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yua_mikamion Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard

Imagine thinking IQ and understanding a cartoon correlates to intelligence or knowledge...

yua_mikamion Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook

Sadly they do get away with it.

yua_mikamion What's working for YC companies since the AI boom

I guess the problem is that you can't just ship updates over the Internet unlike software/apps, hence recalls for physical products.

yua_mikamion Human coders are still better than LLMs

The thing everyone forgets when talking about LLMs replacing coders is that there is much more to software engineering than writing code, in fact that's probably one of the smaller aspects of the job.

One major aspect of software engineering is social, requirements analysis and figuring out what the customer actually wants, they often don't know.

If a human engineer struggles to figure out what a customer wants and a customer struggles to specify it, how can an LLM be expected to?

yua_mikamion Making video games (without an engine) in 2025

Nah he's right, people are fed up of hearing about AI all the time, it's off topic here.

yua_mikamion Apple execs: Let's take a 30% cut of Uber and Lyft's membership programs (2018)

This is good because the more large companies that Apple pisses off, the sooner the App Store garden walls will come down.

yua_mikamion _Application.Run(Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object

Working without variadic templates is painful.

yua_mikamion Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card

Can't you just do nothing then manually submit the 230 hours? How will they actually verify it?

yua_mikamion Toyota to remanufacture cars up to three times in UK

Does this get around restrictions on new sales of more polluting vehicles (i.e. non-electric) after 2030?

yua_mikamion A routine gem update ended up creating $73k worth of subscriptions

It's such an aptly named database. They probably thought they were being funny when they came up with the name MongoDB but it's just sad when people have constant issues with missing data, breaking changes, security misconfigurations because of stupid defaults etc., the list is endless with MongoDB.

yua_mikamion Google fined €150M, Facebook €60M for for non-compliance with French legislation

I think punishments for breaking privacy regulations and laws should be applied to those who break the spirit/intent of the law and not just the letter. Otherwise it's just an arms race, when one loophole closes another opens.

yua_mikamion Leave Scrum to rugby, I like getting stuff done (2020)

Scrum stifles innovation. Whenever someone tries to introduce scrum to my team I just link them to DHH's thoughts on the matter, he sums it up far better than I could hope to: https://nitter.net/dhh/status/1196856292683350016.

"Carving up the work to fit into these little, disjointed stories that can fit within a oppressively short two-week sprint is just soul crushing. Agile was supposed to be liberating us from process, but its current incarnation doubled down on its alienation. Software developers and designers aren't happy doing assembly line work. Calling that work "stories" is the great con of much modern agile process. A story without a beginning, a middle, or an end is a shitty one. It's more like just a scene, shot out of sequence."