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Yeah I tend to make my diagrams either as I go, as exploration, or after I'm done figuring things out as a summarizing artifact (and agents are great at using Mermaid to do that second one).

I've done this in Google Earth VR, and it's very fun. You can get down to basically street view, but everything is very blocky and blurry..

Or you can stay at "Godzilla scale" and walk around the city with buildings the (relative) size of appliances or furniture.. NYC is kind of fun that way.

If you are somewhere that you've been in real life, it's uncanny how familiar it still seems even at low res..

For somewhere you haven't been, or are planning on going, it can give you a sense of scale/scope/direction that is quite nice.

All of the above arguments rely on very unlikely hypotheticals and unrealistic assumptions, sorry.

10x price increases? RPi will have bigger problems than "people want to re-solder new RAM chips on our boards" if that happens. Ironically the amount of competition in this space would put them out of business if they did that.

As for third-party sellers, it's pretty clear to me, if not to you, that the issue is not people knowingly buying from third-parties but rather un-knowingly doing so. The self-evidence of this should be apparent based on what RPi is choosing to do (being the ones with all the data on this).

The entire e-commerce industry is now fragmented with tens of thousands of sellers, huge third-party marketplaces (where it's hard to even tell who you are actually buying from), and online stores that constantly come and go.

You cannot manage counterfeit concerns through "brand and reputation handling" alone. That ship sailed so long ago we don't even know where it is anymore.

> "ever increasing enshittification and contempt for the consumer"

You're making a ridiculous leap here by equating the above with one small company making a pragmatic choice to protect its business and consumers.

I believe in customer choice and I do think it's important to protect it, but I'm not a selfish maximalist who thinks it should be done to my benefit at all cost and in ways that are not realistic or economically feasible for the other parties involved.

That nuance is sorely lacking from your position here.

Swapping RAM chips on a board is something a tiny minority of customers would want to do.

Giving that tiny minority that freedom, at the expense of opening up the vast majority of other customers to potential problems, is a dumb choice to make (IMO), which is why they didn't make it.

On the topic of choice, perhaps YOU could choose to buy a thing that does what you want, rather than expecting every product to cater to your needs, regardless of whether it makes sense for it to do so or not.

Did you actually read the linked discussion before jumping in to argue?

Your questions have already been answered.

> > You'd be ok with that trade?

> Umm, yes...?

Ok, and so that trade then means Raspberry Pis don't exist, because the conditions are such that the company doesn't have the incentive to produce the device in a way that makes sense to them.

Congrats, you now live in a world where you are theoretically free to swamp the RAM on a device that never got made.

Also tone down the freedom sob story: if you don't like the limitations of this device, buy a different one. Your "freedoms" are not at risk just because this small company trying to put out an affordable device is making trade-offs to protect the vast majority of their customers (who will never swap the RAM chips on their board) at the expense of a small minority who wants to do a thing their product is not intended for.

> You're not entitled to my time or attention or money.

Ahhh but you're entitled to someone else's hard work in producing the content you watch, and god forbid they'd be entitled to compensation for that work.. Got it..

Rules for me, not for thee..

I find their explanation to be completely reasonable.

As they clearly explained, giving you the choice to swap the RAM chips would create broader systemic problems that would lead to bad customer experiences and a support burden for their organization.

You'd be ok with that trade?

Local maximalists like to imagine a world where everything is aligned with their own personal incentives, but then present this world as being filled with freedom and choices. Just not anyone else's freedom or choices, only their own.

I mean, the stuff that's in the video is not really under Google's control.

Are you suggesting that the burden should be on channel owners to upload variations of their videos that don't include sponsor blocks? That's a bit onerous. My commercial agreement is with YouTube, not with the video creator.

If you don't like ads from creators, don't watch those channels?

YT Premium does provide the "skip ahead" functionality that almost always jumps over sponsor blocks.

I will say I've been a YT Premium subscriber for years and I've never seen any ads for other Google services in my feed, and I don't get advert emails either.

What's the cost (broadly speaking, not in your specific case) of doing the same work an LLM would have done without the LLM though?

This is a weirdly reductive take.

There are plenty of areas where a "low bar" is more than enough. "low" doesn't necessarily mean bad here, it can simply mean "not the best".

I would argue the majority (in the true sense of the word) of white-collar service work does not require an expert.

It requires someone who has reasonable qualifications in the given field, and the motivation ($) to help you with your task.

So no one needs a top-shelf $900/hour lawyer to draw up a basic low-stakes contract where both parties agree to all the terms as written. You just need someone to ensure that the contract is legally valid as written.

There's a bit of transparency in the lion head, is that an artifact of the splat itself or the renderer?

That's an interesting point about preventing the spoofing of system prompts and windows..

These were very handy in simpler times but I definitely see why we don't want them around these days.

Surprised there was no mention of the old system theme colours (that I think still work in some browsers but are long-deprecated):

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/V...

I used these CSS styles in the late 90s to make internal browser-based apps for our call centre agents that looked & felt more like native Windows desktop apps.

Good, because we need that river to make AI images!

100% agreed. I'm definitely not making excuses for malice here (as I said in another thread, I think I wasn't clear enough in my original post)..

I think there should be much harsher punishments for PII mishandling, no matter why it happened.

Uhh. I think you misread my comment pretty badly here. I am not making excuses for anyone.

I am saying that it's less likely to be some evil machination that led to the misuse of my data and more likely to be negligence or incompetence.

Both are inexcusable, but one is more common/likely than the other.

You can certainly link them together and yes leaders should be held responsible no matter what, but from my perspective as the user who had his data leaked, it doesn't really matter how/why it happened, does it?

> my conclusion after dealing with them for many years is they will lie, cheat, and steal to get whatever they want

Honestly, it's not even that extreme in most cases. I think it's usually not malice, it's incompetence.

That's why I don't trust big companies with my data. Nothing to do with some CEO's evil plans, but more to do with the hundreds/thousands of mid-level "not my job" or "doing my best" workers who are actually in charge of handling my data.

I came to the comments to see the discussion and almost all of them are just complaining about LLM-assisted writing.

It's exhausting and tedious, like people nitpicking grammar.

It's also off-topic. I'd love it if HN banned (or strongly discouraged) this kind of repetitive low-value off-topic meta-discussion.

We get it, LLMs are used to write now. Some people don't like it. No need to broadcast that dislike every time, it adds noise to the discussion. :-(

(yes I realize I am also adding off-topic noise but this thread was nothing but that, so I guess I am on-topic until actual Postgres discussion starts).

That's fair, I guess I was really reacting to the narrow gatekeeping-like case the OP was advocating, where time spent/invested - or only doing things a certain way - was correlated to legitimacy and being able to claim you "made" a thing.

I never said that. I said I don't want to see change for change's sake.

If you can come up with a better experience and it's a worthwhile change that materially improves the product, I will take it of course.

On the software side iOS introduces new useful features for sure, I don't deny that. They also took a nice simple flat UI and glass-ified it in a really dumb way. And the OS is so bloated that I lose 10-15% of my storage to packages and installation files (seriously go look up how much of your phone's storage is used by "System files").

But on the hardware side these days they're just fiddling with the camera and moving the buttons around, and that's not something I want to have to care about when I upgrade.

This is of course all subjective, I'm sharing my view here, not implying that I speak for the world.

Really? You care about some stranger's work and how they created it?

Pro tip: you shouldn't.

Care about your work if you want, but "caring" about how someone else makes things and how they talk about it is just being a judgemental busybody and again, gatekeeping.

As for my comment, I stand by it.

If I made something genuinely useful, then it should not matter if it took me 5 minutes or 5 days to make it.

You'll never convince me that more time spent making something (all other factors being equal - yes, quality matters) gives it more value or credibility.

I think you're being pedantic to the point of losing all credibility. And you're gatekeeping in the worst possible way.

Your argument that using an LLM means you didn't "make" a thing could just as easily be used to say that if you used a framework or a library, you also didn't "make" a thing, because you didn't write all the code yourself and you didn't understand everything.

Would you say the authors of YT-DLP didn't "make" anything because they are a wrapper over FFMPEG and CURL?

If you produce something useful (even just to yourself), you "made" a thing.. It has a purpose, and it's useful. Who cares how you made it or how long it took?

For example I've made plenty of bash scripts over the years that were effectively thin wrappers that combined other tools, but they did something novel and useful that saved me tons of time, and I've shared those as gists or in other ways.

Some of these scripts took me mere minutes to make. I didn't use an LLM to make them, but the "heavy lifting" definitely wasn't in my script. No one ever showed up to berate me and try to tell me that I didn't actually produce anything useful in any of these cases.

So this "in the past" that you imagine where people were held to some bullshit standard for what is accepted as "making" a thing?

That past doesn't really exist, and if does where you are, it sucks.

That said one could argue that phones are now "solved" and the idea of iterating and changing just for the sake of changing is unwelcome. Much like laptops?

I don't want my next phone to be something I need to figure out all over again. I want the buttons in the same place, the OS to work the same way..

My phone is just another thing in my daily life like my car or my coffee machine. The less I have to think about any of those things - vs. just using them and getting on with my day - the happier I am.

I suspect that instead of treating the US as a bully, and pushing back, we are treating the US as a troll, and just looking away instead.

We'll go trade with other countries and stop giving the troll the attention it craves.

> You are not entitled to compensation for everything shitty that happens in the world.

This is true, but not relevant here?

If you pay for a service, and you don't get that service, are you implying that you should just be SOL?

If the plane has an issue, and the pilot rightfully lands it for safety concerns, but the paying passengers don't get where they are going, that sounds like the airline's problem to me, not the passengers' problem.

At the very minimum the passenger should be refunded for their ticket, because they didn't get what they paid for.

There are already too many negative consequences in the world of commercial transactions that the end-consumer gets saddled with simply because they don't have the leverage, money or time to fight for redress.

This would not be enforceable. Do you understand the scale of Youtube?

Also why would YT get involved in the content of videos themselves, beyond legal moderation requirements?

That's a slippery slope in itself, and it would just lead to a cat-and-mouse game where creators try to incorporate sponsorships in less obvious/visible ways, which is a net bad thing for the audience.

Now at least creators are required to disclose when their videos contain sponsored segments or paid advertisements. What you propose would take away that accountability.

As it stands, you can see when a video includes ads, and you can choose to not watch it. That's your choice.

> Other services (e.g. YouTube Premium) reduce ads, but do not eliminate them, no matter how much you pay.

Hmm curious to know where you live that you still get Youtube-supplied ads with YT Premium?

Because "ad-free" is literally the headline feature.

Unless you're talking about in-video ads and sponsorships added in by the video creators themselves, and then that's not something in YT's control (although they provide the "skip commonly skipped sections" feature in Premium that helps with this).

What you pay(paid) for cable TV was never enough to actually cover the total cost of the service you were receiving.

You were splitting that cost with the advertisers.

This is not a defence of advertising, just a reality check on this bad example.

For sure, I was not implying ELK was a replacement, it's just been good to me for some types of flowcharts that get messy with the standard Dagre layout ...

Excellent work on Line9 BTW, it looks fantastic. :-)