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by pessimizer | 2025-10-29 12:23:38+00:00
Not only is accessibility important in and of itself, but starting with a clean, accessible base implies standardization and interop, and makes things a lot easier to automate and extend.

Things that challenge accessibility plugins challenge any plugins. Steps away from accessibility are always steps towards lock-in.

> The inherent fragmentation and HW compatibility issues are much more pertinent.

But you seem to desire this. Don't buy the wrong laptop if you like lock-in; Apple and MS aren't making their OS compatible with your every hardware whim. Or learn how to reverse-engineer and write drivers.
by cesarb | 2025-10-29 12:23:40+00:00
> Even if you could get some traction, you're gonna have a bad time getting banks to support this OS

This already happened. Banks here in Brazil like to require an invasive piece of software (a browser "plugin", though it installs system services) to access their online banking websites. For a long time, this invasive software was Windows-only, so those of us using Linux had to either beg the banks to enable a flag to bypass that "security software" for our accounts, or do without online banking. The same for the government-developed tax software, which was initially DOS-only and then became Windows-only.

But nowadays, there is a Linux variant of that invasive banking "security" software, and that tax software became Java-only (with Windows, Linux, and MacOS installers, plus a generic archive for other operating systems). So things can change.
by foobarbecue | 2025-10-29 12:23:43+00:00
Motel and sitcom are portmanteaus -- they're some of the most common examples used when defining the term "portmanteau" .

"Blend" and "shortening" are necessary-but-not-sufficient synonyms for portmanteau. Your error here is that you imply "because it's a blend, it's not a portmanteau." All portmanteaus are blends. All portmanteaus are shortenings. Some blends are portmanteaus. Some shortenings are portmanteaus.
by AlienRobot | 2025-10-29 12:23:51+00:00
To me it's sad that Linux never became a good desktop OS, Windows just became worse and worse until it became worse than Linux :(

When I upgraded to 7 I tried Linux and I simply hated that I had to deal with the terminal and install strange third-party programs from strange forums to get anything working. Then I had to upgrade to 11 and I had to run strange terminal programs to install it without without creating a Microsoft account, and everyone recommends using some third-party Windows power tools to fix what Microsoft did to Windows. I could not believe it. IT IS THE SAME THING!

Now I'm using Linux, and I don't like it, but least it isn't spyware.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-29 12:24:20+00:00
> and I am sure it cuts down on spammers

Okay, just so we're all on the same page: that 100 dollar fee IS NOT for publishing your app. That's not what that is. That's a separate thing with its own costs.

That 100 dollars is just the fee to even make an app. Even if your iPhone never has an Internet connection. And even if you literally load the app via USB to your iPhone only.

It's just extortion. It cannot be justified. Apple does it because they can - there are zero technical reasons behind it.
by gilbetron | 2025-10-29 12:24:23+00:00
novice -> informed -> asshole -> seasoned

Keep pushing through the asshole stage and you get to another where you learn to enjoy what you enjoy, whether it is a $10 chocolate chip cookie or Chips A'Hoy. A $200 bottle of wine or a $5 bottle.

It is possible to dig deep into subjects and emerge with a nuanced understanding rather than an asshole demeanor!

I've kept aquariums basically my whole life and have had all kinds of critters including a really expensive marine tank fully kitted out with fish worth hundreds each. My current favorites are some guppies I got for free because it wasn't worth charging for them!
by mberning | 2025-10-29 12:24:25+00:00
It’s expensive and the “design” of the services, if you could call it that, is such that you are forced to pay a lot, or play a lot of games to get around it. If you are going to spend your engineering time working around their ridiculous pricing schemes, you might as well spend the money on building things out yourself.

Perfect example - MSK. The brokers are config locked at certain partition counts, even if your CPU is 5%. But their MSK replicator is capped on topic count. So now I have to work around topic counts at the cluster level, and partition counts at the broker level. Neither of which are inherent limits in the underlying technologies (kafka and mirrormaker)
by LogicHound | 2025-10-29 12:24:30+00:00
> On Linux, the really old games just work, as do virtually all new games with the exception of those very few big budget new releases.

It really seems like you aren't reading what I said. I accept that old games will often work fine, provided they are on a store like GoG or Steam. Big budget releases are often what people want to play.

> If those are the games you really want to play then Windows is the answer, have fun ponying up your drivers license to Microsoft for the privilege of getting root kitted by those games.

It isn't about what I want. It is about what is the reality for the vast majority of people. I would rather everyone play games that work on Linux. Unfortunately many of the people I play games like playing new titles, often they only work well on Windows. There is a social aspect of this that many people on here ignore.

> Literally everything else just works on Linux, one click install and play through steam, no bullshit fiddling around.

They don't though. There are always odd issues with games e.g. borderless window doesn't work in a lot of games, because the mouse will get lost. Having that happen mid-match sucks, having fullscreen window has it own draw backs. I won't get into performance and sound issues as I've already explained the issues there.
by schwartzworld | 2025-10-29 12:25:15+00:00
Well, you could always focus on the ridiculous environmental impact of llms. I read once that asking ChatGPT used 250x as much energy as just googling. But now google incorporated llms into search so…

I grew up on the banks of the Hudson River, polluted by corporations dumping their refuse into it while reaping profits. Anthropic/openai/etc are doing the same thing.
by VikingCoder | 2025-10-29 12:25:28+00:00
Please, just give users the ability to say whether they want this "extra safety" control on. (If it even is extra safety, but whatever.)

If they don't, they can sideload, and use F-Droid, and etc.

And then we can debate whether it should be default on, or default off, and how hard it should be to turn off.
by vintermann | 2025-10-29 12:25:45+00:00
Having once worked with maintaining an ancient 3rd party windows desktop app, I'm surprised you don't have problems with them on recent windows. I guarantee you the developers do. They must be truly heroic maintainers if none of those frustrations bleed through to you.

A time will come when the easiest way to run these beasts is in a docker container running wine, and I don't think it will be long.
by schnable | 2025-10-29 12:25:49+00:00
I think it depends on the company. I don't know how bad of a problem it is for big businesses like Amazon. Sure there's some lost profits and a write-down with the layoff, but it's not like Amazon hasn't been successful and profitable in the meantime. The overhiring may be justifiable as a defensive strategy.

I was at a smaller public company that overhired during COVID then struggled with profits (among other things). CEO and leadership lost a ton of money due to the share price drops from COVID peaks and CEO was ultimately pushed out.
by anymouse123456 | 2025-10-29 12:26:29+00:00
To be clear, I'm not criticizing the CM and didn't get hung up on the OP's tone, though I can see how folks would. Sorry about that.

I can understand how folks have issues with TC connectors.

As a counterpoint, I run a small CM and engineering firm and we love Tag Connect.

If you're dealing with truly high volume runs, get the ICs programmed before they're on the boards.

For smaller runs, the clipless TC connectors work great IME.
by wiedelphine | 2025-10-29 12:26:36+00:00
I understood this to be a comment on the fact that a text interface has a lower affordance than a graphical interface. A command line doesnt suggest what you can do in the way a graphical interface can.So even if you have industry standard keywords, a user has to know/learn them. I see it as similar to the buttons versus screens debate in car interfaces.
by darkwater | 2025-10-29 12:26:42+00:00
The core of this success is this, IMO:

> Our workload is 24/7 steady. We were already at >90% reservation coverage; there was no idle burst capacity to “right size” away. If we had the kind of bursty compute profile many commenters referenced, the choice would be different.

Which TBH applies to many, many places, even if they are not aware of it.
by asaws | 2025-10-29 12:26:57+00:00
You are a senior front-end engineer.

Create a single-page application called “GoalGPT by WealthAI”.

The interface should be inspired by the simplicity and layout of chat.openai.com, but must be built entirely from original code with no copied elements, assets, or classes.

### 1. Overall Page Layout - The interface should look and feel like a professional AI chat workspace. - Full-screen, responsive design. - Background: subtle light gray (#f8f9fb) or soft off-white. - Typography: “Inter”, “Poppins”, or “DM Sans”. - Brand accent color: #2563eb (WealthAI blue). - Balanced whitespace and clear sectioning.

### 2. Header - Fixed at the top. - Left side: WealthAI logo text (“WealthAI” in semi-bold, #2563eb). - Right side: small text label “GoalGPT”. - Minimal horizontal bar with shadow separation from chat area.

### 3. Chat Container - Occupies 100% viewport height minus header and input area. - Scrollable vertical section for conversation. - Each message appears in a clean rounded bubble: - User messages: right aligned, white background, subtle border. - AI messages: left aligned, light gray background (#f2f3f5). - Maintain generous spacing (16–20px) between messages. - Smooth fade-in animation for new messages.

### 4. Input Section - Fixed to bottom of viewport. - White background card with light border on top. - Contains: - A multiline textarea for goal input (auto-expanding up to 3 lines). - A category dropdown beside it (Finance, Health, Learning, Business, Personal). - A “Generate Roadmap” button in WealthAI blue (#2563eb), rounded, with hover state. - Placeholder text: “Describe your 12-month goal...” - Button click triggers message submission.

### 5. Output Behavior - When the user submits a goal: - User’s message appears on the right. - A loading indicator (three animated dots) shows in the chat area. - Then an AI response bubble appears on the left with formatted roadmap text. - AI output should include sections: - Goal Summary - Strategy Overview - Month-by-Month Roadmap (Month 1-12) - Key Metrics (KPIs) - Motivational Insight - Each section title bolded; content formatted cleanly for readability.

### 6. Technical Notes - Build with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (no frameworks). - Keep CSS modular and clean; rely on Flexbox for layout. - Include a small script placeholder for integrating the OpenAI API later. - All elements responsive on mobile and desktop. - Use subtle transitions (opacity, transform) for message entries. - Do not use any glassmorphism, neon, or gradient effects.

### 7. Footer - Minimal footer centered at the bottom: “Powered by WealthAI — AI Roadmap Builder”

### 8. Deliverable Generate a single file named `GoalGPT.html` containing: - Embedded `<style>` for CSS. - Embedded `<script>` for JavaScript. - Fully functional front-end (messages appear and scroll properly). - Ready for future OpenAI API connection.

The page should feel as polished and calm as top AI platforms: clean, neutral, trustworthy, and designed for long chat interactions.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-29 12:28:11+00:00
Android and said manufacturers purposefully do everything in their power to make this as awful as possible.

For example, you can't relock the bootloader on any device except pixels. Why? No reason. Just fuck you, I guess.

That's a huge security hole that they're creating, intentionally.

What's going on is they are hoping that if you do use other software that you get malware or get scammed. They are literally, actually, undermining their own device's security just to send a message.

These people are psychotic.
by cbeach | 2025-10-29 12:28:52+00:00
1. The Electoral College isn’t a governing body.

* It doesn’t have ongoing powers, authority, or political discretion like a parliament or the European Council.

* It’s a one-time, ceremonial body that meets once every four years to cast votes reflecting (in nearly all cases) the popular vote results in each state.

2. Electors don’t deliberate or choose freely.

* In almost every state, electors are legally bound (or at least politically bound) to vote according to their state’s popular vote.

* So the outcome is functionally determined by voters, not by an independent decision of the Electoral College.

3. The EU analogy misrepresents the role of the Electoral College.

* In the EU, citizens elect national governments, which then appoint members of the European Council, who negotiate and nominate the EU Commission — a genuine appointment process.

* In the U.S., the electors are not government officials making appointments; they are agents executing the people’s will as expressed in the election.

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In the US, the people elect the President, because electors vote as their state’s voters directed.

The EU Commission analogy doesn’t fit, because that’s an appointment process made by governments, not a formalization of a direct vote.
by echelon_musk | 2025-10-29 12:29:06+00:00
I'm glad that AI slop is detectable. So, for now the repulsive emoji crap is a useful heuristic to me that someone is wasting my time. In a few years once it is harder to detect I expect I'm going to have a harder and more frustrating time. For this reason I hope people don't start altering their prompts to make them harder to detect as LLM generated to people with a modicum of intelligence left.
by Hilift | 2025-10-29 12:29:06+00:00
> The direct cost is the easy part

I don't think it is easy. I see most organizations struggle with the fact that everything is throttled in the cloud. CPU, storage, network. Tenants often discover large amounts of activity they were previously unaware of, that contributes to the usage and cost. And there may be individuals or teams creating new usages that are grossly impacting their allocation. Did you know there is a setting in MS SQL Server that impacts performance by an order of magnitude when sending/receiving data from the Cloud to your on-premises servers? It's the default in the ORM generated settings.

Then you can start adding in the Cloud value, such as incomprehensible networking diagrams that are probably non-compliant in some way (guess which ones!), and security? What is it?
by cornfieldlabs | 2025-10-29 12:29:11+00:00
> Equinix Metal got the closest, but bare metal on-demand still carried a 25-30% premium over our CapEx plan. Their global footprint is tempting; we may still use them for short-lived expansion.

> The Equinix Metal service will be sunset on June 30, 2026.

https://docs.equinix.com/metal/
by tacostakohashi | 2025-10-29 12:29:20+00:00
Seems like there's some obvious selection bias here... Java and .NET are both pretty ancient, stable platforms, so the venn diagram of "people who use Java / .NET" and "people who like learning new languages" just doesn't have much overlap.

Conversely, the people who use(d) rust, clojure, zig, etc., those are the "exciting new language" people who are going to drop those and move onto whatever the _next_ exciting new language is.
by 1gn15 | 2025-10-29 12:29:38+00:00
I know, right. It's like setting up rules saying "you can't use IDE autocomplete" or "you can't code with background music because that distracts you from bugs". If the final result is indistinguishable, I find it perfectly acceptable to lie. Rules are just words, after all, especially if it's completely unenforceable.

Or, the decentralized, no rulers solution: clone the repo on your own website and put your patches there instead.
by brnt | 2025-10-29 12:29:45+00:00
I don't need any more hobbies. I already have too little time.

Also, shitty coffee ensures I don't drink even more. I failed with beer, so I am probably what some call a connaisseur. I learned a bit about whiskey, and once every 3 years I buy one I like, but I don't need an expensive hobby.

I used to build my own computers. Learned a lot, was fun. Now I exclusively use hand-me-downs. Understanding how I can get the same (perhaps more!) done within a smaller envelop is kind of it's own hobby.

I have a TV with a row of dead pixels. I don't need to watch even more.

The money saved this way is just a happy by product.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-29 12:30:06+00:00
You may think that's pedantic but it really isn't. Half-decent TUIs are much closer to GUIs than they are to CLIs because they're interactive and don't suffer from discoverability issues like most CLIs do. The only similarity they have with CLIs is that they both run in a terminal emulator.

"htop" is a TUI, "ps" is a CLI. They can both accomplish most of the same things but the user experience is completely different. With htop you're clicking on columns to sort the live-updating process list, while with "ps" you're reading the manual pages to find the right flags to sort the columns, wrapping it in a "watch" command to get it to update periodically, and piping into "head" to get the top N results (or looking for a ps flag to do the same).
by billy99k | 2025-10-29 12:30:25+00:00
I just don't believe AI is causing all of these layoffs. I've used all of the latest AI tech. Sure it provides value, but I just can't see it replacing entire positions yet.

I think it's a combination of outsourcing (communication technology like Zoom got much better during Covid and companies learned they could hire someone for a remote job anywhere) and correcting all of the over-hiring these companies did during the 2 or 3 years of Covid.

Companies right now are also reducing their budgets due to future economic forecasting. The company I'm working for just had an all hands meeting where they want to fire the 3rd party company working on a current systems launch set to go live in February and have the internal team work on it (nobody on staff has experience with the technology), and still make the deadline.
by semiquaver | 2025-10-29 12:30:50+00:00
I’d think it was about tracking if I didn’t know that the ios api most apps use gives no access to what the user is doing. I feel like it must be some folk wisdom among app developers about “keeping people in the app”. It’s especially bad since the implementation always seems to struggle hard with self-links, eg if you open a web link in X then follow a link in the story to a tweet you get a broken result in most apps.
by vladms | 2025-10-29 12:31:02+00:00
Most of the software I use depend on centralized functionality. Example: convenient online invitation, sharing of resources and integrations (for productivity), accomplishments, ladders and updates (for games).

For music media, there are a lot of people (67%) using streaming (random source: https://ifpi-website-cms.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/IFPI_GMR...) which is a totally different service than having a list of songs on your device then struggling with organizing/synchronizing/keeping up to date.

Media and software do not "work" like physical goods. Value should be extracted from them but a lot of earth population is poor and could still "use" the media/software (example: 57% of world population has less than 10$ income per day source: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$model$markers$mountain$enc...)
by ptk | 2025-10-29 12:31:27+00:00
This behavior (as far as I can tell) has broken the Expensify iOS app for us at work. We have a conditional access policy that requires a “compliant” device to succeed the SSO login. However, only the iOS Edge browser can prove compliance and Expensify refuses to hand over that login process to the Edge browser preferring to use its own built-in browser. So login fail and as far as I can tell there is nothing we can do about it except for exempt that app from the conditional access policies.
by bellamoon544 | 2025-10-29 12:31:33+00:00
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by whilenot-dev | 2025-10-29 12:31:45+00:00
Am I the only one that interpreted OP in a way that they weren't opposed to neither CLIs, TUIs, nor GUIs at all? The topic wasn't "textual interface VS graphical interface", but "undocumented/natural language VS documented/query language" for navigating the internet.

In addition to the analogy of the textual interface used in Zork, we could say that it'd be like interacting with any REST API without knowledge about its specification - guessing endpoints, methods, and parameters while assuming best practices (of "natural-ness" kind). Do we really want to explore an API like that, through naive hacking? Does a natural language wrapper make this hacking any better? It can make it more fun as it breaks patterns, sure, but is that really what we want?
by OJFord | 2025-10-29 12:31:58+00:00
There's an enormous difference between supermarket crap (or whatever it is that you think Nespresso is barely better than, because that would be the first thing I think of for crap coffee) and 'local roasters', however overly you think they're roasting.

I get all mine from Pact, by no means particularly artisan or expensive, and yeah a light roast is not my favourite. But whole beans freshly roasted and ground makes an entirely different drink to freeze-dried instant Nescafe or whatever, or supermarket beans ok the shelf for months, flavoured with cinnamon or vanilla or something to hide the stale.
by freehorse | 2025-10-29 12:32:20+00:00
> Deviancy is itself a kind of luxury, in that you can afford to take part in it either because you have nothing to lose from doing so, or at the very least it won’t impact your gains in a negative manner. It explains why deviancy rises in times of comfort (post-WW2 America) and declines in times of crisis or stress (today).

The article argues for the opposite, that more safety brings more risk-averse behaviour (you can take more risks, but you are less willing to), with good merit imo. But perhaps you are talking about different things.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-10-29 12:32:29+00:00
> 4x is at the upper end of the overheads

This is already quite impressive. Many automatic memory managed languages have more than 4x worst-case slowdown. E.g. Google-backed Golang is ~1.5× to ~4× slower than optimized C++. I suppose there are many ways to further speed-up Fil-C if more resources were given to the project.