It serves to demonstrate that in most cases, "principles" are only a rhetorical device.
Yep. It’s just who/whom all the way down.
Readit Newsacheron commented on AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was jasonwillems.com/technolo... · Posted by u/at1as
While I laughed at the headline, it also fondly reminds me of reading Slashdot in the late 90s-early 00s, back before the Internet and programming and computers had all gone to shit.
Good luck guys. At least working on this for decades is less damaging to the world than anything people do at Google and Facebook.
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Follow the incentives. If I’m in charge of setting alarms, and something bad happens without an alarm going off, it’s my fault. If the alarm goes off and the operator ignores it, it’s their fault.
Vibe patching
acheron commented on The tech monoculture is finally breaking jasonwillems.com/technolo... · Posted by u/at1as
Tech was probably the most fun for me in the mid to late 2000s. Definitely a lot more fun than whatever the tech industry has become now in 2026.
Nah things were already going to shit then. Sure it kept getting worse, but that was well on the downslope.
acheron commented on Your app subscription is now my weekend project rselbach.com/your-sub-is-... · Posted by u/robteix
>There's huge benefit for software developers that do find themselves using many of these apps with active subscriptions to make their own, tailored for themselves, and cut down their spending.
I guess if you're unemployed or in an area with spectacularly low wages, and don't have any ideas of your own that seem monetizable.
>Most people will continue spending $1.00/month here, and $2.99/month there.
If I make 100 dollars an hour as a consultant, and I spend 1 hour to make a local version that never needs any updating on my part to replicate a portion of that functionality I get for $1.00/month, it will take me 101 months to see any profit on my investment of time.
Cut my pay in half and I still need 51 months to see any profit. It would be idiotic for me to waste 1 hour on that.
And let's face it, code when made is a cost center, you will have to keep it up to date (so as to not introduce security hazards etc.) you will never break even much less earn anything for your time.
Almost nobody can just arbitrarily decide to go make money in a given hour. You work 40 hours a week, you get paid for 40 hours a week, and that’s it.
acheron commented on Your app subscription is now my weekend project rselbach.com/your-sub-is-... · Posted by u/robteix
First of all, I’m skeptical about these being free. Time isn’t free, and the tokens to make these projects certainly weren’t free.
Second of all, all of these SaaS apps that don’t actually have a need for recurring charge probably should be paid one time. I don’t use Loom — I use CleanShot X and it was a one-time $30 payment and has a lot of great features I benefit from. I can’t reimplement it in $30 of tokens or $30 of my time.
But for an app whose use case doesn’t change and is recurring for no reason? Yeah there’s probably not much value in recurring payments outside of wanting to support the developer. I pay a lot of indie devs out of the goodness of my heart, and I’ll continue to do that.
But the value for “SaaS apps” without clear monthly costs should have always been under scrutiny.
Almost all software “subscriptions” are a complete scam.
acheron commented on Most renters shut out of energy-saving upgrades – study binghamton.edu/news/story... · Posted by u/hhs
And the tenants have to be moved out of the unit and housed somewhere else during some of these renovations, which is going to cost the landlord far more than $1500.
This article is silly.
Most Internet commentary about landlords and renting is very silly, yes.