It’s great to have non-US alternatives, but when non-US alternatives become extreme self-centered as EU tends to be(come), I start questioning if this a solution I’m willing to adopt.
Current direction “of protecting the children” will easily put a filter on what you will be allowed to see and find; censorship is just too easy to implement behind the closed doors
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user32489318 commented on The Worst Programmer I Know (2023) dannorth.net/blog/the-wor... · Posted by u/moonlessday
I’ve seen this urge the measure engineers with some metric.
My question is always: then what are we paying the line managers to do? Supervising (which includes evaluating) people is the main job.
Job happiness could be a great metric
user32489318 commented on A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car nytimes.com/2025/07/09/tr... · Posted by u/pseudolus
How does that hold up? If I return the car, the attendant inspects it, and I go home... then later I receive a bill about a scratch that the attendant didn't point out and that I cannot possibly inspect on the car... why would I possibly pay up? How could anyone litigate if I disagree and the car has been rented again?
It would make a lot more sense to scan the car immediately when I return it, point out the damage, and bill me right there. I don't think that is what they do though? Is the scanner in another location?
IMO this is exactly how it works without the Ai already. I have had a pleasure of renting a plentitude of cars all over the world, and would say that in 10-15% cases there will be reason to withhold or try to withdraw money for “various car damages”, “traffic violations”, “empty gas tank”, .. It doesn’t matter if this is pre-war Ukraine, spain, turkey, small company, large corp,.. Now they just have a tool for that.
Psa: in most places they would try to scam you by removing a small piece of trim (under the rearview mirror, below bumper,..) and on your return claim it as a damage. That’s why you need to take a video and pics while taking the car. This trick saved me probably tens of thousands of dollars by now.
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<< According to official records, the design for the bridge shifted multiple times over the past seven years, largely due to conflicts between the Public Works Department (PWD) and the Railways. The two agencies couldn’t agree on how to share land, and in trying to work around both railway property and the new Metro line, they ended up producing a final layout with an abrupt 90-degree angle.
I love that mindset. Europeans would have simply refused and 100 years later it would have probably been build after all legal has been cleared. Indians instead never say no. That's how you build software, so why not bridges.
You’re right but:
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2024/07/09/new-ghent-motorway-b...
Belgium has run into the same problem and they went on with it
user32489318 commented on I could not convince my k8s team to go AWS serverless medium.com/@dnsearching/h... · Posted by u/gpi
“A is better than B”. B is “bad, bro!” based on vaguely relevant reasons, therefore “A is the best possible solution”.
user32489318 commented on A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy nytimes.com/2025/06/26/te... · Posted by u/mitchbob
That’s a criticism of direct democracy, not republics; it’s been a known failure mode (and base case) for millennia.
The novel elements are social media and AI. I am increasingly convinced that ad-funded social media should be banned and/or tightly regulated like utilities are.
Ah yes, let’s the replace all ad-funded social media with state/gvn’t funded social media. That will be much better.
user32489318 commented on That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/dustincoates
Was it GoDaddy?
After each interaction with their reps, I’m inching close to start PleaseLetMomGo hosting just to fuck with them
user32489318 commented on Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing? · Posted by u/jupiterglimpse
Help others that were in your situation
user32489318 commented on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API? · Posted by u/meander_water
Sounds like extortion with extra steps? Maybe there’s a more charitable way to tell the story.
I assume he built his system and then onboarded the company as a client to it.
Possible issue here is the degree of separation. If he ever worked on the system before he resigned, or re-used some concepts of it, then I’m sure company would sue him and take the system for free.
I’ve considered doing similar for one corp I’ve once worked with. The corp used an obscure hybrid cloud solution, unfortunately, the cloud provider didn’t really understand the corps needs (governance,devex,monitoring) making it impossible to do anything basic without manual action from an administrator. Pretty solvable with a couple of APIs and a few dashboards