Wouldn’t this be a side effect of everyone buying only indexes funds or ETFs?

Me and other millions of people are investing in our pensions every month and buying ETF (S&P500 or global) and indirectly buying Tesla stocks even if we don’t want to.

The system would need a big shock to cause the ETFs to rebalance and reduce the proportion of Tesla stocks that are part of the index.

I tried that, but this completely removes the transparency, and some apps look even worse and harder to visualise as it’s not designed to not have the transparency on iOS 26.

This could be significant improvement if Apple let us choose the transparency percentage.

The point 2 is an important one, I used RSS for years but had to stop using it as I was way too anxious trying to read everything.

I started using again, but I have a few rules: all the feeds only refresh once week; and any news feed (like hackers news) that generates too much content is purged also once a week, so I only have the latest one week articles.

In my mind, my RSS feed for me is like an old school weekly magazine. This solve the FOMO feeling of missing something interesting, but I don’t feel like I need to read something as soon as is published.

The lack of devs that understand the domain knowledge and the codebase will be the main issue.

I would say that the current capabilities of genAI is like a junior dev, sometimes even a mid-level. But one main difference is that a dev is slowly learning and improving and at some point will become a senior dev and also domain specialist.

If there is a codebase created by genAI, then it’s equivalent as if all devs left the company, so no one knows why some piece of code was created in a certain way, if it was part of the business logic or some implementation detail

I wonder if the codebase will be understandable at all.

You can most often “get used” to a codebase because they authors tend to stick to the same patterns in many ways, and they are somewhat coherent across time. After a bit you can kinda guess in what file is a feature implemented etc etc.

Will this still be true with ai doing most of the work?

Claude is really good about documenting what it has done. I’ve also had some good luck with “I’m interested in this part of the codebase please explain it to me” And “this part is not working let’s diagnose” I’ve been doing a lot of productionization of nontechnical vibecoding. And I provide a lot of feedback on best practices (one of which is to ask “is this best practices for security and data protection?”)

That being said there’s no replacement for a real knowledgeable human software engineer.

Minor annoyance, but just a few limitations and restrictions, after all you need a smartphone and internet connection.

So.. when paying in a store, you need to open your banking app in your smartphone, and if you’re in an area with bad cellular connection (inside a few buildings or in a countryside), you need to connect to the store wifi. Only then you can scan the store QR code and make the payment.

So a single payment can easily take a few minutes, as opposed to a contactless card payment which takes a few seconds.

My main issue with pix is the even more reliance on a smartphone for our day to day life.

When people say that Google Search is broken because the internet changed and it’s not google fault, I point them to YouTube search.

With YouTube, Google has full control of the platform and its data, there is no excuse for why the search is so useless.

I bet there is some product owner in Google that did some A/B test and took as “proof” that adding random recommendation in the search results increases engagement, and then got a promotion and a raise because of that.

I don’t think this is the correct comparison.

The iphone doesn’t just die after 5 years.

I still have a 10 year iPhone 6 and a 8 years old iPhone 7 both still working just fine.

Apple stopped releasing OS upgrades with NEW features, but they are still releasing security updates. (In this aspect it’s better than most (all?) modern TVs.

Those iphone are still working the same way as when they were released. The only issue is that some apps doesn’t works anymore.

So part of the blame is on app developers.

Sure, maybe the app needs some feature which the old phone doesn’t have, but more likely is that the company just can’t bother to maintain their app in older OS versions.

I still have an O.G. iPad 1 stuck on iOS 5.1. It’s essentially useless. The App Store is a ghost town. No software even exists that runs on it anymore, and the App Store doesn’t even let you download the last working version of third party apps. It’s just totally useless.

If I fired up my vacuum cleaner one day and it said “sorry, this device is just too old and the manufacturer just doesn’t want it to function as it did when you bought it” we’d have regulators jumping down their throats. But it’s a-ok to do with devices that rely on a software ecosystem…

Great post. I was also raised by the internet.

I have loving parents, but grew up poor in a developing country, surrounded by people that only care about football and soap opera.

If it wasn’t the internet and forums like slashdot or Hackers News, I would probably fall to conformity and the nerd in me would had died out.

Instead, my computer hobby became a really profitable job and now I’m living in a first world country and working on some really interesting things.

I requested deletion of all my data to 23andme, but they said they keep “Genetic Information”. Does that mean 23andme still has my “SNPs”? (I’m based in Europe)

Message I received by email:

> 23andMe and the contracted genotyping laboratory will retain your Genetic Information, date of birth, and sex as required for compliance with legal obligations, pursuant to the federal Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 and California laboratory regulations.

> 23andMe will retain limited information related to your deletion request, such as your email address and Account Deletion Request Identifier, as necessary to fulfill your request, for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, and as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.

Wow! If true then it’s different than when I was there.

The statement is pretty vague, and it’s hard to know what it means on a technical level.

The modern immigration is a lot different than in the past. Amsterdam, London or New York offered no support to immigrants, more like the opposite, where immigrants worked themselves to death in factories, plantation, mining, etc.

And modern immigration can split between legal immigrants with skilled professionals and illegal immigrants.

Europe is receiving a lot of ilegal economic immigrants with low education, doesn’t know german/french/italian/dutch or barely know English, and many are religious fundamentalist. What kind of innovation do you expect from them?

I don’t understand why Europe keeps accepting ilegal immigrants.