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The "indie apps" phenomenon has always selected for applications that are relatively simple in scope. If you're doing something that has a large scope, you either need a team large enough to start a business, or you need to go open source and take advantage of community contributions (either directly or by integrating yourself into a larger system that allows your particular application to have a narrower scope). However, simple applications are generally pretty easy to implement with AI, making it hard to justify paying for them.

Theoretically, there should be a gap of applications that are too niche to start a business off of and, prior to AI, too complex for an individual to write on their own, which is probably where any future for indie apps lies. I don't know of any examples of that sort of software though, does anyone know any?

Perhaps this is an American thing but I have never once seen the term "cooking" being relegated to only situations where one is making food completely from scratch. However, the discounting of convenience food absolutely happens and I think it discourages a lot of people from trying to cook in the first place.

Recipe websites don't really help with this either, the ones that tend to pop up at the top of Google search results will often be significantly more involved and require way more in the way of ingredients than most people would be able to justify purchasing for a single meal. If a meal has more than five steps and takes more than three perishable ingredients, then it's not something that most people will make if cooking is not their hobby. Those are the meals that I think we should be focusing more on showing to people, and those are the ones that would convince people to cook more.

This is also true for pretty much any other category of search that you do as a layman. Specific, targeted queries for official documentation or research are fine, but if you look up basic information about cars, health, or basic computer troubleshooting a massive portion of the results are AI-generated.

If I'm going to be getting AI-generated results, I'd rather read the output of a model that has all the context of my specific situation than slop generated in bulk with a cheap model from six months ago.

As someone who also menu-3-1'd their way through the SAT, I'm surprised it was ever allowed. Super useful outside of school but knowing that a good portion of my classmates using Ti-84s were doing the same problems on paper felt rather unfair.

Unlike other websites though, VPNs are generally banned from posting on 4chan, which would definitely hurt traffic.

I can't help but feel this is backpedaling after the AI hype led to people entering university avoiding computer science or those already in changing their major. Ultimately we might end up with a shortage of developers again, which would be amusing.

The problem is that it genuinely is. One of the appeals of AI is that you can focus on planning instead of actually doing running the commands yourself. If you're educated enough to be able to validate what the commands are doing (which you should be if you're trusting an AI in the first place), then if you have to individually approve pretty much everything the AI does you're not much faster than just doing it yourself. In my experience, not running in YOLO mode negates most advantages of agents in the first place.

AI is either an untrustworthy tool that sometimes wipes your computer for a chance at doing something faster than you would've been able to on your own, or it's no faster than just doing it yourself.

The entire comment is a direct quote from the article. I don't think it was meant as an insult, just a note that the author of the article already was exempting the top level poster from any of the suggestions the article was making.

You absolutely can, but it's way more common to only know how to create a blank site with a framework than to migrate an existing site. React used to have a section in its documentation for how to add it to your site without adding a build system (not common knowledge, unless it's setting up a blank site through a script) and they've since replaced it with a brief tutorial telling you to migrate your website to a JS module with a link to a suggested build system.

All of this matters because the person that has to do this setup might not be you. It's certainly a problem with the frameworks themselves that porting a website (even just to add a little functionality) isn't as easy as setting one up initially but there's not really much an individual can do here. It's one reason I like frameworks like Preact so much, they're actually trying to fix this.

I'm glad someone here says this. I'm also an amateur radio operator, and I very frequently see people who are otherwise against public resources being exploited for commercial purposes arguing against many of the regulations that ham radio requires, oftentimes the restriction on encryption. Few other hobbies have the idea of protecting their existence as baked in as amateur radio, and it keeps me hopeful that it will continue to exist as the years go on.

> The electric-vehicle maker also argued it was unclear whether Autopilot was engaged at the time of the crash.

This doesn't seem to be a very good case study when the core argument by Tesla is that the autopilot functionality wasn't actually engaged.

Sounds like a symbiotic relationship to me. The attackers get to advertise their capability for pulling off attacks, and Google gets to advertise their ability to stop them.

Is that really the fault of the public domain or a reaction to the fact that Winnie the Pooh was copyrighted for so long? The appeal of horror Winnie the Pooh in almost every single instance has been due to the novelty that it's even possible to do legally, and somewhat as an act of rebellion against the company arguably responsible for holding it hostage for so long.

> The situation the author described where the system comes to a halt as memory contents are paged in and out of memory/disk is (subjectively) worse when the only option is for the OOM killer to begin reaping processes everywhere.

This one's interesting since your outcome often depends on what hardware you have. On systems with slow IO, i.e. a slow HDD, it's possible for swapping to make a system entirely unusable for minutes, whereas if swap is disabled the OOM killer is able to kick in and solve the issue in less than a minute. That's the difference between being able to keep most of your work open and none of your work open (because the alternative is being forced to reboot).

It's not about managing. It's about the friction to reaching out for help and lost productivity from having to schedule meetings combined with inexperience making it hard to decide which problems are worth the friction of reaching out and which ones aren't. There's also the sense of isolation that being remote gives, because asking for help over a private message makes it look like you're the only one that needs help. All of this is still a problem regardless of clarity of expectations and tasks.

My preferences are likely going to change once I get more experience under my belt but I absolutely feel there are some facets of remote work that benefit senior engineers at the expense of junior engineers.

I do the same, and honestly it's why I still use Firefox on mobile at all. But stock Firefox (which is what most people use anyways) has clear issues.

It's an S7. Though newer phones probably don't have as noticeable performance issues, it still indicates that the browser's going to use more power even if the performance is fine.

On the other hand, as someone on an old android device, the performance difference between the two is massive and it isn't getting better. Some sites (usually the ones that are actually important such as restaurant menu) are perfect on Chrome and nearly unusable on Firefox, even with an adblocker.

Performance already matters a lot on desktop browsers, but when battery life is thrown into the mix, it matters even more.

This is the primary reason I use it. Time to try out other sweeteners I guess!

You can have both. People can intentionally choose platforms that make them feel less free in exchange for convenience. It just means that the convenience (and network effects) that they get out of using a more convenient platform are more valuable to them than the ability to communicate freely. When most people are using these platforms non-anonymously (i.e. to talk with their friends) they probably also get less out of privacy than people talking to others they've never met in person.

It's worthwhile to consider a balance between convenience, plausible deniability (people don't really want to be that guy in the coffee shop on Tor), and privacy. Privacy platforms nowadays consider privacy above all else because most people heavily into privacy are purists that don't want to sacrifice any privacy in exchange for having more people to talk with. It's one of the reasons I still respect Telegram with all of its shortcomings, because even though it's relatively insecure in comparison to its competitors, it takes convenience into account and as such has more users than most all privacy-centric messengers while still providing end-to-end encryption for the people that desire it (at least in theory, the cryptography's a bit shaky).

This seems useful for portability of accounts. Does anyone know if this would allow someone to use the same handle and switch Mastodon servers at any time, similar to changing email providers on your own domain?

If you look at the list of top sellers, new arrivals, upcoming games, and games on sale, most if not all of them have native Linux support, which is something you absolutely could not have said just a few years ago. In my experience, at this point bad Linux ports are more of an issue than a lack of them.

I agree though honestly, if Proton works fine and the game runs under it, I'd much rather have that than a bad native Linux port. Plus, I have a lot more trust in Proton to keep things compatible than Windows.

I don't even own a Steam Deck and I've been seeing the benefits just from its existence. Now, almost every game on Steam has a quick accessible rating that lets me know if it works fine on Linux. This has led to me being able to buy games confidently that I never would have otherwise. In addition, the effectiveness of Proton for running Windows games is baffling, and something I never could have expected when I first switched to Linux back in 2015.

Back when Steam Machines first came out, the expectation was that there would be a new push to get games working on Linux, which unfortunately didn't end up happening as strongly as expected. However, with how much of a success the Steam Deck was, it seems that the rush to get games ported to Linux actually is happening. I'm excited for the future.

Are you sure you're not on a network that may be blocking the site? I had the same issue but it went away once I connected to a VPN.

Every now and then I see a post like this one that laments that the age of web pages looking unique is gone. Sure, I can agree with that, but it's hard to say that it wasn't a good tradeoff. The original article admits that it was able to decrease the barrier for entry for writing a blog by a LOT, and while it did make customization a lot less likely, it meant that people that were not going to write anything suddenly had the ability to.

I'm thinking primarily of sites like YouTube here. Sure, we all sacrificed the ability to customize the way that we serve videos to others, or the freedom of not being on a platform that someone else owns, but some of the best people on the site are people that aren't technically focused at all. These people would not have been able to publish anything if the barrier for entry wasn't lowered.

And on the opposite side, if you look at places trying to bring back the small/old web, you run into the issue that generally everyone there has the same interest of programming or technology, since it's borderline essential to get into these places in the first place. It's sometimes surprising what kind of people you find on there, but most of the time it's just a bunch of programmers. The freedom of the old web was brought back at the cost of the diversity of people that populated it.

User stylesheets are one of the reasons I've really enjoyed my time browsing Gemini. When content is entirely text, being able to customize how that text is displayed is really nice for comfortable reading.

I figured it was $100,000 but I could be wrong.