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New comment by fishpen0 in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

fishpen0 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:27:37 +0000

This is exactly why on traditional gps maps I prefer it to be very very zoomed out. It's far too common that mapping tools make something like a sudden second turn invisible to you until it is too late to switch lanes.

New comment by fishpen0 in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

fishpen0 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:17:32 +0000

Apprenticeships in the US come with minimum wage and no to low benefits of any kind, often with no healthcare. If I want to switch from my job to electrician I have to forgo a living wage for multiple years to make that switch. Unless of course I am connected or related to someone already in the industry. The apprentice system is rife with easy low grade fraud where anyone already licensed can simply claim you've done work for them. Meanwhile people coming in from the outside fight an uphill battle moving from shuttered llc to shuttered llc struggling to collect hours that still can be verified years later

New comment by fishpen0 in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

fishpen0 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:46:57 +0000

Its also electrician unions fighting things like balcony solar (SB 868) and maintaining regulatory capture over licensing and certification to bottleneck how many people can enter the industry by forcing antiquated models like 4-6 year apprenticeships into a career path that could be 2-4 semesters of vocational courses and bi-annual relicensing exams. This keeps installation rates sky high.

New comment by fishpen0 in "The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You"

fishpen0 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:51:00 +0000

> cheap changes such as ramps

My aunt has MS. It cost her nearly $10k to have a _used_ aluminum ramp installed for her house.

She can't come to my house because the gap between the buildings that leads to my door is too narrow for a wheelchair and would require is to get two different building owners, who are not our landlord, to agree to have their building modified to make room for it. It would easily cost 50k+ to actually rebuild two buildings and the sidewalk into a functioning ramp that is the correct slope for a chair.

New comment by fishpen0 in "One item purchased, ten emails"

fishpen0 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:50:28 +0000

I do this. But I hit a wall with shopify. They only allow 5 email addresses to be bound to an account and only one account to one phone number. So now I cannot get tracking information from about a dozen online stores that at some point or another switched to shopify after I already made a custom email for them

New comment by fishpen0 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

fishpen0 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:47:38 +0000

In a real company? A private codebase at a minimum should still be getting regular security patching and dependency updates. Always eventually one of those updates requires some level of refactor. If I see a project with no commits, I run away.

New comment by fishpen0 in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

fishpen0 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:44:53 +0000

In practice this just stops victims from coming forward and deepens the cycle

New comment by fishpen0 in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

fishpen0 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:39:38 +0000

> But then your "lockfile" equivalent is just... a list of commit SHAs scattered across import statements in your source? Managing that across a real dependency tree becomes a nightmare.

The irony is that this is actually the current best practice to defend against supply chain attacks in the github actions layer. Pin all actions versions to a hash. There's an entire secondary set of dev tools for converting GHA version numbers to hashes

New comment by fishpen0 in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

fishpen0 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:35:01 +0000

It doesn't matter. We pulled axios out of our codebase, but it still ends up in there as a child or peer from 40 other dependencies. Many from major vendors like datadog, slack, twilio, nx (in the gcs-cache extension), etc...

New comment by fishpen0 in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

fishpen0 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:32:29 +0000

I think it stunted out. Outside of only the densest areas, maker spaces never really formed. The stuff remains accessible as a hobby only to the wealthy who can afford all these tools and machines in the majority of the country. I'm a nearly 40 minute drive to the closest maker space and I'm in one of the 10 densest populated cities in the country. The last city I lived in, the maker space was too popular and raised their fees so high that it is also impossibly inaccessible to most people.

New comment by fishpen0 in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

fishpen0 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:01:35 +0000

This pricing model will continue to incentivize them internally to not fix the hundreds of clearly documented issues that causes CI to be incredibly slow. Everything from their self-inflicted bottlenecking of file transfers to the safe_sleep bug that randomly makes a runner run forever until it times out. All of it now makes them more money

New comment by fishpen0 in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

fishpen0 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:38:05 +0000

This pricing model continues to incentivize them not fixing the hundreds of clearly documented issues that causes CI to be incredibly slow. Everything from their self-inflicted bottlenecking of file transfers to the safe_sleep bug that randomly makes a runner run forever until it times out.

New comment by fishpen0 in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

fishpen0 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:33:55 +0000

We are a ~20 person team who use private runners and this will increase our annual costs by ~12k/yr. This is a huge relative cost increase for us. If anything this hurts small teams that focused on expansive automated testing more than giant orgs.

New comment by fishpen0 in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

fishpen0 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:25:08 +0000

gitlab

New comment by fishpen0 in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

fishpen0 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:02:43 +0000

Not really comparable at any compliance or security oriented business. You can't just zip the thing up and sftp it over to the server. All the zany supply chain security stuff needs to happen in CI and not be done by a human or we fail our dozens of audits

New comment by fishpen0 in "Clone-Wars: 100 open-source clones of popular sites"

fishpen0 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:21:33 +0000

Yeah this is mostly the "build twitter in a day" projects that conveniently ignore the reason these companies have 10,000+ developers is the 99.9% of the software that is not the frontend that actually makes the company things happen at the company. The much bigger customers of many of these companies being the advertisers and the artists/creators who have their own interfaces and analytics and billing and payment tooling. The business rules engines and feature flags with tens of thousands of rules that allow any of these companies to operate in subtly different ways for customers in different states, countries, and regions with different laws for accessibility, fair use, and using and storing data. The auth and security layers that often have multiple interfaces for employees, customer classes, partners supporting native-auth, oidc, totp, developer tokens, etc... Apps for a dozen or more different app ecosystems on hundreds of device types from the obvious web and phone-based ios/android to the less obvious carplay, watch, roku, firestick, etc...

New comment by fishpen0 in "Apps SDK"

fishpen0 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:25:36 +0000

Right, but if you just search for "house listings" you find zillow and redfin and other stuff. Becoming the new word for "listings" will tie specific brands to our use of language in very interesting ways. What happens if I register my app to a common word. In this example, can I take "listings" and astroturf my app to the top? Is this a new DNS "buying all the domains" race?

New comment by fishpen0 in "Apps SDK"

fishpen0 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:16:42 +0000

It's actually hilarious to think of a scene where all the people on the bridge are shouting over each other trying to get the ship to do anything at all.

Maybe this is how we all get our own offices again and the open floor plan dies.

New comment by fishpen0 in "What's happening to reading?"

fishpen0 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:27:48 +0000

But not in paragraphs. Their written language in those forums is short form sentences that are a mix of emojis and almost randomly inserted words that are more akin to honorifics sprinkled in to convey tone "no cap" "frfr"

New comment by fishpen0 in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

fishpen0 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:35:28 +0000

Bench seats are almost certainly not coming back in modern low cost vehicles due to side impact safety regulations. They aren't _illegal_ but its extremely difficult to meet those standards with a bench configuration and ironically probably why a budget pickup is less likely to have them. Cutting those corners by not having a bench at all is an easy way to save money in the design.

The hauling and towing is another one. Unfortunately batteries are much heavier than a combustion engine and take away from the total capacity of the vehicle. It's curb weight is 500lbs more than the 1998 Ford Ranger. Same thing, budget vehicle means budget suspension, so its weight lowers the capacity instead of increasing the cost of the suspension.