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robjan commented on Family Mart Designed Cute Teary-Eyed Stickers to Combat Food Loss spoon-tamago.com/family-m... · Posted by u/zdw

GaryBluto · 2 months ago

> In selecting the design, we created several illustrated designs based on the criteria of ‘being able to gain consumer sympathy

Do people really feel sympathy for cartoons of crying food?

robjan · 2 months ago

The article misses it off but you can see the evolution of the sticker on the FamilyMart webpage: https://www.family.co.jp/content/dam/family/sustainability/t...

robjan commented on The new calculus of AI-based coding blog.joemag.dev/2025/10/t... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

philipp-gayret · 2 months ago

This is the first time I see "steering rules" mentioned. I do something similar with Claude, curious how it looks for them and how they integrate it with Q/Kiro.

robjan · 2 months ago

"steering rules" is a core feature baked into Kiro. It's similar to the spec files use in most agentic workflows but you can use exclusion and inclusion rules to avoid wasting context.

There's currently not an official workflow on how to manage these steering files across repos if you want to have organisation-wide standards, which is probably my main criticism.

robjan commented on What if tariffs? swatch.com/en-en/what-if-... · Posted by u/Erikun

louthy · 2 months ago

> What type of watch are you looking for that they don't make?

I’ll stick with my Patek Philippe Nautilus 5811 [1], thanks ;)

Also Swiss btw.

[1] https://www.patek.com/en/collection/nautilus/5811-1g-001

robjan · 2 months ago

It's like comparing a Fiat to a Ferrari

robjan commented on European Union Public Licence (EUPL) eupl.eu/... · Posted by u/welovebunnies

torcete · 3 months ago

I wish there was a public licence that stated something like: This software cannot be used for weapons or any weapon development activities.

I imagine that many missiles, drones and other such devices use free software. I wouldn't want any of my software to be part of these weapons.

robjan · 3 months ago

There are many licenses with mortality clauses but they are general not popular because the ambiguity and "supply chain risk" of having such a license in a dependency tree tends to limit adoption of any projects that use them.

robjan commented on DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware github.com/duckdb/duckdb-... · Posted by u/tosh

ebfe1 · 3 months ago

Is it just me who think this could have been prevented if npm admins put in some sort of cool off period to only allow new versions or packages to be downloaded after being published by "x" amount of hours? This way the npm maintainer would get notifications on their email and react immediately? And if it is urgent fix, perhaps there can be a process to allow npm admin to approve and bypass publication cool off period.

Disclaimer: I don't know enough of npm/nodejs community so I might be completely off the mark here

robjan · 3 months ago

They could definitely add a maker-checker process (similar to code review) for new versions and make it a requirement for public projects with x number of downloads per week.

robjan commented on Code Is Debt tornikeo.com/code-is-debt... · Posted by u/tornikeo

rappatic · 4 months ago

This is a shortsighted way of seeing things. The first issue, though surface-level, is using LOC as a measurement. If Company A’s million lines of code are cleaner, clearer, and better-documented than Company B’s 100k lines, then in that case Company A would be better off. What I’m getting at is that the author means to talk about complexity, and is using lines of code as rough measurement for complexity. Code itself is not debt, the complexity engendered by code is.

Code is an asset. It is the product of software companies. Having more assets certainly increases complexity, but this is almost definitionally true. Imagine saying “the US interstate highway system is debt, because it’s complex and difficult to maintain.” The premise is true, but the conclusion is such a one-dimensional way of seeing things.

The AI stuff aside, in light of the above, what is the author’s thesis here? “For the same code, all else being equal, it’s better to have less complexity than more complexity”? Sure, true, but that’s a pretty easy and obvious point.

It seems this entire article could have been profitably boiled down to “make sure your AI coding tools aren’t adding unnecessary complexity to your finished code.”

robjan · 4 months ago

I'd say the software is an asset more than the code itself, much like an interstate is an asset rather than the concrete that it consists of. The quality of the concrete impacts the depreciation (reduction of value) of the asset and how much operational expenditure is required to upkeep the asset which would again impact the asset value. There's probably also a risk management angle which should be considered.

robjan commented on Nobody’s buying homes, nobody’s switching jobs, America’s mobility is stalling wsj.com/economy/american-... · Posted by u/sandwichsphinx

dismalaf · 4 months ago

Money only goes to the company to get reinvested when the company sells shares, so at IPO time, when an insider sells, when more shares are issued, etc...

Otherwise, it's one asset holder selling to another asset holder, usually at ever increasing prices. So yes, a lot of money is simply sitting in the stock market.

Now, some does come back in the form of share buybacks and dividends. That being said, the average dividend yield is significantly less than the long-run average (it's less than 2 percent right now, long term average is above 3%).

robjan · 4 months ago

When I buy a stock the seller gets the money. The money doesn't "go in to the stock market".

robjan commented on Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp greenstarsproject.org/202... · Posted by u/miles

gausswho · 6 months ago

Wait, is that true over regular email too? Say I have a back and forth one liner emails every few minutes? It's competent for the provider to throttle or block these?

robjan · 6 months ago

They do. All email providers have limits either specified or unspecified. It's usually a few hundred per hour and each recipient uses one quota.

robjan commented on The magic of through running worksinprogress.news/p/th... · Posted by u/ortegaygasset

4hg4ufxhy · 6 months ago

Typically trains are powered from above, and subways are powered from the rails. Perhaps this is the distinction, rather than running underground.

robjan · 6 months ago

Really depends on the region and any pre-existing constraints at the time of electrification. A better distinction is probably rapid transit (metro, subway, the Tube, MTR/MRT) vs commuter rail.