Hovertruck (u/Hovertruck)

Hovertruck commented on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/... · Posted by u/mchro

rspoerri · a month ago

She was so focussed on it and started crying when we hid it after only a very short time. This is not normal a behaviour. This only happens with things that are very addictive (also for example sugar). I do understand that not everybody can do it like that, but if you can create such an environment it's much better for them (in my opinion).

Hovertruck · a month ago

My three year old would do the same thing if he was playing in his sandbox and I abruptly picked him up and carried him away from what he was doing though. In my experience managing transitions between activities is one of the most important things. If I let my him watch a video and I tell him "I'm going to turn off the TV when it ends", he just goes back to playing with his toys when it goes off.

Don't get me wrong, I think screen time can definitely be a problem. I just think it mostly comes down to whether or not the screen time is at the expense of something else more constructive.

Hovertruck commented on 2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal? xam.dk/blog/lets-make-202... · Posted by u/based2

jen20 · a month ago

I'm not sure I'd go so far as to claim it was definitely written by AI (after all, LLMs tend to write the way they do because it reflects their training material), but it does have a large number of suspicious constructions that suggest it could have been:

- "Look, I’m going to say something that might sound crazy...."

- But here’s the thing: there’s nothing stopping us...

- Emdashes. I don't believe that alone they are a tell for AI any more than they are a tell for the cultured, but in combination with other things, maybe.

- The question/answer style.

- The "It's not X, It's Y" construction.

This is all in the first sections.

Hovertruck · a month ago

I agree. The entire "The Path Forward" and "The Bottom Line" breakdowns at the bottom gave me the same impression.

Hovertruck commented on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw

robgibbons · 2 months ago

For what it's worth, writing good PRs applies in more cases than just AI generated contributions. In my PR descriptions, I usually start by describing how things currently work, then a summary of what needs to change, and why. Then I go on to describe what exactly is changing with the PR. This high level summary serves to educate the reviewer, and acts as a historical record in the git log for the benefit of those who come after you.

From there, I include explicit steps for how to test, including manual testing, and unit test/E2E test commands. If it's something visual, I try to include at least a screenshot, or sometimes even a brief screen capture demonstrating the feature.

Really go out of your way to make the reviewer's life easier. One benefit of doing all of this is that in most cases, the reviewer won't need to reach out to ask simple questions. This also helps to enable more asynchronous workflows, or distributed teams in different time zones.

Hovertruck · 2 months ago

Also, take a moment to review your own change before asking someone else to. You can save them the trouble of finding your typos or that test logging that you meant to remove before pushing.

To be fair, copilot review is actually alright at catching these sorts of things. It remains a nice courtesy to extend to your reviewer.

Hovertruck commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

nicksergeant · 2 months ago

Meanwhile, the only thing people really want from Rivian is CarPlay / Android Auto support, lol.

Hovertruck · 2 months ago

I hear this a lot and it's surprising to me. We have three cars in our family (two with carplay and the Rivian) and carplay always feels like such a downgraded experience compared to that of the Rivian.

Hovertruck commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

WaxProlix · 2 months ago

This sounds nothing like my experience, you should get that vehicle serviced.

Hovertruck · 2 months ago

Same, I've had mine for a couple of years now with no notable software issues at all.

Hovertruck commented on A race condition in Aurora RDS hightouch.com/blog/uncove... · Posted by u/theanomaly

gtowey · 3 months ago

This article seems to indicate that manually triggered failovers will always fail if your application tries to maintain its normal write traffic during that process.

Not that I'm discounting the author's experience, but something doesn't quite add up:

- How is it possible that other users of Aurora aren't experiencing this issue basically all the time? How could AWS not know it exists?

- If they know, how is this not an urgent P0 issue for AWS? This seems like the most basic of basic usability features is 100% broken.

- Is there something more nuanced to the failure case here such as does this depend on transactions in-progress? I can see how maybe the failover is waiting for in-flight transactions to close and then maybe hits a timeout where it proceeds with the other part of the failover by accident. That could explain why it doesn't seem like the issue is more widespread.

Hovertruck · 3 months ago

Agreed, we've been running multiple aurora clusters in production for years now and have not encountered this issue with failovers.

Hovertruck commented on TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning thenexus.media/tiktok-won... · Posted by u/natalie3p

malignblade · 5 months ago

Going to need some recommendations

Hovertruck · 5 months ago

Check out Majuular

Hovertruck commented on Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation help.dropbox.com/installs... · Posted by u/mercenario

ianstormtaylor · 5 months ago

The way Dropbox has mismanaged Paper over the past decade, and squandered so many opportunities in the productivity tools space, has been one of the most frustrating things to watch.

Dropbox bought Hackpad and launched Dropbox Paper a decade ago!

Paper was awesome at launch — so much less friction than Google Docs for teams back then — and had a good internal product team behind it, but leadership failed to see the potential. I think it's because the Dropbox founders were so consumer-focused that they couldn't envision how huge Paper could be in the productivity tools space. They kept framing it as an Evernote competitor, instead of seeing it turning into something like Notion.

Even when they finally seemed to understand that Dropbox was never going to be a B2C sensation, they kept acquiring "side product" businesses instead of ones that built on Dropbox's existing value. (To their credit, this was the zeitgeist back when they started — B2B was not cool at all, and the sort of B2C/B hybrid that exists now wasn't a thing.)

Meanwhile startups like Notion actually saw the opportunity and blossomed. And nowadays, even super-slow Google is releasing features like pageless mode, markdown support, etc. Such that Paper is almost irrelevant at this point, despite having had such a massive head start.

It's sad because I can easily imagine an alternate future where Dropbox understood what Paper could be, and invested in it alongside things like an Airtable competitor, to create a truly viable, and forward-looking alternative to Google Docs/Sheets/Drive, without all the baggage of being a Microsoft Office clone.

Hovertruck · 5 months ago

Yeah, Dropbox Paper remains the best pure writing experience I've ever used at work. I think Notion has a lot of nice features, but just writing in it still feels more cumbersome than Paper did a decade ago.

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ryan42 · 7 months ago

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Hovertruck · 7 months ago

My wife and I still say this to each other all the time

Hovertruck commented on How we turned the tide in the roach wars theatlantic.com/podcasts/... · Posted by u/tptacek

Hovertruck · 2 years ago

>> It's a transcript of a podcast.

> That's almost the perfect definition of "lazy journalism".

They produced, edited, interviewed multiple people including one of the people who worked directly on the project in question, and then provided a transcript of their conversation to make it accessible to a wider audience and that's lazy journalism?