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This is still a good outcome. Less waste and trash being thrown out is good.

Parent painted a very logical sequence of events that concluded in reduced prices. Can you provide similar reasoning for why you believe this law will increase costs?

By investigating said recycling process? I mean, if a company can figure out that vendo X is a shadowy cloth-destruction syndicate, that state can as well, then that vendor can be banned from doing business in the EU or the companies dealing with them can be fined.

It's not that the manufacturer can't sell their product, it's that they don't want to do so. They want to get rid of last season's perfectly good product to make room for next season's lineup.

They could sell old stock ay reduced prices and still make profits, but they want to maintain their vain exclusive image, so they inflate their prices by destroying stock.

And section titles.

The X

The Y

The Z

The Problem

The Process

It drives me mad

And all the seemingly *random bolding* to emphasizea *random shit*

Someone mentioned mass-psychosis a while ago. I feel the same.

What's isn't a singularly but a zombie apocalypse.

Many, many years ago, when ~persia came ashore~ dropbox was announced on HN [0] The top comment was quick to point out "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

Google workspace integrates with google meet. It's likely they don't want a competitor to google chat that uses meet infra.

What was wrong with React Native that caused it to be slow? How did you figure out that flutter was the reason for improved performance, rather than simply rebuilding the app with lessons learned from the old app?

Put another way, given enough time, what was not possible to do with react Native and is now possible with flutter?

Yes, very little extra steps, especially compared to what you need to actually simulate/implement a brain which require a while new computing paradigm, one that's not limited to digits and discrete states.

I can't ignore that fact. The post was suffocating to read. LLMs have an obnoxious style.

Haha you're describing implementing an ORM! It's essentially that: a unified interface over multiple DB adapters.

In what universe are corpo-controlled walled-gardens considered "Open Internet"?

> no attempt is being made here to bring them back to their original, non-malicious shape.

Because it's impossible unless you ban for-profit social media. Naturally I'd support such a ban.

Hackernews is not social media. Just no. Unless the term os literally meaningless in which case my Company's slack ks social media.

Should it also be the Role of parents to prevent their children from being kidnapped by crime syndicates? Maybe we should also abolish schools because it should be the parent's role to educate their children.

This individualistic line of thinking is downright insane. It's preposterous. We live in a fucking society, no one can do anything on their own. For God's sake parent's shouldn't be expected to fight alone against MULTI-FUCKING TRILLION CORPORATIONS.

Fat load of help all that anti-regulation talk did when the current US Gov can just get all the data it wants from those megacorps.

Yeah let's also abolish laws preventing sale of tobacco and alcohol to children. This will surely lead to a prosperous national.

No wonder the US is collapsing as we speak.

Not exposing kods to addictive drugs while they're still young and naive lowers their chances of consuming drugs when they're adults.

The societies that will allow unchecked access to social media will collapse, just like ehat happened to China during the Opium wars.

Everyone but kids still has access to cigarettes, doesn't mean we should allow sale pf tobacco to Minors.

This is still a trillion times better than the Antisocial media of today. At least they'll interact with their friends.

Online competitive games at least require you to work your brain.

> reads "talking to bots and other low value activities"

> translates it to "stop talking online"

The mental gymnastics to arrive at 2 is insane. Either you're being disingenuous or you actually believe everyone online is a bot in which case telling people to stop talking online is good.

This is the result of years of people sniffing the AI Powder. Our collective intelligence as a species is falling off a cliff.

> Microslop

I see you watched the recent Gamer's Nexus video!

Mid-Senior in MENA. My monthly Salary is around 740 USD (Converted), and while I exaggerated that more than 50% figure, 200 USD/m is still a gigantic chunk of money to spend on something with dubious return on investment.

I believe programming languages are the better language for planning architecture, the algorithms, the domain model, etc... compared to English.

The way I develop mirrors the process of creating said design document. I start with a high level overview, define what Entities the program should represent, define their attributes, etc... only now I'm using a more specific language than English. By creating a class or a TS interface with some code documentation I can use my IDEs capabilities to discover connections between entities.

I can then give the code to an LLM to produce a technical document for managers or something. It'll be a throwaway document because such documents are rarely used for actual decision making.

> Obviously, before starting writing, you could sit down and write a software design document that worked out the architecture, the algorithms, the domain model, the concurrency, the data flow, the goals, the steps to achieve it and so on;

I do this with code, and the IDE is much better than MS Word or whatevah at detecting my logical inconsistencies.

Disagree. No plan survives first contact.

I can spend all the time I want inside my ivory tower, hatching out plans and architecture, but the moment I start hammering letters in the IDE my watertight plan suddenly looks like Swiss cheese: constraints and edge cases that weren't accounted for during planning, flows that turn out to be unfeasible without a clunky implementation, etc...

That's why Writing code has become my favorite method of planning. The code IS the spec, and English is woefully insufficient when it comes to precision.

This makes Agentic workflows even worse because you'll only your architectural flaws much much later down the process.

... Yeah thise tests are probably garbage. The models probably covered the 80% that consists of boiler plate and mocked out the important 20% that was critical business logic. That's how it was in my experience.

For God's sake that's completely slop.

In real Engineering disciplines the process is important, and is critical for achieving desired results, that's why there are manuals and guidelines measured in the hundreds of pages for things like driving a pile into dirt. There are rigorous testing procedures to enusre everything is correct and up to spec, because there are real consequences.

Software Developers have long been completely disconnected from the consequences of their work, and tech companies have diluted responsibility so much that working software doesn't matter anymore. This field is now mostly scams and bullshit, where developers are closer to finance bros than real, actual Engineers.

I'm not talking about what someone os building in their home for personal reasons for their own usage, but about giving the same thing to other people.

In the end it's just cost cutting.

My other 2c: There are Engineers who are concerned by the long-term consequences of their work e.g. maintainability.

In real engineering disciplines, the Engineer is accountable for their work. If a bridge you signed off collapses, you're accountable and if it turns out you were negligent you'll face jail time. In Software, that might be a program in a car.

The Engineering mindset embodies these principles regardless of regulatory constraints. The Engineer needs to keep in mind those who'll be using their constructions. With Agentic Vibecoding, I can never get confident that the resulting software will behave according to specs. I'm worried that it'll scewover the user, the client, and all stakeholders. I can't accept half-assed work just because it saved me 2 days of typing.

I don't make stuff just for the sake of making stuff otherwise it would just be a hobby, and in my hobbies I don't need to care about anything, but I can't in good conscience push shit and slop down other people's throats.

I'm pretty damn sure the parent, by saying "writing code" meant the physical act of pushing down buttons to produce text, not the problem solving process that preceeds writing said code.

This has real Torment Nexus[0] energy

[0] Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

> value can yet another CRUD app possibly add

Possibly significant e.g connecting multiple governmental agencies so citizens can finish their paperwork in days instead of weeks, schedule appointments instead of waiting from 8am untill 2pm to have you matters settled, etc...

Of course, there isn't much shareholder value on this, so perhaps when Software Engineering becomes a modest profession like many others, improvements to society might start happening.

The industry as it currently stands is significantly antisocial.

lmaoo that's more than half of my salary and I'm pretty well-paid in my country.