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It's not really comparable. Northern US and Canada use way more salt on roads and it's not the regular salt (it's forbidden) but a pretty aggressive mix of various salts.

I've never seen so many not so old but already rusty cars as in Quebec, Canada.

When I was at 7th grade I only knew BASIC. Then someone told me about Pascal and it blew my mind, because it didn't have the GOTO statement.

And yet, lots of people in pre-Musk times said "Twitter is not a government body, it's a private company, it can ban whoever it wants to ban". Now these people are leaving in droves.

I hope it's a good lesson for everybody that a private company can't be a de facto town square. An internet town square must be based on open protocols and, like an IRL town square, paid with taxpayers money. Otherwise, we're doomed to have this story repeated again and again.

>Using low-code and no-code platforms is supposed to provide relief to overworked development shops, right?

No, you got it wrong, zdnet. No-code is for people who don't do software development. It's for finance analysts, marketing managers, and similar non-technical professions.

Also, no-code isn't something new. Non-technical people have been using a no-code tool for decades. It's called Excel. Now they just have more options.

I have a feeling that PG doesn't understand automation. Automation is just a tool to increase work productivity (and, consequentially, profits and salaries). Automation doesn't change the nature of relationship between an employer and employees. The fact that a founder might need fewer employees due to automation only means that the moment when the founder will need to hire more people is shifted later in time (when the company grows) and the salaries of the employees will be higher because they will be required to work with automation tools and their work productivity will be higher.

Also, the more automation we have, the more people will work in the automation industry. In other words, people will still be hired, just from the side of automation supplier, not automation consumer. If a single founder can run a billion-dollar company, it means that the automation industry that enabled this remarkable achievement has grown big and gave work to many people.

>For this, a chatbot is no different than Google...

Exactly. AI chatbots look like something that can replace Google search and become the next big thing after search engines[+]. Like Google, AI chatbots will crawl and ingest the web. They won't be able to synthesize anything new, but it can be a convenient, very human-friendly way of querying the global knowledge base that the internet has become.

[+] If AI chatbots become successful, they will definitely start injecting ads and spoil everything again.

>When we do decide to end support for an old version, we’ll announce that on our blog and via email.

Blogs/email shouldn't be the only channel. Announce the retirement date with an HTTP header right in the response. In this way, developers can create automated alerts about soon depreciation.

In other words, depreciation announcements should be machine-friendly, not just user-friendly.

The more I read about Mastodon, the more I think wont' take off (unless a deep redesign will be done) and the more I think ActivityPub will succeed.

The problem with Twitter and Mastodon is that they both are based on poor abstractions of how humans communicate. They just don't model it well enough. For instance, they completely ignore the basic fact that one person can have multiple interests and communicates with different groups of people depending on interests. Humans are multifaceted things, after all.

Another problem is with monetization. There must be paid instances of Mastodon or whatever federated it will be replaced with. Techno-communizm won't work, we've seen it so many times. Yet, here we are again.

Is it possible to run a paid Mastodon instance? It would make sense, hardware resource bills (and work time of moderators) need to be paid.

>Our 500k developers would not pay to use it.

You need to have 500 users to understand that, not 500K. A well-written postmortem otherwise.

It should be relatively straightforward with something like pushover.net (I'm not affiliated with them). Most low-code tools can send an API request.

The problem with the popular apple breeds is they are too sweet. Actually, sweetness is what makes them popular. I couldn't find fresh and not too sweet apple breeds in grocery stores in Canada.

In Ukrainian language words spell exactly how they are pronounced (unlike Russian, btw). It's very convenient. Every Ukrainian letter always corresponds to the same respective sound. You know exactly how to correctly pronounce any word, even if you see it for the first time.

I'm not sure if any of the proposed latinization variants would retain this feature.

That sounds techno-utopian to me. You can't get around trust to people. Technology is run by people using rules and abstractions people agreed to adhere to.

A person typically have multiple interests. Associating yourself with a single interest is usually a bad idea as sooner or later your would want to talk about something else.

It would be way more natural to have interests as channels for a person's account. People could subscribe to only particular interests instead consuming the full stream of the person's posts. I'm not sure if Mastodon supports this, but it's sorely lacking in Twitter.

Sounds like an interesting idea for reducing energy consumption. Homes already have air ducts for washers/driers. Why can't be something for fridges too? Home fridges are almost never moved anyway.

Wise (formerly TransferWise) recently started supporting Interac and also has an API for automated payments. I didn't try the API with Interac though.

I'd like an option to see only tweets/replies from Twitter Blue holders.

There are lots of places where you can express your opinion absolutely free of charge. For instance, HN ;)

Let's not confuse necessary and sufficient here. Of course, they can charge money and show ads. Getting paid is necessary if we want social media to become ad-free and start catering to user needs, not to advertisers' needs.

A move in the right direction. Social networks should never be monetized with ads.

Exactly my sentiment. AI in most cases is too dumb. At best it creates an illusion of doing something useful.

It wasn't that bad in the old days - fixed price per hardware, fixed price per software, and fully unlimited use of both with no risk of unexpected costs.

I'm curious to what extent the effect is country-specific.

Static site generators require a headless CMS and all the headless CMS I tried are much harder to use and way less flexible then WordPress.

We know already how they will optimize to compete - more surveillance, more algorithms, and more annoyance.

> businesses mostly don't want to deal with installing software across their systems

And now they have to deal with cloud leaks of sensitive data that they no longer control and various SOC2/ISO "certifications" increasingly look like security theater and a "feel good" measure because they don't guarantee anything.

>I'm enjoying the lifestyle of "solve client's problem, client pays me money, innovate, iterate". It probably won't last forever, but it's simple and it feels authentic.

Don't underestimate that! It's better to have a good source of income, freedom of action, and be happy doing something enjoyable and meaningful in life, rather than chase unicorns by dealing with investors you don't like forcing you to do things you don't like. Up from a certain income level, extra money doesn't bring more happiness. And that income level isn't that high.

Doesn't the same apply to nuclear fusion power generation?

I don't think it's universal. Europe is more colorful than US/Canada. I think that's because esthetic education is better in Europe.