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This was pretty brief, around 10am. I also saw multiple DNS failures at 10am sharp during a pair of deploys to Azure so I wonder if there was some kind of brief widespread DNS outage.

Edit: Cloudflare has an "increased error rates" incident going right now that started around 9:35am that they're saying is due to a fiber cut. They're still working to resolve the issue but maybe it was partially worked around pretty quickly? https://new.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/v3yl7jqmqj51

Based on Downdetector some services started having issues around 9:30 but some other services didn't have issues until 10:00 so maybe there was some kind of domino effect.

I don't think they want more people to see them.

In fairness it's more than the em dash with this article. Read the first 3 bullet points.

This is a mind boggling argument to make about creative work.

It's generating a raster image and then using a tracing algorithm to turn it into an SVG, rather than generating an SVG via coding from the ground-up. If you put a raster image into Adobe Illustrator and use its image tracing you'll get a similar result.

"Login via email code" is also a nightmare on Android. Android regularly kills any processes that are not in the foreground, so I recently went through a whole ordeal trying to login to the MLB app: it requires me to type in an email code, I switch to my email client, get the code, go back to the MLB app, and the page reloads (because it was killed in the background) requiring me to request a NEW email code. I tried this literally five times, going as fast as I could; it seems like it was just deciding to kill the browser process as soon as I switched to the email client, no matter what. This is mostly Android's fault but it's insane and I don't get why I don't hear people complain about this more often

The more recent eggs being from Whole Foods definitely points toward this. I'm in a different part of the country but eggs are currently ~15¢/egg at grocery stores around here.

It was only a few years ago that sports betting was significantly more heavily regulated and limited, and stuff like Polymarket didn't exist (just non-monetary forecasting sites like Metaculus.) Even if there was more demand for "underground gambling" before these changes, the net negative to society was still significantly less.

Optional hybrid work is kind of the optimal setup for me IMO. I go in to the office (often carpooling) once a week (skipping occasionally) with a few folks I work with who live locally, and I work remotely the rest of the time. It keeps me from feeling too isolated and makes the work I do feel more tangible while still being flexible and allowing me to work from home when I want to.

RTO would still be a dealbreaker for me.

I think there's a little bit of the Goomba fallacy at play here to be fair

Which is a shame because modern Angular is awesome

My workplace at least values work/life balance and buys into the idea that workers who aren't burnt out are more likely to stick around long-term and do good work (which I've found to be true in my own experience so far.) If we can't get done what we need to get done in a 40h workweek, then that's a failure of higher-level planning (or that we're simply understaffed), not that ICs need to be working overtime.

I don't see how disallowing viewing "age-restricted" content through Discord without giving them your ID would have any impact on the spread of disinformation, outside of like, disinfo in the form or pornographic or gory images.

IRC does not support group voice & video calls, which is one of the primary features of Discord (and previously Skype, from which everyone migrated to Discord in the first place)

Stoat has screen sharing / video calling in the pipeline at least: https://github.com/stoatchat/stoatchat/issues/313

Yeah Stoat is the closest, but no video calling still. But that's in the pipeline at least

XMPP and IRC are great and all but a massive part of what people use Discord for is group voice calls with screen-sharing. I'm not sure what the alternative is for that. TeamSpeak is the closest I can think of but it's not a 1:1 replacement for a number of reasons.

It sounds more like you want to have bigger, cooler things, not build them? The joy of building is what the person you're replying to is talking about AI abstracting away

Are you saying you were forced to go into management because you felt like you couldn't be an effective engineer without working overtime? I'm confused. That sounds more like your work environment was terrible

"The same thing that happened to illustration and art is happening here"

What are you talking about? Illustrators and artists are not being replaced by AI or required to use AI to "keep up" in the vast majority of environments.

"I don't get the sour opinions."

The reasoning for folks' "sour opinions" has been very well-documented, especially here on HN. This comment reads like people don't like AI because they think it's slow or something, which is not the case.

mullvad is not a torrent client

Congrats on being part of the 0.001% I guess?

But you're not making the computer do things, you're making an idea for a new thing a computer can do and then outsourcing the part of the "making it do things" that is actually fun and fulfilling. I don't get it -- the joy for me comes from learning and problem solving, not coming up with ideas and then communicating those ideas to a tool that can do the rest of the job for me.

It's just a text generator, not a colleague.

The person you are responding to is quite literally making the same point. This entire thread of conversation is in response to the post's author stating that using a coding agent is strongly akin to collaborating with a colleague.

BirdNET has some advantages -- it lets you select a segment of audio and it'll give suggestions, even if it's not extremely confident in those suggestions, meaning it can sometimes do better in noisy environments. Merlin is generally more useful, but the BirdNET app has its place for sure

I never saw this in Pennsylvania until like 4 years ago and now they're everywhere. Most people I know hate them.

It's just fun to mess with these tools

I think this is the main sentiment I can't wrap my head around. Using Claude Code or Cursor has been entirely a mind-numbingly tedious experience to me (even when it's been useful.) It's often faster, but 80% of the time is spent just sitting there waiting for it to finish working, and I'm not proud of the result because I didn't do anything except come up with the idea and figure out how to describe it well. It just ends up feeling like the coding equivalent of...like...copying down answers to cheat on a test. Not in the sense that it feels gross and wrong and immoral, but in the sense that it's unsatisfying and unfulfilling and I don't feel any pride in the work I've done.

For things where I just want something that does something I need as quickly as possible, sure, I wasn't going to care either way, but personal projects are where I find myself least wanting to vibe code anything. It feels like hiring someone else to do my hobbies for me.

The whole site has that vibe-coded-website look. I wonder if a lot of the information on the site was essentially hallucinated too.

Yeah for my uses it works fine. Not sure why OP thinks Copilot Chat doesn't exist anywhere but VSCode...

on Firefox on my older Windows laptop it's like 5fps. Maybe mostly a Firefox thing?