Can confirm. I spent maybe 5-6 hours rebuilding an app I did in WinForms (originally Java… I forget the framework, Swing or something?) as a web app for a small business. Nothing fancy, basic CRM with existing database ported to SQLite and hosted on a cheapo VPS. Pure Codex CLI play none of that Cursor Orca rubbish. They’re very happy with it. Responsive, dark mode, works even without JavaScript. It’s the cats ass. Additional 2 hours for a couple of new requested features. Whatever! Easy peasy.
Grocery store profits aren't larger than any other industry. Nor are they larger than in the past. Large grocery store chains do not have high profit margins. Sure, the total profit may be large if you run 1000 grocery stores.
What do you mean by they are the wealthiest in the nation? None of the richest people in the world built their fortunes on groceries?
Price fixing is a phenomenon. Anti trust is a policy agenda. What entity would carry out the proposed agenda, when the parties supposedly fixing are in different countries?
How long did the fixing agreement last successfuly? DRAM has famously gone through booms and busts where supply outstripped demand and led to very cheap prices and no profits.
OPEC worked about as well as any cartel. Could you give an example of a cartel maintaining their position without heavy government help? Even the drug cartels in mexico, with extreme willingness to coerce, cannot maintain a monopoly and have competed drug prices in the US down heavily! If you consider memory a cartel, then it has only remained so by... drastically improving the quality and reducing the cost of its product? Hardly a problem.
The point is that you could cut all those "wasteful" projects but if the savings is millions you aren't even making a dent. The real money is entitlements and defense (and interest on the debt). That's where you have to look to make a difference.
Almost 30 years ago, I worked on a corporate campus with several different buildings spread out over about 5 miles. There was a SONET ring linking them. I remember a coworker showing me this add-drop multiplexer thing so he could provision a fractional T1 of bandwidth out of the ring. CSU/DSUs, thick serial cables, cisco 2501 routers... We'd laugh at these speeds today.
Hello there! I agree users may want one or both of these features in their interaction with an application, and that their preferences likely vary depending on the type of data we're considering. The way I'm reading what you're saying, there's some sort of tension or tradeoff between the two features that I don't fully understand. Can you help me understand it a bit better? Thank you!
Yeah, I'm not sure if I would call it "incompetence", but it wouldn't be hard for the U.S. public or private sectors to afford MMR vaccine doses for the whole population (or merely the portion that has missed doses on the recommended schedule). Those doses would have a super-low opportunity cost.
I completely agree—you can't rely solely on specific languages or skills.
But I’m talking more about the growing trend in hiring: multi-page forms in “Easy Apply” that were supposed to make applying easier, not harder; cookie-cutter email responses (the standard four paragraphs); ATS; cover letters that no one reads; requests for personal websites, publications in major online media, and so on. It’s as if no one is actually trying to figure out what kind of professional you really are. They screen you based on your social media profiles using various metrics. Now almost all companies do this, even though it used to be relevant only for large corporations that needed to understand, for example, your social engagement and reputation. But now I see small firms doing the exact same thing for no good reason.)
I'm a bit surprised to be downvoted on this, except maybe that it's seen as an attack on Europe.
There have been other attempts at a league superior to the individual national leagues -- like a permanent champions league. Establishment of anything more regular at the international level would be one more way this could be accomplished.
Each European league (and leagues from other confederations) has a vested interest in keeping the World Cup not just "free" but rare as well.
The time to be on the high horse against FIFA isn't 2026, it was against he labor conditions in Qatar, or the corruption to award the 2018 and 2022 hosts, or any number of other things.
However correct they are, they only complain when it's against their own self interest.
I agree that rigorous logic shouldn't be assumed to get us closer to Ultimate Objective Truth than other forms of reasoning. It just gets us whatever peculiar oddments we can discover through rigorous logic, so far, here in our local, parochial patch of reality. Things that seem crucial powerful theories (theorems, whatever) to us here and now may not seem that way in the future, and arriving at them through logic doesn't provide a royal road to the Ultimate.
This means abstract mathematics is rooted in our current cultural concerns. I guess I'm saying that it isn't really useful or really abstract, but I also agree with the other poster that people can and should do what they like.
I've been to IMAX a lot of times and not a single time had a bad audience member. Whereas I've had at least one at each of the independent and arthouse ones I've been to sadly. I suspect in my case the tickets being significantly more expensive at IMAX keeps any disruptive people away.
Local first is a model I'm exploring. Combined with PWA it's pretty good and doesn't need to be native. LLMs are most useful for apps that are Good Enough™ anyway, and struggle with the remaining 5-10%.
if proxies are legal, then i am not associated with what goes through my proxy. ISPs ate not associated with the activity that goes through them either.
and what about tor? should that be shut down too? or is there a legitimate reason for it to use residential proxies?
southeast asia for now, but will move on at some point. Not sure how you can reach me without exposing too much. Just ask away here if you need to or let me know how I can reach you.
Why would five-digit years have become popular? They seem roundly a bad idea.
Years aren’t even four digits by custom: they’re just numbers, with the present idiosyncrasy of eschewing a grouping (thousands) separator. We say the sack of Rome was in 410, not 0410. Only for specific serialisation purposes have we ever recorded fixed-width dates, acknowledging that there are limits to this. The recording of two-digit or offset-by-1900 years in computer systems was a case of bad judgement. The recording of four-digit years as is presently customary is pragmatic and entirely adequate for the next few thousand years, and there’s no point in designing things beyond that horizon.
I'm building a podcast app just for me, because the podcast app I typically use (PocketCasts) is really good but there's just a couple of features I'd like and they don't bring out a lot of new features since it's not a monthly SaaS.
LLMs are a good help here because side projects typically slow down for me when I run into bugs / troubleshooting. So while I genuinely believe struggle is necessary for learning, being able to get over that hump to build something I need makes a big difference.
I'm not vibe coding the app though, since I actually want to know what it does. But I can see it being helpful for people who just need something and don't care about how it works.
