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david422 commented on What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable   mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-ma... · Posted by u/inaros
mikeyouse · 2 days ago
This ratchet effect of partially righting the ship every four years followed by drunken sailors YOLOing further into a reef because the ‘responsible party’ didn’t fix things fast enough is unsustainable. No clue how it ends but it’s so much easier to destroy things than it is to build them, so the builders are always at a distinct disadvantage.
david422 · 2 days ago
> so much easier to destroy things than it is to build them, so the builders are always at a distinct disadvantage

Tangentially related, there was a local property nearby that had these large, aesthetic trees in the yard. The house was sold, a developer cut them all and flipped the house for sale.

Probably took 50+ years to grow, gone in an hour.

david422 commented on Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting   theregister.com/2026/03/1... · Posted by u/jjgreen
m132 · 3 days ago
From the article:

> These laws can, and almost certainly will, get worse. New York's proposed Senate Bill S8102A explicitly forbids self-reporting. The state Attorney General will decide how to enforce it. For example, to use Linux, you might need to submit a driver's license.

david422 · 3 days ago
Yes, I can see morons writing laws like this, and then it means that guys with guns can enforce it if they want to.
david422 commented on I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard   hawksley.org/2026/02/17/t... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
AuthAuth · 22 days ago
This is awesome but I still find it funny that he said he wants a healthy relationship with technology then goes and fits his entire house out with technology. It doesnt seem like any of this would really be useful as you'd have to enter all the useful data manually(calendar).

For example the washing machine. You dont need real time information because you know how long it takes since you've done it 1000s of times and it beeps. All these things are just managed in our heads subconsciously.

david422 · 20 days ago
> For example the washing machine. You dont need real time information because you know how long it takes since you've done it 1000s of times and it beeps. All these things are just managed in our heads subconsciously.

Actually, this is one example of home automation that works very well. My washer will remind me that wash is ready to move to the dryer, and stops reminding me once the washer door opens.

It means that a) I don't have to put it on my mental reminders, b) it works very well with anybody else in the family that does a wash and _they_ forget to move it to the dryer.

david422 commented on LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"   chainlift.io/liftkit... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman
tom_ · a month ago
Here's a tip: any time you've got before/after screen grabs, don't do this thing where you've got to drag a line to switch between the two, don't have a fade, don't have a sliding transition, or anything like that. Just have it display one, then have a single button that you click to have it immediately display the other. Then when you click the button again, it goes back to displaying the first one again. Click, click, click - and your eyes do all the work for you.

(Not unrelated: answer from Andrei Herasimchuk at https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Adobe-Photoshop-differentiate...)

Also: I can't work out which image is which. Taking the first image as an example: we've got MATERIAL-STYLE on the left, and LIFTKIT on the right. But what's the left? Does this mean that when you drag the line to the right, revealing the left image, you're looking at MATERIAL-STYLE? Or does this mean you see MATERIAL-STYLE when you drag the line to the left?

(This might seem like pointless quibbling, but this thing bills itself as the The UI Framework for Perfectionists.)

david422 · a month ago
I turned this into a game. Which image do I think looks better? Now I try to figure out which image is supposedly supposed to look better.
david422 commented on Anthropic is Down   updog.ai/status/anthropic... · Posted by u/ersiees
jscheel · a month ago
and every single one of them checked "I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet"
david422 · a month ago
A long time ago I was taking flight lessons and I was going through the takeoff checklist. I was going through each item, but my instructor had to remind me that I am not just reading the checklist - I need understand/verify each checklist item before moving on. Always stuck with me.
david422 commented on Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary   joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-... · Posted by u/linolevan
david422 · 2 months ago
> how do we get large text to scale at a lower rate than body text. It's great that the body text can scale up from 16px to 32px, but does heading text need to scale up from 32px to 64px? It's already huge. If you have any thoughts, please do let me know!

Android 14 has this in non-linear text scaling -

> To prevent large text elements on screen from scaling too large, the system applies a nonlinear scaling curve.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/features#non...

david422 commented on Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo   kasava.dev/blog/everythin... · Posted by u/benbeingbin
supermdguy · 3 months ago
How do you guys share types between your frontend and backend? I've looked into tRPC, but don't like having to use their RPC system.
david422 · 3 months ago
I do it naively. Maintain the backend and frontend separately. Roll out each change in a backwards compatible manner.
david422 commented on Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo   kasava.dev/blog/everythin... · Posted by u/benbeingbin
ChadNauseam · 3 months ago
Rollout should be within a minute. Let's say you ship one thing a day and 1/3 things involve a backwards-incompatible api change. That's 1 minute of breakage per 3 days. Aka it's broken 0.02% of the time. Life is too short to worry about such things
david422 · 3 months ago
> Rollout should be within a minute

And if it's not, it breaks everything. This is an assumption you can't make.

david422 commented on Tell HN: Azure outage    · Posted by u/tartieret
Jamie452 · 5 months ago
Currently standing in a half closed supermarket because the tills are down and they cant take payments
david422 · 5 months ago
IIRC, the grocery chain I worked for used to have an offline mode to move customers out the door. But it meant that when the system came back online, if the customers card was denied, the customer got free groceries.

u/david422

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