YouTube also added a shorts timer that does a more in-app version of this that you can set to 0 minutes to have it always on. It's under "time management" in the app settings. Can't do it on the website from what I'm aware.

Only thing that worked for me long term. My problem is mostly with shorts, so I didn’t want to have a global timer for the whole app.

For me it’s shorts and opening new tabs from the recommended videos on the one I’m currently watching… I usually never get to them though. Luckily I don’t have tab hoarding addiction and aggressively close all tabs whenever I realize I’ve got 20+ of them open.

I use YouTube in browser, partially because that already makes it worse… but still doesn’t stop the doom scrolling :)

I like these hobby languages just because they help expose and experiment with interesting higher level language constructs. Because of that, I don't really care if they try to sell me on the language or not.

As for your concept, I think this is super interesting. A language catered towards higher level abstractions that we use for web services these days is very appealing. The service and container constructs are particularly enticing.

I assume it's business people finding it to be a better "bang for their buck" implementation time-wise or lazy developers who don't use Firefox for their testing phase. I've seen it so many times. At a previous company, I was the only person using Firefox daily and I would catch bugs a few times a year during PRs for things that worked fine in Chrome, but not in Firefox. Oftentimes the suggestion was just to leave it because "who uses Firefox?"

I found that the newest opus and 5.5 are definitely close enough where most of the work I do could be done with either. I've seen small differences in planning which I feel like Claude does do better, but I think both products are close enough where I wouldn't be upset if one disappeared.

I agree with you, but I think most people don't. People generally hate paying for software and the $60->$70 standard AAA game pricing got a lot of people (my well paid friends included) complaining. Even if it was very clearly said that it is the cost of a well paid and respected team behind the game, I think most people won't care.

That's fine though. The value of unions is that they can force consumers to pay for better working conditions and prevent a race to the bottom.

Consumers usually are workers themselves so they also benefit from raising the bar of working conditions. Even if they don't like paying more, they are still receiving the benefit of living in a better society.

I completely agree with you, but I have found that the average person I've talked to about things like this refuses to look past the first thing they see, which is higher prices. If everything could go up and not just have people switch to the next lowest cost good with bad worker conditions, then that could work.

I'd argue GTA 6 is an inelastic good and people will play it no matter what, so I do think what you're saying applies here.

While yeah it's a thing that many people already are familiar with, I don't think it hurts to push out these concepts once and a while to help spread info to recalibrate those who hadn't learned these yet. I'd rather we have a bunch of articles explaining git specifics than a bunch of engineers that don't know the difference between git and GitHub.

I know so many people I went to school with and have worked with that _still_ couldn't tell you the difference between git and GitHub.

I'm not near retirement, but I have found that the side projects I work on have diminished quite a bit since AI took over coding. It used to be that writing a library for something like parsing ICal files was something I could spend time on, write, build out, and then other people could use. But now anyone can throw together a working version of it in a little bit. That's a good thing, but also it removes the fun of spending the time implementing it and creating something for others.

This makes me think of how boxed cake recipes decided to leave out the eggs because people liked to still feel like they were "cooking" for people.

I've found that it's pretty much split between if I have a landlord that's just a guy with a few houses vs a property management company. When I lived in a complex (cheaper than my current rent by a mile because it was in NC), maintenance would be over in a matter of hours. When I've had a single guy, it's often days (unless it's a truly urgent issue).

I'm under a guy that just manages 20 or so doors now and he's a good dude, but I have to wait a longer time, generally, like when my heat wasn't working at the beginning of the winter and his plumber had the flu. Luckily it wasn't bad weather yet, but I definitely felt the potential for strain.

There's an uncanny valley between "I own three properties in a 1mi radius and live in one of the units and will swing by after work" and "the company has fulltime maintenance employees" where maintenance is the worst.

I believe the Apple one is E2E encrypted so they physically can't give useful data. Thats the core issue with Oura here.

Apple's iCloud default is still to link the encryption key to your account password, with a bunch of extra steps if you wish to use your own key instead, just like Google does.

It doesn't really matter that the data is encrypted end to end if Apple backs up the encryption key based on a factor they already know (your password).