this incompetent administration will harm everyone else & blame everyone else but not themselves
they do something illegal, are taken to court - lose in court - then blame the court.
I feel after a few iterations of them losing in court - they're going to start abducting / blackmailing judges and having placeholder judges who can make judgements to please them
What's ironic to me is that the Republicans have packed the highest court with their judges and still somehow don't get everything illegal action sanctioned.
The three who dissented for Trump on the recent tariffs case are but one of them his appointees, the other two having been there a long time. The one most frequently accused of corruption, Thomas, concurred with the majority. Trump's other two appointees concurred with majority.
So which of them are corrupted? Why did those corrupt ones vote this way in the recent tariffs case? The OP said "the Republicans have packed the highest court with their judges" and implied this should lead to illegal acts being judged legal, in a corrupt manner.
I'm tired of this rhetoric. The supreme court justices are highly competent legal minds who, in my judgment, judge based on their genuine interpretation of laws. I have read many of this court's decisions and listened to many of the oral arguments. Only Sotomayor seems in any way to sometimes argue with blatant ideology over law. The court leans right in matters of ambiguity because its constituants think in those ways. None of them are of the disposition to "get everything illegal action sanctioned."
in the wild Inline 6 (I6) engines have proved reliable and just going on regular maintenance
B58 (BMW) is super reliable & high performance
same as the I6 used in certain landcruisers & other Toyota cars etc
though now of course - with super cheap solar etc - if you can go electric go electric but if you've to buy an ICE car - yeah buy an I6 - fuel efficient & performance & reliable
I had an '89 Cherokee to 235k and sold it for ~60% of my purchse price after 6 years after garages only quoted insanity for the smallest things (Dad is a mechanic, but the commute there for repairs isn't feasible on the regular and apartment living is not conducive to the required garage/tools).
Dad has seen AMC I-6s go 400k before the transmission died and ended its run.
One of my old cars was a 1996 XJ (Cherokee), 4.0, and I sold it with 319,000 miles.
I still see it around town from time to time, must have 360 on it now. Original engine and as far as I know, transmission as well.
I ran it out of oil once without damaging it.
Since then, I bought two inline-6 Ford F150s from the mid-90s. I plan on running them forever. I bought two so I can learn to work on them, and have a backup to drive. Both manual, as well.
Jeep XJs from the 90s are still great cars to buy, so are the fords from that era (all the engines are reliable, but the I6 is starting to have a cult following online). I was working on that Jeep before I had any mechanical experience at all. It never failed to start.
From Toyota there are many greats: 1FZ-FE, 1HZ, 1HD-FT, 12H-T, etc
The Cummins 5.9L is excellent, particularly the 12 valve with P7100 pump. Awesome low end torque.
From Mercedes the M104 and OM606 are phenomenal. Powerful, efficient, incredibly reliable. The only drawback is the aging engine management software is not very well supported by aftermarket code readers anymore. In the case of an OM606 you can fix this by deleting the ECU entirely and installing an M pump from an OM603, or replacing the ECU with a DSL-1 standalone unit.
It doesn't matter to me personally if it's open source. (There does seem to be some binary blobs involved in their software according to the cryptpad dicussion link I posted above. That I do not like).
I only mentioned it because it is a "thing" even though it is not my thing.
then I upgraded to a 6a - overheating, battery exploded - google refused to change it coz it was bought in the uk - while I'm now in the US - as if I didn't trade my US bought 3a for a pixel 6a in the UK - some android version brought 2 photo apps - so I recovered some via the cloud - lost others
finally gave up and moved back to using an iPhone - transition was easy - I recovered everything that was left intact on my iPhone SE before switching to a Pixel 3a
Saturation of channels due to slop content - doesn't mean that created stuff is not scarce
there's more problems then ever before that need empathetic humans to solve - are you up for the challenge - or you're doing a quick cash grab
due to people using machine gun approaches - spray & pray - we haven't forgotten how scalable human touch is -- yeah at first - you've to do things the manual way - reach out have a conversation - but slowly word spreads around without you spending money on ads | content etc
Yeah 100% there's more legit stuff than ever, but there's also just more stuff than ever. So it becomes a discoverability problem.
To be honest this is what is discouraging me from writing more novels right now. The only reason I'm even considering it is because the love of the craft is hooked firmly in my gullet. Were it not for that I'd drop writing faster than a lava potato...
it's an own goal end of day - led by myopic thinking about foreigners stealing the jobs
a foreigner worker pays taxes, rent & other bills thereby contributing and circulating money in the economy
now if that foreign worker stays in their home country - yes - they might get paid less - but who losses overall ? the country that would've imported labor or the worker ? - it's always the country - hence why brain drain is devastating.
remember the foreign worker only gets a better life - but losses social connections, culture etc
the countries & companies wouldn't be sponsoring these things if ultimately it didn't benefit them & them only
I guess for the author's limited worldview - "apps" are only available through the app stores.
could be an unfortunate thing of the author growing up in an era of gated ecosystems.
however much of the software out there - is via web - and some desktop - some internal use - some external - some shit without ui - some billed yearly, some billed by subscriptions
but I guess tell us how AI is gonna kill subscriptions
Actually I've been making several webapps with AI lately, for things I've always wished for and can now selfhost.
At one point I had an idea I brought to AI, got ready to code it, then said "wait, someone has to have done this before me", sure enough, found it, written with warp!
So I can't say it'll kill all app subscriptions, but AI is definitely enabling people to finally make reality out of that idea they've had rattling around their heads but never took the time to realise.
As someone here with limited coding experience. I have built several custom applications that are too unique to be made by anyone. Now I can make several simple applications that do exactly what I need and want. It’s cut out hours of administrative work stuff I had to do. Do I share nope I gatekeep it at work. If only IT built these systems and databases to be easily used by us users.
The salient point is it is becoming easier and easier for end-users to create apps for their use cases, rather than having to rely on a developer, or packaged apps.
The implicit point here is that devtools-type standardization subscriptions are about to get juiced.
Think Vercel, Supabase, et al. Because most of the time agents prefer glueing together managed services than building from scratch, unless they're told otherwise.
And if I'm someone building a custom in-house solution to replace a SaaS subscription product, I'm going to pay lower managed costs without blinking.
Idk I was using Claude code this weekend to do some experimenting with supabase. Claude code had no issue integrating supabase into my application and even do the schema and rls setup. I think supabase is safe because it’s managed, has plenty of features, and the agents know it. That may be the key to saas survival, do the agents know about your service and how to integrate it into their work? …man that sounds scary just replace “agents” with “software devs” in my last sentence. It’s a crazy world.
I can come up with a few ideas that could work, but lately I have opted not to give my ideas out for free. I do think we are over estimating actual apps complexity given that Apple is strict about what goes into their app store. As for websites the complexity of hosting a vibe coded app is often overlooked.
That all said, I could see some killer features coming to AI companies if they really want to make a dent.
I think it depends on what percentage of apps need a website. Most users use apps on their devices, for me, I don't want to open another website when I need an App if it's avoidable.
However one thing as a founder, I have started to adopt the Israeli playbook - have dev team etc in Israel and sell in the US i.e green card startup
you can live in a cheaper location, while benefiting from a larger market that might not be your home market
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