jarym
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2025 was all about 'Rust' on HN and 2026 is all about 'rebuilding everything in Rust'. Comical on one level and yet intriguing.
Writing databases is an EXTREMELY fun learning endeavour but it is truly difficult to do correctly.
Parity can take time - and you probably don't want it because the apps like Adobe's are full of so much legacy anyway.
It was during covid, during a time when people were starting to think retail would never go back to normal and everyone would switch to exclusively online buying.
It was a bet that was unsupported by data (there wasn't any) and turned out to be wrong.
Depressingly, I believe you are right.
We keep reading different variations of the same story over and over - different companies and industries but make the same fatal mistakes.
1) Let the 'spreadsheet people' take over, every decision is now allegedly based on 'data'
2) Kill the innovation because they can’t put a $ value on it
3) Rake in a few years of fast profits and soak in glory
4) Company implodes, CEO rides into the sunset, board that should have protected the company somehow largely intact.
Data wasn't the killer. Stupidity, greed and shortsightedness in roughly equal parts usually are.
The real issue here is they’ve been dishonest and less than candid with their customers.
Trust broken, words out, and their statement doesn’t really do anything to mending that.
Japanese electronics started off the same way post-war.
Like bunny.net - its still tiny compared to CF but hopefully they will grow and won't adopt the crappier bits of CF.
They used to make some nice equipment but I’ve stopped buying anything from LG and share that recommendation to friends and family.
I know I’m not the only one so I’m sure LG are experiencing the results of consumer democracy.
No expert but mechanical parts all built to the same specification and used in more or less the same manner can fail around the same time.
We see that in commercial aviation a lot which is why when there’s so much as 2 instances of a similar failure within a short timespan investigators start looking more closely at maintenance and manufacturing.
What’s the best real alternative to 1Password?
I’d want: Secure with sharing capability, multi device sync and nice UX
> I think the golden age of music streaming is coming to an end
There was a world before Spotify. Though the music labels didn’t much like that world we can easily go back to it.
That’s what the kasmweb images on dockerhub are - desktop apps containerised
Low trust or not, we still have to deal with trolls.
100%. They had a place back when banks barely knew what the internet was.
But I think their time has passed.
What are you talking about? My GH profile is not my HN name.
If you don’t have a valid point why post rubbish?
> raised three separate PRs to correct spelling and grammar mistakes in comments.
> The changes were harmless and correct,
> I closed all three PRs without comment.
What is this article? I get real ‘AI slop PRs’ are nightmares - but I take that to mean the wave of AI generated PRs that read convincingly but are in the end bullshit.
But your example is NOT that. The unreasonable counter to your point: don’t make spelling mistakes in the first place? Or switch off PRs if you don’t want things corrected?
‘Uncontrolled’ - surely the control point was the initial application being submitted from abroad?
It was very much ‘controlled’. We lost SO many European workers due to the obsession with EU Freedom of Movement that entire sectors like nursing were about to implode without a source of new workers.
Seems like the only thing more expensive and damaging these days than being an enemy of the US is being an ally!
Wonder how long it’ll be before Trump throws his toys out the pram again. Wouldn’t be surprised if he moans his allies have abandoned him.
Next GrapheneOS feature: Travel mode, disable unlock until clear of ‘the US border’
Is the government not hacking the law with its weird interpretations and assertions?
From now on I swear if I launch a new product I will call it ClosedXXX
Getting to grips with each new model does require some tweaking and experimentation. So far I've found Opus 5 to repeatedly pause its work and give me some seemingly randomly invented decisions to make.
Enjoyed reading the article and I am sad as well to read about any failed startup but especially British ones.
I've tried at various points over the past 2 decades and can confirm: trying to sell startup software into the UK (and European) market is much harder than in the US.
Most businesses are not open to buying from an upstart even if the proposition seems attractive. There is a 'safety in numbers' mentality (markedly less so in the UK than in other parts of Western Europe but still much more than in the US).
It makes securing the first 10 customers ever more challenging. It is not a trope I'd say, its just a lesson that keeps being relearnt.
2 things:
a) Government plays a part in the cost of things - especially years of mis-investment around energy generation has sent British prices to the stratosphere and employment taxation levels greater than those 'cheaper' producers.
b) The 'cheaper' producers are still _producers_ and thus have control - if they need to hoard their own supply they will, or if they need to leverage it for some political gain they might.