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Maybe it's not.

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> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, (...) If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

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Yeah, like how developers were en-masse ditching GitHub to go to GitLab when Microsoft acquired GitHub.

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People often say they'd gladly pay a bit more, but I don't think that's how they act.

In the case of Ryanair, I think not using them often means that a casual weekend away could become a much bigger dent in my family's monthly budget.

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Oh, don't get me started on Ryanair, but alas.

You go through what seems the entire check-in process, you get what seems like a summary at the end, with a link to a UK government site where you need to go next to get a travel authorization, I spend an hour doing that, finally finish that, I show up to the airport the next morning to be told I'm not checked in, having to pay a hefty fee to do a late check-in for each of my five passengers. The staff at the airport isn't really Ryanair's, so recourse there. (As if having real Ryanair staff would have made a difference.)

Same trip, coming back, we wait in the central terminal building until our gate is published. We go over to the gate, one of our passengers being in a wheelchair, needing an elevator, which are out of service. Friendly airport staff help us with the long detour to get to our gate. By now the doors are closed, we missed our flight. Again, having to pay a hefty fee to rebook for each of my five passengers. This is Ryanair staff, still no recourse. (But plenty of contempt.)

I admit defeat, but my wife is still motivated to talk to customer support. This is months ago, I don't think that went anywhere either. They're mostly impenetrable.

I don't mind their baggage policies, it's a known thing that there's upsales every step of the way, that's baked in by now (pretty much across the industry). But there's still plenty deep-dark patterns left.

Thank goodness that we can vote with our feet, right, and just don't buy from them anymore. But guess what, we booked another flight for next month :)

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I find it hard to judge how much, if at all, this will help, but I'm all for email being more secure, to the point that organizations (banks, governments, insurance companies) stop creating walled-email alternatives: please log in to our secure message center, where you can only see our messages poorly formatted, and for a short time, until we permanently delete them. I like that my Inbox is a somewhat-searchable, historical record of my life, and these alternatives break that.

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I think the layout _wants_ to look like a newspaper, but just doesn't quite end up looking like one. where a newspaper may have longer columns mixed in with shorter articles, this one has mostly short articles that then don't quite align. But hey, good luck to this project!

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> you can use it for recurrent payment, split payments, financing, cashout and almost all things a CC can do nowadays

But can credit cards really do all those things? You just entrust your credit card number to a party that does it for you, but the credit card system itself isn't taking care of those things like recurring payments.

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That it's a fishy story?

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That is certainly the point where it started to feel arbitrary for me.

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>I tend to not actually read more than a 100-line markdown file

I tend to not actually read more than 100-lines of anything anymore. I've long referred to myself as "the Google generation": only being able to read the summaries in a search result. That, and the typical doomscrolling model of social media have affected my attention span. Reading anything more substantial takes real effort now.

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Maybe the buttons shouldn't be their own files, but the backend functionality certainly could be. I don't do this, but I like the idea.

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I have a laptop to the side, and a bigger screen in front of me. And the laptop screen might as well be a picture frame: it adds no productivity gain, whatsoever. And it really confuses me. I have fond memories of my setup at work, in the result 2000's, with two big monitors on a desktop machine. I remember it working so well, and I just lost that feeling. Maybe because those were on equal footing, while the laptop screen now is the tiny little brother. Or, I'm just nostalgic and making up benefits that didn't really exist.

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Why would it get pulled in over the weekend? What automatic deployments are you running if there also isn't a human working to get it out?

Do you run automatic dependency updates over the weekend? Wouldn't you rather do that during fully-staffed hours?

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I came here to argue the opposite. Expressing it in seconds takes away questions about time zones and DST.

I think you're incorrect to say that second are also ambiguous. Maybe what you mean is that days are more practical, but that seems very much a personal preference.

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How do you know? For sure, I mean?

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Founders can be chasing a dream and in doing so mesmerize investors. Or they capitalize on that same dream being the investor's. Even if it's not viable, it can still be really fun company to work for and/or earn money at. Even if there is a small lane for that sort of flying machine, the sheer number of companies purportedly working on something like that is suspect. Given the huge costs for development and certification, and the small number of vehicles that will really get deployed (certainly for the first so many years), there must be many that are never going to make their money back. I worked for a drone-adjacent company and now my LinkedIn is swamped with these startups.

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> This isn’t whimsy

Uh, yes it is? It's just whimsy with an explanation. Long live descriptive, preferably short, names.

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To be pedantic some more, they used a HTTP 301 to get you to a page that uses a HTTP 200. It just _says_ "Error 451".

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There's a completely unironic obituary linked from the LA Times from 1994, which makes me wonder if the scandalous meaning even existed yet in those days?

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This article has the opposite effect from putting me at ease. There's no real argument in there that AGI couldn't be dangerous, it's just saying that of course we would build better versions than that. Right, because we always get it right, like Microsoft with their racist chatbot, or AIs talking kids into suicide... We'll fix the bugs later... after the AGI sets off the nukes... so much for an iterative development process...

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