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two_centson If AI writes your code, why use Python?

you probably mean that python is not static typed.

Microsoft is hardware company too. Surface, Xbox, computer peripherals, etc.

Or any other solution with electrolytes (Gatorade, DripDrop) etc

two_centson I'm never buying another Kindle

> Add to that the fact that you don't really own the e-books you "buy" through Amazon, just like pretty much every other digital "purchase" these days, and that's enough for me to never buy one.

True. That's why I prefer to buy books on other platforms, sometimes directly on authors website. And nothing stops me from reading them on Kindle. Maybe that's the reason why I don't understand the problem here.

two_centson Not buying another Kindle

  > We are still dealing with a home screen that prioritizes advertisements and promoted recommendations over your actual library. Navigating a large collection of books remains a chore, with sluggish animations and a lack of robust folder management that has been a standard feature on rival devices for years.

Such claims make me think that this article is biased.

There are two tabs on main Kindle screen - Home and Library (and also pretty good search). In Library you can see all your books AND collections as folders.

BOOX devices have their own issues https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33353640

I think Kobo has same issues with DRM as Amazon does.

Also, Kindle devices are cheaper, last time I checked, low end models of competitors, didn't have flush-front screens, like Paperwhite.

I never had problems described in this article (but YMMV of course).

two_centson Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

One of my favorite movies. There is a context to it though: dystopian post apocalyptical society where all planet natives are telepathic and can read each other's thoughts.

two_centson Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

Isn't that what taxes are for?

two_centson Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers

Booking.com or frankly any other aggregator are great until the moment you have a problem and need to talk to their customer service. In that moment you realize that Booking.com does nothing that you can't do by yourself with same effort.

two_centson Web apps built with Ruby on Rails

I don't have a lot of experience with Golang and AI, I think Rails can give you different kind of productivity.

From what I know (please correct me if I am wrong) most people use AI to create scaffolding and automate all boring and repetitive tasks in a project. So code still needs to be written, you just outsource it to AI helper.

In Rails you write less code and concentrate on business logic because everything boring like DAL, authorization, caching is already written and tested in production.

edit: syntax

two_centson Can we communally deprecate git checkout?

You can set default branch name for your repositories in settings. Much more straightforward than in GitLab in my opinion.

two_centson Notion's mid-life crisis

Apple Notes is pretty close to perfect for me - it's just missing Markdown support and backlinks. I did just figure out how to link notes together with the '>>' shortcut, which is a game-changer. I've tried a bunch of other apps, but I always come back to Notes.

two_centson Ask HN: What tools should I use to manage secrets from env files?

https://github.com/tellerops/teller works good for me.

At work we use Ansible to fetch secrets from Hashicorp Vault.

two_centson Monolith First (2015)

In my experience same goes with microservices. Same spaghetti, different abstraction layer,

two_centson A MiniGolf game for Palm OS

BOOX Palma maybe? https://shop.boox.com/products/palma