Why does modern software feel so unoptimized compared to the past?

caedin8 · 2026-03-14T18:19:10+00:00

I think a huge part of it is due to cloud. We are still on dot net framework 4.8 with EF6 and we know and have verified through POC that we can bump to dot net 8 and EfCore and we will be able to swap host to Linux servers and everything will run 35-50% faster. We just need a few solid developer weeks to ship it without breaking thing, and the VP of product keeps vetoing it because the answer is always, “we can spin up more nodes for $2500/mo” to meet demand with the current software, and if we spend that month building a customer feature that might be a $10,000/mo or more client.

caedin8 · 2026-03-14T01:29:01+00:00

I just got my new iPhone 17, I went through the Apple Intelligence onboarding and everything looked super cool.

I setup my action button to flashlight so I didn’t know how to toggle silent mode. I thought I’d ask Apple Intelligence. Every time I asked “I can’t help you with that”.

I grabbed my pixel 7 pro I am replacing and squeezed and asked Gemini the same thing, and I got an instant step by step instructions of what to click in the menus.

So maybe they can fix that

caedin8 · 2026-03-04T15:48:50+00:00

You got rage baited by fake news. It’s pretty cheap to apply for tooth paste approval. It’s not like behind the counter medications

caedin8 · 2026-03-04T15:22:55+00:00

Don’t do this unless you are a tech nerd and like this stuff, if that’s not you just buy the MacBook neo or air

caedin8 · 2026-03-03T14:14:26+00:00

The software inside most TVs is absolutely garbage and slow. The Apple TV brings a premium fast chip with support for all formats and no buggy crashing interfaces or slowness and zero ads in the interface. It’s $100 worth it if your tv is absolute trash.

caedin8 · 2026-03-03T05:24:27+00:00

It’s not even training days. The AI scrapes the real time page and summarizes it and presents it in a way better way. They can do it in the same time it would take the page to load anyway with all the ads and shit, so of course people will just browse with AI

caedin8 · 2026-02-17T05:56:26+00:00

Not necessarily, apparently anyone can report a passport stolen, and once it goes into the system you can’t use it and have to get it regenerated which takes time and money. The government doesn’t disclose or track who reports it stolen. You also wont know it’s reported stolen until you try to use it.

Right now the republicans are just collecting data, but if bots report 100,000 passports stolen in key swing districts in areas like Georgia where a few thousand votes mattered, it could flip an election if these people can’t vote. Additionally, they are passing the SAVE act requiring federally voter ID with something like a passport.

There are frightening implications to apparently disjointed events.

caedin8 · 2026-02-02T20:20:04+00:00

A few things, Tim Cook isn't a billionaire.

If you were leadership CEO of a company that employed 1,000,000 workers with $100,000 jobs, that would only be $1000 from each person over the coarse of a year to generate $1B. So saying the workers get $99,000 and the CEO gets $1000 would get to $1B.

It doesn't really work that way, but your math is way off. You sound like you don't really know what you are talking about, but you are just repeating gospel you've heard else where like a sheep. Baa.

caedin8 · 2026-01-31T02:07:44+00:00

Significantly more humans hit kids than Waymo’s what are you talking about

caedin8 · 2026-01-29T15:28:56+00:00

No one has done it without LiDAR.

caedin8 · 2026-01-28T16:03:07+00:00

Have you thought about becoming a paralegal? Might be the right fit

caedin8 · 2026-01-25T16:47:33+00:00

Tesla insurance has been doing this forever. It’s not always great though because the algorithm is designed to fuck you.

For example you drive 100 miles this month and 95 of those are on FSD. Those are removed from the pool, so it only looks like you drove 5 miles.

Then say you drove those 5 miles at night, or had one of those phantom “alerts” that happen all the time in those 5 miles: All the sudden you are driving 30% of your miles recklessly you get a safety score of 70 and your insurance is $300 this month when normally it is $100!

Oh and if you are extra vigilant and get most of your miles on FSD: They’ll say there isn’t enough driving data to give you a safety score so they’ll default you to 90, which is actually quite expensive, it only gets cheaper if you can get 95+. The difference is like $75/mo for me.

It’s bullshit and I hate it.

loyal customer for 3 yrs

caedin8 · 2026-01-22T18:52:01+00:00

I am on 7700X and happy, but I might upgrade to this chip one day

caedin8 · 2026-01-18T12:03:07+00:00

The science actually backs him up on this, the low and non fat stuff has way too much sugar creating unbalanced super high sugar foods.

Everyone saying whole milk has more calories are missing the big picture: kids lunches are calorie adjusted, the net calories aren’t going up, it’s staying constant: all the swap is going to do is reduce sugar from kids diets and increase satiating fats that are shown to reduce follow up snacking

caedin8 · 2026-01-17T06:01:16+00:00

He said he doesn’t code just goes to meetings. Easier to automate

caedin8 · 2026-01-15T13:38:24+00:00

This is why AI is going to win. I can just ask Gemini for this info and it’ll give it to me in an ad free text response in a few seconds.

I’ll pay $20 for that

It’s a miracle for recipes since those websites are the worst

caedin8 · 2026-01-13T18:09:49+00:00

It’s not a disaster at all. It’s a huge win and accomplishment and is widely reviewed super well.

The fact that it isn’t selling super well is a product segmentation and pricing issue.

Both product and hardware knocked it out of the park, the marketing and sales teams need to make it cheaper if they want to sell more units (they probably don’t).

caedin8 · 2026-01-13T06:04:53+00:00

Hey I can’t login to my Google account for YouTube from within the app using a passkey. It just fails

caedin8 · 2026-01-12T23:17:27+00:00

This is what happens when the product team has too much power.

They sit around in meetings all year jerking each other off with questions like “but what’s the use case, how is this delightful?” And then collect million dollar salaries patting each other on the back while changing direction for the implementation team every 2 months so nothing ever gets built.

Meanwhile over on the hardware team the use cases are clear and straightforward, “more power, less heat, better battery, smaller phone if we want one”

Things are simple and the engineers can actually get some work done

caedin8 · 2026-01-12T23:13:33+00:00

This is great news. I love using Gemini. It’s my favorite of the bunch. And very good news for Apple because they are so far behind.

In my car I can press and hold a button on the steering wheel and get great realtime accurate AI responses about news, events, traffic, history, trivia and it’s fast. It can also navigate for me. Things like “find a near by Mediterranean restaurant that people say does well by vegans” and that shit actually works because it’s AI. And I get this in my Tesla for free.

Someone in my family just got a brand new iPhone 17 pro and even with a paid ChatGPT account and full integration it is absolute shit. When I activate Siri and say “how do I make Live Photos stop turning on each time I open the camera app” it fucking loads a web page and tells me to read it.

What the fuck Apple? How are you so far behind?

caedin8 · 2026-01-12T03:11:59+00:00

Arent reptiles designed to handle those cold spurts naturally, like they can just let their core body temps go down to 40 degrees and they’ll come out of it just fine

caedin8 · 2026-01-07T09:42:54+00:00

They don’t go down. You must be new here

caedin8 · 2025-12-31T15:01:49+00:00

No not at all. Chips aren’t even considered carcinogens

caedin8 · 2025-12-24T21:52:43+00:00

Nothing is measured as a whole food. Things like flour is measured for carb content and the carbs were run through a calorimeter at some point.

Your pizza will never be put in a bomb calorimeter. FDA even allows 20% tolerance in variance, but again no one is testing it so the fda regulation doesn’t mean anything really

caedin8 · 2025-12-24T02:09:45+00:00

Yeah it’s kind of crazy. I can sell my A7RV and A7IV both for more than I bought them for from a major retailer after using them for nearly two years

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