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Nah. It's a huge mistake, yes. But it's not the biggest.

The biggest is overconfidence in AI coding solutions and attempting to replace programmers, while adding a huge expensive dependency on a third party to provide access to the AI models and cloud. It'll be some small schadenfreude consolation when these companies are shaken down by the enshittification of those AI providers.

no. China. Next question.

I couldn't even make it past the implication that meta ray-bans (which do not have a display) would be useful for receiving AI advice on coding.

I, personally, am very much going to push back against pair programming as a default. Being "on" all day, interacting with people is completely exhausting. Yes, I've tried it. I can do pairing for an hour or two, then I'm pretty much shot for any social interaction for the rest of the day. Including at home, which is a problem.

TDD sounds great in theory, but in practice most of the time the requests from PMs are incomplete. They may have the happy path mostly figured out, but they have usually given zero thought to corner cases, error conditions, or second order effects. You can't write meaningful tests for these (the most valuable cases to test!) until you go a few rounds of iteration with the PM. And generally you can't explain it to the PM without at least a mockup of the situation. It's often faster to create a barebones implementation to demo than it is to create visual mockups that convey the complexity. And then you've written your implementation before the test anyway.

For my game, I do have a web version, but I also have native apps, because the web monetization path is just not as smooth as native.

I chose Flutter because I like Dart far more than TypeScript/JavaScript. AdMob doesn't support web. Of course there is a Google Web ads solution, but Google's "significant content" evaluator doesn't see any Flutter content, so you have to add a bunch of useless text to use web ads. In-app purchases are fairly easy compared to getting Stripe set up, and for the user far more usable.

I'd LOVE to stop dealing with app stores and the 15% tax, and iOS entirely, but it's not a good user experience.

Of course, I could choose not to monetize at all, but I would like to get something for my efforts, at least enough to support its own running costs.

Trump and cronies will absolutely wreck market stability. There will be actual shortages of basic products. But they will not be acknowledged as mistakes since the companies will be able to price gouge and maintain profits.

There will be at more attempts at more CEO and billionaire murders. They will use propaganda and media manipulation to muddle the grassroots approval of similar action, and change the narrative around Luigi.

Everything will get more expensive. More layoffs. Most people will have to work much harder for much less, but it'll be okay because number will go up.

Yes, please make youtube videos easier to search through. And then turn the relevant bits into text with maybe a couple of still images. You know, web pages.

I'm really glad to hear a car exec explicitly state his opinions on this. Now I know that Rivian is dedicated to producing a product that I would absolutely hate to use, and I can eliminate them from my future car purchasing searches.

it does not.

I skimmed the article, but the only metric I saw mentioned was that "traffic jams were eliminated". What metrics do the hypothetical robocars improve?

I ask because time-to-destination is not the only metric I find myself caring about. I will often choose a much longer, scenic, route instead of the congested highway even though it adds 10 (estimated) minutes to my trip. But I'd rather be actively driving, moving through space and feeling like I'm making progress for an hour than sit in a barely moving queue for 50 minutes.

"streaming" in this case is like another reply said: transcriptions appear as I talk. Compared to not-streaming in which the service waits for silence, then processes the captured speech, then returns some transcription.

Is your Flutter library available? And does it run locally? I'm looking for a good Flutter streaming (in the sense above) speech recognition library. vosk looks good, but it's lacking some configurability such as selecting audio source.

Documentation severely lacking. I wanted to know whether this does streaming or only batch, as well as examples for integrating with Android apps.

While I agree with their aim and their reasoning on this bill with regard to the fact that it has been unacceptably weakened, I take issue with this quote:

"the core purpose of privacy: to ensure that who we are cannot be used against us unfairly."

No. Privacy is an end in itself. It is a human right. Falling back to economic justifications weakens the foundation of fighting for privacy.

I went from 5 day to 4 day about a year ago. Absolutely worth it, even with the drop in pay. I don't have the artist lifestyle, but I'm able to support my family on my income even so. That said, note that it's not a panacea for burnout. My current company is currently thrashing after layoffs and reorgs and general leadership incompetence, and I feel the siren call of quitting. Even in this market.

You don't have to have individuals working 24/7 to have things open 24/7.

I actually use codemagic.io which is free at my usage level. And amazing. Codemagic has repeatedly provided painless tools to work around Apple's artificial pain points.

Apple has its own unnecessary hurdles. Mostly around requiring xcode, which requires a mac.

But yeah, both stores need to be forcefully opened. They're sitting on their laurels inside their moats.

It's too bad that kombucha tastes like the liquid at the bottom of a garbage can smells.

What's the problem? I eat salt practically every day.

Shameless plug for my scrabble-adjacent word game https://markmywordsgame.com .

Think Scrabble on a hexagonal board, with territory capture mechanics.

I understand the author's point, sticking with what's comfortable and working.

In a sense, I'm doing the same thing, but what's comfortable and working for me is Flutter. I don't have any Apple devices to develop on (but I do have a work macbook, and can borrow my wife's iPhone), so to target iOS at all, I vastly prefer cross-platform. Apple still makes that artificially difficult in many ways. You can't even upload a build without xcode (mitigated by codemagic.io). My distrubution certificate recently expired and I spent a lot of time on the Apple connect site before realizing there's no way to request a new certificate without using Apple tools that only run on Apple hardware. It should be a button in the same UI that shows the certificate!

Anyway, without cross platform tools like Flutter, I wouldn't target iOS at all. Apple just takes every opportunity to try to leverage you into their ecosystem, and I'm not going to do that.

And now that the WebAssembly target is officially supported, maybe I won't bother anymore.

why?

Is Microsoft going to pay 20B to put Bing there? Would Apple users accept that? (probably, they accept every other abuse). Is Apple going to set the default to something else for free?

A previous coworker-friend who eventually became a manager practiced a shortened version of this, which I called an "open-face shit sandwich". He loved the term and adopted it.

Yes, a local-only always-on recorder/transcriber would be a killer product. Combine with a local LLM for summarization, and a simple search engine. But there's no way in hell I'm paying a subscription for this, or letting some 3rd party have this data.

It doesn't seem like this should actually be that difficult to build an open-source version of, modulo battery-life concerns.

What do you mean "we", kemosabe?

We should be moving the other way. Open, accessible, well-defined APIs, without price discrimination.

I do not want to haggle at the grocery. I want to be able to budget and anticipate pricing.

Looks neat, but the search is lacking a compensation filter. It's basically useless if it's going positions that won't pay my mortgage with no way of seeing that.

The free plan says it includes "5,000 function invocations / project"

I presume that's per month, not just 5000 free then pay up?

How does this compare to hosted AppWrite, which also lets you write backend cloud functions in Dart?

I do use google search, browser, and mobile. I do not use youtube.

Article was mostly about the Ray Ban Meta smart glasses as AR people can actually adopt and use now, vs Apple's AR you will be able to do at some point, but right now requires completely impractical and doofy hardware.

Personally, I'm hoping Brilliant comes from behind and laps everyone. The tech is not particularly ambitious (more HUD than AR), but the open source philosophy is by far the best way to go.