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New comment by namdnay in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

namdnay — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:10:24 +0000

That’s a strange argument. If my postman shits in my letterbox, is that proof that the whole concept of postmen is a bad idea?

New comment by namdnay in "Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)"

namdnay — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:15:48 +0000

Really interesting article, thanks!

New comment by namdnay in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

namdnay — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:42:04 +0000

yeah I think the key point is in your last sentence - maybe some people would buy Apple Music/TV without an iphone or an AppleTV? I don't think anyone would buy icloud without the hardware though. And presumably they're bundling applecare in the "services" as well :)

New comment by namdnay in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

namdnay — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:45:44 +0000

they're clearly not the main revenue drivers, contrary to Apple

New comment by namdnay in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

namdnay — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:51:23 +0000

the very fact that we're comparing apple, a (mainly) hardware company, to a bunch of software companies is in itself a measure of incredible success for Apple.

New comment by namdnay in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design"

namdnay — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:24:44 +0000

Yeah the author conveniently ignores the fact that the UX of Mac apps was radically different to that of PC apps, so it’s not that designers/developers were somehow more enlightened back then, it’s just that they were “on rails”

New comment by namdnay in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

namdnay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:50:00 +0000

yes, since apple doesn't control the content of the pushes it is sent by application backends. that can only be controlled within each app

New comment by namdnay in "Stop Sloppypasta"

namdnay — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:12:49 +0000

I've had exactly the same feeling. Since the beginning of time, it has generally taken more effort to build something than to review it. This is no longer the case, and it completely breaks some processes.

The quick solution is to escalate the arms race, and start using AI to filter the AI slop, but I'm not sure that's a world I want to work in :)

New comment by namdnay in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

namdnay — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:29:56 +0000

i think the discussion here is about performance/pleasure cars, where weight is a real handicap. not range or actual convenience

New comment by namdnay in "James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies"

namdnay — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:49:35 +0000

> direction of approach being random

is this specific to a country? I'm not sure I've ever seen a petrol station that wasn't one-way

New comment by namdnay in "Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals"

namdnay — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:47:31 +0000

if building up is bad for tourism, it kills two birds with one stone: more housing and less tourists who want airbnbs. so slowly build up until you stabilise the tourism at the level you want!

New comment by namdnay in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

namdnay — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:21:34 +0000

I don't think they're dying at all, they're just become yet another consultancy/outsourcing shop

New comment by namdnay in "Estimates are difficult for developers and product owners"

namdnay — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:55:12 +0000

> technically it is irrational

Only if your company operates in a vacuum, without investors or customers

New comment by namdnay in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

namdnay — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:39:50 +0000

That wouldn't explain the price here, since in your scam the whole idea is to buy cheap and donate dear. not buy for 139M

New comment by namdnay in "EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies"

namdnay — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:51:16 +0000

> prior commitments like the Paris accord were engineered to harm us while allowing China to dominate

Who engineered them to harm us? You’re saying there’s a powerful pro-China cabal that designed the Paris accords on purpose to harm us and benefit China? Come on..

New comment by namdnay in "US cities pay too much for buses"

namdnay — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:31:39 +0000

it's not a question of "offloading" it, it's a question of reaping the benefits of global competition

Would you really be better off if you could only buy cars made by US manufacturers? Did americans really lose out when Toyota and co arrived? Would Boeing aircraft really be better if they didn't have to compete with Airbus? Or would the incumbents just get lazy?

New comment by namdnay in "Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?"

namdnay — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 13:13:48 +0000

I don’t think that’s what we were talking about here - it was using AI to replace graphic designers at startups

New comment by namdnay in "Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?"

namdnay — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:32:02 +0000

Is it the same if it’s a human doing the learning? If I spend my youth looking at art, I’d any work I then do “theft”?

New comment by namdnay in "New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care"

namdnay — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:14:38 +0000

at or below 400% of the poverty level. so if the povertly level is 1k/month for a family of 4, anyone making 4k or less with the same size of family is included

New comment by namdnay in "The World War Two bomber that cost more than the atomic bomb"

namdnay — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 15:53:34 +0000

Even the cars are massive. A Toyota Camry is nothing special in the US, here it’s a big long car

And the Lexus SUV range stops at the RX in Europe, with 3 smaller SUVs under that