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Wow: the Sinclair ZX81 launched in the UK in 1981 for around £49.95 as a kit (£50) and £69.95 assembled, making it incredibly cheap, and later in the US as the Timex Sinclair 1000 for $99.95 (kit) or $149.95 (assembled)

Cheap for a 1980s computer, now pennies. Wild.


SolidQueue is great. Rails 8 is great. Monoliths are great. Most of the time.

Humans making the most of the situation they're in is inevitable.


"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome"


I maintain a few rails apps and Claude Code has written 95% of the code for the last 4 months. I deploy regularly.

I make my own PRs then have Copilot review them. Sometimes it finds criticisms, and I copy and paste that chunk of critique into Claude Code, and it fixes it.

Treat the LLMs like junior devs that can lookup answers supernaturally fast. You still need to be mindful of their work. Doubtful even. Test, test, test.


Can we see any of this software created by this amazing LLMs?


Postgres and Sublime user here. Life is pretty good!


MacOS/Safari User here. Stuck on 'Setting Up Your Account' once I've authorized it in the browser. /shrug


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45968731

  Why can I not authenticate into Google Antigravity?
  Google Antigravity is currently available for non-Workspace personal Google accounts in approved geographies. Please try using an @gmail.com email address if having challenges with Workspace Google accounts (even if used for personal purposes).
https://antigravity.google/docs/faq


I love how being a paying Workspace customer for a decade or more has actually locked me out of so many Google products and features.

Not that I have any desire to try this at this point, but it's always felt ironic.


Thanks. Actually did use my personal account and got the issue nonetheless.


Same


Same


To save others the trouble, it doesn't matter whether you use Chrome or Safari for the auth flow. It's broken on both. (I'm using a personal @gmail account.)


Had the same issue, have been able to sign in finally using a Google Cloud Identity (former Workspace) account by changing my IP via a VPN to Singapore. No idea why, but that worked. Tried a few other countries too, but only had success with Singapore.


Foobar2000… now there's an app I haven't heard of in (checks calendar) nearly 20 years. Glad it's still kicking.


It's still a wonderful piece of software and actively supported.


That depends. We got one paid for by the seller of our house and in the first year it paid for an HVAC repair and plumber. I renewed it once for $600/year and wound up getting our refrigerator replaced in-kind, probably a $1500-2000 machine.

I decided my luck had run out and so I _did not_ renew it again, and we haven't had any other issues that _would have been covered_ since then, so I think I played my cards right.

I don't think they are a scam, but they are an insurance product, and insurance products have a lot of detail that need to be understood before you can decide whether it meets your needs or not. It's not a panacea to home-ownership woes.


Problem is most of them are paid for by the seller who doesn't care about customer service. If your HVAC really was bad they will replace it when they must, but their incentive is to do the cheap repairs as long as possible, instead of the expensive do it right: hoping that eventually you give up and replace it yourself.

If people regularly paid for the yearly subscription they would have incentive to service the customer, but this would increase their costs and most people are not willing to pay the true yearly costs.


This. I work in Pharma. Excel and faxes.


same same


Another filthy casual checking in. Let the kids churn, the froth rises to the top and anyway .. I've got a straw.


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