shuntress

First of all, they only do that because they are already forced.

Second of all, have you actually looked at the process? It is very obviously onerous in ways that could be avoided.

Phone screens dont need to be user-swappable but apple should be forced to sell each module (screen, frame, camera board, main board, etc).

Regarding point #2, while it is of course entirely possible that they are slackers it is more likely that they lack the knowledge you are leveraging in order to declare that the PRs are "simple"

This is basically the thing I keep coming back to with the agentic tools. It is the wrangling requirements, stamping out confusion, and steering away from a trainwreck down the line that are the actual challenging parts of the job and we can't automate those yet. Once you do actually know the code change you want to make though it is pretty nice to change it 10x faster than before.

Truly democratizing the web requires that "Compute Server" becomes a typical home appliance that is no more difficult to use than an oven or a furnace including the widespread access to vocational technicians who come to your house and fix it for you.

This guy is not totally wrong but he is also way off about pretty much everything even just simple basic facts. He writes "Michigan Stadium, the third‑largest sports venue on earth." which is not even remotely true. Michican Stadium isn't even in the top 5 of venues in the US never mind globally[0]. And thats if you just take capacity counts at face value and don't try to include places that have huge standing room capacity like horse racing tracks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports_venues_by_capac...

I am convinced that there is an absurd amount of unrealized potential for spectating in eSports. But everyone seems to just deliver an experience that is more-or-less "like playing the game yourself, but worse, and with forced-hype commentary" rather than an actually engaging spectator product.

Ah yes, of course, The Beautiful Game is clearly not at all about the actual game...

Baseball is killer in-person but it's also pretty nice to just have on TV. There is nothing else like the tension of a critical at-bat.

Football is actually really really weird for a spectator sport and, I think, is generally presented very poorly. 80% of the game is deciphering opposing formations to determine what they each are predicting the opposing formation is about to try to do.

I'm surprised that with this many comments about the relationship between testing, development, and QA there is so little mention of environment and deploy process.

The usability of your test environment (and associated tooling) has a massive impact on quality assurance.

Every small difference between Production and Production-Plus-Feature creates friction and, even in systems of only moderate complexity, that friction adds up fast.

His nine theses are basically a how-to guide for replacing democratic consensus with culture war bullshit. He clearly wants to bend the process to match his perception of the world rather than update his understanding of the world to match the facts.

The process Wikipedia uses to produce articles that present facts with without editorializing has clearly worked fairly well. Obviously we have a more difficult time reaching consensus on contentious topics but in general the system works quite well.

LLMs will use Wikipedia the same way humans use it

I don't know what you think "worth" means but if "the money we make from this product covers the cost of producing the product" then it is worth it.

That was the case until, as you noted, advertisements became drastically less valuable.

Limiting competition does not jump start anything it simply introduces complacency.

Saying "Something adds up" without elaboration is a dog whistle for conspiracy theory weirdos.

What I think is really great about The Legend of Zelda is that Breath of the Wild is very clearly a more fully realized version of the same core vision that guided the design of the original game thirty years earlier.

Inconsequential minutiae concerning display resolution is absolutely NOT the thing keeping people away from Linux.

Its the "getting every config" right thing that is the problem.

"What meals can I make with a given amount of money?" is a reasonable way to shop.

You said:

Franks and beans are not the best meal on the cheap. Sounds more expensive than cooking fresh and you're missing out on better nutrition. For the most bang for your buck you want to be eating less expensive real protein like chicken and pork and filling up on salads.

I gave you math on how you can take the money you would have spent on chicken and get essentially the same "bang for your buck" by spending it instead on canned beans and cheap sausage for the protein portion of your meals.

It is completely reasonable to allow people who receive money for food assistance to buy hot dogs.

It is completely unreasonable to disallow people who receive money for food assistance from purchasing anything "Ultra Processed" because "Ultra Processed" is a category too broad and loose to determine whether or not a given food item is "healthy".

I am reading what you wrote and disputing it but you don't seem to want to hear it.

I am saying that denying the sale of all "ULTRA PROCESSED" foods to people receiving food assistance is NOT helpful because deciding what counts as "ultra-processed" is too messy and imprecise.

You are trying to split hairs over the most cost-effective struggle meals.

I can indulge you.

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Perdue Young Whole Chicken Fresh (~5lb) = $12.49

Oscar Mayer Original Uncured Turkey Chicken & Pork Wieners (10 count) $4.49 + 3x Bush's Best Original Baked Beans (16 oz.) $7.47 ($2.49 ea.) = 11.96 total

You eat half a can of beans and one hot dog per meal. That's six meals and four extra hot dogs you can do whatever else you want with.

You can definitely get six meals out of a whole chicken but it's going to be a lot more work plus the additional 50c cost (and that's ignoring the value of the four extra hot dogs). 1 hot dog + 8oz of beans is going to be a fairly similar portion to 1/6th the recoverable meat from a 5lb bird.

It should obviously go without saying but, since you seem to be a stickler, I should point out that there is nothing stopping you from eating chicken one week then frank & beans the next. Variety is the biggest part of a healthy diet.

There is not a huge amount of fraud with SNAP and obviously what fraud does exist should be investigated, resolved, and prevented.

You are proposing eliminating fraud by eliminating the system. "You can't have failing tests if you have no tests"

Are you saying you shouldn't be able to buy water with SNAP money?

You are preposterously out-of-touch with reality here. "Filling up on salads" is healthy but it is FAR from the most "bang for your buck". And are seriously trying to say that beans aren't a good source of fiber and vitamins?

Sure you shouldn't eat hot dogs and baked beans three meals a day every day but you are absolutely out of your mind if you think cheap sausage and canned beans are bad to have in the house when you are struggling.

Why shouldn't EBT money be allowed to purchase sugar free soda?

Nor do I understand the negative reactions to new restrictions on SNAP - candy and sugary drinks are no longer eligible

The issue is that "Ultra-Processed" does not mean "candy and sugary drinks" and even "sugary drinks" is overly broad. Can SNAP pay for sugar-free Coke but not classic coke? What about Gatorade?

SNAP already had reasonable restrictions. This very much feels like a "middle management style" project. Dedicating resources to a nebulously defined BIG project regardless of whether or not it actually improves outcomes.

The actual issue is that "Ultra-Processed" is EXTREMELY broad and vague.

For example, hot dogs are ultra-processed. Obviously hot dogs are not the healthiest food but also obviously "franks and beans" is a pretty good meal for a tight budget and is something you should be able to get with SNAP.

Yes, the store has a catalog. They want you to see the catalog, so they pay someone to tell you that the catalog exists.

The problem is not ads. The problem is SPAM.

There are plenty of legitimately well-intentioned ads that can connect someone who needs a good/service with someone that supplies it and everyone wins.

The problem is that we use a nearly totally free unregulated market where anyone can advertise anything anywhere.

edit: I'm not saying we should necessarily try to optimize for good ads over bad ads or even assuming that is possible. I would settle for just somehow reducing the total volume of ads to help make email, snail main, voice mail, and other methods of communication more usable.

Can you clarify the point you are trying to make?

The point is that a taxi is a taxi. It's like calling cash "Legacy Payments"

Using the term "Legacy Taxi" to imply that a taxi you don't summon by phone is somehow out-dated is wild. I understand the reason you would use it, especially at a company like Uber, but it still seems hilariously delusional.