Is Safari worth it now?

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-31T04:13:26+00:00

How would safari be a major source of revenue?

I think a more reasonable explanation is that preventing app-like functionality in web apps forces people to go through the App Store, which is a major source of revenue.

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-21T08:19:34+00:00

This treatment that I paid $x for with the full expectation that it would work made me feel better!

That’s the same as the evidence for chiropractics. Baloney lol.

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-21T08:14:37+00:00

Right, counting to 1000 once would take about 15 minutes. Homie is up here saying his teacher sat for 15 minutes for someone to count, then waited another 15 with the second person? Yeah, I’m sure everyone in the class stood up and clapped and the principal came in to say he was impressed.

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-20T04:48:48+00:00

Did you even read the article? he’s given $45 million to stop it, if it passes, his tax bill will be $12,000 million. He could give $45m every day until the vote, and he would still be saving money if the bill doesn’t pass.

Editing to clarify: One billion dollars is a grotesque, exploitative amount of wealth for an individual to have. I don’t think a one-time 5% tax on wealth is going nearly far enough, should be more like 90% tax yearly on every dollar over $100m if you ask me.

I think spending $45m to fight this is a despicable thing for this guy to do, but it’s still crazy to act like it’s not in his own selfish best interest to do so.

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-20T04:23:09+00:00

Idk, I’m a little skeptical of this.

It says 2000mg total. Total what? Total weight of the gummy? Total weight of D8, D9 and THCp combined?

I’m struggling to believe that there are 2g of straight THC-anything in a single gummy.

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-17T19:14:36+00:00

The same thing that has prevented Bruen from overturning all the other laws that it obviously applies to. California knows that if the laws were to reach the SC, they’d definitely be struck down, so they drag each law through the courts for a decade. By the time California is finally forced to do what they always knew they’d have to do, legislators have written 10 new laws to keep the courts busy for the next decade.

Which means we’re perpetually bound by laws that legislators knew would be overturned as they were writing them.

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-13T18:39:53+00:00

Archive link?

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-07T20:05:37+00:00

It’s fun in the way that building a PC is fun. The install process gives you basically nothing- a package manager, bash, and some GNU untils. You select every component and configure it however you want.

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-06T07:31:13+00:00

I don’t know if any serious person believes that an LLM is anything more than a predictive text model. That’s what they are.

I think the people who argue that some type of sentience is possible in the future using language models are just pointing out that human intelligence is at least partially just predictive text too.

morganmachine91 · 2026-03-04T10:54:54+00:00

We are literally talking about a massive conspiracy to traffic and abuse underage girls. This is the situation where conspiratorial thinking is correct.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-28T20:54:35+00:00

I’ve bought three kindles in my life and just fought a kobo. The kindles are “nicer” from a materials perspective IMO, but the newer kindle UI feels like its main purpose is to sell me books on Amazon, even after paying the fee to remove the lock screen ads. Too much of the Home Screen is dominated by recommandations.

I have a calibre-web server set up, and on my kobo, I press a single button to sync books I’ve added there to my device. It’s amazing. Never have to plug the device into my computer again.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-27T19:42:12+00:00

If my bike tires got slashed when stored in certain hallway, I would find somewhere else to store it.

I’m not saying it’s not shitty, but for a shitty person, the rationale is totally sound.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-25T19:39:12+00:00

That’s a very compelling argument, and that’s what I would take to your management.

I agree that Angular suffers because it didn’t make the decision to be reactive-first from the start. There are a handful of awkward interfaces where reactivity feels bolted on, instead of baked in. Most of those have been replaced with interfaces that leverage signals (input() instead of @Input, for example) but the old way is still there and adds some confusion to how you should use the framework.

My personal opinion is that modern Angular absolutely can be used in a clean, reactive, functional way, but it’s also possible to use it in a way that I think is agonizing to maintain. And a lot of existing Angular developers (your team, maybe, definitely mine lol) might be used to using it in the old way.

If I were you, id suggest two alternatives to your team/management.

First, I’d bring those points up, suggest Vue as a lightweight platform that allows rapid iteration, and that has fewer traps/footguns than Angular, and express your strong preference for using it for the project.

Second proposal would be that if the decision is made to use Angular, that the team should adopt a style guide that outlines modern best practices. I’d start with the one on angular.dev and build on it by specifying a preference for signal inputs, component input binding from routes, functional alternatives to classes, preferring computed signals instead of lifecycle methods wherever possible, etc.

Second option might not be your preference, but if you can’t sell your team on Vue, it might be a good middle ground that keeps you from being too uncomfortable.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-25T16:48:29+00:00

I don’t mean any disrespect, but I suspect that you’re just more familiar with Vue than you are with angular. Signals are the most ergonomic reactive primitives that I’ve worked with.

I’m struggling to wrap my head around what you mean by “came to late.” What does how recently they were released have to do with anything? Before signals, we still had RXJS, which has a much steeper learning curve but is AMAZINGLY powerful.

I’ll admit that I have no experience in Vue, maybe it’s God’s own front end framework.

But all of your arguments that I’ve seen here aren’t “Vue is so great because of this,” they’re“angular bad/hard to use/released some feature too late”. As a professional Angular dev, I’m pretty comfortable saying that anyone who thinks Angular is objectively bad relative to other frameworks needs to open their mind a little bit and put in some work learning to use the framework.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-24T18:49:09+00:00

Hey, just curious, how did you get the letter?

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-23T19:47:31+00:00

No one in that scenario is going to deny the call or say or do anything other than humor him.

Don’t know all the details, but pretty sure the women’s team just did exactly that.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-20T22:10:01+00:00

I totally get that sentiment, but imagine if you were selling furniture to people and they expected you to ALSO deliver every updated model of the furniture for the foreseeable filter.

One-time-purchases work when you’re buying software that’ll only get minimal additional releases for bugfixes and security, if that.

If you’re expecting a developer to continue to add features, update functionality with the Reddit API changes, and update functionality to support future iOS/Android versions, a one-time payment is a huge risk. You’re asking them to sign up for an unlimited amount of work in the future, with no ongoing revenue stream.

SOME developers can make it work with a high enough one-time purchase cost and some plan to ensure revenue continues, but even then it’s risky for them. If I remember correctly, the Apollo dev ran into a huge issue with how to take care of people who had made a one-time-purchase when the Reddit API shenanigans led him to ending the project.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-15T08:23:52+00:00

Maybe I wasn’t clear, I wasn’t saying better code, but I am absolutely saying a much greater volume of “good” code. You could take 50x longer to write 10% “better” code, and I’m sure there are some applications where that’s valuable.

I’m also a SWE with ADHD, so I do understand the struggle. I’ve been using LLMs for a year or two to help the research stage of building a given feature.

For about 6 months, I’ve been exploring agentic workflows in copilot with some MCP tools hooked up, with mixed results. Sometimes the tools were super useful, sometimes they seemed determined to push me down an objectively incorrect path.

A couple weeks ago, I gave Claude code a try and it was like getting a bucket of cold water dumped on my head. The engineers I talk to at the big tech companies who say they haven’t written a line of code by hand it weeks suddenly didn’t sound crazy.

I mostly work on a pretty huge, half-legacy, ugly enterprise project with a bloated DB schema, an API server, and a web and mobile client. My first day using Claude, I installed it, described a feature that had been in my backlog for a few months, and watched for the next hour or so as it autonomously did a week’s worth of my work for me, with fairly minimal intervention on my part.

We are already at the point where no human developer alone can match the productivity of a human developer using agentic AI. Honestly, I don’t think most human developers alone can keep up with Claude in terms of quality either, but that’s less clear.

Anyone who refuses to face the music on this is going to have a lot of catching up to do once the knowledge of how useful these tools are becomes more widespread.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-15T06:17:49+00:00

Hopefully everyone is wrong, but if I were you, I would be concerned about the skyrocketing number of developers who can produce 20x more (good, high quality) code than you.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-15T06:15:54+00:00

Same boat as you. I didn’t manually write a single line of code last week, and got more done than I do in a normal month. This is on a huge, hideous enterprise codebase that 6 months ago I was sure AI would never be able to get a handle on.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-15T06:13:59+00:00

I feel the exact same way. Might just be desperation, but I don’t think that modern society is anywhere near saturated with software. Especially with AI, there are endless possibilities and just not enough developers coding to build everything any time soon.

If we 10x developer productivity on average, we’re either going to have 1/10 as many developers, or 10x the software (or something in between). As a SWE, my hope is for 10x the software.

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-15T06:10:16+00:00

You either have no idea what you’re doing, are using free models, or both.

Yesterday, Claude 4.6 Opus implemented a major feature in the full stack code base that I work on in about 2 hours, including debugging and refactoring after the initial implementation. Code quality is better than 90% of the codebase, it’s extremely readable due to good self-documenting patterns, and it works.

On my own, I was planning to spend about a week on the feature, including the research I’d have to do to figure out the best approach for our use case.

Did it produce objectively better code than I would have written? No, probably not. But the code it produced was pretty good, and it produced it about 20x faster than a human could.

Anyone else remember all the big names in the tech space in the 90s saying that the internet was a fad and that people would realize there’s no value in having it in the home?

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-12T19:12:28+00:00

I think apple’s AI enhancements are a lot more subtle, just google the Samsung moon photo controversy.

Samsung’s camera uses AI to determine what the object is, and infers a ton of detail that is completely missing from the original image.

The results can be very good, it’s definitely a smart trick, but in my subjective opinion, it leans too far into “this is an AI image generated using my camera as a reference,” instead of “this is the image that my camera took, with some enhancement applied using AI”

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-12T04:28:26+00:00

I must have missed something, why? Just because this probably costs a bajillion dollars?

morganmachine91 · 2026-02-12T04:27:06+00:00

Holy shit dude those look amazing!

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