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Hope you renewed your Prime membership because they're the worst offender.

Is the Teen Girl Squad from Homestar Runner running HN now?

They see "foundation" and assume MacGyver and Pete Thornton work there.

You can still die if you take your idiot-proof Aussie blister packs with alcohol. So it's more an inefficient use of cabinet space.

You can overdose on water too, they haven't banned 5-gallon jugs (yet).

No one is using that cloud crap professionally. The bread and butter of the CAD world is Windows PCs with tons of RAM and certified GPUs.

Companies that are bigger than startups vibecoding food delivery apps?

Even Apple and Google run AD internally.

Gotta support all those CAD workstations running Windows.

Is Apple hardware still designed on Windows PCs?

I get to choose 4 ports in a $2,000+ "developer" laptop? Is this a joke?

Most of the port options are decoys because it means 1 or 0 USB ports.

And no I'm not carrying around a satchel of modules like an old British lord.

> Apple hardware is already amazing

Apple also made some amazing hardware blunders.

My personal favorite is the force-touch home button on the previous generation iPhones and iPads wouldn't work if you were wearing a band-aid. I don't mean the fingerprint reader, it wouldn't even click. So don't ever cut yourself if you were planning to unlock your phone ever. It added basically nothing for the end user over the previous physical home button besides rendering the vibrate function wimpy and useless.

How is it that I owned a fully-submersible phone—with user replaceable battery—over 15 years ago?

You've bought into and are now parroting Apple & Samsung marketing BS.

P.S. it had a headphone jack too. Gaskets over the ports. The headphone jack was the first victim of "but muh waterproof" despite all the other holes and cutouts.

The hallmark of every successful Rust project: existence of a popular, equivalent software package not written in Rust.

> It blows my mind how "intelligent" people can be this stupid.

Intelligent people don't post condescending, shallow dismissals.

So, the Great FUK for short?

Most Brits already have a VPN to beat off so the effect will be negligible.

The US CBP routinely intercepts "dangerous" products. I assume the Brits have the same.

It's a wonder why AliExpress flies under the radar. I assume it's impossible to keep up with it all.

The UK's comically over-engineered electrics are no match for some of these plug-in-and-die sketchy USB chargers from the Far East.

DiodesGoneWild on YouTube does teardowns of many of these incredibly poorly constructed deathtraps.

do they have a pussy ombudsman to investigate malfeasance and poor customer service?

Prostitution is not an industry known for its ethics or integrity.

Not sure how you empathize with people that built their robot replacements.

Where's the dupe guy when we need him most?

Try criticizing Apple or China or other sacred cows and see how quickly your post gets flagged.

"Everything I disagree with is hate speech"

Reddit is filled with calls to violence, I would say it's gotten quite worse since. What's changed is that it all comes from one side now.

When you curate the echo chamber, the calls start coming from inside the house.

> They government is saying that anyone they do business with can't do business with Anthropic.

Is neither unusual nor extraordinary. The 2022 TikTok ban on government devices—enacted under the Biden administration—carried the same viral-as-in-GPL terms.

Quit whining, you know damn well the bar for a typical "Show HN" has been raised to the point of being irrelevant these days, this post is a perfect example. This is not a home lab.

I'm happy for the OP and that it works for him. That said:

The equivalent of Joe Bloggs installing Linux onto an old laptop is neither curious nor interesting, let's not pretend it is because feelings.

When they make erroneous assumptions, which they often do, they steal more of your time and effort than it would take without "assistance".

I don't remember asking for "efficiency" in typing out an address, something we teach children how to do. It doesn't seem like a societal problem worth iterating over.

These tools are more than often wrong, and cause more grief for the user than any potential help it could provide.

There is no developer in the world that knows this data better than the person typing it into the form.

> Instead, learn to use your browser's autofill feature, and design your sites with it in mind. If you do it right the user literally doesn't have to type a single character.

Funny that the best solution is circa-1997 Netscape 2.0-level technology, while everyone iterates on how we can make everyone's life worse with even more unnecessary JavaScript. Like we all collectively forgot what the <FORM> tag does.

To type an address on a letter, something a 5 year-old could do with a crayon.

Address forms, with unnecessary and unhelpful drop-downs, many of which reject keyboard input and require use of a mouse to scroll through them, are the bane of my existence.

Of course they do.

Let me uh just grab my utility bill...

Wrong. There can also be multiple cities in the same ZIP code. There is not a 1:1 relationship with a 5-digit ZIP as everyone is assuming here.

It's impressive someone went to the trouble of putting together this angry dreck, and completely ignoring the fact that ZIP codes often span multiple cities/towns, which not only completely invalidates the author's premise, it would populate the fields with wrong information that would have to be manually corrected later.

The US Postal service has some of the most complex software in existence, including some of the most advanced handwriting recognition ever developed.

The fact that mail gets to its destination when it does, as soon as it does, with overall minimal error, is nothing short of amazing.

But some web dev blogger has it All. Figured. Out.

Right.

I'm sure your way is better.

This is big "I could code it in a weekend" HN energy.

The USPS owes you a debt of gratitude for buying a snarky domain and bringing this to their attention after 63 years.

Japanese have lactose intolerance, almost universally.

They don't eat yogurt or dairy in general.