sandwitches

This particular brand of Hackernewsian condescension is unreal. I'd be amazed if it weren't so depressing. Please don't belittle someone's very real grievances like this, thank you.

Because AI bullshit is ruining everything we've ever loved?

Here's a good rule of thumb: any time you try to undo a billion years of evolution, there will probably be unintended side effects. Go to bed.

Shhh, you said the quiet part out loud!

If you're kidding, it's not funny. If you're serious, that's a joke.

Google "filibuster" and "US Senate", and then maybe you'll understand why your statement is in bad faith.

You don't find it a little unfair that doing something the government makes you do is so Byzantine and fraught with error that there is an entire cottage industry around doing it? When the only reason it's so awful is because of policy choices largely out of our control?

What if we deliberately slowed your car down, threw our hands up because "it is what it is", and then said you could fix it by paying $500? Wow, we solved the problem!

Will they cover the fee for the accountant to fix their own mistake?

It's almost like it's intentional.

I shouldn't have to explain why this isn't a viable long-term solution, right?

I see several massive I-beams in your argument that are buckling due to a lack of support. Mind shoring them up with sources, boss?

It's a common destructive strategy: don't outlaw the thing, outlaw or defund the thing's infrastructure. Can't outlaw abortion? Outlaw abortion pills. Can't outlaw education? Defund public school. Congress won't outlaw the IRS (for now), but they can bury budget cuts deep within omnibus spending bills.

Are you really gatekeeping a silly nonsense site?

Fortunately, people have already designed an operating system for you. You can either use it, or embed six more half-assed versions into a web browser and then ship that instead. Up to you.

So if you can't trust your developers to manage dependencies, and you can't trust them to write dependencies... why have you hired them at all? Seriously, what do they actually do? Hire people who can program, it isn't hard.

Some of us already have learned that lesson. Imagine how it feels to have to watch the same people touch the same hot stove over and over again. And people wonder why programmers quit and go into farming...

This is the end-stage of having third-party packaging systems without maintainers. This happens vanishingly infrequently for things like apt repositories, because the people maintaining packages are not necessarily the people writing them, and there's a bit of a barrier to entry. Who knew yanking random code from random domains and executing it was a bad idea? Oh yeah, everyone.

No, that's an insane workload. Your employer doesn't even deserve 40 hours, let alone 70. Jesus, people, live your lives instead of toiling for the rich people who will take from you until you keel over.

That's still allowed! :)

Cool, I can download 20 MB of JavaScript instead of 40. Everyone uses minification, and "web apps" still spin up my laptop fans. Maybe we've lost the plot.

The solution is to not use Kubernetes.

I have bad news about most SaaS products.

Please don't cheapen professional expertise in this way. The product is bad, yes, but why? Because the programming is bad, and the programmers are negligent.