software-by-committee: the bigger the committees in charge the worse the software they produce
Readit Newsnacozarina commented on Ask HN: Can someone explain why Meta makes such bad design decisions? · Posted by u/Desafinado
we ran bulletin board systems on 2400b dialup lines, played games, traded software and told bad jokes. the best bbs were ‘underground’, word-of-mouth, only avail on certain lines at certain times, you got login info after a f2f meeting. Some very good bbs ran on Amiga.
CCP fanfic?
I’ve got an idea:
Every city and county belongs to a state with a broader tax base. Every state is a part of the richest country in the world. I’m sure you see where I’m getting at here.
But rural America calls that “socialism”.
Volunteers getting together to serve the needs of their own community is thoroughly socialist, you are talking in circles.
Power plants use air too. Air & water like a real plant.
nacozarina commented on Workday project at Washington University hits $266M theregister.com/2025/12/1... · Posted by u/sebastian_z
I guess I have three questions here.
1) What happened to the days when universities published their own software, like pine from UW? It seems like Washington of St Louis, which offers a PhD in computer science, should have some students capable of writing a database to run the university.
2) Why have universities not collaborated to develop a modular, expandable system for running a university, instead of putting themselves at the mercy of Workforce, SAS, etc?
3) These same processes were at some point in the past handled on paper, for far less than $16k/student. At what point did the university so lose its organizational competence that the filing system (that's what a database is) ate the budget?
There exists a large well-paid army of tech sales ppl whose whole job is to make sure that can never happen.
nacozarina commented on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps? codemanship.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt
they are all around us, polluting our world with as many fake videos, lies, scams, and bs as it can be buggy-whipped into generating.
The industrial age was plagued by smog. And so shall be the Information Age.
hot oatmeal with some chopped walnuts & apple pie filling
canned apple pie filling is fairly cheap; rinse a couple slices off, dice, add at the end
a lil nutmeg, cream & brown sugar is nice too
nacozarina commented on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration ankursethi.com/blog/gemin... · Posted by u/speckx
> there are no billing caps or credit-based billing.
Was really curious about that when I saw this in the posted article:
> I had some spare cash to burn on this experiment,
Hopefully the article's author is fully aware of the real risk of giving Alphabet his CC details on a project which has no billing caps.
there's prob a couple ppl out there with an Amex Black parked on a cloud acct, lol
nacozarina commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
this is an egregious violation of their civil rights.
the law of unintended consequences looms large.