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Flight Control HD was one of the first iPad games I had. I under-appreciated how much easier this game was with a finger than a trackball.

Liability is the answer! If you build an auth system and it fails, it's your backside. If Okta fails, it's theirs. Enterprises buy products as much as they buy protection from problems.

I vaguely remember that from the Scion days. I wonder what that does to liability? Like if it's something that impacts the safety of the vehicle - like a roll bar? - who takes on the liability if it's a dealer option?

Wraps exist for folks who pursue it, which is always going to be a subset of those who only look at dealer / manufacturer options. Being able to get a wrapped vehicle off the line is a new option for most buyers.

Hey, Z, how's it going?

People have had "weird" or out of the norm nicknames forever. Where do you think nicknames come from?

What happens when your engineer realizes they can make 10x more at another company? They leave and work stops. You then hire someone else or raise your pay to get better, more reliable engineers. The analogies keep going because AI is a tool, not a replacement. If it's a tool used by a non-technical person, so be it, but it's still just a tool.

Open your wallet and pay someone who can? We used to call those technical cofounders, right?

Formatters and linters fix the mistakes made by people who know what they're doing. They do nothing to teach someone how to do something for the first time in a way that supports comprehension, only regurgitation.

Help desks and canned replies - if a user complains about X, respond with Y. We used to just have humans do it, but turns out machines can do that bit, too, especially if the question is relatively simple or asked a lot or has an answer not up for debate.

I'm kind of feeling similarly, albeit I've been a Lifetime holder for a while now. So on the other side of the coin is what it would take for me to finally leave. In retrospect, Plex has probably been work $750 for the way I've used it, which I've been doing for easily 15 years now, but if I was not currently a Lifetime subscriber, I'm not sure I'd see the value. That said, I don't want to move platforms, nor do I want to have to set up the family members who steam from my server on something else.

I disagree it's a cop-out, but I agree it's hard to get good at writing prompts and takes a lot of effort. But so is programming. We're trading one skill set for another and getting a bigger return on it.

I started as a skeptic and have similarly drank the kool-aid. The reality is AI can read code faster than I can, including following code paths. It can build and keep more context than I can, and do it faster as well. And it can write code faster than I can type. So the effort to learn how to tell it what to do is worthwhile.

If I know the answer to all these questions, wiring it together takes me LESS time than passing it to Claude Code.

That's just not true, and if it is in your case, then you're not great at writing prompts yet.

Take the todo_items table in Postgres and build a Micronaut API based around it. The base URL should be /v1/todo_items. You can connect to Postgres with pguser:pgpass@1.2.3.4

That's about all it takes these days. Less lines of code than your average controller.

You're right, I didn't, because that isn't the measure of his leadership, which was my whole point.

All that matters seems to be "did the line go up?"

Exactly.

Is Zuckerberg retiring already? I'd gladly same the same about him then. But this isn't about any of those companies.

I'm not going to argue your wants with you because they are your own. Don't buy Apple products if you don't like the way they operate as a company. I don't particularly care for appeasing the administration, either, but it's not like Cook broke the system, so I'm not going to dance on his retirement over it.

Where can I get my gold bar, please?

It is so easy to sit on and critique from the sidelines. Steve Jobs had a passion for product, and it showed - he pushed the teams to make things he approved of, and that was the measure. Tim Cook had a passion for growth, and as the article states, Apple's income now rival some GDPs. They're different people with different drives. In fact, Jobs told Cook not to do what he would do, but do the right thing, and to Cook that was grow the company. I'd love to see the critics do better.

That adds up over time, though, and it works in reverse. AI will always be able to read and write faster than a person can. You may be able to write the script, but in the time it would take to /literally/ write it, you're on to the next thing. And if that script is actually a feature that spans two or three or 10 files, now you're really cooking.

I say please and thank you to Siri. May I also be on the nice list?

Do they know who you are? They're the guys who are going to blow your house up ... with the lemons.

`ollama serve` and `ollama run`

The devex is great and familiar to folks who have used Docker. Reading through the Lemonade documentation, it seems like a natural migration, but we're talking about two steps for getting started versus just one. So I'd need a reason to make that much change when I'm happy enough with Ollama.

I feel very torn between the “make something” or “buy a Slylight” decision, so I’m curious what makes it better in your eyes, so much so that you don’t think it’s worth attempting anymore. I’m struggling to justify a monthly fee for what I perceive is a daily calendar view with chores.

There’s nothing stopping both from happening together.

Its presence on Hacker News and Reddit tells you that the folks who use Hacker News and Reddit are fed up with the keyboard. Most people don't care. Tech nerds do, and that's not nothing, but it's not necessarily a majority either. No one I know outside of tech brings up the keyboard to me, ever.

No it doesn't. I live in a planned neighborhood in the suburbs. I can walk to a branch of my local library, a few restaurants, a bar, a bookstore, I even get my haircut in my neighborhood. And even if none of that existed, nothing has stopped me from being friends with my neighbors, or the parents of my kid's friends. The suburbs are a different model with tradeoffs, but they're also useful for periods and phases of life different from the ones served by urban settings.

I've been playing with a toy app that dabbles in the Cal/CardDAV space, and it blows my mind that for all the power latest generation languages have, the thing I keep coming back to is PHP-based Sabre/DAV. That's not to say PHP isn't modern now, but instead a reflection of my surprise that there doesn't appear to be any other library out there that does as good or nearly as good a job at DAV as that one, and that one is pretty darn old.

On a different point, I don't think the author's point about having to "also" inspect the headers is a fair critique of DAV - HTTP headers are to indicate a certain portion of the request/response, and the body a different one. I wish it was simpler, but I think it's an acceptable round peg in a round hole use of the tools.

It's not only not how you get promoted, it's a pretty good way to get canned as well. If you don't like the work you're being asked to do, your options are pretty limited to doing it or going elsewhere. There are a million UXers and engineers who'd love to work at Apple and would be happy making whatever their boss suggests.

Tim Cook, or any CEO, is accountable to the shareholders, so job well done it seems. It's still the user's choice if they want to live in the walled garden or not, and lots of people do, so why would they change it?

I'm in the middle and lean loyal, but the younger folks probably got it right. There's no more IBM of the 1960s loyalty to be had from the company's perspective, so why not go out and make what you can while you can. No more pensions, not even a gold watch. Look at how often tech sees layoffs - it's not if there's another, it's when.

If Disney could throw concepts at their properties like Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or Paw Patrol or any of their other CG shovel content (which my kid loves, of course) and have a new episode every day of the year, they would, and this lets them do that without employing the staff to make that happen. If all it took was a writer to put a pitch together and Sora to turn out an episode, that'd be a steal for $1B.

I think the little tears were fine, but my expectation of the weight of the cloth wasn't so much that it would start to rip on its own after a certain point. It felt more like a wet dough at a certain point than cloth.