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by techblueberry | 2026-01-10 15:58:54+00:00
Yeah, I think I agree with you, but in my experience it’s relatively hard at a glance to figure out what really is a limited scope app, especially once it hits production. If all engineers start thinking this way, I think it will become a tech debt mess. I’ve never worked at a place where I felt like the problem is we don’t have enough code.

It’s the hidden costs of maintaining this quick little thing someone wrote that add up.

The point being, in this new age where code is free, it is the ability to be inhibitory or tasteful that truly defines a successful software engineer.
by realty_geek | 2026-01-10 15:59:07+00:00
I have found container-use to be super useful for this.

https://container-use.com/quickstart

BTW Simon, I was super happy when I heard on Theo's podcast that he will be encouraging you to monetise your work more. I'm super appreciative of your work and I'm pretty convinced that the more you profit from it, the better the universe will be!!!
by throw-qqqqq | 2026-01-10 15:59:19+00:00
> Also this car has only has 60hp.

And it weighs less than half of the other two (less than a ton), so less power is needed.

I agree though, the C15 is slower than the other two, but less than you’d perhaps think.

I own a Citroën 2CV. It has some of the same qualities: super robust, incredibly off-roady, simple mechanically, but I take my “regular car” (2017) for road trips > 100km…

I’ve done numerous long road trips in the 2CV before I got the other one though. A few > 1000km.

I agree with the author, that many overestimate their needs, but older cars are also less luxurious - obviously!

The post is a hot take, slightly tongue-in-cheek, isn’t it? :)
by Aurornis | 2026-01-10 15:59:21+00:00
> Standardized connectors and outer dimensions for engines even between brands. Medium, large, small. You don't need 100 different types.

There aren't 100 different types of engines. At any given time each auto manufacturer only has a couple different engines in production. Different models can get different variations for performance or use targets, but auto manufacturers are very good at standardizing within their company.

Look at the list of Honda engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honda_engines

Notice how they're grouped by series? All of the engines in each series share a common platform with minor changes from year to year. In many cases you can swap parts between engines within the same series. An engine series lasts 10-15 years. Some times the parts even carry over to the next series.

Swapping between brands is a pipe dream, though. Forcing everyone to fit their engineering into a bounding box that has to be agreed upon by all auto manufacturers around the world would only lead to either unnecessarily large vehicles with wasted space (to leave room for future engineering needs) or unnecessarily complicated engineering to fit everything into the pre-defined allowable engine envelope. All to accommodate engine swaps between manufacturers which is never necessary for consumer cars.
by mythrwy | 2026-01-10 15:59:39+00:00
I just asked chatGPT.

"do llms give wrong information often?"

"Yes. Large language models produce incorrect information at a non-trivial rate, and the rate is highly task-dependent."

But wait, it could be lying and they actually don't give false information often! But if that were the case, it would then verify they give false information at a non trivial rate because I don't ask it that much stuff.
by kalleboo | 2026-01-10 15:59:42+00:00
The touchscreen is probably closer to $200 than $2000.

You can get a kei car in Japan for around $10,000 that has all the smart safety assists, 360 degree parking camera, remote app start, power everything (windows, mirrors, sliding doors, heated seats), CarPlay etc etc.

What it won't do is let you survive a crash a highway speeds, since that metallurgy and those crumple zones are the actually expensive part. The fuel efficiency is also not great since that is also expensive.
by Signatura | 2026-01-10 15:59:52+00:00
I think that’s a fair list, and it highlights how much of the process sits outside the candidate’s control.

Macro forces, internal incentives, and human bias all stack on top of each other, and the candidate only sees the outcome, not the cause.
What feels particularly hard is that all of these factors collapse into a single signal for the job seeker, a rejection with no explanation.

From your perspective, which of these has the biggest impact in practice, and which ones do you think are most invisible to candidates going through the process?
by alephnerd | 2026-01-10 15:59:57+00:00
You know modern France has the exact same problem of billionaire lobbying and media consolidation that the US has right?

Arnault (LVMH) [0], Trappier (Dassault) [1], Niel (Illiad) [2], Lagardère [3], and a couple others have an inordinate amount of control over French politics.

Both France and the US are similarly ranked flawed democracies [4] with similar dysfunctions.

[0] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2023/08/07/how-be...

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/frances-d...

[2] - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/07/10/u...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/article/world/macron-and-the-moguls-...

[4] - https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/democracy-index-eiu
by samuelklam | 2026-01-10 16:00:52+00:00
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Permitting is a challenging yet interesting problem; thousands of municipalities across the United States have their own processes and requirements - many which are continually updating. Software, AI, and LLMs provide an exciting opportunity for us to reason at scale and distill a nuanced and localized permitting process into a standard and streamlined experience for our customers.

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by jamesgill | 2026-01-10 16:01:17+00:00
“Linux is flavour of the month with the geek community for two reasons ­ it's free, and it's not from Microsoft.”

Linux, still ‘flavour of the month’ 29 years later.

I remember similar articles about things like OS/2. ‘97 was peak Microsoft love time, and journalists could rarely see past the Microsoft logo on the ends of their noses.

Also that same year: the web was really taking off, and Steve Jobs returned to Apple and began eating Microsoft’s lunch. It was a pivotal year.
by LPisGood | 2026-01-10 16:01:24+00:00
Yes, I remember a friend that interned there a couple times showed me that. One of them was “list comprehensive python” and the Google website would split in 2 and give you some really fun coding challenges. I did a few, and you get 4(?) right you get a guaranteed interview I think. I intended to come back and spend a lot of time on an additional one, but I never did. Oops
by rayiner | 2026-01-10 16:02:11+00:00
I’m not excluding Russians. They make up a vanishingly small percentage of DACA recipients, for example: https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/daca.... I don’t know where folks got this idea that there were tons of europeans overstaying their visas. Visa overstays are a route for Asian and African illegal immigrants. And however you slice it, those folks are going to be darker, on average, than the folks coming over illegally from latin america.

This whole narrative is silly. The government is prioritizing stopping the flow of poor people more than people who can afford a plane ticket. Obviously.
by everdrive | 2026-01-10 16:02:17+00:00
That's effectively what it is, but reverse. You buy it as a truck, and can buy seats & cap and turn it into an SUV. I see it as the closest thing you can get to a kei truck in the US without importing. Relatively cheap, good payload capacity, (better than a lot of trucks out there) effectively unable to tow, 5-foot bed, which is the same or larger than most mid-size trucks, and a tiny form factor.

It's certainly a niche vehicle, but it looks exciting if it can fill you niche.
by metalman | 2026-01-10 16:02:36+00:00
I do get heat for my truck.
I call it the truckasourus, it does take up a lot of room, I pulled out the rear seat and installed a three level shelf that fills the whole back of the cab, tools, grocieries, more tools, laundry, more food, and room on the top shelf to sleep if nessesary, then a 8 foot box, that will get replaced with a 9' flat deck, and front, middle and rear racks so I can move 24'steel, 4x8 sheets, welding gas, and whatever else, when I am not moving round bales or fire wood, other large heavy clumsy stuff.
funny thing is that I have a car just for more civilised things, that costs me almost as much to sit there, as my truck costs to drive.
I flashed the eprom in the truck so it gets significantly better fuel milage, and has forgotten how to go into limp mode, though the messages in the dash are dire.
I could build a smaller rig, but it would fail in 1/3 of the tasks required, so it is impossible to come out ahead with running two, or hireing moving services.
So the article, while funny, is narrow and snippy.
Sometimes I consider a bumper sticker that would say, "Thanks for driving a Prius, I need the fuel!"
by Signatura | 2026-01-10 16:02:48+00:00
Austin, that makes sense.
The signaling problem cuts both ways:
Resumes try to compress complex ability into keywords, and job descriptions try to describe real work with abstract labels. A lot gets lost in between.

The unclear goals point is important too. When a role isn’t well-defined, hiring ends up optimizing for proxies rather than outcomes.
Do you think this is mostly a language problem (how roles and experience are described), or a structural one where teams don’t actually agree internally on what success in the role looks like?
by cookiengineer | 2026-01-10 16:03:35+00:00
> The "print and scan physical papers back to a PDF of images" technique for final release is looking better and better from an information protection perspective.

Note that all (edit: color-/ink-) printers have "invisible to the human eye" yellow dotcodes, which contain their serial number, and in some cases even the public IP address when they've already connected to the internet (looking at you, HP and Canon).

So I'd be careful to use a printer of any kind if you're not in control of the printer's firmware.

There's lots of tools that started to decode the information hidden in dotcodes, in case you're interested [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://github.com/Natounet/YellowDotDecode

[2] https://github.com/mcandre/dotsecrets

[3] (when I first found out about it in 2007) https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Fahrplan/events/197...
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-10 16:03:44+00:00
To be really honest, I share a similar stance to you overall but I would still admit that there is some partial truth to it

I would like to expand this not only to foreign state actors that people mention but also companies inside which are actively trying to do nefarious stuff

As an example, Tobacco industry knew that the damages were there but they still tried to spur up medical confusion around it all so that people would still think that medical discussion is going on when it was 100% clear that tobacco harms. Who knows how many people died

The man who discovered that washing hands saved lives was so ridiculed and I think met with hostility because doctors couldn't comprehend the idea that it was they would could spread diseases. This is decades before germ theory was invented

His name is Ignaz Semmelweis and the world was unjust to him. Doctors ridiculed and threatend him and he was labelled obsessive and doctors called it mere coincidence. His career crumbled as he was forced out of vienna/his hospital and his mental health deteriorated as his warnings were ignored

in 1865 Semmelwise was commited to an asylum where he died just two weeks later at age 47

Only after pasteur developed germ theory and lester pioneered antisceptic surgery, semmelwise was finally vindicated.

This simple practise of handwashing is now considered the most basic medical standard worldwide saving countless millions of lives in the process.

(I had to write it by hand here basically transcribing this really amazing video that I watched about such a topic, I would highly suggest watching it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBCOh1SYQYA (crazy people who were proven right)

Semmelwise's stories can brings chills to spine.
by soraminazuki | 2026-01-10 16:03:58+00:00
Yes, Windows users don't have time for such luxuries when they're constantly fighting a losing fight with an increasingly hostile OS. Playing whack-a-mole dismissing ads, dismissing Edge and reopening links in your preferred browser, waiting for React to render in the start menu, coping with the ever increasing theft of personal data, and on and on and on the list goes. The rest of the time is spent on working around Windows oddities that other developers using sensible OSes simply don't need to deal with. No wonder there's no time to think about anything else.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-01-10 16:04:08+00:00
Was, I'm retired. None good. SMRs were "flying cars" in the 90s, but the issue isn't the technology so much but the mindset of "factory" "startups" without grasping the rigorous process and security protocols of operations and sustainment. It's simply not scalable to have tiny nor supposed underground sites because the fixed costs of doing the minimum to secure and maintain them are large when done properly. Having a lot of SMRs on a single site would be fine, but I'm totally against unmanned SMRs in residential areas or running around on flatbed trucks not used by the military for emergencies. SMR manufacturers not backed by a major existing vendor like Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Westinghouse, or GE is also a risk because 90% of startups fail, and then it will be made the taxpayers' problem to clean up their messes. I'm betting that one or more SMR startups will skip insurance and/or licensure, or that techbro third-world country-style political intervention will do it for them and put the public at risk because DOGE will "decide" the NRC is "fraud, waste, and abuse".

If you want to read about the history of the nuclear industry, read 978-0894485732 / https://search.worldcat.org/title/84903757
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-01-10 16:04:14+00:00
If you actually look at that conversation then you know it is not exactly immediately, but based on evidence as it trickles down. I personally think your 'side' is missing forest for the trees.

Since that is the case, allow me to spell it out for you. Antics of middleaged, overindulged woman, who was so comfortable that they thought she was virtually untouchable have gone mainstream. Do I get to stop ATF or IRS from performing their operations? No? Why is ICE different then? Because you don't agree with them?

So, the choice is now to either normalize those antics, normalize excessive police force or some sort of reasonable middle ground.

But what do I get? Insults and thinly veiled threats that once dems get into power, I will rue the day.

Get off your high horse and realize that you are encouraging civil war for a retard, who thought they could do whatever they want and face no consequences. Welcome to the real world.
by ghusbands | 2026-01-10 16:04:49+00:00
In my experience, it seems to. My astigmatism (or other eye stuff) seems to move different colours different amounts, leading to wider RGB pixels and making things like Cleartype so much worse. So people were enjoying Cleartype and I was hating the obvious colour-changes and fringes that somehow they weren't seeing. I assume some people are lucky enough to have aberrations that actually make cleartype more pleasant.
by durch | 2026-01-10 16:05:17+00:00
LLMs find the center of the distribution: the typical pattern, the median opinion. Tailwind was an edge bet. It required metis, the tacit competence to know the consensus (semantic classes, separation of concerns, the cascade) was a local maximum worth escaping. That judgment, knowing what the center is wrong about, doesn't emerge from interpolation. It emerges from the recognition loop where you try something, feel "that's not quite it," and refine.

The bottleneck was never typing. It was judgment. Tailwind is crystallized judgment. AI can consume it endlessly. Producing the next version requires the loop that creates metis, and that loop isn't in the training data.
by well_ackshually | 2026-01-10 16:05:35+00:00
Do you have any proof they don't? Do you have any proof the "AI System" that they use to filter out candidates doesn't "accidentally" access data ? Are you willing to bet that Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, won't sell access to that information?

Also, in some cases: they absolutely do. Try to get hired in Palantir and see how much they know about your browsing history. Anything related to national security or requiring clearances has you investigated.
by Aurornis | 2026-01-10 16:05:48+00:00
Anecdotally: I helped someone look for a cheap car recently and the base models are everywhere on my local lots. YMMV and I'm sure someone will respond that their area doesn't have any, but in my recent experience it wasn't hard to find a base model at all.

It's driven by consumer demand: If you can pay $30/month on your 5-year loan and get heated seats and a nicer navigation system, that's $1/day for 5 years and then you own it. It's easy to talk yourself into stepping up to something nicer that you're going to use every day.
by maqp | 2026-01-10 16:06:04+00:00
>Snowden's aim was to damage the US and its allies, and he succeeded in this.

Dude, nobody's buying this nonsense. Snowden expressed his concerns multiple times. He talked about the surveillance enabling turn-key tyranny, if ever a fascist leader would rise into power in the US. And look what's happening now. He was right, and thank god he blew the whistle, as that gave privacy activists a decade long headstart to get end-to-end encryption deployed.
by kube-system | 2026-01-10 16:06:09+00:00
> The Ford Ranger (2020). One of the most popular pickups in the US. A key selling point is that the cabin is so high you can run over toddlers without even noticing.

The craziest thing about this criticism is that it is phrased as hyperbole but the reality is that this is seen as a small truck in the US.

The Ford Ranger actually is the best selling pickup truck in Europe for 10 straight years, but doesn’t sell as much in the US. The larger F series trucks sell more than an order of magnitude more in the US.
by xiphias2 | 2026-01-10 16:06:16+00:00
This article creates more questions than answers.

- Will the rare earth minerals be mined eventually? As far as I see EU is going into that direction as well, as Greenland became so strategic over time

- What happens with all the land rights that American mineral extraction companies already bought? It means that even if EU/Greenland accepts mining they are already starting from a losing position

- What happens if the American government pays off the people and they want to join US? Will the Danish government still believe in the self determination of Greenland, or it's just political talk?

- what happens after US gets Greenland? Will NATO fall apart and EU get into an even worse position?
by AlotOfReading | 2026-01-10 16:06:28+00:00
Resetting the ECU only works if the error is a transient glitch in the code logic. If the failure is a physical sensor reading out of range?

In many ECUs I've worked on, most faults are treated as transient until they're seen across multiple cycles. Resetting often does genuinely help. Sensors do see weird transients and physically impossible values for all sorts of reasons.
by Signatura | 2026-01-10 16:06:29+00:00
I don’t think the gap you’re describing is about quality of work as much as how it gets interpreted.

What you described, building something end to end, making real tradeoffs, and caring about the problem is exactly the kind of signal people say they want, but it doesn’t always map cleanly to how hiring filters operate.

Being early in your career makes that mismatch louder, not smaller. Without context, depth can look like “small” and polish can look like “impact”.
One thing that might help is making the reasoning behind your choices visible, not just the output.

When reviewers can see why you built things the way you did, it becomes easier to compare substance to surface.
It’s normal to feel unsure at this stage, but from the outside, what you’re describing sounds like a real foundation, not a disadvantage.
I wish you all the best!
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