kylecordes

anteayerdiscuss

I wonder if it will do any better than past versions when one begs and pleads for it to get a job done using a concise, modest amount of code (as an expert human developer might), rather than responding to all prompts by shoveling in a large amount of code.

kylecordes

el mes pasadodiscuss

For years we've been seeing the hype about how axial flux electric motors will save 100 or even a couple of hundred pounds per car. Does this announcement mean we're finally starting to see the first increment of that actually happening?

(The motor is less important than the battery in terms of total weight, long term durability, etc. But nonetheless, any improvement helps!)

kylecordes

el mes pasadodiscuss

This, of course, is why it's wise to wait a while after an IPO for the market to figure out how it values a new stock before it joins the index.

kylecordes

el mes pasadodiscuss

I remember thinking that they were making great software, but finding revenue to make the investment payoff could be quite challenging. Looks like that's been solved.

kylecordes

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

Very clever to mention Bun in the title here - probably increases the clicks notably.

(We have a couple apps that use BullMQ, and I keep wondering if we could drop Redis and use a PG-backed queue instead, for fewer single points of failure. Maybe this is the one.)

kylecordes

hace 4 mesesdiscuss

We have an app on Heroku and obviously the writing is on the wall there. We looked around a bit and picked Digital Ocean as our next host:

* their app hosting product is similar to Heroku.

* very easy onboarding and controls for modest complexity apps. Unlike the extreme hoop-jumping required to do anything on one of the major cloud providers.

* everything looks reasonably up to date.

* it's an actual operating profitable company that's been around a while and probably will be for a long time... not a startup burning capital.

That said, this magic containers thing looks more analogous to Google Cloud Run, which I think is an absolutely fantastic offering. Unlike almost everything else out there, Cloud Run and presumably Magic Containers can do things like have a whole bunch of versions of your app up and running ready to come to life when a request arrives, but scaled to zero in the meantime. This category of hosting should be far more popular than it is, and it is wonderful to see another company offer it.

kylecordes

hace 5 mesesdiscuss

"Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

That's the whole point, right? A pretense to remove any remaining anonymity from communications?

Governments are endlessly infested with the worst people. They look back at historical attempts at totalitarianism and think to themselves, "Let's facilitate something like that, but worse".

kylecordes

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

That seems like a good bit of psychology as it accommodates both people with the mental fortitude to type in their genuine max bid in the first place, and also people who don't really know what they're willing to bid until they see somebody else bid higher.

kylecordes

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

Auction site design where most every transaction is a very material amount of money for buyer and seller probably have different trade-offs from something like eBay where most items are rounding errors compared to the income or wealth of the participants.

For example, think about "sniping" from the seller side. Sellers are rightly concerned about any wrinkle of the bidding process that might leave money on the table. Automatically extending the time so that every potential buyer has time to "answer" a new bid soothes the concern that buyers were willing to pay higher, but they didn't have the technological prowess to post their bid in the last 0.3 seconds.

kylecordes

hace 6 mesesdiscuss

Obviously anybody can post gross things by running an image generation/editing tool locally and publishing the results. People then mostly blame the poster whose name it then appears under.

Seems like a pointless and foolish product design error for X/grok to publish arbitrary image generation results under its own name. How could you expect that to go anything but poorly?

kylecordes

hace 10 mesesdiscuss

These tools always fall short, not because the teams making them are bad, but because the underlying chat tools they build on are adversarial to the idea of a third-party UI replacing their UI. A new entrant might escape their ire for a while, of course.

kylecordes

hace 4 añosdiscuss

It is unfortunate (and much more) that this purchaser is not being treated well.

I am mostly an early adopter (sometimes joking that I refuse to use software past the alpha stage)... But a foldable screen? I am deeply skeptical that this will be reliable anytime in the next two decades.

kylecordes

hace 5 añosdiscuss

This is every bank in the United States.

Our payment infrastructure ... has some legacy features.

kylecordes

hace 7 añosdiscuss

A good manager is one who can maintain a decent relationship and get results with the team composed of mere humans. Pretty much all of whom are imperfect in 100 different ways. Some of those ways match the theme of this article and thread, but it doesn't matter. A manager who can only function if everyone in their team is completely typical in every way, should be replaced by someone more qualified and capable.

kylecordes

hace 7 añosdiscuss

A charitable and maybe helpful way to look at it:

Lots of other people are just making this up as they go along too. Trying to figure things out in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity. When you get confusing instructions from above, try to help. Not help by demanding they clarify, rather acknowledge they are trying to describe how to make a complex and subtle trade-off that isn’t easily quantified with hard rules. Offer to be their apprentice, to learn from them how to make the same trade-off decision they would make.

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