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This is fine, basically geocities. But you may have a hard time introducing the term "agentic" at a time when AI "agents" are on the rise.

Honestly, there's nothing better than the Cracking the Cryptic app for sudoku, called "Sven's Sudoku Pad." People who love sudoku have congregated around that channel. It's updated regularly and there are a lot of puzzles that can be imported into it. It gives you very helpful pencil mark controls including colors and differently placed marks. There really just hasn't been another app that compares to the level of production for this Sven's.

Chat is not asynchronous communication. It's not the best synchronous communication, sure, but it's certainly not asynchronous. Dropping typing indicators isn't necessarily going to make everything more asynchronous. There are business patterns and pressures that push us to need realtime or semi-realtime answers. And so often, the tool we use for that is chat. True asynchronous communication is a change in business, not just the tools we use.

Typing indicators can be useful in some situations. It's nice not having to wait for someone to finish a thought to know that an issue is being addressed. Heavyweights can jump into a conversation and pause it immediately so people aren't spinning their wheels trying to figure out something they really don't know much about.

It's also useful in 1:1 chats to know if the person on the other side is there or not. If I don't see an indicator (or read-receipt) in the next few seconds, I'll go make another cup of coffee.

It’s costly to have government employees because you have to pay benefits and they are unionized.

Sometimes people say the quiet parts out loud.

Driving to work is not a choice for a lot of people particularly lower class. Our cities our built around cars. As people move out of the city to save money, that makes driving even more necessary and makes public transit less of a viable option. This program relies on a very naive belief that people can control their amount of driving, but we don't control sprawl at an individual level, we don't control infrastructure. Who is this going to benefit but the bougie Tesla owners who work remotely anyway?

You're making some assumptions. Why can't programmers be workers in the coop and be part of the equation? Why can't forms of capital available to other startups be available to coops?

I can't believe these questionnaires have become so pervasive that it's spawning an industry. I hate these things. They are such a burden on the small, niche software vendor.

Economic growth matters because most people want their lives to improve every year.

Improve how? Should I need economic growth to get better health care? This whole techno-utopian argument seems to hinge on extractive growth because it fails to actually tackle the problems of inequality by providing true redistribution of wealth in any meaningful sense. Trickle-down AI is a sham.

I'm very skeptical of this. It doesn't seem like something that could scale. By accessing database files through PHP, you are begging for race conditions while serving multiple requests simultaneously. At best, you will hit write-errors while other requests are working with the file. SQLite has a good explanation of the problem here: https://sqlite.org/faq.html#q5

I went into this article with so much skepticism, but yeah, the author addresses all of my concerns. This is a cool project and now I get why you'd do it this way.

Is the GPL not just as teenager-like with its radical openness? Wanting to maintain your values through a software license feels passive and sneaky and awkward, but that's how we do it. And if you value your labor and the labor of others, in a way the GPL does not, why not write that into the license?

In most co-ops, the term "owner" has explicit meaning that is usually very clearly laid out in the bylaws of the organization.

The Three Rivers Co-op (a consumer co-op) publishes their bylaws and explains how it works. Worker co-ops are similarly verbose on this as well. https://www.threeriversmarket.coop/co-op-membership/

I don't know if there is a platform co-op specifically for ride-sharing yet, but it's not out of the question.

https://www.yesmagazine.org/economy/2018/01/04/the-platform-...

The problem is that the co-operative model is not successfully funded in the initial phases. There is little infrastructure for worker-owned businesses in this country. There is little guidance for getting investment and start-up capital when the overall aim is to primarily put profits into owners' hands and not investors'.

We need a government that supports these efforts first. A good first step would be to pass first-right-of-refusal laws.

This is not a good idea.

1. Components are sort of antithetical to the Tailwind CSS ethos of atomic styling. Of course, examples of markup and class arrangements are certainly helpful, but at the end of the day you are still always going to have a unique markup in the end. And according to their license, those customized components are now under their Tailwind UI license.

2. What counts as a component? What if Tailwind UI produces a licensed component that is a single div with a single border class? Could it be that someone with no prior knowledge or access to this component have accidentally already created the same markup elsewhere? Would that be an infringement?

Frankly, I really enjoy using Tailwind CSS, but I'm a little nervous now to even use the original project in my work.

Wireguard still has this warning on their site:

WireGuard is currently working toward a stable 1.0 release. Current snapshots are generally versioned "0.0.YYYYMMDD" or "0.0.V", but these should not be considered real releases and they may contain security quirks (which would not be eligible for CVEs, since this is pre-release snapshot software). This text will be removed after a thorough audit.

And then it all falls apart when Plaid gets hacked and millions of people's _actual bank account usernames and password_ get stolen. That is not a safe premise to start a business (or to acquire one).

There are more reasons to control speed than safety. As the article mentions, Nixon lowered speeds to reduce fuel consumption in the US. Considering the climate crisis, I think that's a motivating reason to have lower speed limits.

But as others have mentioned the means of getting people to drive slower or more safely or more efficiently may not be limited to the numbers on the sign.

How is there no mention of the strength of organized labor during that period in the article or any of these comments? That was a big part of what motivated Ford to appease the workers when rolling out his new flexible production system. It wasn't his benevolence.

Ford, the company, along with GM gave up that system half a century later for a more rigid system that included more outsourcing but had the upside of being impermeable to strikes. Toyota on the other hand continued the flexible system along with the higher cost of labor and royally outsmarted the American companies in the 70s.

The role of organized labor shouldn't be ignored. And neither should the competitve advantage of working with well-skilled and well-contented labor.

Who does it hurt? Everyone. I think it hurts everyone when we allow bigger companies (or a powerful few) to steer the education system. That should be left up to a democratic process. Why should Facebook, Google, etc. be the ones to decide that education is only about getting a job (and specifically about getting a job at Facebook, Google, etc.)?

The only bubble I see are of programmers who work at Google and Facebook thinking most programmers have lives like theirs and make as much as they do. Most surveys of programmer salaries do not conclude that they routinely make $300k-$400k.

And when talking about just the top-tier tech companies, of course the economy around them is bubble-like. That is the danger of allowing them to maintain nearly monopolistic reign of their markets.

I think calling something "css-only" and having it break because you didn't add a radio input element in the markup is a little misleading. The dynamic functionality hinges on the behavior of these html elements. And if having required html elements is ok, why not just lose the hacky markup and include a required javascript file to get the desired behavior in a more traditional and standard way?

I would like to see software producers provide an API to download the latest release and a list of previous releases. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to automate the installation of (primarily desktop) software (Slack, IntelliJ, etc.)

Article: "public central economic planning is bad. turns out free markets have (privatized) central planning too. this is also bad."

What article doesn't say: "perhaps centralized planning comes from centralized (top-down) power structures like authoritarianism or cronyism and not necessarily the particular stated goals of various economic systems"

There is one problem with supply-side solutions to housing affordability: as the rich move in, the poor will be displaced. As temporary as the rise in housing cost may seem to supply-side economic theory, displacement of the poor has ongoing consequences. Their concerns are moved figuratively and physically to the edges of society. We're not talking about cars or soccer balls. We're talking about the very geographic units that are the basis for our representative democracy. From the electoral college to district maps, geography still determines who represents you. Beyond representation, there are other concerns that are very much influenced by geography like schooling and health services.