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You are presuming that people are monogamous up until their divorce when infidelity is one of the top reasons for divorce.

I mean, that's also exactly what you would say if you had a $150M offer on the table, had received a lot of push back and were now just checking the waters and waiting to consolidate your position.

I just had flash backs to a previous job where I was brought in to optimize another teams builds since they were now taking minutes instead of seconds.

I tracked it down to a folder with thousands of C++ files called things like uint_to_int.cc and inch_to_cm.cc and cm_to_m.cc. Basically the developer in charge of writing the conversion library took our typed units library and autogenerated a C++ file for every possible conversion the application might need to make.

Every time we added a new typed unit it would create another couple of dozen files to be compiled.

> There's an alternative: Android. I'm perfectly free to use that instead. I don't.

I think this is my entire problem with most of these conversations. When they say "The walled garden has to end." ... they mean "YOUR walled garden has to end.".

I also like the Walled Garden. Do I think Apple should be able to charge more than Stripe? No.

I wish they would stop conflating the gate keeping price to enter the walled garden being too high with the wall garden and the gate being a moral wrong.

A friend of mine works beside one of the Eglinton line sites and called me a few years ago to tell me they were taking down the hoardings... because the hoardings had rotted and needed new plywood and studs.

Yeah, the blue lines under a random word in a perfectly correct sentence is such a waste of time ... did I mistype? Nope.

Yeah, something happened a few months ago where by iOS I'm now "hitting" the wrong key a lot, words like we'll and we're are constantly being automatically "corrected" to well and were and, most frustrating, it will auto"correct" the last word in a sentence from what is on the screen when you hit send. It went from almost always helpful to often frustrating.

Oh they TRY to ... it's just that the "non-technical unqualified people" get brought to heal (usually) by regulations. I've been in the room where people have tried to force a decision and a PEng, Lawyer, or CA/CPA had to say "absolutely not". It happens all the time, which is why you NEED regulations.

> We can build huge things like airliners, massive bridges and buildings without starting small.

We did start small with all of those things. We developed rigorous disciplines around engineering, architecture, material sciences. And people died along the way in the thousands[0][1]

People are still dying from those failures; The Boeing 737 MAX 9 crash was only two years ago.

> Incremental makes less sense to me when you want to go to mars.

This is yet another reason why a manned Mars mission will be exceedingly dangerous NOT a strike against incremental development and deployment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_building_and_structure...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

All the sites that I'm personally aware of are either NOT behind Cloudflare, are large and targeted, or are behind Cloudflare because they have actually experienced a DDOS attack(s). I don't know of anyone that is just sticking themselves behind Cloudflare willy-nilly.

Yeah, you need less admin, depending but not none. And AWS pushes you towards devops heavy solutions.

You can't. That's the use case FOR AWS/GCP. Once the differential between having a in-house team and the AWS premium becomes positive is when you make the switch.

A lot of the discussion here is that the cost of the in-house team is less than people think.

For instance: at a former gig, we used a service in the EU that handled weekends, holidays and night time issues and escalated to our team as needed. It was pretty cheap, approximately $10K monthly fee for availability and hourly rate when there were any issues to be resolved. There were a few mornings I had an email with a post-mortem report and an invoice for a hundred euros or so. We came pretty close to 5 9's uptime but we didn't have to worry about SLA's or anything.

I have had this fight so many times ... "we don't need to generate a random key, we can just use this 'unique' identifier" where the unique identifier is always some form of PII.

Even then, a psychopathic doctor at least has their desired outcomes mostly aligned with the patients.

The terms are also clarified later on that same home page ...

I didn't say I was 10x faster so I'm not sure why you are accusing me of lying.

What AI does is replace most of the junior engineers, some of the intermediate engineers and speed up your senior engineers. That's why you are seeing massive layoffs across the industry.

This is what I've been finding. Currently, if I have a junior level task, I take the email I would have sent to a junior developer explaining what I want and give it to ChatGPT/Claude/etc and get a reasonably good solution that needs as many feedback loops as the junior dev would have needed. Except I got that solution in a few minutes.

Interesting this is on front page the same day Hack Club got their costs reduced by Slack by complaining on here about the bait and switch.

So your startup is also ignoring info@ and postmaster@ and ...

I have a lot of patience for disagreements and alternative solutions. But at some point you need to "support the group" and not re-litigate at every opportunity.

I see that as the difference and when it becomes complaining and toxic.

This is one of the hardest things to teach new developers doing code reviews: your way isn't better, it's just different. And, sometimes it may be somewhat better but not worth changing for working code. This is especially true when talking about clarity vs succinct.

This is the hardest part of dealing with a chronic complainer: they think they are the only one "noticing a fire" and "getting sidelined" for raising flags.

Often there isn't actually a fire, they're complaining about trivialities. Everybody already knows about the fire because they've complaining about at every meeting for three months. Or the thing they are complaining about can't be changed. They're actually getting sidelined because they interrupt company allhands to ask the CEO irrelevant questions, wasting the time of 50 people and no one likes them anymore.

I view dealing with chronic complainers as mentoring them to stop self-sabotaging themselves.

I think there are a bunch of people who would be ok with some kind of independent verification that was at least pseudo anonymous.

Not just being inflammatory, but most people who have a "if the government says they need to protect the children, I'm happy to give up a bunch of rights and privacy" reaction tend to be in the "ok with authoritarianism" group.

Also, we are up in arms about the introduction of government tracking is 1) it's not JUST government tracking, the age restricted sites will also get your PII and 2) most people get concerned when governments start getting involved in things regarded as private, like sex, porn, etc. 3) What will require verification is unclear "age restricted content" is pretty open.

"We're passing a law that gives the porn provider industry a bunch of PII that could be abused, it's up to YOU to make sure porn provider's don't do anything unethical with that data."

How do you not follow the argument that there are problems with this?

I'm pretty sure you're not alone: studies show that a median of 31% of the worlds population support authoritarianism(1)

(1) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/28/who-likes...

It's up to the people who WANT age verification to ensure that it can't be abused rather than up to US to prevent it from being abused after the fact.

Invoking the "slippery slope" fallacy when the country with the greatest military in the world is abusing public records to grab people off the street and out of court rooms is an interesting choice.

You can always find problems with analogies, analogies are intentionally simplified to allow readers to better understand difficult or nuanced ideas.

In this case you are criticizing an analogy meant to convey understanding of "weakest link" for not also imparting an understanding of "levels of severity".

> Isn't it often just faster to fix small things I find incorrect than type up why I think it's wrong in English and have it do a whole big round trip?

This is my experience: at some point the AI isn't converging to a final solution and it's time to finish the rest by hand.

We had a VP recommend "lines of code" as part of performance system. I showed some CVS stats of some of our key developers; one of our best performers was at -20K lines of code over 5 years.