https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8vgxyvz6y9ro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50368911

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The OP is arguing that something should work by default without any configuration needed, and you're talking about building a bespoke tool.

This is a a very good and succinct summarization.

What I'm also observing recently also is that pretty much every product tries to expand to do things that completely different products used to do, and become a mega-product-for-everything. It's like a Zawinski's Law on steroids.

What kind of functions it has that can't be replaced by:

- walking a few meters and pushing a physical button

- waiting a whopping minute for coffee to brew, instead of triggering it remotely

https://github.com/martinwoodward

before starting heavy artillery with lawyers.

(Martin also often posts on HN).

- in Poland (from private medical companies used by doctors) with estimated 20M affected people (half of population)

- in France (from tax office), 678k people affected

With AI getting more capable, and with Russia escalating things, I unfortunately expect more to come.

"We're doing things at such a scale that we can't monitor it anymore" became a universal get-out-of-jail card.

All those problems just go away when branches are no longer files on disk.

I enabled it in setup script of one large repo I maintain; the main issue is the incompatibility with some people's personal tooling based on libgit2 (some git status tooling in oh-my-zsh), but people do find workarounds.

If you're not into cloud-based password/2FA syncing, Google Authenticator supports local export/import across devices via a QR code. For passwords, I use KeePass Portable / Keepass2Android + syncing between devices from time to time through a USB-C pendrive (The source of truth KP DB is on pendrive, and both phones work off a local on-device cache).

You don't need to have your phone stolen for things to get messed up. If your screen breaks, you can't type in a PIN anymore, can't unblock with a fingerprint, and you effectively can't access anything on the phone. ADB won't connect because screen is off, and you can't unlock / accept a new external connection etc.

Sometimes people abuse .map as well to do things that are not obvious (i.e. instead of mapping elements of an array to another array, they modify global variables in a for-loop fashion, and discard the result).

But reduce is abused more often and you always need to think really hard if e.g. the initial accumulator is passed or not (it's optional in some languages!), if a correct one is passed (when a compound type is used) and so on.

https://red-squares.cian.lol/

Also the vendors do not commercialize ADSL anymore since a decade ago or so if fiber is installed in the district.

When you join a new team, don't try to change team tools, processes etc. starting in the very first week.

Most things are the way they are for a reason. Your "obviously better" idea may lack the full context. Start with observing the situation, talking to people to build understanding and historical context, and don't jump to conclusions too early.

Sometimes you'll be right, and things are suboptimal and based on long-outdated assumptions. Then, it's great to change them and improve! Freshman eyes are great for spotting such inefficiencies, and "new blood" is critical to make the team well-functioning and to improve the legacy stuff.

But improving and rewriting everything all the time has a cost. If you do too much of it too quickly, the team loses the understanding of long-stable processes and things. You may become a bottleneck as the "last person who touched this" in too many areas. People also have limited bandwidth to support your "rewrite everything" ideas every day, while trying to move on with their tasks.

Don't hesitate to suggest improvements, but please be mindful about the volume - especially in times of AI where everything can be vibecoded in an hour.

Finally, some "objectively better" things have no business justification. Improving performance of a piece of code than runs once a month? There's probably 10 more important things to do in your backlog.

The users can obtain a token but then certain GitHub API calls are returning non-200 or empty responses. Anyone seeing something similar?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48718478

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(From what I was told, the thing in favor of a credit card is that the rental agency can put a hold on the security deposit for much longer than on a debit card: a few weeks vs a few days).