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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Tbh, I was more thinking about the $2600/m guy at the end when I posted that, rather than the comparatively more economical situations.

    Assuming he also needs to pay a non-significant amount on insurance, (maybe) road tax and definitely fuel on top of that—surely that can’t be economical unless he’s driving many hours a day, every day.





  • I wonder if the website did the thing where it lists their big customers like a trophy cabinet on the main landing page.

    It would probably make a good list of places to sell snake oil

    Also love that this is all evidence to back up the premise that building the happy path of an application is generally easy, one of the main skills in software engineering is ensuring the unhappy paths are covered sufficiently. I can say I’ve started a bank and keep people’s money in my wardrobe, I’ll be providing the service of holding their money—I’ll also probably get robbed sharpish because I’m not skilled in the kind of security needed to avoid that.



  • Not exactly what you’re asking, but here’s my 2 cents:

    I’ve had a couple of android tablets over the years and always buy android phones, but in my experience generally even a refurbished 3 year old iPad is a better experience than even the highest end android tablet.

    Unless something has drastically changed over the past couple of years, the biggest issue I found with android tablets is most of the apps are just enlarged versions of the phone app, with no real consideration for making better use of the bigger screen. This had the effect of not really adding much versus doing something on my phone. Nearly every app I use on an iPad is correctly designed for the screen size and consequently I make much more use of it.

    Google really dropped the ball on its tablet ecosystem and they’re not doing nearly enough to combat the issues.