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As another poster mentions, this article fails to dig into the Buy Nothing communities, or even Facebook Marketplace. We actively try to get rid of the kids stuff as they outgrow them, and these are the two places we first hit up.
> I mean, I have a MacBook air with 16gb of ram and it's honestly working pretty well to this day. I don't do "much" on it though but not many people do.
If an HN user can get along with 16gb on their MacBook Air for the last X years, most users were able to get by with 8gb.
With a small local business, social media gives an audience. If you're selling anything visually captivating, it performs well in these spaces. We sell cut flowers on the side, so…
I don't ask these questions out of support of Instagram or Facebook, but I stop in there regularly because I don't know to learn a little bit about the greater community around me. My life is busy enough with work/family.
The cost of all this is being exposed to a lot of attention bait and I honestly don't like how I feel using it sometimes. But we've built up the social media ecosystem as a pillar of society at this point.
The main reason is we don't have a regulatory classification for a car that doesn't go to highway speeds but isn't a Low-Speed Vehicle (LSV), and there are safety concerns biased toward those things being on highways when they ought not be on a highway anyway (just like, for example, a bicycle).
Also from the Bloomberg article:
> The absurdity of deeming minicars unsafe while ignoring the danger of gigantic SUVs and trucks reflects a tragic blind spot of US car regulations, which have for decades conflated “car safety” with “car occupant safety.” The result has been an arms race of vehicle size, as well as a refusal to allow Americans to enjoy the myriad advantages that minicars bring to urban residents across Europe and Asia.
So they would fail high speed crash tests, but also wouldn't likely be in high-speed crashes because of the lack of high speeds………
The host was as taken by the sentiment as I was. It's so succinct.
I gotta say, the episode got me to try SocialAI — literally "what if twitter was just bots". And it's like yeah — this is what we've made. This is indistinguishable from modern twitter. It's a great place to talk into the void. The fact that we've made social media a pillar of modern society… idk. Hate it.
The rails adapter is up to date, sponsored: https://github.com/inertiajs/inertia-rails?tab=readme-ov-fil...
Lots of factors got us into this framework and transformer hellscape, and the 'people' that made is happen are right here. I'm not without some blame within my own organization for sure.
They aren't written down, set in stone, spec'd in any way, but for example:
* the idea of a hero image with a headline and a sub headline followed by a call to action is common on many SaaS product websites. * news websites all look very coherent, so they've adopted some sort of typographical rhythm just like they would in a print publication * the multitude of component libraries means advanced UI can be programmed with some readymade parts, diminishing the need to write custom CSS for something like an image carousel (for a trivial example)
We just haven't needed a lot of pure CSS in the modern era. A lot is abstracted away in frameworks where you can simply set variables to customize the look and feel.
All websites also kind of look the same now, which isn't the worst thing, but it definitely means less need to mess with CSS.
There are a million reasons to chose car x over y, but I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t have this vehicle for at least another decade.
I want labor to be paid, and I also want cheap clean energy. Help me square the circle.
But yes horns are for car-to-car.
Going with the flow has its advantages if you feel your position is relatively stable, as I do. Make sure you find purpose outside of your job to help with your mental health
Also search and retrieval isn't that bad anymore? Spotlight gets a lot right. Google gets a lot right.
Dystopian panopticon implementation aside, I just don't think computers are that bad at most things people use them for that we need a whole paradigm shift like Recall.
Until this technology starts doing things like reading my email for me and letting me know only the important things and I trust it to the point I can stop checking email, this is a nightmarish stopgap using screenshots and LLMs.
Bridgetown looks very cool.
For a JS environment, Astro is likely the sweet spot for you. I liked the few days I did some R&D on it. My team uses vite with static site generation, templates in vue bc the rest of the apps we build are in vue. Astro doesn't give us anything more that we need besides a content framework, but so much of our content has to be ported from old html and sprinkled with some functionality from time to time… its easier to make everything components.
It's comfortable enough too, but it took a while to make it so.