RUnconcerned (u/RUnconcerned)

RUnconcerned commented on Just Use HTML gomakethings.com/just-use... · Posted by u/speckx

mmcromp · 3 months ago

This isn't scalable for any kind environment with multiple services and teams. Can you imagine "actually the table display will be handled by the User service BE, we'll just inject it". The reason why people reach for react and js for simple projects is because that's what theyre familiar with at work (that or they're training in hopes of work), even when theoretically they could of used something way more stripped down

RUnconcerned · 3 months ago

There's nothing stopping an HTTP API from returning both HTML and JSON from the same endpoint. Just have the client send "text/html" or "application/json" in the Accept header, depending on what it needs.

RUnconcerned commented on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised socket.dev/blog/ongoing-s... · Posted by u/jamesberthoty

zachrip · 3 months ago

I can tell a lot about a dev by the fact that they single out npm/js for this supply chain issue.

RUnconcerned · 3 months ago

What other language ecosystems have had this happen systematically? This isn't even the first time this month!

RUnconcerned commented on Show HN: Omarchy on CachyOS github.com/mroboff/omarch... · Posted by u/theYipster

BoredPositron · 3 months ago

I skipped through the 38 minutes and landed on like 8 instances were he was switching themes/wallpaper and 4 showing of bash scripts that opens a webpage. It looks like all the fluxbox/openbox themed minimal desktops in the 2000s - function follows form. Feels really performative.

RUnconcerned · 3 months ago

DHH switched from Mac to Linux and is in the process of experimenting with his setup, but since he's famous within tech, it's getting a lot of attention. There's really nothing special about it.

RUnconcerned commented on Malleable Software mdubakov.me/malleable-sof... · Posted by u/tablet

ch4s3 · 4 months ago

Highly customizable configuration causes all kinds of problems in healthcare, and EHR customizations have actually killed people.

RUnconcerned · 4 months ago

In my first job I had to work with healthcare software and it horrified me. There is a standard for interop, HL7, but every system implements HL7 in its own special way so there are "integration engines" to massage the data so that they all conform to the same standard.

It's a gigantic grift.

RUnconcerned commented on A vibe-coding tool for serious developers appjet.ai... · Posted by u/alexflashdrive

alexflashdrive · 4 months ago

AppJet is directly integrated with GitHub and has a better understanding of your codebase, with more full-stack functionalities. It also includes all the deployment of your code and a direct integration with Supabase that Claude or Jules doesn't have.

RUnconcerned · 4 months ago

> has a better understanding of your codebase, with more full-stack functionalities

Can you elaborate on what this means?

RUnconcerned commented on A vibe-coding tool for serious developers appjet.ai... · Posted by u/alexflashdrive

ekidd · 4 months ago

> Common patterns: Modeling mutual exclusion, consensus algorithms, message passing, etc. Practical examples: From simple counters to complex distributed systems

I don't know how you composed this response. But it reads more like a laundry list of TLA+-related buzzwords than a response based on any kind of actual experience with TLA+.

TLA+ is a weird and obscure niche, easily obscure enough to give most models very serious headaches.

RUnconcerned · 4 months ago

It reads like they asked the AI how it could help and just pasted whatever it said

RUnconcerned commented on Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah) filfre.net/2025/08/roller... · Posted by u/cybersoyuz

reactordev · 5 months ago

MicroProse games in the 90s were next level. So many milsim games where you got to experience a crude 90s graphics recreation of being a service member shooting bogies.

I never could complete a mission of F-117A Steal Fighter on Mac System 9.

However, RCT was a “Minecraft” of its day without the support of the community. It was huge. Everyone was playing it. I wish modding was a thing back then. We would have gone crazy but then when you read how RCT was made - glad we didn’t have to do it.

RUnconcerned · 5 months ago

I'm not sure RCT ever had a modding community, but it's predecessor, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, did. TTDPatch[0] had several gameplay and quality of life improvements, but it was eventually superseded by OpenTTD[1].

[0] https://www.ttdpatch.net/

[1] https://www.openttd.org/

RUnconcerned commented on Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers theverge.com/report/71400... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

alias_neo · 5 months ago

The problem isn't trustworthiness, we know very well what's going on here, "privacy not included", the issue is that if another nation that's not friendly to you controls huge swathes of your infrastructure, they could use that access to cripple you should a "disagreement" occur.

With the kind of infrastructure that holds Chinese technology in the west, they could shut down entire power grids, bring roads to a stand still, shut down entire countries worth of networking, cellular networks and worse. This is leaving out the surveillance and data collection potential as it's not the topic at hand.

To be clear, my issue isn't with China specifically, but as a westerner, they're not a friendly nation (to mine).

The same of course applies the other way around, and I can imagine a scenario of other citizens sitting in their respective nation having this same conversation about western technology.

RUnconcerned · 5 months ago

As an european, the US doesn't appear to be very friendly to me, or rather, their friendliness is conditional on the EU acting like a vassal state (or vassal federation). The current US administration doesn't even pretend like that's not the case, but past administrations acted like this as well.

China seems very much like a more straightforward and predictable trading partner.

RUnconcerned commented on Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers theverge.com/report/71400... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

alias_neo · 5 months ago

We've already heard that there are kill switches in Solar PV equipment[0], networks with Chinese brands are to be considered compromised[1], I'm certain we can assume the same for Chinese brand EVs having remote control and/or kill switches.

It's interesting to see the non-response from governments over it so far; though there was recently rumours of an MoD ban on Chinese EVs but that seems to have been shot down[2] so far.

[0]https://londondaily.com/u-s-concerns-mount-over-chinese-kill... [1]https://www.itpro.com/security/cyber-attacks/all-us-forces-m... [2]https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-confirms-no-mod-ban-on-ch...

RUnconcerned · 5 months ago

Whereas devices made in the west are, of course, entirely trustworthy[0][1].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwal...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...

RUnconcerned commented on Anker is no longer selling 3D Printers theverge.com/report/71400... · Posted by u/geerlingguy

alias_neo · 5 months ago

> The jury's still out on cars

I don't know if it's just anecdotal, but I see a LOT of Chinese EVs in the England lately. Obviously nobody is buying them based on brand recognition or any sort of quality belief, brands nobody has heard of until now can only be on our streets in the numbers I'm seeing because they're significantly cheaper than buying something from a known auto manufacturer.

The one exception I'd say in the UK are MG EVs, which for some unknown reason some of my fellow Brits have some sort of affinity to as a brand.

I wouldn't dream of buying a JAECOO or BYD and everything I've seen online about their EVs absolutely suggest some at least morally dubious tactics, not to say the likely of VW haven't also had their hands slapped, but let's see how their fair mid term.

Side note: Recently got a DJI drone, have had some of their other camera related non-drone stuff, the thing is absolutely nuts for the price, DJI really are unrivalled.

RUnconcerned · 5 months ago

> The one exception I'd say in the UK are MG EVs, which for some unknown reason some of my fellow Brits have some sort of affinity to as a brand.

I have news for you about MG, it's been a Chinese company for almost 20 years now.