At this point their products have so little material that it may be better for the environment to buy an IKEA one vs decent furniture (from the standpoint of caring for the environment)

They can make lightweight furniture while not rasing virgin forests to the ground.

I mean, they even recreated an IKEA inside a dungeon and you have to navigate it and get the part to build your Kallax

Do you know if there is a way of pointing any of the hackernews phone apps to your site instead of the official one?

I don't personally use those apps so I'm not sure, but if they're open source I'm confident you could easily update them to work with my site. In case it's useful, here's the source code https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai

It does not have a license so it cannot be used though.

I will throw an MIT license on it rn! edit: https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai?tab=MIT-1-ov-file

Huh, perhaps there is a project to be done to consume the HN firehose and serve it AT Proto style from the firehose. HN mobile clients can then pick the feed they want. AI? No AI? Politics? No politics? Frameworks? No frameworks? Choose your own HN post feed adventure. Read replica esq consumption, writes (comments, posts, votes) go to the primary data store (HN).

You can do a lot of this stuff w/ the feed builder on hcker.news.

That's not very close to the argument they make; the claim (right or wrong) is that large corporations often use monorepos, and those are bigger than single-project repositories like used for open source projects.

Their claim is consistent with Google's experience, but somewhat at odds with (say) that of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD.

It's certainly not the case that no open source projects use monorepos, you are right that the BSDs do as well.

It's that those repositories are still orders of magnitude smaller than the ones that are inside of companies. Monorepos tend to be larger than polyrepos, due to the fact that you've got everything all in one repo, but that doesn't mean all monorepos must be truly large.

The real issue with the open vs closed bit is that features like "this subdirectory of the repository is only writable (or even visible!) to some people" is basically nonsense for open source, but valuable to a company monorepo. Their needs are just different.

You can lease it. We don't own the software on our phones, may as well not own the phone itself

What are you talking about? The same can be said about 59F (15°C) and 60F (15.56°C)

"One fahrenheit increment doesn't feel like anything"

At least Celsius are grounded in reality, should I be worried about ice? Just check if temperature is below 0°C. But hey you may need to check if your solution of water, ice and ammonium chloride is frozen, so I just need to check if below 0F. That's probably something you do often right?

theyre both grounded in reality because the represent real temperature conditions.

theyre both just arbitrary degrees though, since 0 isnt actually 0. they both have better alternatives too - Kelvin and Rankin. your criticism about freezing applies to celsius too. freezing is at a certain pressure and temperature, so both the 100 and 0 celsius only sometimes describe boiling and freezing

I stop using AI and do the job manually. I normally give AI one shot at the task. If it fails then it's not saving me any time

It is funny that there are people defending Google because "it's the law and they have to follow it" when Google is completely ignoring privacy laws around the world.

They could have done the same right? They probably even have a team specifically for evading the law

Yes, their legal department.

>Do you think Google has a team to maximize law breaking?

Just to get as close as money can buy.

They are called lawyers

What about all the privacy laws that Google is bypassing in Europe? They don't rush to apply those

I would need more information to comment on that. While I am pretty anti-Google and like to assume they are dragging their feet to collect more data, if we don’t assume the worst… I’m betting the changes to comply with new privacy laws requires far more effort and adding a label to a map.

Anecdotal, but in Spain kids don't take these tests seriously. I remember when we were in school we would ask if the tests counted towards the final note for the subject and they didn't so we would just basically finish asap so we could do other things.

And I think this wasn't a "just my class" kind of thing.

Interesting. On page 34 of the report there's this:

> Hasty responses (percentage of responses that are both incorrect and fast – average across reading items)

Spain is at 9.7%, which is a bit over 8.9% oecd average.

> in Spain kids don't take these tests seriously

Is there evidence for this attitude not generalizing?

I don't have any other evidence, but if there are any Spaniards here I would like to hear what they think

Spaniard here. Yeah, not surprising — there’s a bit of a cultural fondness for sabotage, or at least for deliberately messing with things that are "official" but somehow unimportant.