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This author sticking around is far more than that community deserves. If I ever received that sort of message from a user of anything I'd built, I'd walk away forever.

So cool! Signed up to the waitlist, although I'm not in the US.

Oh, worst of all, the app owners still have to pay apple's cut!

I'm pretty sure EU apps can link elsewhere for payment, but they have to show a warning message first saying that the payment is outside of Apple's jurisdiction and you can't get a refund from apple, etc.

"Sycophancy" is up there with "hallucination" for me in terms of "AI-speak". Say what it is: "being weirdly nice and putting people off".

There is definitely a point where we need to stop assuming that people who are good at building tech companies are, by default, good at _anything_ else.

They might be, sure. But we shouldn't assume it.

I think this is a very interesting hypothesis. I hadn't considered the analogue of fast food. Solving one problem to cause another. I've never seen AI as a fix for a lack of human connection, and we should not as a society, IMO.

As the article points out, human connection is only valuable because it is hard and there's another human on the other end of the relationship. A perpetual yes-man or yes-woman on the end of an LLM could never be a reasonable replacement for human connection.

> In May 2023, Tract was founded to build software to fix Britain’s housing crisis.

I mean, they took on a heck of a problem. At least they tried, but I suspect it was an upward battle from day 0.

I wonder what the environmental impact of this would be.

A guide for non-US employees at US companies that offer equity would be super helpful. It's an absolute minefield, especially in Britain. I'd love to contribute that information to your guide if contributions would be considered?

I fundamentally cannot trust a searching system that includes a disclaimer that it can make stuff up (hallucinate) and there's nothing you can do about it.

Security arguments aside (apple has infinite money, they can solve any problem that they want to and they regularly solve harder technical problems than this when it's financially prudent for them to do so), this is hugely anti-competitive.

My wife loves her Garmin as it's just a better sports watch than an Apple Watch, no matter what Apple say, but the integration with the iPhone is poor.

It's about time Apple opened up integration with 3rd party watches. They could still vet it with human-reviewed capabilities, the same as they do with Tap to Pay with iPhone and Family Sharing APIs, but they choose not to.

Personally I didn't expect anything, I'm British. My point is more that it's economic ping-pong beyond the control of almost everyone except governments.

The US government is specifically to blame here though, of course.

True. Sorry, I thought that was implied!

I'm so glad that a spat at the upper echelons of governments are going to cause untold misery for millions across the world for... no discernable benefit? Wonderful news.

Sure, but that's an awful user experience. If you've got something useful, and long-form to say a _micro_blogging platform might not be the best place.

Since Elon took over Twitter, you can't even see a Twitter thread unless you create an account.

So if you use Twitter threads I, and many others, can no longer read it.

Brexit. It was Brexit.

I don't know if that's entirely fair. France is staunchly secular, more so than most of its European counterparts. I could be wrong, but I don't think you can wear a crucifix or other religious symbol in French schools either.

I always wanted a Tesla before Elon turned far-right.

Now I would never buy one. This is the "find out" part of the old adage.

I hate this and I love it. Good work.

The segmented view at the top of each of the screenshots is "modern" app vibe which tend to be SwiftUI. It was just a hunch.

The photos too. That kind of stuff with the text overlays is way easier to build in SwiftUI; especially in a tableview.

This is awesome. I was considering building something very similar, but great to see it already exists.

How are you building the app? The interface makes me think it's native SwiftUI?

It's very location dependent. All of the chargers owned by my local Council are currently 63p. Average nationwide is 53p. https://www.zap-map.com/ev-stats/charging-price-index

However you look at it, it's a heck of a lot more than charging at home. Intelligent Octopus Go is currently charging 7p per kWh overnight.

This is _by far_ the biggest concern. I own a home, but it doesn't have a driveway much like the majority of Brits which means I rely on public charging for my EV.

In the UK, electricity supplied to your home is charged at a 5% rate of VAT. You can also take advantage of cheaper overnight energy tariffs that keep the price per kWh down to £0.03-0.05. Public chargers will charge a minimum of £0.55 up to £1 per kWh which includes 20% VAT.

That'll need to change for mass adoption here.

All that free speech is a bit too much for dear Elon apparently.

This is cool! I remember receiving my first Pebble watch on kickstarter. I felt like I was in the future!

Disappointing, but hardly surprising at this point.

The idea that productivity will be improved by increased "supervision" is hilarious. It will cause the higher performers to start looking elsewhere; but perhaps that is the aim.

I think that world exists already. I've been paying for JetBrains licences for years because their value is greater than their cost.

You can do it without IDEs, nothing is stopping you. I don't think this is a new phenomenon though.

> Public school does come with a guarantee of failure.

I disagree, because it's demonstrably false, but I don't think there's a reasonable point of debate here. I'm sorry you feel that the state has failed so badly here.