TobyTheDog123

Exceptions are not the issue, Ruby's inherent "cleverness" is. Whatever problems the original commenter has with exceptions likely stems from this.

I don't think that's what the commenter is claiming. I think they want to be able to sue the companies who indirectly benefit from this kind of spam, which is pretty ridiculous.

However, crypto has become such a menace to society that it's time that governments do something about it, if they even can at this point.

Can we please stop pretending that Ruby/Rails is in any way a good choice for software that needs to be safe?

I do understand that it is what it is and GitLab has to deal with it, but going forward, can we stop pretending a language and framework that prioritizes cleverness and hidden control flow is better than something more boring?

If I sound overly-annoyed it's because I have to work on a production Ruby codebase where I can absolutely see a scenario in which we have similar issues just waiting to be exploited, because someone thought seventeen layers of abstraction made the code super extensible.

What are the chances the United States (and others) follow suit? For startups, I assume most will continue to live on the App Store lest they force their users into two different experiences based on their location.

I just love how we can have a critical study about a failure that could have possibly led to the death of dozens if not 100+ people, a failure in something as routine and critical as flying in an airplane, and the article is behind a paywall.

We're getting very close to the point where the combination of the competency crisis and the greed crisis are going to start causing more people to think twice about doing things that were once common, like flying commercial.

Personally, I cancelled my flight later this month and am going to start getting in the habit of doing long road trips again.

Just-as-if-not-more dangerous? Maybe, but at least I have a higher chance of my fate being in my own hands (swerving out of the way of an oncoming truck vs being sucked out from a fuselage plug failing).

More inconvenient? Yep, don't care.

More expensive? Maybe, don't care.

Let them give you their gifts!

God, AI is ruining EVERYTHING.

Could not agree more.

Older generations wonder why younger generations are "quiet quitting" and using all this anti-capitalist rhetoric when in the same breath they're sending HR goons (great term for it) to do their dirty work.

It's funny that they're using peer-to-peer to literally mean sending payments from one person to another, rather than it being the technical definition.

I wonder if it's a marketing gimmick to make people think it's more libertarian/secure/private than it actually is.

But usually, when we want to build The Platform, it at least has some unique utility or offering that would solve a real problem.

But I guess that's just not the case here.

Am I missing something critical here?

Why would people want to send payments over Twitter (I understand it's X, but I'm using Twitter to emphasize that the product is still, exclusively, a microblogging platform with some audio features).

Is it to donate to personalities? I can see that use-case, but whenever I see these kinds of headlines it seems the vision to create an "everything app" means that "peer-to-peer" payments means adding something like Venmo or Cashapp. Do people add their IRL friends on Twitter? If so, why would they use Twitter for that sort of thing as opposed to Venmo or Cashapp?

I'm genuinely curious, but to me it seems like it's a play to get hordes of cash flowing into the platform so that X can rake in interest on it for use in their own debt payments.

...the product teams that are left after pruning should try to keep the most experienced employees, lay off the junior ones...

I think I know the generation the author belongs to

I wonder if it would be a good idea to move the whole HATEOAS thing towards things like desktop and mobile apps. Might be a fun experiment.