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Honestly they should go in the other direction. Real people, real conversations. Upload an ID or a CC transaction or something in order to prove your identity, and require re-ups every few years.

the downside is no anonymity. The upside is, no astroturf, no bots, no nothing. Or maybe not 'none' but 'greatly reduced'.

That's actually a community I might be enthused about participating in. Sort of like HN, where a lot of people use their real names. The problem is how you bootstrap it. People need a good carrot to embrace the stick.

That I can't tell whether "the wheels coming off," is literal or figurative when it comes to Tesla is an indictment about their product quality at this point.

What a disaster. I don't really know anyone who is voluntarily buying Teslas when there are so many other viable options in an increasingly crowded marketplace.

or tech lead. or whoever. the point is, someone has to do the sizing. I think applying an underpowered agent to a task of unknown size is about as good as getting the intern to do it.

Even EMs and TPMs are assigning people based on their previous experience, which generally boils down to "i've seen this task before and I know what's involved," "this task is small, and I know what's involved," or "this task is too big and needs to be understood better."

Yeah... you split tasks into consecutively smaller tasks until it's estimateable.

I'm not saying that can't be done, but taking a large task that hasn't been broken down needs, you guessed it, a powerful agent. that's your senior engineer who can figure out the rote parts, the medium parts, and the thorny parts.

the goal isn't to have an engineer do that. we should still be throwing powerful agents at a problem, they should just be delegating the work more efficiently.

throwing either an engineer or an agent at any unexplored work means you just have to delegate the most experienced resource to, or suffer the consequences.

Except developers can’t even do that. Estimation of any not-small task that hasn’t been done before is essentially a random guess.

I've never seen the nasstatus page, but I have seen the OIS page, which I use frequently when experiencing delays to find out what's going on: https://www.fly.faa.gov/ois/?legacy=true

The links on the NAS page are also really good. nice share!

drinking out sucks now. it's too expensive. landlords are killing drinking out.

I love drinking craft beer. but when a single craft beer reaches up to $15 a beer, there's only so much I will partake, especially if I can have a $1 coors at home (which imo is still an expertly made product).

similarly, canned vodka sodas or malt bevages (like whiteclaw) easily hit the $10-$15/can mark at establishments. it's no wonder people don't want to drink out.

to be fair, git is one of the most easily replaced pieces of tech.

just add a new git remote and push. less so for issues and and pulls, but at least your dev team/ci doesn't end up blocked.

You're right! Let's just quickly promote your only read replica to the new primar---oops!

Is there something about LLMs that suddenly make grammar and style irrelevant? Is your take, no human is going to read this ever again, so why bother making it pretty and consistent/readable?

This podcast episode might be of interest. https://www.searchengine.show/a-perfectly-average-anomaly/

providing healthcare and education are costs easily overlooked by most americans. But the reality is, these are costs borne by americans as well. and likely at a higher rate: americans pay more per capitia on both of those versus most other nations.

Hang-dry your tees. It's a slight annoyance vs just bombing everything into the dryer, but it's very worth it to not have sleeves that are too short. I usually hang mine on the shower's curtain rod to dry.

And frankly, this seems like less effort than trying to apply some hack to unshrink them after the damage is done.

anti-cheat far precedes the casinoification of modern games.

nobody wants to play games that are full of bots. cheaters will destroy your game and value proposition.

anti-cheat is essentially existential for studios/publishers that rely on multiplayer gaming.

So yes, the second half of your statement is true. The first half--not so much.

absolutely ridiculous. $10 for a single pass. I'd pay 99c for this app, and no more. Oh well, $0 it is.

except your argument as to why "build moar" isn't an option is basically "we acknowledge the population is booming, however, the vibes are more important than providing housing."

Sure, everyone wants their particular city to be frozen in time for cuteness and nostalgia reasons. However, it sort of assumes that the sociopolitical environment is also frozen (it isn't).

so instead you end up with voters voting against densification because, essentially, "I got mine."

p.s. i'm not sure that places that banned/heavily restricted airbnb experienced a meaningful decline in rental prices (e.g. new york, san francisco, vancouver, etc). it's basically a distraction from failed policy.

p.p.s. new york is one of the most popular tourist destinations and incredibly built up, and doesn't seem to have issues with tourists wanting to visit. tokyo too. and these also still have their quintessential historic/preserved areas, too.

Nobody knows what Doublespeed is, everyone knows what a16z is. Doesn't putting the part that's pertinent to people in the headline oblige readers-to-be?

I'd say that the change is editorializing more than the original was "linkbait".

The quality is not suspect. It is one of the world’s few 24/7 systems, and there are many capital improvements happening constantly. For example, making more stations accessible and improving switching equipment to improve reliability and volume.

This comment is typical HN “government bad can do no right” fodder. The MTA is truly a marvel in the service it provides. The only advantage it has is age, which is why it is so expansive.

One of the great powers of federalism is not having to duplicate efforts for every state. It also reduces cost by allowing 'one-size-fits-all' and economies of scale, rather than each state having its own bespoke whatever.

Many countries around the world enjoy the benefits of coordinated public health departments. Part of the United States' poor response to COVID was because there was no central public health department that could work closely with state agencies to e.g. provide data about what's going on, share best clinical practices, etc. Each state is an island.

So no, I don't agree that the only goal of the federal government should be piggy bank. States should have a lot of latitude with their policies, but generally standardizing things across the nation would be a net positive.

I will give you an upvote to offset the negative expressions. I've heard of at least one instance at a very well known Bay Area university in such a class.

From what was described to me, and I trust this person to not misrepresent their experience, was that they were essentially told 'hi, cis white male, sit down and don't say a damn thing, this isn't your place to talk'. And then go on to essentially present a curriculum that was essentially a myriad of thinly-veiled misandry, compounded by extremely clear classroom rules/culture where any opposition was decidedly unwanted by the lecturers.

I'm the first to champion equal rights and equal opportunity, but that that sort of thing was going on in higher ed left a bad taste in my mouth.

through all of this, it really feels like rebble didn't know what they want (as they say). the future collaboration with eric also sounds like they don't know what they want. they want a third party mediator for... something. Eric was already prepared to pay them per user, which seemed generous to me to begin with.

It sounds to me like Rebble (the board + community) should figure out what they want before trying to proceed, lest they further waste time and good-faith negotiating capital. like are they unhappy with the previous payment rate per user? or something else?

This is a strange take. Should we never ever change UI because grandpa can’t learn the updates?

Is there a penalty to discussing the secret projects? Like if your manager/director/vp knew you were talking specifics without some authorized, what would happen?

It sounds like there is no penalty to the nuclear labs except, if you blab to the wrong person, it’s going to stir up trouble.

Weird. My windows PC updates like your Linux machine. How often do update vs your parents? Maybe they had some larger “half” releases pending (I.e. closer to a major macOS release, which also take time)

My experience with Mac is iterm prevents Mac from shutting down so instead some days I wake up and everything on my machine has been closed and the update hasn’t been performed. Lovely.

I don’t know who that is but it doesn’t matter since you removed the second part of my comment. Do you think Paul Krugman would approve of that edit?

I think it’s easy, too easy, to say something like “all mainstream media is biased and untrustworthy.”

The problem is, who do you trust instead? Twitter? Like that’s not biased. Actually I think it’s much worse. Not only is the editor of Twitter very biased, but it’s filled with bots and there is nobody providing any reliable fact checking. It’s very easy for motivated parties to portray a fringe idea as mainstream. It’s also easy to shout the truth out of the room. What one person tweet is just as valuable as another. Dunking on people (ratioing, etc) becomes your signal.

TikTok? Maybe less easy to influence, but now the editor is an adversarial nation state.

YouTube? If you thought msm wanted engagement, YouTube is much worse.

Substack? Respectfully, is full of people who are not trustworthy enough to be platformed anywhere meaningful, and for the few that are independent for legitimate reasons, don’t have the resources to do consistent factual reporting in anything more than a very narrow domain.

Long story short, maybe msm is imperfect, but imo it’s the best we got. And I’d rather have some source of truth that is at least attempting to fact check and get the truth right, even if biased, because when you don’t have any truth compass—when all information is equal regardless of how far from reality it is—it becomes very easy to be manipulated.

Now who would want that?

The million dollar question is how this will interface with the locking down of software from outside the Play Store (I.e. side loading).

Will Google still gatekeep all binaries running on Android?

It’s not a technical issue, it’s a business one.

Those status pages are often linked to contractual SLAs and updating the page tangibly means money lost.

So there’s an incentive to only up it when the issue is severe and not quickly remediated.

It’s not an engineers tool, it’s a liability tool.

For me factorio is a one playthrough kinda thing. I don’t get off on endless optimization and making it bigger for the sake of bigger, feels like work.

That said, I was more than happy to build the base back from scratch in space age, and I find the expansion to be every bit as fun as the base game. So I endorse it. Especially as you already know how to do some things quicker.