mrfumier

Everything, everywhere, all at once.

because it is not innovative itself.

And what are you basing that claim on? What are your sources? Your arguments?

"1) it is highly scalable and you can easily send out thousands of emails per day, 2) it’s a fairly “democratic” form of outreach where you can achieve great outcomes with good offers sent to the right people, and 3) there’s no platform risk."

From a European citizen point of view, this framing ignores a very real constraint: GDPR.

In the EU, sending marketing emails is not just a growth tactic, it is regulated personal data processing. In most cases, you need prior, explicit consent before sending promotional emails. “We found your email online” or “legitimate interest” is usually not enough for cold outreach aimed at sales.

The risks are not theoretical:

Administrative fines that can reach up to 20M EUR or 4 percent of global annual turnover.

Orders to stop processing, which can immediately kill an outbound pipeline.

Domain and IP blacklisting by European ISPs and email providers.

Blocking or delisting of websites and services in the EU market after regulator or court decisions.

Complaints to Data Protection Authorities by a single recipient are enough to trigger investigations.

So there is very much platform and regulatory risk, at least if you want access to the European market. Email is scalable, yes, but in Europe it scales legal exposure just as fast if consent, proof of consent, opt-out mechanisms, and transparency obligations are not handled correctly.

This is why many EU companies invest heavily in permission based lists, double opt-in, and strict compliance processes. Growth without compliance is not “no risk”, it is deferred risk.

Venezuela, US couldn't take its oil, so it was heavily sanctioned for so many years, then it still couldn't resist the urge to steal it, and just took the head of the state.

Could you provide supporting evidence for your statement?

The comparison with calculators overlooks several key developments.

LLMs are becoming increasingly efficient. Through techniques such as distillation, quantization, and optimized architectures, it is already possible to run capable models offline, including on personal computers and even smartphones. This trend reduces reliance on constant access to centralized providers and enables local, self-contained usage.

Rather than avoiding LLMs, the rational response is to build local, portable, and open alternatives in parallel. The natural trajectory of LLMs points toward smaller, more efficient, and locally executable models, mirroring the path that calculators themselves once followed.

Awesome product!

Natural selection

Can't wait they also get rid of these "destination fees" billed by nearly all hotels in NYC.

No, chat is not asynchronous. It's a dialoge, it is synchronous. If you want people to write "Hello, my problem is xxx" just close your chat box and ask for emails.

Moreover there are studies showing that if people socialize and get to know each other a bit before working together, there are more chances to collaborate and to reduce conflicts.

Why are you developping?

Is it a hobby for passing time? For pleasure? For the beauty of the code?

Could be. But most of the time, you develop in order for the software to perfom a task someone needs.

And that should be your first focus: to develop something that brings value for its user, and develop it as efficiently as possible. After all, what's the point of a software if nobody uses it? So no, your job is not to create great software, your job is to bring value to users.

In my career, I've mostly seen the developers pleasuring themselves with overengineering, bloating code with features nobody needs, and writing lines to anticipate future developments that never came. Rather than the opposite.

So I think the challenge is to remain minimalistic, that's hard, and that's what the original post is about.

It's probably more carbon-efficient to eat at restaurants since they are cooking in larger quantities.

But... why? WHY??

Why would I run a docker container, a webserver, start a browser, navigate webpages... just to do some operations on a pdf locally?

A few KiloBytes native program like PDFtk (https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/) does the job perfectly.

I don't understand what is the point of bloating softwares like this. Not even speaking of the very bad consequences for the planet.

Do you realize that, we are used to hear Quebec french only through singers and comedians you send us to France? Send us serious people instead, and it will stop sounding funny.

I'm also very surprised by what the overall thread is saying. Scrum and the agile movement in general have been a revolution for the better in management and organization, in my point of view.

"The Phoebus cartel was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925–1939. The cartel took over market territories and lowered the useful life of such bulbs, which falsely claimed to raise their efficiency and output."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

I use Microsoft PowerCalc on Windows

Exactly. You don't have to redo all the mistakes the others did, otherwise they would never be any progress from generation to generation.

Exactly. Many people seems to mistake "free market" with "anarchy". Free market only works because there are anti-trust laws, anti-corruption laws, regulated lobbying. Otherwise, it is not a free market.

I don't know in which country you live, but here in France, privatization and opening markets has been salutary. - The phone lines state monopoly was broken, it cut the cost by a factor of 10, and made possible high speed internet. - The packages delivery state monopoly was broken, which lead to a much more improved service, which delivery of fresh food or tracking minute by minute where your package is. - The internal flights state monopoly was broken, which leds to low-cost operator who devided flights tickets by factor of 20.

I don't understand. If it's a monopoly, it's not a free market, by definition. Seems like you are the one trolling here.

"And you don't extract profits from a rail line by offering the best service."

So how do you extract profits then?

As a superhost who use the Airbnb mobile app and website everyday, the experience is quite awful.

Basic functions are not there, while the app already seems to be bloated.

I'm wondering if any of the product manager there ever used their product.

That's a individual vs. group question.

For a society to function well, there should always be a balance between indivual interests and group interests.

I think the use case is a family using the same electric toothbrush with a different head for each member.

They used to provide color rings to attach to the head, in order to differencing.

The toothbrush doesn't force you to change the head. You can brush your teeth with an old head as much as you want.

Globalism prevent wars by making countries dependant to each others (Montesquieu Doux commerce theory).

Globalism permits to all countries around the globe to develop.

Nobody is preventing these countries to set laws about environment and working condition (which they actually do).

And by the way, I invite you to go to these countries and visit the factories there, and you will realize that western companies are raising standards (security and quality) on their suppliers.

Legally in most countries, it's up to the company to provide you with the tools to work, therefore it's up to company to choose these tools.

In other words, if they provide you with a PC on Windows 7 with Notepad as an editor, you shouldn't (and you probably don't have the admin rights anyway) to install anything else on company's property.

In reality, it's usually in the interest of the company to allow you to work with tools on which you are the most productive. But they don't have to.

Quite good https://insideevs.com/news/623469/tesla-fsd-beta-no-safety-s...

I think the vision of many car makers (Tesla at least) is self-driving and voice commands.

In that context, the question touch screen vs physical buttons doesn't matter.

In my old Nokia N95, the AGPS data was downloaded when starting the GPS app.

No need to require a constant background download.