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Same, hence the (!?). lol

evanw appears to be Evan Wallace, the cofounder and CTO of Figma (!?)

Anyone have a good explanation for why someone hasn’t built a true replacement? e.g. a good, widely used flash-like tool that compiled down to a HTML5 bundle of assets?

I used to come home and say “Ok Google, turn on the lights.”

80% of the time my lights would turn on.

20% of the time, I’d be greeted with: “Ok, playing ‘Turn on the Lights’ by Future on Spotify.”

And I’d stand there in the dark, listening to music I don’t like, questioning my life decisions.

2FA that can't be bypassed with a password reset?

There is absolutely both a legal and a social contract in play here. That's not unusual, either. In almost any situation involving cooperation between humans, the participants are implicitly agreeing to a larger or different set of terms than may be specified in any legal contracts. These contracts are even sometimes contradictory.

If someone violates a legal contract you have the right to get back damages via the legal system. Similarly, if someone violates a social contract you have the right to respond via social means, for example, by writing and disseminating a blog post detailing your negative experiences.

Yeah, I agree that ghost likely hasn't violated any business/legal contracts. That said, they've certainly violated an implicit social contract for the behavior expected from service providers of their type.

So to say "The service did nothing wrong."... is correct but only in a technical, legally correct sense.

Excel may have failed in this specific task, but let’s not pretend like its functionality doesn’t run circles around Google Docs and LibreOffice.

Excel is a “pretty darn good” tool for 95% of tasks. If your work has highly varied workflows, then that flexibility more than makes up for its failures on the last 5%.

If you have very specific workflows on the other hand, you may find value in replacing Excel with a specialist tool. But let’s not pretend that specialist tools don’t also have their own shortcomings; at best they’ll achieve 99.9% coverage of tasks.

Maybe it’s just because I was raised on this ecosystem, but in my opinion the sheer amount of incredible functionality you get from all this tooling (at the low price of $0!) is worth 10-15 set-and-forgot files that don’t even show up when you type ls.

You guys do cool stuff! (If only you had been looking for hires a few months ago when I was looking for a new job :) ) To any developers who are interested in creative/artistic applications of code, give Active Theory a look if you haven't heard of them before.

Have each child make horcuxes of their horcrux :)

There's also the externality of increased load on emergency services and hospitals.

Still no, since you’re not _generating_ the image at the point of clicking.

That matters for two reasons, first because words and semantics are important, clear and correct communication is important. Second, the technology required to generate new paintings (cheaply and quickly) on demand is different from the technology required to generate a very large (infinite) number of paintings up front. They’re both interesting but for different reasons, and one shouldn’t be misrepresented as the other.

No. They could've just said something like "get a new abstract painting in one click" and used phrases like "never before seen". But as-is, their claim is just not true.

Realistically though, CBP isn't going to come after you if you're buying a few hundred bucks of apparel for personal use.

Hm, maybe it's just the SRE in me talking, but if major chunks of the internet being entirely inaccessible doesn't count as an "outage", what does?

As one would expect, it says "degraded performance" instead of "down" lol

From my perspective at a smaller startup (so YMMV) after switching to Datadog; the first thing I noticed was how _fast_ Datadog was. The queries and graphing capabilities were also really powerful. Or maybe I just didn't know how to use the old tools, but regardless it was super easy to pick up and do things I struggled with in Prometheus/Grafana.

It was also mind-blowing how things were integrated. For example. See a slow request? Click into the APM trace. Notice a service on that trace being slow? Click onto it, see what host it was running on. From there, another button pulls up all the Docker containers running on the host in that point in time. The CPU usage is visualized - and, aha! We forgot to set a CPU limit on one of those other jobs.

Debugging issues like that would've been nearly impossible otherwise, and we had more than a few cases of that.

Yeah, amazing, incredible tool but the billing is obfuscated to the point you almost wonder if they're intentionally trying to make it impossible to understand. Though once you realize there are a tons of hacks to abuse their billing methods and pay much less, it becomes apparent that it's just a case of Hanlon's razor.

For sure, the hard part isn't building it, it's getting people to actually use it. The amount of effort involved of actually acquiring and transporting a hardware security key is well beyond what most "normal" people are willing to do.

Plus, reading your example in a different comment, it's completely jarring to someone who isn't used to reading things in that format.

Seems like it would be a nice feature for security-minded folks, and would probably be pretty difficult to roll out to regular consumers. Does Mastodon have something like this? Sounds like something their userbase would appreciate.

How do you plan on managing the signing keys?

Okay, you're being sarcastic here, and I know this isn't your main point, but I think you're still underestimating how many of us actually have the time, resources, or know-how to make an 18 foot tall museum-grade painting

Yeah, that one word put a distastefully elitist spin on an otherwise excellent comment

Agreed, but I think it’s perhaps just an unavoidable outcome of human nature. (Apologies for the pessimism.) It’s my view that humans are most moved by emotion, and the easiest way to produce emotion as a politician is to play up a charged partisan issue.

Would love to hear alternative takes or solutions if anyone has them.

Maybe a statement that we can all agree on would be: _selectively_ fact checking implies picking sides?

I think it's a point of contention (colored by existing political views) as to whether or not Twitter is selectively fact checking here.

Hopefully this isn't too controversial, there's a lot of hostility already in this thread, and I don't want to contribute to it.

Agreed! I've started reading the actual laws and legal orders much more often recently. I'd already been in the habit of diving into source code when confused about how a (software) library/tool works, and I figured this wasn't all that different.

I've been surprised twofold:

1. to find out how often journalistic coverage is misleading or incomplete

2. to find out how often the legal text is actually fairly succinct and coherent, even to a layperson like myself

Agreed, I'm always surprised to see comments like the one you're replying to, and how often they're upvoted. I suppose HN tends to attract a slice of humanity that tends to appreciate casual social interaction a little less, even when compared to the tech sector as a whole. But in my experience transitioning from a very awkward asocial teenager (who would have shared such a view) to a slightly less awkward adult, I've come to really appreciate the trust and camaraderie you can develop even in the workplace setting. After all, humans have evolved to be social creatures and it's not random happenstance. There's tremendous value in being able to really know your teammates, to be able to rely on them, and to have them also be able to trust and rely on you in return. And a lot of that flows from basic social interactions that could be described as "chit chat."

Hm, I can’t claim to be an expert, but my first thought is that the logistics of transporting thousands of iPhones is very, very different from transporting thousands of cars.

Would it be uncharitable to suggest that perhaps that was the goal?