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I've never seen a pumpjack nor any hydrofracking equipment. I have seen a few capitalists but I can't be positive they were red-blooded ones (whatever that means).

Why, do you like them?

Solar panels are even worse. Here in Poland they're covering entire fields in the countryside, I have no idea why they don't build them on parking lots or on factory roofs.

It was much easier in the Age of Empires II Expansion Edition. Miss those times, too... :-/

Those wind turbines are destroying the scenery, though.

Looks amazing, I don't know if this is legit or useful feedback, but I navigated away after reading "Generate & update apps using AI".

I'm so tired of AI everywhere and everything trying to sell to you because of AI this and AI that.

I think that at this point we assume AI will be available if it makes sense for the product, making it a selling point to me is like slapping "No cholesterol!" on lettuce.

No idea what you're talking about, I just replied to your message normally

Not sure, it's a Google Pixel. But a smartphone would probably fall into the "unless I have to" category.

What's your point?

Could also be that if you're in Singapore you get better stuff. It's possible that European companies pick crappy, cheaper products that they have a higher margin on to cover importing and transport. I have no idea.

Absolutely! Enjoy.

I don't buy anything that has "smart" features, either. For instance, appliances that come with an app I just immediately skip.

That might be why I'm not seeing all this superb quality.

And also have the proverb, “If you can cheat, then cheat”. I guess it's just part of their culture.

That's just my opinion, man. If you think that the Chinese make great stuff, buy it.

I don't have a Twitter account.

I either look at the label or do research beforehand. I buy from all kind of places.

I wasn't thinking of agricultural products, but rather anything manufactured. As an example, appliances made in Germany will have a cord long enough that you can actually plug into the wall, while the one that's made in China will have a useless 10-centimeter cord that would force me to use an extension.

Your mileage might vary, this is just my experience, but it's been pretty consistent for a few decades, with things going downhill in the past I'd say 5 years or so.

When I go to any store, the Chinese version is ALWAYS lower quality. I've yet to see the opposite.

I definitely have to do a lot of work every time I need something, but I can often find products that aren't made in China (normally Germany).

If not, I usually just don't buy it new and just go to the thrift store. I can usually find what I need, made 30 years ago that will probably last me for the rest of my life.

I think about this a lot because I try to never buy anything Chinese or low quality unless I have to.

Unfortunately, from my experience artisans aren't willing to do the work anymore, even if you pay them premium. For instance, a carpenter here in Poland that decided to be a carpenter would rather cut up pre-made cabinets to your specs than make them from scratch using wood, even if I pay them 10x.

Then, people aren't willing to pay premium for stuff. For some reason, they would rather buy 20 products that last year than 1 product that can last 20 or more.

It's a problem for me because I value quality and would be willing to pay premium, but I just can't ever find anything.

Still can't align my navbar buttons correctly

I feel like the aspect ratio is a lot better than existing phones. It's basically a tablet.

With Claude—and I feel Opus 5 in particular—I always feel like I'm talking in circles.

Just when I think the task is finally done, it mentions a caveat that might invalidate the whole thing. Or it adds a hint at the end about something that it didn't look into but might be a potential problem. ALWAYS.

If I ask a yes/no question, it's always a short novel that barely answers the question and adds 3-4 side quests.

It's exhausting. Luckily I get paid for it but Jesus Christ, can't they see how annoying it is to use the thing? What were they thinking

Right now they're losing billions/year, it's not sustainable

I see. Just making sure I had it right :-)

Aren't major versions supposed to indicate breaking changes..?

That's how I thought semantic versioning worked

Even with LLMs, they can't ship a GET endpoint..?

I feel like there are a lot of people nowadays that are just pretending to be devs and ship things to prod using LLMs

Is this another marketing paid post from Apple..?

Is this a bot, or real..?

I'm not OK with it, but I have no choice besides maybe quitting my job.

I've also tried to understand the code that AI writes, but it's often insane and untangling it would slow me down so much that it would nullify the gains in speed that AI brings.

To me, either companies realize they're spending a lot more money to ship crappier code and AI becomes a niche, or we'll just stop looking at code. I don't think there's any other option because I don't see AI getting better at it. It seems to actually be getting worse and more annoying to use.

Very nice

Ryan Air just introduced the super-annoying requirements of needing the app to download your boarding pass (which of course they could just provide from the website).

I think they do it to be able to send you notifications and sell you more flights, but I don't understand why they need to be so anti-user. I try to NOT fly Ryan Air unless there is no other airline available. I'd rather pay twice as much than support their poor and sometimes borderline-criminal business practices.

I have a non-negotiable rule to start responses with a TL;DR and omit any follow-ups, potential caveats, and "you should know that"s unless they can lead to destructive actions or loss of data.

I also forbid replying with anything besides "yes" or "no" to yes/no answers.

It works, Opus 5 is still super-annoying but this makes it bearable to use.

Maybe the em dash and the fact that it says "its name" instead of "it's name"..? :-D

Seems like normal text to me, I don't think we need to scrutinize every sentence, now. Who cares if they used AI?

Nope, you're definitely not the only one. It's just really hard to understand what it's trying to say.

Another rule that was really helpful for me was to disallow anything that isn't yes/no for yes/no answers. If I ask "is the DB up?", I don't want it to take 5 minutes studying the schema to tell me if any of the tables need to be optimized or not.