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That approach makes sense. I guess when it comes to feature flag removal, actually removing the flag isn't that painful and is relatively easy. What's hard is actually remembering to cleanup the code.

Curious, when does your team decide to extend the date?

I'm very interested in what infrastructure needs to be put in place to make EV fleet vehicles a reality.

Imagine you have a fleet of EV emergency vehicles. How do make sure they're operable in the event of a far too common electrical outtage?

You'd need EV lots, outfitted with chargers, and serious battery backup to make that happen.

We're pretty far away from that infrastructure existing. As much as I'd like to see ev fleet vehicles on the road, a too rapid, forced transition to ev's for fleet vehicles scares me.

Here we have a tool that can materially improve blind people’s lives and instead of making it accessible you want to deny them access until the product reaches a quality bar that is impossible to reach.

That’s wrong and immoral. The world is full of risk. As individuals we choose to accept some risks and move on with our lives. I think it’s appropriate that blind people are given the same opportunity

Love this! I’m an fp-ts and xstate fan and am happy to see them in this usecase. My intuition tells me that state machines with llm directed function calling is going to be a huge unlock. One thing I’m curious about is narrowing the scope of accessible functions based on a state machine that is designed to match the business domain. This might involve machine to machine communication which I know XState supports

In the US, having an Android is one of the biggest social status negative signals I can think of.

I used to have an android and when I'd meet people the primary thing they'd remember about me was that I had an android. Their blinders were up after they had that information.

I think phones like the Galaxy line might be better than iPhones, but the experience of owning an iPhone far exceeds owning a Galaxy.

Generally the repository he was working in, but really it was any application that he had open on his machine. He would remember where words, or portion of words that he needed were, go to them, and copy and paste what he needed.

Just in case you're thinking this: He was not copying large portions of code from stack overflow or anything like that. He was line by line writing code, a few copy and pastes at a time. Often he times would copy and paste single characters to maintain his flow.

Typically in the code repository with other files that shared a similar pattern context that he was working with.

Sometimes he would need a portion of a word and he would remember that it was in an email he had open, and he would alt+tab and grab the portion of the word from the email, then alt+tab back to the editor and paste the word portion in.

He would go to extreme lengths to not have to move his hands to the home row on the keyboard.

Slight tangent:

I once worked with a programmer who, the vast majority of time, would only input text into a text editor via copy and paste.

Think anti-vim. His fingers were locked on mouse and crtl+c/v. It was incredible to watch and his programming speed was very impressive.

Is this hyper-competitive or anti-competetive?

The objective of business is to win, but if a business is too dominant, then they have the ability to extort customers.

I don't see how customer extortion is born out of this. It's fair and in the spirit of a healthy ecosystem.