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Not even that, the company happens to be Dutch but it's employees are from everywhere. A company doesn't make anything, the employees do, especially in a sector like this.

The companies job is to hire well and create strong teams that work together.

You have to start somewhere? Google maps didn't start with a full dataset either...

I've always been a bit suspicious of the waterproof claims and their use.

My phone is IP68 rated, meaning prolonged submersion (at least 30 minutes) in water of up to 3 meters deep.

Why? What's the practical use here. It surely will make maintaining that level of waterproofing hard if you need to open it up...

Now connect the dots. That is how things work in EU.

Uh sure. If you've been paying attention the last year and a half it's the US putting up trade barriers to every other country. Like how the EU is under investigation for forced labor, that outcome might be used in the coming months to justify more tariffs.

Just to address this one specific case. If they're exempt, and you can sell more of them, why would you go beyond the regulation? This is why regulation like this shouldn't have exemptions.

A good tool, in the hands of a skilled craftsman gets great results.

The same tool, in the hands of someone that doesn't know how to handle it? I'll let you finish that

Basically, a good developer can handle the tool better by asking the proper questions, setting good guardrails and tweaking the output where needed

The tech bros are the ones that control the companies, not the field of software engineering.

But that's not relevant? What would be relevant if, depending on where your bits are stored, acces time is significantly slower. If, regardless of where my data goes, my access time is constant then I do not care as a dev?

That's the abstraction I'm working with when coding. Which is necessary because in most cases this should be an implementation detail.

I don't get the preoccupation with hosting your own server

The field of software engineering is dominated by the smart people that do something not because they have to but out of curiosity.

I've hired a bunch of people and I was always looking for curiosity and drive most of all. A degree doesn't help you if you don't care.

I can see a real rationale for creating sanity checks using AI to more quickly/proactively catch pathological billing issues before they become HN nightmare stories

Right, so invoicing is still a deterministic problem. You can bolt whatever on but in the end it's just product x price x units

That could be every tech exec/marketeer/sales person now...

We've had text to speech for a while for example but everything is now AI. Does it use any AI features? Not at all ...

But you do realize that the entire 2008 financial crisis was also just financial 'wizards' increasing leverage more an more.

The real economy didn't change at all, but confidence was gone and so was lending.

I don't think you understand the issue. That ruling has nothing to do with prosecuting a sitting president. There's been longstanding policy that that doesn't happen.

The fact that an executive order is incompatible with the constitution is something completely different. That's a law being judged on its merits. Immunity is about the executive as a person.

The research is supposed to establish the facts that politicians then interpret?

I think, especially in the US, there's no shared starting point anymore. Which makes it very hard for people with different opinions to have a conversation. Not funding science can only make that worse

Your desire for a higher oversight authority beyond the chief executive suggests you may have concerns about the efficacy of democracy.

No that's not what I said. The courts can hold someone in the executive branch accountable. They're the check on their power.

Except the president, because of that one ruling.

So if the president commits fraud as part of an official act he's immune? No other person in the executive branch has this immunity. And it was given to the most powerful person.

That's easy to do. No one has expectations of this one.

As soon as a government website is down, it's an outrage.

I'm sure money could've been saved. But the cost of this site really isn't the hosting, it's the data being gatherd with all the research

This is the American way.

The end result? Judges being elected that nobody knows. Some even running unopposed. Yet, they all are 'elected'.

No. I don't think Americans can elect more people. I would be shocked if over 10% formed their own opinion on which judge to pick for example. If you're lucky they did that for the ballot measures...

Ignoring the guy who's there now. How accountable is the president really, especially in their second term.

And do consider that the supreme court has ruled that they're immune for anything that's an 'official act'.

Accountability of the executive left the room in 2024

So, research that you pay for with tax dollars, it's results should be published through a private entity?

That makes no sense to me. But we can agree to disagree.

And no, having all research be privately funded is a bad idea. No one will try to find a new antibiotic for example. Big Pharma rather researches cures for chronic diseases that will make money for the rest of a patients life

Asking the wolves to look after the sheep

That's a very recent addition though. And a heavily subsidized one at that.

I think this would be more for people that are doing a many week (3 or more) trip. At that point I think most people would want to see more than 1 country in Europe as they're so different

You don't see as much though, and your options are more limited still. And the options you do have are likely more touristy as a result.

As always, the most easy to reach places will have the most people. I would say that's not what you're going for in such a trip.

Many people don't read their email anymore.

I don't see how that would work as in many jurisdictions, email is an accepted legal way to communicate between a company and a customer. So when you don't year your email that's like not reading your snail mail in the 90s. It might go well for some time, until you miss that one message about a late payment or something...

This is supported by the fact that they won't let you use your sub on a different coding agent

I mean, that's a very weak argument? Isn't a much more plausible explanation that with your tooling you'll have more of a lock-in than with just your model?

Keep your ops people happy. Help them when you can, it's the fairest way i would say to not have to be on call. It also makes them feel like they're not on their own. You're all on the same team.

Not sure if upper management sees this stuff. For the number of times I've fixed other people's crap (or found the root cause, so they can just fix it) I don't think I got any recognition for that.

Of course there are massive problems and inequities we're solving, of course! But that's always been the case. Relax. Breathe. Put it in perspective.

You're just not someone who has to deal with these problems. Are we solving them? Not sure what you're being that of.

Get offline. Go outside. Touch grass. Breathe. People are still going out to eat at restaurants, they're still playing intramural sports, they're still going to the beach with their friends, they're still watching plays, they're still visiting family and hosting movie nights.

I suggest you stop touching grass and go and talk to a few less fortunate people. Maybe that can broaden your perspective

Some people are in it for the challenge. Someone else's outage? Yeah I'll happily help diagnose it, analysing and figuring out where the issue is can teach you a lot of things.

For the record, this was never at night. Late in the evening, sure.

Even if they make it to prod, they won't survive long...

I don't think that's an acceptable way to treat your users. If something is trivial to prevent, do it.

but being fueled by massively excessive taxes in the USA

Not excessive taxes, a political choice to spend a lot of the revenue on defense.

And anyone who wants to reduce military spending will get asked:

"Don't you support our troops?"

And that'll be the end of that

Why would those fixes not be batched up? So fix 20% of those and do one round of testing?

In general I'm not a big fan of unit test on simple websites, they do not give any real value compared to effort

And then your site gets more traction, features are added, things are refactored.

And now you're looking at what used to be a simple site, still with no tests.

It's a habit, that pays off long term. You don't do it for yourself, you do it for who changes the code next. Might be you, or not. Even when you do it yourself, you can't hold all the requirements in you brain, you write those up in tests