game development overnight (let alone your specific crazy custom engine/architecture, as often seems to be the case).

That is generally how banks work, yes.

If you're constructing your unsandboxed parent document HTML using string concatenation, you might as well not use the sandboxed iframe at all. But presumably someone who bothers to sandbox untrusted content also knows about setAttribute(), or the srcdoc JS property.

And any additional CSP directives can only narrow what's allowed. Also works with headers plus <meta> - <meta>s can restrict the CSP even more than what the headers specified, but they can't widen it.

He founded a domain brokerage for squatters and seems to be squatting on other domains for ad revenue (read the section about the trade he made).

Domain registration for the purpose of resale is legit. Plenty of available names and extensions to choose from.

A thing can be both technically legitimate and also annoying and shitty.

Doesn't strike me as particularly immoral.

I don’t know about immoral, but it is at the very least a bit sleazy. When I look for domains for side projects, I very rarely have to abandon a name because it’s been taken by an actual operational service; it’s almost always because someone is squatting it with a “parking” page filled with sketchy ads that they’re paying almost nothing for. That isn’t doing any good for anyone besides the squatter.

Why does a practice have to do good for anyone other than the practioner?

Well, if we're discussing morality, it is generally considered immoral to enrich yourself at the expense of the public good.

But it’s not a public good. .com stands for commercial. It’s literally the opposite of a public good.

Allowing people to pay a fair price for the resources they need to start a business (rather than paying scalper prices to the bridge trolls who got there first) serves the public good. “For the public good” includes more than just feeding blind orphans.

“chattel slavery isn’t bad so long as I am the slave owner”

A bit strong to compare domain squatting with slavery don't you think?

yeah just like laying claim to the most fertile land in your region, doing nothing with it, and waiting until your neighbors are sufficiently desperate to sell it to them for gigantic markup

hugely value-added activity, and a well-earned increment.


Zero added value while getting a money inflow ticks my box for immoral.

Don’t forget parasitic.

A lot of the value of these domains stems from the popularity of sites they may have been attached to in the past, or search terms that relate to them.

So these people are literally making money off of the back of others’ work whilst providing no benefit themselves, probably not that much even to their advertisers.

Such squatting sites are, at best, an annoyance to web users as well.


The one takeaway I got from my engineering ethics class in college was that everyone has different morals. Debating if something is “moral” or not is useless. Education on a subject is useful, but once someone understands your point of view and still thinks it’s within/outside their morals, there’s nothing more to discuss.

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Many things should be illegal in a capitalist society. Domain investing is low in the list.

When was Chrome lightweight? 15 years ago?

Didn't it used to be branded as lightweight?

https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/02/google-chrome-birthday/

> I fondly remember the good old days of 2004 when I first started using Firefox as my main browser and thinking how fresh and lightweight it felt compared to the atrocity that was IE. Firefox, sadly, got bloated over the years. So far, Chrome hasn’t put on the same weight


So, yes, 15 years ago.

Unfortunately, the B2B SaaS ads have started infecting the subway as well.

Its context includes reasoning that you can’t see, so this is actually a reasonable thing to ask.

> Opus or GPT-5.5 are the only ways to even attempt this.

It’s pretty funny to claim that a model released 22 hours ago is the bare minimum requirement for AI-assisted programming. Of course the newest models are best at writing code, but GPT-* and Claude have written pretty decent systems for six months or so, and they’ve been good at individual snippets/edits for years.


> It’s pretty funny to claim that a model released 22 hours ago is the bare minimum requirement for AI-assisted programming.

Not what I said.

The OP was trying to write specs and have an AI turn it into an app, then getting frustrated with the amount of cleanup.

If you want the AI to write code for you and minimize your cleanup work, you have to use the latest models available.

They won't be perfect, but they're going to produce better results than using second-tier models.


Is it actually the case that 5.5 is that much better at implementing specs than its very capable predecessor released a month ago? Just seems like a baseless and silly claim about a model that has barely been out long enough for anyone to do serious work with it.

> Is it actually the case that 5.5 is that much better at implementing specs than its very capable predecessor released a month ago?

The OP comment was talking about Claude Sonnet. I was comparing to that.

I should have just said "use the best model available"


> Is it actually the case that 5.5 is that much better

Nobody was talking about how much better it is until you wrote this though

It's like you're building your own windmills brick by brick


An image having a bit of bloom doesn't make it AI generated. If the Times started using undisclosed AI-generated images, it would be a huge scandal, and a violation of their own policies: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/reader-center/new-york-ti...

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