theshrike79

Kobo doesn't have apps either.

They don't compete, but do complement. Both are very open and hackable, so you can use the same process to get books on both.

Yes, but there are better ways depending on the firmware.

I want to start a new benchmark: "hacker news commenter saying they are tired of pelicans on bicycles" :D

Yep, but there’s a limit to everything.

At some point you hit market saturation and the forever users are just costing you money and new user acquisition isn’t enough to offset it.

Nobody likes the subscription model but it’s the easiest way to sustain constant development bigger than side hustle projects.

I've resorted to manually tracking some non-Plex/Jellyfin shows on Obsidian manually :D

It's super fun to watch some 7 season show on a local streaming service, be on season 3 episode hellifiknow, come back in a week and poof it's gone.

No, but the agentic monster system can have the relevant code checked out, manuals and runbooks analyzed, the error investigated and a fix proposed by the time the on-call engineer gets up from bed, grabs a Red Bull from the fridge and logs in to their work computer.

Then they have a starting off point to see if the agent was correct or not. If not, they lost maybe 2 minutes of reading. If yes, they can go "yea, push the fix and monitor", put down the Red Bull and go back to bed.

It's not like the plots are complex :D

Mostly it's shows that are on hiatus, due to release cycles being completely random nowadays. Or Anime releasing a second season under a whole different show name.

Also shows I've watched 1-2 episodes of and decided it's worth watching, but not now - as there are a limited number of hours in a day.

The lifetime model isn't sustainable, that's why they're pricing it out.

I am exercising outside

Doing deadlifts outside when it's -30C is pretty hardcore.

Also what's "engaging" in running? You put one foot in front of the other, it's not exactly something that needs 100% of your brain power to execute.

So on vacation you just come to the hotel room and fall on the bed. First thing you do when you wake up is leave the room?

Seems like you don't need hotels, a hostel would work just fine :D

Some of us need to unwind even on "vacation". Just get your feet up and watch your shows and relax before hitting the sack.

Infuse also supports some codecs on Apple TV that the official Plex client doesn't.

And it connects to both Plex and Jellyfin too.

"Usually i remember what i was watching"

You must not watch that many TV shows or Anime then. Or you have the memory of a savant.

Without an automated system I'd have zero clue where I am in the 100+ series I'm tracking.

It's not even glued, it's like those 3M hooks you can slap on to a wall.

The issue is people thinking they need to use maximum power to RIP it out, damaging everything in the process.

You need a constant slow pull on the adhesive, which heats it a bit, causing it to release cleanly.

Who is "them"? Everyone making wireless earbuds, because that's who it'd apply to.

Non-megacorps can also build wrist devices and wireless headphones. The law doesn't explicitly list "AirPods" as exempt, you must understand that?

The goal of the law wasn't explicitly user-replaceability, it was device longevity.

iPhone batteries are over the required minimum cycle limit + water resistant -> no need to be user-replaceable.

Also people still have the notion that "user-replaceable" means that you can just clip off the battery while queueing in the store and snap on a fresh one from your belt holster. That's not what the law states, it just can't require specialist tooling. Screws and glue strips are fine.

Creator of language has opinions on big project moving off language.

News at 11.

You think it’ll all stay there?

Of course they’ll iterate and remove the unsafe bits which were necessary for the transition

Not just subsidised, but the supply chain is literally in the same block.

That's the thing Chinese do where other countries can't compete. If you're making product X, all of your suppliers are within walking distance around your assembly line.

In Europe they might be 4 countries over.

So someone has to be in the office to press the "observe logs" button every 5 minutes?

Your non-vibecoded non-SaaS application never has errors?

The new ChatGPT voice has a MASSIVE vocal fry, like to ridiculous levels.

It did tone it down when I asked though, but a crazy default.

5 minutes assigning the task to an agent and doing something more productive vs. 2 days of tedious typing you've done a billion times already.

How hard do you brush if you can _mechanically_ break an electric toothbrush?

I never understood the popularity of Tailscale, though that is on me. I'm sure it is a great product, I just never tried it, do not seem the target audience.

Can you talk an $elderly_relative through a wireguard installation on the phone so they can join your VPN?

I've done it with Tailscale and it's a breeze.

The advantage of tailscale ssh is that the machine doesn't need to have the ssh port open publicly.

Yes.

Enterprise contracts are checked and agreed by lawyers. The contract states no training.

If the provider fucks up, there are actual monetary damages defined for breach of contract.

But what the customer is paying for is defined somewhere, right? Preferably in writing.

You can give that to an agent and have it confirm the application fulfills the spec. Just like a human would have to.

And if the specific test can’t be automated, why? Is it impossible to automate or just inconvenient?

Granted there are immaterial things that we can’t automatically test yet like how the application feels to use. “Snappy” or “smooth” can’t really be quantified with code.

If you never ship, how can you iterate?

Do you spend weeks running benchmarks and optimising your code without asking/observing a single actual user whether they care if that bit is fast or not?

Or would it be more efficient to ship something, gather data and iterate where relevant?

Because if you're not doing that, I can guarantee other people are. Sadly being the first and moving fast (adding features as users request them) is in many cases better in the mobile market than having the snappiest app with zero memory leaks and excellent battery efficiency.

The whole Turkish mobile gaming industry works on this principle, they ship like crazy and iterate quickly to see what sticks.

This is not about caring. This is about the real world where actual human programmers usually don't want to spend any extra time writing test suites or management doesn't give them the time to do so.

So if the starting point is "no tests", having a bunch of "slop tests" is better, right?