danpat

> And you will never know code as well as a reader and you would have as the author for anything larger than a very small project.

This feels very true - but also consider how much code exists for which many of the current maintainers were not involved in the original writing.

There are many anecdotal rules out there about how much time is spent reading code vs writing. If you consider the industry as a whole, it seems to me that the introduction of generative code-writing tools is actually not moving the needle as far as people are claiming.

We _already_ live in a world where most of us spend much of our time reading and trying to comprehend code written by others from the past.

What's the difference between a messy codebase created by a genAI, and a messy codebase where all the original authors of the code have moved on and aren't available to ask questions?

To add another anecdote to this thread, a few years ago, I picked up an old Consew 226R compound walking foot machine to do canvas work for a boat. That machine was a beast once I tuned it. Fast, powerful, smooth, quiet, and with a servo motor, had awesome slow and high speeds, would punch through anything. Its only real downside was the size, and it only did straight stitches. For canvas work, that was everything I needed.

I later picked up a Sailrite LSZ to do some zigzag work on sails. Compared to the Consew, the sailrite feels really clunky, even with the Sailrite servo motor upgrade. It's relatively rough and noisy compared to the Consew, and has less power. Main upsides are the size, and the zigzag stitch for sail work where you need some stretch.

I've ultimately kept the Sailrite because it's still pretty solid, and can be stored on the boat where I need it the most. If I was doing upholstery or canvas work in a permanent shop, I would've kept the Consew, hands down, it was a much more capable and pleasant machine.

The walking foot feature is very useful for heavy materials. I tried sewing light-weight materials on both of these machines and it was awful (bunching, tearing on the foot, can't use really fine needles, etc).

> but why would you expect that from it?

If you understand what it is doing, then you don't. But the layman will just see a computer that talks in language they understand, and will infer intent and sentience are behind that, because that's the only analog they have for a thing that can talk back to them with words that appear to make sense at the complexity level that ChatGPT is achieving.

Most humans do not have sufficient background to understand what they're really being presented with, they will take it at face value.

You always have the option of creating a map style and using Mapbox's Raster Tile API - although that does mean you probably can't dynamically adjust your raster images in time for a request to be served.

How are you using the Static Maps API currently where you would be able to send a POST request and display the image back to the user? Most use-cases for the Static Maps API involve the HTML <img> tag or something similar, which all send GET requests.

My company is in a similar situation - have large teams in several eastern European cities (primarily Minsk), and a few long-term remote teammates in Ukraine. A couple have fled (from Kyiv) with children, others are worried about being conscripted. It makes me want to vomit just thinking about it. I'm amazed many of them are still on Slack and making PRs.

We're fortunate some of our leadership has quite close ties to the area, so our company's response so far has been extremely understanding.

Economics has also already given us lots of information on how much money people are prepared to sink into transportation - the owners of the self-driving cars/rental companies will attempt to extract that value.

I don't doubt there will be a shift in the overall economic picture, but it may not be as large for the car _user_ as we would hope. It will need to be better/cheaper in some dimension for it to get adopted, but the rent-seeking vultures are always circling, spoiling the utopia :-(

I would love to see something like this written by someone with a young family. I find myself living JIT subject to the whimsical demands of small children for extended periods, and often wonder if it's even possible to re-arrange life in this context to try to re-capture some sanity.

Usually I just give up and bathe myself in the chaos, hoping that it's just a few years and then some semblance of sanity will return naturally.

The sad news is that the credit card scammers have ruined this - automated credit card testing often looks for small donation pages like you're suggesting, then uses them to check if stolen card numbers are valid. This leads to chargebacks, loss of reputation by the donatee in the eyes of the card processor, and a whole bunch of wasted time. One of the "services" that organizations like Patreon actually perform is to take on this risk on behalf of their clients.

I guess bitcoin/etc payments are still OK, but except in some small niche subject areas, aren't generally accepted enough to make the direct donation setup worthwhile.

The difficulty is in deciding what needs to "stop". Do you "stop" rent payments when those businesses aren't allowed to operate? If yes, do you "stop" loan payments for landlords who depend on rent to repay loans? What about landlords who only half depend on rent for loan payments?

This is why it's an economic problem - it's easy enough to determine which physical activities need to stop to reduce disease spread. It's much much much harder to untangle the interrelated economic activity and decide where pauses should be made. There isn't a clear delineation between people whose economic activities are unaffected, and those who have been brought to a sudden stop.