fundaThree (u/fundaThree)

fundaThree commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl

Demiurge · 3 months ago

Perhaps it's a social sign for being one of the NYC local. They also referred to a person by a single name, further emphasizing they were speaking to the select few who would know what they were talking about.

If only they could also write with a heavy NYC accent, their comment would be even cooler. Forget about it.

fundaThree · 3 months ago

I live in DC

fundaThree commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl

listenallyall · 3 months ago

This guy is so cool, he uses the word "ratfucked"! Twice! Not just "fucked", but "ratfucked". Of course, congestion pricing was in fact implemented and remains in effect, so maybe not entirely "ratfucked"? Guess I'm not cool enough to understand. And because of his choice of words, people who are unfamiliar with this project don't even know what action(s) Kathy Hochul actually took that was/were detrimental.

fundaThree · 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfucking

I honestly have no clue what beef you have with me, or if you even disagree, but thanks for calling me cool.

> What was the reason she gave for not ratfucking it a second time?

Still waiting on an answer that it seems you might be capable of providing rather than acting like a dick

fundaThree commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl

philipov · 3 months ago

Westchester County and Long Island residents vote for New York candidates.

fundaThree · 3 months ago

Fair, I guess I have no clue who on earth would willingly opt into driving into New York in the first place.

fundaThree commented on AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/Fysi

fundaThree · 3 months ago

What is an "advanced" algorithm? How do you differentiate this from other algorithms?

fundaThree commented on Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016) theguardian.com/books/201... · Posted by u/benbreen

sillyfluke · 4 months ago

I think you should strive for definitive proof and also acknowledge that you will probably never get there.

To be honest, the title did seem click baity leading to one to assume there was a possible misreading of the era. But I think this should be unflagged because as foldr points out downthread [0], the family wanted the passages removed not some editors generations later?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43945450

fundaThree · 3 months ago

> I think you should strive for definitive proof

I think only mathematicians and computer scientists can deliver this.

fundaThree commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl

burkaman · 3 months ago

She delayed it by 6 months because she thought it would hurt some candidates in House elections, and then she reduced the fee by a significant amount when it did go into effect in January, but it's still working incredibly well.

fundaThree · 3 months ago

> She delayed it by 6 months because she thought it would hurt some candidates in House elections

Did she think that New Jersey residents vote for New York candidates? Do you have a link to the narrative?

fundaThree commented on Git Bug: Distributed, Offline-First Bug Tracker Embedded in Git, with Bridges github.com/git-bug/git-bu... · Posted by u/stefankuehnel

layer8 · 3 months ago

Some screenshots would be nice. I found this one [0] of the TUI from 2018, but not much else.

[0] https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/releases/tag/0.4.0

fundaThree · 3 months ago

TUI?

EDIT: "rich terminal users interfaces"

fundaThree commented on How friction is being redistributed in today's economy kyla.substack.com/p/the-m... · Posted by u/walterbell

jillesvangurp · 4 months ago

There is such a thing as negative value, if you do something that is a commodity poorly, then you are actively less valuable relative to competitors that do a good job of the same thing.

Most software development is a lot of low value commodity stuff that you just have to do properly just in order to do whatever it is that makes whatever it is you do valuable/unique/desirable. You can' charge anyone extra for doing this commodity stuff right. But if you do it wrong, your product becomes less valuable.

A good example of something that is both a commodity and a common source of friction is all the signup and security friction that a lot of software providers have to do. If you do it poorly, it creates a lot of friction, hassle, and frustration. And support overhead. It's literally costing you money and customers. Doing it right isn't necessarily directly appreciated but it results in less friction, frustration, and overhead.

That's why good UX is so important. It's a commodity. But there's plenty of opportunity for turning that into friction by doing a poor job of it.

fundaThree · 3 months ago

> There is such a thing as negative value, if you do something that is a commodity poorly, then you are actively less valuable relative to competitors that do a good job of the same thing.

I think negative value would look something like bombing someone. Negative relative-[commodity-]value does not imply negative value.

Also, software is not a commodity at all. There's no cost to reproducing it.

> You can' charge anyone extra for doing this commodity stuff right.

I'm not sure what you mean by "commodity". I think you mean "commonplace" or something like that.

fundaThree commented on Changes since congestion pricing started in New York nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/Vinnl

fundaThree · 3 months ago

I thought Hochul ratfucked this initiative for no apparent reason. What was the reason she gave for not ratfucking it a second time?

fundaThree commented on How friction is being redistributed in today's economy kyla.substack.com/p/the-m... · Posted by u/walterbell

jfengel · 4 months ago

I get the idea, and it's a pretty good one.

But the headline is really bad. It's not a commodity and it's not valuable. It is what creates value; it's what makes value meaningful.

Don't get hung up on the headline. It's a thesis equivalent to the notion that art comes from struggle against some kind of limitation. That limitation is usually arbitrary (the form of poetry, the rules of a game, the difficulty of oil paint and brush), but the result is meaningful despite and because of it.

fundaThree · 4 months ago

> It's not a commodity and it's not valuable.

Commodities only have the commodity-value (i.e. price); actual value (i.e. something's worth/weight/utility/what something means to you) is unrelated to commodification. Most valuable things in your life likely have no meaningful commodity value. Very much including the concept of friction.

If only commodities are "valuable", the word has lost all value.