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> Hyperscalers are in big trouble if the build out suddenly stalls.

How would you define stalled? Hardly anything has been built in the last 2 years (and most of those juicy new GPUs must be sitting in a warehouse somewhere waiting to be installed, together with all of our RAM and HDDs).

Thankfully 3rd party devices are supported otherwise I'd have gone insane with just one button.

Since the article is about Malta, the discussions here should be centered on Malta. Sure, everyone knows the US is corrupt as f*** but what relevance does that have here and now? There are plenty of other places on HN to bring up this "argument".

Just wait until AI companies stop subsidizing everything and you get the ac

Thanks! I also scanned the detailed article looking for which plugins were affected and wasn't able to find it. Came to the comments looking for a quicker answer.

An ADD/SUM feature on tables was the first plugin I installed. It could be argued this should be part of the TABLE but I guess the dev team has a lot on their plate not to mention I'm not even sure if there's a feature request for this ability.

Just wait until you want to create a simple table with ADD/SUM.

I don't know how hard it would be but IMHO adding some kind of permissions dialog(?) akin to Android would go a long way. 99% of Obsidian plugins don't need full disk access, or internet access for that matter.

I think OP is basically applying "vote with your wallet" strategy and/or some kind of "action speaks louder than words". As I understood from the article, they have been vocal about trying to change things, but they are shouting into the ether since nothing has changed and in fact only getting worse.

Maybe it's time to make new friends who live nearby :)

How about "friend-request-by-mail" where you pay Friendster a token amount to send a postcard with a unique QR code?

"Hey I'm coming to visit you so we can be friends on Friendster 2.0! The flight was 1k so I hope you don't mind if I crash on your couch!"

Feature request: friend-request-by-mail: Pay Friendster $1 to send a postcard with a unique QR code. I've seen something similar for user/address verification on a local community website (but it's free to send the postcard).

> I suspect you and I are being fleeced far more by government waste and fraud than by businesses.

And do you think that firing half of the employees at various gov't agencies has and/or will decrease the waste and fraud?

My workplace does this for EVERYTHING. And they are always immediately obviously AI slop, both because we all know they wouldn't ever pay an actual artist to create graphics, but also because the people creating the graphics have no sense of style and let it generate the most generic shit possible with zero creativity.

It's definitely not helpful. It's just annoying and disgusting and a waste of resources IMO. But hey at least Powerpoint presentations have AI slop instead of stuff taken from Google Images!?

Someone remind me again why this is a good idea to be able to create perfect fake images?

The "excuse" is that there is no root repo :)

It's not fun to copy/paste 3 git commands? What a truly gilded engineering life you must live! :)

Nice try :) Actually the hard part isn't creating a script to automate 3 git commands - it's that there is no root repo to put such a script, hence the need to manually do it.

> "That guy" that says "we've always done it this way

I most definitely am not, and constantly push back for changing processes, and do make changes when I am allowed, even when it's not budgeted for or even officially allowed, because we have legacy systems that need to be maintained and some things are truly outdated and need some love. In fact, as a new hire in another life, I used to get scolded for changing _too much_ because I like to constantly improve things. The problem is, in order to ship code at our company and within our budget constraints, you don't have time to constantly refactor, unfortunately.

> is that if the system is barely running at all

Our system is and has been running just fine for many years, thank you very much :)

> there's no explanation for why they need to be that way

There is an explanation: There is no shell script because there is no root for all the repos, and some repos are shared across multiple projects.

I hate reiterating this yet again but is it really that hard to copy/paste a couple git commands? The readme is quite short, and once you've done it one time, it's fairly easy and straightforward to understand.

p.s. just FYI but I didn't downvote you.

Nice list, somehow I missed that one. I love Joel's wisdom.

The full build literally works in one step but the main prerequisite is to perform a few git clone commands which can be copy/pasted from the readme. Can't help it if they want to manually do git clone and let it name folders incorrectly and then subsequently ignore compiler errors and my advice to rename. Changing our antiquated workflow would have required changing a lot of other sensitive dependencies. What ever happened to the old adage "never change a running system" ? ;)

And people here are concentrating on our build system, which I will be the first to admit isn't perfect, but this isn't the only instance of me telling this person how to do things, them not listening to me and doing something else, letting me debug only to realize they didn't listen, telling them how to fix, only to be ignored _again_, rinse and repeat. It's unfortunately a recurring theme. I initially thought it was a communication error on my part, but I've heard similar complaints from several other colleagues as well.

Our git master actually considered this, but it would have caused other issues that I can't recall right now, so we got stuck with lots of repos. The readme literally has all the git commands, all they had to do was copy/paste them into the terminal.

haha I would totally empathize with you. But see, you would realize immediately that it doesn't work and why, but you are smart enough to realize it and would just rename the folder (as mentioned in the readme as the very first thing to do), hit build and voila, everything works as expected, instead of sending me log files, letting me debug your errors, ignoring my repeated instructions, waste my time helping you debug, back and forth until finally you just rename and move on. I had to say it 4x before it finally stuck. This guy seemingly wanted to get an initial build done so he could move on to actually fixing bugs. Maybe it's intentional to waste everyone's time so that he can book hours in the system and get paid for futzing around? :shrug:

and btw the system doesn't shit itself that much: the compiler errors are fairly straight-forward: this folder doesn't exist.

Of course everyone can always do better, but it's a legacy inherited system, and works fine, as long as things are named correctly. The readme is actually very short - literally the git commands are there to copy/paste and will create the correct directory names. There are plenty of other things to get hung up on, but naming folders correctly should IMO not be one of them.

Yes and no. My retort is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841520

I agree, and there are other fun gotchas that even more frustrating and convoluted. But everything is thoroughly documented and I even explicitly pointed out those potential issues before I gave them the assignment. When the errors first occurred, I pointed out the fix, which was ignored, multiple times. Should it be that difficult to rename a couple folders? The compiler errors were fairly easy to understand: can't find repo2. Is that too much to expect from someone?

In an ideal world and in retrospect, you are right. But the build process is very old, created by someone long gone, of which multiple projects depend upon, each with minor tweaks and always reliant on the same hard-coded paths which IMO isn't that bad and can easily be rectified - it's really not worth the time or energy to allow dynamically named folders, not to mention dangerous since it's a critical production system that's worked forever. Nobody wants to break a running system, nor has the time to clean things up properly, especially since there are tons of build scripts that all rely on these paths, and trying to fix all of them would be a huge amount of work, spread across multiple projects, all requiring sign-off from higher-ups who will never be able to justify the cost to fix something that already works.

That's definitely a valid argument, but I highly doubt it since they know their way around Windows and Linux just fine. I honestly think it might be related to attention span, miscommunication, language barriers and/or maybe a heavy reliance on AI tools (though to be honest, even local LLMs would have spotted the error immediately).

4.5 sonnet/opus/haiku are still available via github copilot plugins.

RIP bank account!

Ugh... we have a new colleague who does this repeatedly. Most recently, I said in order to build, you need to do this:

- git clone <repo1> <dest1>

- git clone <repo2> <dest2>

- git clone <repo3> <dest3>

What do they do? git clone repo1, 2, 3 without giving <dest> parameter, which clones into default folders named after the repos. Build fails of course because repo1 depends on repo2 and 3 being named specifically. He sends me the error log (remote colleague, yay) and I say: you gotta rename those folders. Instead of renaming them, tries other things for hours, then comes back and shows me other build errors. I look over the errors and realize, again, the folders are still named incorrectly. Rinse and repeat 2 more times before finally the build process works. Lost a few hours to this. This kinda stuff keeps happening with this colleague. It's really a huge time-sink. If I had more time, I would do remote call and watch over them, but I'm so deep in my own stuff that I don't have time to babysit (not to mention calls take 1-2 hours with this person just trying to explain really basic things, over and over and over again).

Thanks, this seems a lot more reasonable than the 168GB torrent available from IA, which I was halfway through downloading. It also contains every conceivable format possible, whereas your link is just PDFs equating just 12.5GB (easily downloadable with Free Download Manager + Firefox plugin -> right-click -> Download All :)

Cities have existed for much longer than automobiles have and have somehow prospered since millenia. I don't think the recent invention of automobiles has anything to do with proper functioning of cities.