My pet peeve is when streaming services only allow me to watch something in the language of the country I live in. I'm sorry, but why? Why would I want to watch a 1988 movie with horrible German dub?
Readit NewsAlex_L_Wood commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
Alex_L_Wood commented on MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System worksonmymachine.ai/p/mcp... · Posted by u/azhenley
The more I look into MCP, the less I understand the hype. It's an OK API that describes how to fetch list of tools and resources and retrieve them, somehow this is supposed to be the standard for AI and environment communication, and...that's it? Am I missing something vital there?
> The inability of developers to tell if a tool sped them up or slowed them down is fascinating in itself, probably applies to many other forms of human endeavour, and explains things as varied as why so many people think that AI has made them 10 times more productive, why I continue to use Vim, why people drive in London etc.
In boating, there's a notion of a "set and drift" which describes how wind and current pushes a boat off course. If a mariner isn't careful, they'll end up far from their destination because of it.
This is because when you're sitting in a boat, your perception of motion is relative and local. You feel the breeze on your face, and you see how the boat cuts through the surrounding water. You interpret that as motion towards your destination, but it can equally consist of wind and current where the medium itself is moving.
I think a similar effect explains all of these. Our perception of "making progress" is mostly a sense of motion and "stuff happening" in our immediate vicinity. It's not based on a perception of the goal getting closer, which is much harder to measure and develop an intuition for.
So people tend to choose strategies that make them feel like they're making progress even if it's not the most effective strategy. I think this is why people often take "shortcuts" when driving that are actually longer. All of the twists and turns keep them busy and make them feel like they're making more progress than zoning out on a boring interstate does.
We all as humans are hardwired to prefer greedy algorithms, basically.
Alex_L_Wood commented on Figma files for proposed IPO figma.com/blog/s1-public/... · Posted by u/kualto
Maybe this will finally cause designers to ditch Figma. It's a fantastic tool for designers, but it's complete shit for developers.
Alex_L_Wood commented on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3r... · Posted by u/mattcollins
> and they believe god has ordered them to destroy you
Maybe, but obviously the other side thinks exactly the same.
Religious wars were lots of fun five centuries ago. They will be funnier still in the nuclear age.
Ah, yes, Israel famously publicly declaring that its' holy mission is to destroy Iran. Happened so many times, yes.
Germany is wild. You will get a knock on your door within hours of firing up a torrent client
What? No, you will not. You could get fined for seeding some popular stuff, but even then no one is knocking on your door, it'll probably come in the form of a letter, and even then it's not a guarantee.
Alex_L_Wood commented on Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax shipixen.com/tutorials/se... · Posted by u/tosh
I’m so disillusioned with cloud/serverless/Kubernetes these days. If I were building a startup I’d just build a monolithic service, plonk it on a Hetzner VM, boom done. You can start making money.
So many startups are bleeding cash because they’ve been convinced by AWS and others they need auto scaling and self healing from day one. Just build the thing, get it running, make it good later.
Honestly, same. I'm building a small BE for a small startup with a friend of mine, and while sometimes I have these urges that I should migrate everything to K8S / Docker Swarm, so far the setup with three small VMs of API server machine + ingress machine + auth machine with simple SSH deploy through GitHub Actions (that can always be performed manually, if needed) works fine. Is it fancy? No. Can I understand everything to the last details what happens during deploy and debug it? Oh yes.
Focusing on fancy infra now will just take a lot of time for little to no benefit.