I think all programmers are like LEGO builders. But different programmers will see each brick as a different kind of abstraction. A hacker kind of programmer may see each line of code as a brick. An architect kind of programmer may see different services as a brick. An entrepreneur kind of programmer may see entire applications as a brick. These aren't mutually exclusive, of course. But we all just like to build things, the abstractions we use to build them just differ.

This is exactly the way I see it. You can always get better performance at lower levels of abstraction, but there are trade-offs. Sometimes the trade-offs are worth it (like building bigger things), and sometimes they aren't (it's a buggy mess).

For better or worse my 2018 iPad is stuck on ios 18 but I still get security updates.

Wait, what sleep mode issues are you talking about? I've been able to wake my ubuntu machine up using my keyboard and mouse. I haven't gotten around to testing steam link wake on lan though, I'd be disappointed if that didn't work.

Wonder about power usage.

I grew up in the 90s during a time where the only way to get software was from the local computer store. Pop the disk into your computer and you're running the software, warts and all.

Now that physical media is all but gone, computer manufacturers (both personal computers and phones) found it behooved them to essentially control the market with regards to what can get installed on your computer. Oh, and conveniently, they charge a fee for developers to use this "service," and take a percentage of what the developer earns by selling software on their "service." And somehow in the late 2000s early 2010s, it just became normalized, and somehow the term for being able to install software on a device you supposedly own became a scary term, "jailbreak."

Granted, jailbreaking was often used for piracy, but the fact that there needed to be a process at all confounds me.

My mom has an iPhone and she manages to install a bunch of weird things on her phone, like anti-virus software that almost certainly don't scan for viruses, but are all too happy to take your money to make your phone more secure. These are things that the App Store "service" should have guarded against if they were indeed doing their jobs and protecting consumers from bad software.

And, I wouldn't be surprised if she'd be locked out of her banking app eventually because [insert entity here] deems her phone too old to update her banking app. She's "following the rules" and still getting screwed over.

What alternative term would you suggest?

I think the telling part is that so many people believed it without questioning.

Like there's the oft-debunked "factoid" that says that the Windows Start Menu is written in react native... While the fact itself may be false, the fact that so many people readily believed it says a lot about the start menu.

If someone were to make a similar claim about something like HN was built in react then almost everyone here would instantly fact check.

I mean, I think it didn't even need an AI detection tool. Why would an Uber engineer who works on Eats have a badge that says Uber Eats? This would be easily corroborated by talking to any Uber engineer, like a journalist ought to do.

> I don't get the cooking pain or dinner problem

Wait, do you really not understand why people have issues cooking healthy stuff for dinner? I don't think the average person can bake a loaf of bread every morning, or cook a meal for a family of four every day.

Personally I tend to batch cook for my wife and me, but my daughter's almost gonna start needing to eat solids soon, so we'll have to cook for her as well. My mom also brings us a lot of food but not every family is fortunate like that.

Meals are simple — a protein (usually meat, but sometimes beans or lentils), a carb (rice or pasta, usually rice) and veggies (frozen). Make a lot and freeze it. I can't imagine cooking real meals for 3 people every day with our work schedules.

But not having time every day is not the same as just not cook right? I cook batches since uni from fresh ingredients and freeze it; thats 30 years ago and I still do. We always have so much choise just from that while it takes cooking 1 day a week but 10 liter pots of curries etc. Now I have more time and can do more cooking so thats a luxury. I get why people cannot do that, I guess GP their comment, to me, seemed more like a burden than just no time and I find that a difference. Many take the time to spend hours in the gym just to throw crap into themselves the rest of the time.

But yes, we do the same as you generally and we can always eat well. Getting up at 5 to bake bread and make new dough for the next day is not actually eating into anything for me and I enjoy the work and the smells. It is a luxury I know that and I could not do that when in uni but most other cooking I could and did.

There's bread making techniques that allow you to make bread multiple times a week relatively easily and quickly, even without kneading.

Cold fermentation allows you the bread to rise overnight, so you can take 20 min to make the dough the night before, and then let it ferment overnight. Then the next day shape it, wait for it to proof and bake it.

Some breads also can last days, even up to weeks, even for homebaked breads without any additives.

Like for example, there's recipes where you make the dough the night before, put it in the oven after you wake up, and it's ready by the time you go to work.

Chainbaker on youtube has lots of guides for all kinds of breads.

That's fair, and I'm not claiming rent disappears, or that nobody should ever earn money from operating rental housing. Some people will always need or want to rent, and providing rental housing is real work that should be compensated.

The distinction I'm trying to draw is between operating housing as a service and owning housing primarily as a financial asset whose returns are driven by scarcity and leverage.

In a healthier system, the incentive to own rental property would look closer to running a utility or a hospitality business: you earn steady, relatively bounded returns for providing a well-run service (maintenance, risk, capital deployment, tenant experience), not outsized returns from appreciation and from pushing rents faster than incomes.

People would still buy rental properties to earn income, but the business case would be built more on operational efficiency and quality of service, and less on financial engineering, tax advantages, and asset inflation.

Practically, that can show up in a lot of forms that already exist in pieces today: regulated or capped-return rental models, co-ops and shared-equity housing, community land trusts, public-private development, developer-operator splits, or tax structures that favor building and selling over hoarding and rent maximization.

So I'm not saying "don’t make money on rent." I'm saying a system where most of the upside comes from perpetual control of a scarce necessity will naturally concentrate ownership and make entry harder and harder. A system where most of the upside comes from creating, improving, and operating housing can still support rentals while keeping the door open for new owners.

Well, the primary incentive today, for most people, is a place to live. Profit just skews the preference on how that is accomplished.

I'm OK with a unobtrusive banner ad. I hate forced ads that get in the way of my flow (whether it's gaming or reading or work). I hate forced ads that can't be skipped.

I understand the reason for these (they often have an IAP that will remove ads, so the more annoying the ads the more likely folks will be tempted to buy it). But doesn't make it ok. I usually just leave a one star review and uninstall.