mlen

joined 1 year ago
[–] mlen@awful.systems 35 points 1 month ago

ublock is cheaper and actually works

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

[–] mlen@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago

That certainly is an interesting take. I never thought about it this way

[–] mlen@awful.systems 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Basically means that it cannot be printed and must be done by hand, which originally implied being signed with ink.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Switzerland requires "wet" signatures too

[–] mlen@awful.systems 18 points 11 months ago

Google has no maintenance culture. Maintenance is simply not rewarded. Instead in order to get rewarded one needs to launch new things to show "impact". At some point the only way to move forward is to deprecate some unmaintained features or the entire product.