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The main problem with TS is that your types are compile-time. You can have 0 uses of any/unknown, but you can still stuff a number into a string at runtime without any issues until it blows up.

I know you should have defined validators for every single external API, library and database, but at some level it feels silly to do all of this extra work.

That’s an annual subscription.

If you just need a single Linux VM, you don't need to fiddle with cloud-init. If you want repeatability or automation, that's when you'd reach for it, whether for setting up per-project VMs, shareable VM configs between developers etc.

Also, you don't need all 4 Linux images, just the one you want to run as your guest OS. Emulation / virtualization depends on the guest OS CPU architecture.

I'm convinced most "designers" in big tech are just trolling at this point.

ChatGPT is laughably terrible at double entry accounting. A few weeks ago I was trying to use it to figure out a reasonable way to structure accounts for a project given the different business requirements I had. It kept disappearing money when giving examples. Pointing it out didn’t help either, it just apologized and went on to make the same mistake in a different way.

VAT applies equally to domestic and imported products and doesn't affect the balance. Tariffs only apply to imports, thus giving domestic producers an advantage (either lower prices or higher profit margins).

VAT doesn't affect free trade in any way though. You're mixing up unrelated concepts.

VAT applies equally to both domestic and imported products, unlike tariffs that apply only to imports.

Obviously other countries would be fine with Trump enacting a sales tax / VAT on everything. Why wouldn’t they be?

Another issue LLMs help with is identifying the correct keywords or terms to look up. Especially with manpages, I've had numerous times where I roughly know what I'm looking for, but in the presence of hundred-plus flags and options, I can't even grep to the right place because I don't know the exact term I need. So I sometimes use LLMs as glorified grep with semantic synonym support.

From my experience, companies taking months to get GDPR are ones that want to tick the box, but don't want to follow the law, so they have to go through the trouble of justifying gathering unnecessary data for themselves and their 873 trusted partners. They usually end up noncompliant anyway because GDPR is a pretty sensibly written law that you can't just work around with a crappy popup, but enforcement has unfortunately been lacking.

And just to be sure he gets the help he needs from the public, preemptively blanket pardon everybody.

At this point, Trump could hoist the russian flag at the white house and republicans would still turn a blind eye.

40 seems way too much. “}” alone probably makes up a significant portion of lines. Another thing is auto-complete that does the majority of typing anyway.

Amazon's search is somehow even worse even though they already have a lot of the information in a structured format.

If you look closely at the 6th picture in the article, the swashplate arms are visible on the bottom rotor.

> Or are we doomed to another decade of shitty conflict resolution hacks?

Conflict resolution is never going away. It's important to distinguish between syntactical and semantical conflicts though, the first of which can be solved, but the other will always require manual intervention.

Having grown up around the same latitude as Stockholm, one thing I never realized until last year when visiting tropics is how my subconscious associates warmth with long evenings. Being used to summers where you could basically read a book outside at 11PM, it felt really weird to be outside in tropic heat, but complete darkness by 6PM.

> Can you describe why there's a big push for self checkout? I suspect there's a bigggg difference between countries, so this all sounds very alien.

I love self-checkout as long as they give you the scanner to carry around (or mount on the shopping cart). The entire shopping process is just so much quicker, havent waited in a checkout line in years. The same amount of space for 3 cashiers can have 10+ self-checkout machines as least.

> To me people pushing for self checkout sounds like somebody preferring self service over full service gas stations - I find it difficult to understand.

Might be cultural, but full-service gas stations sound bizarre. Why would you need an attendant to do something so basic? Like a lift operator to press buttons for you.

My personal annoyance is Apple abandoning AppKit in favor of SwiftUI, which breaks down immediately once you do more complex interactions than basic demo apps. NSScrollView and NSCollectionView must be among the most buggy UI components, but SwiftUI ScrollView is so barebones (and also buggy), it's basically useless.

Never thought that McCain or Romney would seem as amazing alternatives compared to where we ended up either. Russian propaganda brainrot really did a number on the American populace over the last decade.

During his first term there were at least a few adults left in the room. This time around, all bets are off.

> In the short term irrationality can and does prevail in both markets and democracy. In the long term, the best product and ideas always win. This is why both democracy and markets are durable.

If there’s anything to learn from recent developments it is that democracy is fickle and definitely not the default state. But to me you’re still conflating commercial product success with the product being good or bad. If it was about the product, fundraising or marketing shouldn’t be among the biggest obstacles, since they have nothing to do with product quality or consumer benefits.

Right, so we agree that a product being successful has little to do with being better or worse than competitors and more with other externalities?

> The vast vast vast majority of companies do not sell a product below-cost.

Maybe in terms of the number of companies, but in terms of percentage of market size, I'm not sure. Literally the entire social media adjacent market at the moment, including instant messaging is about offering a service below cost, killing any chance of non ad supported platforms.

> And if the customers are not willing to pay more, it sounds like they're actually happy with the current offering and that's not an area that your fellow humans would find useful for you to work on.

Not necessarily. This would be true in a world of spherical cows and rational consumers, but that's never going to be the case. There's other considerations like walled garden lock-in and network effects that consumers have no control over.

> Yes, one of the responsibilities of a founder is fundraising. If you can't sell people on investing in your vision that is...a somewhat bad sign.

So it's not about "just go out and build a competitor", but something much more complex, as reality usually is. Even access to venture capital can differ by orders of magnitude between markets.

That’s a bit naive. There are a lot of markets that are effectively impossible to enter without massive amounts of capital and current players are selling below cost.

> and a court order is just as binding whether you agree with it or not (and indeed whether it's legally correct or not).

But the same question remains. Who’s going to enforce it?

Some countries tax tobacco, alcohol and sugar at higher rates to offset the costs incurred to society?

Is this satire?

> How do I know they will be worth anything when the company exits?

They won’t be worth anything. Equity isn’t perfect, but it offers at least the bare minimum of legal protections. Any crypto token will just be ignored by the acquirer (or any present or future company leadership) and you’ll have no legal standing.