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Yeah, fair point. They're certainly trying to push it in that direction but so far there are still alternatives. I've seen age verification get a hell of a lot of pushback so that'…

Yeah, but you're not beholden to them. There are 100 different hosts you can use if you own your own domain. If a host changes in a way you don't like, just move your domain elsewh…

Why is it an issue? I don't care what other people do with their email.

If it's not deterministic you can never fully trust it. In a deterministic abstraction I don't need to audit the lower levels.

If you don't feel that's worth it you can use Gmail, yeah.

It's not just work meetings. This is being taken to healthcare settings, also.

Register your own domain and use that for your email, and you'll no longer be held hostage by Google. Takes almost no effort and will cost you a few dollars a month.

They're different goals though. Someone selling software is doing it to put a roof over their heads and money in their retirement accounts. If you straight up replace that with wor…

I wonder if you'd also be arguing for libre software to reject available funding? What's the difference? The Ruby on Rails foundation brings in a million per year: https://rubyonra…

> That's not "AI tries to design something". That's an AI that has been trained, by the prompt stack, to behave like a senior designer with a working filesystem, a deterministic pa…

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The only reasonable thing to do if you care about the longevity of your workflow is to build it around open-weight models. If you choose to not be able to get work done without Cla…

Not really. A person will eventually drink dirty water if it was the only thing available in a desert. There's very little competition for SOTA models. The models themselves also w…

Even if this is right, by responding to the public issue here he's taking on some level of customer support. A simple "I forwarded the refund request to the relevant team and you s…

> bad customer service seems firmly in the "better to stay and advocate doing better from the inside" category How about Anthropic agreeing to a $1.5 billion settlement for perhaps…

A real employee (bcherny) read the issue, responded that the bug was fixed, and then completely ignored the request for a refund.

So much of Apple's growth is anti-consumer. You can't repair your device. They're intently focused on locking you in as much as possible, making it hard to leave, and not by making…

> What’s not talked about is the long-term consequences of falling into these groups where excessive drug self-experimentation is normalized. Lots of people from the 2010-ish era o…

I only see this being the case for throwaway code and prototypes. For production code you want to keep long term it's not so clear cut.

> skimming through an alien looking codebase, scratching your head trying to figure what crazy abstraction the last person who touched this code had in mind. Oh shit it was me? Tha…

I wish more was being invested in AI autocomplete workflows. That was a nice middle-ground. But yeah my hunch is "the old way" - although not sure we can even call it that - is lik…

I'd be very surprised if they're not already doing this.

Design is very hard to verbally describe, and AI doesn't have good judgement on what is easy to use or attractive.

Yeah I'm not a huge fan of it, either. Well organized CSS is much nicer to work with. On the other hand, I'd prefer Tailwind to badly organized CSS.

Figma's stock has been on a sharp downward trend over the last year. This isn't a notice-able change to their stock price at all. They're down 30% just in the last month, with many…