It's like they all vibe-coded all the new 26.XX OSs across devices.
I tend to ignore these kinds of things, but sometimes applications are unresponsive, lose focus, and iOS apps don't show the keyboard, etc. so I cannot take it anymore.
I wanted to open a file from the Files app on iPad, a PDF. It opened the Preview app, but it couldn't allow me to scroll through the file. I tried to close it, but, back button goes to the Preview app, not to the Files. Then closed the app, and from the Files, but again it kept opening this separate app, instead of the in-app PDF viewer, and I guess I have never seen a malfunctioning state or application flows in default iOS apps ever.
The new reminders app is a joke. It has weird things that randomly jump from date selection to time selection, and sometimes select random dates.
It's like, they did, `claude new-reminder-app.md --dangerously-skip-permissions`, and "is it working? working! release it!"
I know (hope) it's not the case, but, since the last few weeks, it feels it's like that.
- Eliminated complex caching workarounds and data pipeline overhead
- Simplified architecture from distributed system to straightforward application
We, as developers/engineers (put whatever title you want), tend to make things complex for no reason sometimes. Not all systems have to follow state-of-the-art best practices. Many times, secure, stable, durable systems outperform these fancy techs and inventions.
Don't get me wrong, I love to use all of these technologies and fancy stuff, but sometimes that old, boring, monolithic API running on an EC2 solves 98% of your business problems, so no need to introduce ECS, K8S, Serverless, or whatever.
Anyway, I guess I'm getting old, or I understand the value of a resilient system, and I'm trying to find peace xD.
Last I heard (~5 years ago), lambda@edge doesn't actually run on edge POPs anyway; they're just hooks that you can put in your edge configs that execute logic in the nearest region before/after running your edge config. But it's definitely a datacenter round-trip to invoke them.
Adding that much compute to an edge POP is a big lift; even firecracker gets heavy at scale. And security risk for executing arbitrary code since these POPs don't have near the physical security of a datacenter, small scale makes more vulnerable to timing attacks, etc.
I use this library in production; it has great tools and features that I couldn't find in Python, that I missed from other frameworks or languages. The only downside is that you have to figure out what is what from the code; the documentation is not good. But once you figure out the details, it's downhill from there.
We use this with the Litestar framework; there are things that I hate, but in general, it works out really well. Especially, if you managed to set up your services, repositories correctly, then many things happen magically.
Though I suggest anyone who'd like to "taste" these use `msgspec` as a serialisation library. We hit the wall earlier when we wanted to use Pydantic in complex schemas for serialisation, so we went back to msgspec. The downside is that msgspec misses the validation part.
Anyway, I recommend that anyone go beyond the regular SQLAlchemy.
I like the syntax `account = await accounts_service.get_one_or_none(*filters, id=account_id)` a lot.
I would acknowledge they have been lacking and if they'd reviewed them recently. If so, maybe see if they'd offer some improvement areas.
Do you have anything in mind in the documentation that you would like improved?
I am genuinely curious, why Jeep/Chrysler makes the worst decisions in the car industry over and over again.
Is this incompetency or this is really how they run their business?
I don't know how many years I have known these brands, but they are constantly in the news regarding bankruptcy. I am aware of the history with Mercedes, followed by Fiat, and now with PSA; it feels as though they are the lab rats for all of these foolish decisions and everything that has gone wrong.
I guess I'd hammer my infotainment screen if I'd seen such an ad.
I think in this particular scenario it's shortsightedness. They see this an instant increase in revenue without considering that longer term this will destroy their ever dwindling market share.
Many C*Os plunder the companies they work for, then move to another one. They don't care about the market share of the company they'll leave, no more than bugs care about a tree they are eating. They'll move to the next one. There is always a next tree, until suddenly there are no more trees nearby.
Because no one rewards long-term efforts. You are rewarded for short-term goals and, at best, mid-term ones. In an abstract sense, customers reward you for long-term efforts, but this is something no one will put in an Excel spreadsheet with financial voodoo calculations, except when you are the sole owner of the business.
Could this perverse incentive be rectified in some way? Perhaps by offering much of the compensation in equity that they'd have to hold on to for decades?
I have no idea if this is the case here, but one possibility is deliberate coorporate sabotage. Like planting "bad people" on the board or in key positions.
Either by competition or by hedge funds that want to short it into the ground ("cellar boxing").
The fact of the matter is there’s no replacement for a jeep. Not the grand cherokees and other “fake” jeeps but the gladiator and wrangler have no competition in the segment they’re built for. they can get away with a lot for that reason alone.
this response means you don’t understand the benefits of solid axles in off-road situations. one wheel goes up, the other goes down. google “jeep flex” and point to an independent suspension system that does the same.
Like how statism and nationalism is all the same and we could erase every country on the planet without making anyone angry. One-size-fits-all in everything from headphones to car choices to religion to law.
I like to point out that sufficient stupidity/ignorance can be indistinguishable from malice. Consider it the impact of people living within their bubbles or the result of enormous blindspots.
Jeep was bought by Stellantis, so I'm giving Jeep the benefit of the doubt. I imagine this terrible, horrible, no good idea, was their idea. The people with the money rarely come up with the good ideas.
Stellantis is working as a corporations of corporations AFAIK, and they’re free up to a certain degree. However, they have profit targets, and if you fail you’re closed down, again IIRC.
So, tracing that decision is a bit harder than it looks.
Yes, Tavares resigned recently. Hope they become a better company, but their "Revenue increase program via software enabled cars" and what Jeep did with it doesn't inspire confidence, for now.
I don’t know enough about cars or the Jeep brand, but a common answer to this in the general case is market segmentation. If a company constantly makes decisions that make their product worse for you, you’re probably not the target market.
Perhaps in this case it means Jeep can sell their cars at a lower price. Perhaps Jeep is already perceived as a budget conscious brand. The market segment they’re targeting may care about that.
Kindle does this with their ads. They are targeting a consumer with ~$50 of disposable income to spend on an ebook reader, who would rather pay that little and have ads. I’ll never buy a Kindle because not only do I not want ads on the screen, but they have also neglected their high end device which is the segment of the market where I’m at.
A decade or two ago Wranglers were the cheaper option compared to most pickups. They've been in decline for a while, unfortunately. They seem like fun vehicles.
comparing a jeep to other off road vehicles is not an equal comparison. sure there are other off road capable vehicles but the approach and departure angles, solid axles, disconnecting sway bar, etc.
a tacoma/colorado is not equivalent to a gladiator or wrangler.
Somehow y'all are getting it completely in reverse. Clearly ads in a car is going to alienate certain people, not appeal to them. That's the literal opposite of "diversity" and "inclusion".
You and I both hate the mere idea, but it's certainly an interesting idea and if it finds fans for one reason or another (eg: cheaper upfront price tag?) it's a good product whether any of us like it or not.
It is a car. Most people will spend a good chunk of time and research before they buy a car including researching things like maintenance cost, reliability and resale value.
100% - most people will buy the brand they had before or buy the car because they like how it looks or buy the car because of the price/special financing... probably like 1% of the people will do some serious research, the rest is like "imma pay $850/month, what cool-looking thing can I get for that"
I, on the contrary, see mostly very rational decisions around me. And the sample is pretty large: coworkers, friends, family.
First, people buy the same brand they had if they were happy with it and the price is sane. That's totally reasonable in my book; and not just for cars.
Those who lease do not care about long term reliability, since they replace cars in 3 years while all major components are under warranty. So they are more likely to try new things. Again, reasonable.
I am sure there are exceptions, but I know of no one who picked a fairly expensive car (and $850 per month is a lot for a car) and started with the budget. My 2c.
> First, people buy the same brand they had if they were happy with it and the price is sane. That's totally reasonable in my book; and not just for cars.
This is pretty much what the person you replied to said, just in a different way.
In my surroundings(EU), I see the opposite. Everybody buys their car only after doing serious research. Most people easily swap brands.
For most people, driving comfort (we have more/less kids or aging grandparents, so need a bigger/smaller car) is a primary filter. Next is cost, where people are very aware there is not only the price but also the fuel economy and the maintenance. People know very well the parking spots in the city are limited and polluting cars are not allowed in more and more cities, so also look at small size or good enough eco scores.
There are exceptions: People getting a car from work spend whatever money they can get, and rich people optimizing for status get a BMW or maybe a Tesla.
median income in the US is still an unimpressive 58k and a reasonably well-maintained used-car would still represent a significant chunk of their income over several years. it's a car culture, and people care about that stuff -- they'll shop around.
as to if they can shop and resist marketing -- different discussion.
Every company I've ever been at I've always worked side by side with people from good universities/pedigree. You'd be shocked at how stupid some people are. In fact, it caused a lot of imposter syndrome in me, like ... how did they make it that far? Are they a fraud? Am I? What is happening here.
I've lost respect for entire institutions, no joke. You literally will not believe some of the people they created.
Wow, I came to see the comments and saw mbanzi answering, and ohh, boy, everyone is hammering him. He genuinely tries to address concerns and questions, but there are many comments with plain intentions to create a flame. Good job on keeping a cool head and explaining the same thing repeatedly.
Congratulations also. Getting here and raising a significant amount of money is never easy.
Having read the cookbook [1], and wow that's a complex API out there. I can see that there will be a `Temporal Light` to allow us to do `now().startOf('month')` like calls.
I regret that I've chosen 16GB. I thought with the 1 TB fast SSD I could utilize the swap (also 400€ cheaper) and help Docker continue working seamlessly, but working with many containers and many tabs and App's open I can feel the sluggishness switching between windows. If I were to buy new, I'd buy at least 32.
