It's fun, impressed by how polished it is.

Thanks!

Newspaper headlines?

You missed the boat, baskets that open out into a giant play mat have flooded amazon and temu. Something like this:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toy-Storage-Organizer-Lego-Play/dp/...

The main reason it's doing well is because it's basically Disney. Freezers in Japan are tiny and nobody buys in bulk. The experience of going there and buying huge packets of stuff, sharing with friends/family, wrapping and freezing the individual items inside or immediately cooking them to make meals to keep in the fridge - it's a novel experience and has become something of a ritual or hobby among people. Lots of YouTube videos about this. Everyone wants to go at least once just to try it. Many don't go again.

Living in Okinawa I also noticed the proliferation of reseller stores. They charge a reasonable margin and let you buy 4 or 8 muffins instead of 50. It makes perfect sense in Japan.

Incidentally I was disappointed that 90% of Costco Japan's goods are Japanese origin. You'd expect them to be full of American stuff but the majority is not. Even the imports are often the same items you can find in other supermarket import sections.

When Costco came to Korea, it was a great source of American products at reasonable prices. They have gradually shifted to more Korean brands over the years. Even if you are only buying local products, my Korean friends tell me they prefer Costco for the produce, with greater variety and turnover than domestic supermarket chains.

> Incidentally I was disappointed that 90% of Costco Japan's goods are Japanese origin. You'd expect them to be full of American stuff but the majority is not. Even the imports are often the same items you can find in other supermarket import sections.

Huh, I get where you're coming from, but one of the things I really like about Costco Canada is how much stuff they source from Canada.

And it's fun to pop into Costco in other countries and see what they sell.

> Everybody just assumes they're the only thing hitting your inbox

They know your inbox has 100s of competing senders and their message could get lost, that's why they spam. A large number of people don't curate their inbox, never unsubscribe and just make do reading 20% of their messages.

Same with phone notifications.

Texting is the new email. I have about a half dozen or more email addresses and very few of them get used nowadays.

The funny thing is I just moved all my email over to Fairmail and did several other things to try and "degoogle" my life. The funny thing was as soon as I got Fairmail installed, I finally realized how much spam was hitting even my gmail inboxes, but since gmail and outlook both filter them into separate folders, I never saw them. Fairmail has the ability to do the same, but it was really good for me to go through and unsubscribe and block the rest.

Now I barely get any spam from any of my accounts so life is a lot easier now. Another example of how these companies make it easy to not do anything and just have it out of sight.

without email spam, there wasn't any reason to curate a mailbox.

Don’t unsubscribe - that’s a signal of a live email address. Add a rule filing their domain straight to trash.

My understanding is that this is outdated advice.

There are definitely some vendors who respect an unsubscribe request, and some who don't. No way to tell ahead of time.

I won't buy, ever again, from someone who doesn't respect the unsub request.

A vendor I never interacted with emailing me usually has no respect of me.

In the UK there are legal guarantees, the unsubscribe button nearly always works.

This, plus the fact if they don't overcommunicate and send you 10 transactional emails (eg. "your order is still on its way!") they'll have people filing credit card disputes and BBB complaints, blasting support screaming this-site-is-a-scam-where-is-my-order!?? over a two day shipping delay.

This HN thread reads like a fun Chesterton's fence exercise.

New engineer shows up the first week on the job: "10 emails? You guys are all stupid this only needs to be 3 emails...receipt, shipped, and feedback!"

Whole team groans, having to explain yet again the many years of scar tissue behind exactly why every one of the 10 emails exists.

It's the dvorak of git... Maybe more efficient but incompatible with everyone else and a very loud vocal minority.

You can find this pattern again and again. How many redditors say 120fps is essential for gaming or absolutely require a mechanical keyboard?

Yeah I think that dvorak is a good example, too.

I don't get the mechanical keyboard one, though. I am fine with any keyboard, I just like my mechanical keyboard at home. Just like I am fine with any chair, but ideally I would have a chair I like at home.

120fps I have no experience with, but I would imagine it's closer to video quality. Once you're used to watching everything in 4K, probably it feels frustrating to watch a 1080p video. But when 4K did not exist, it was not a need. I actively try to not get used to 4K because I don't want to "create the need" for it :-).

> Just like I am fine with any chair, but ideally I would have a chair I like at home.

I love my Aeron chair. I've had it for fifteen years and it's still in great shape.

I used to have chronic back pain. Getting good ergonomics at home really put that to bed.

> 120fps I have no experience with, but I would imagine it's closer to video quality. Once you're used to watching everything in 4K, probably it feels frustrating to watch a 1080p video. But when 4K did not exist, it was not a need. I actively try to not get used to 4K because I don't want to "create the need" for it :-).

I suggest not worrying too much about that - been using a big 4K TV with lots of 4K movies for a long time now and SD content is still as watchable as ever.

For framerates, especially in an interactive context, this is what happens though in my experience. But it also really depends what happens on screen - more movement needs higher framerates to feel smooth.

It's totally compatible though, and that's a big selling point. I use jj and nobody else at my work uses it and that has never been an issue.

I think the "incompatible" was more in the dvorak sense, which I believe is that whenever you are on another computer, it most likely won't have dvorak.

For jujutsu, it's fine on your own computer, but you probably have to use git in the CI or on remote servers. And you probably started with git, so moving to jujutsu was an added effort (similar to dvorak).

> For me at least, it's not hard at all to switch between Dvorak and Qwerty.

Sure, but you had to learn both. And what benefit did you get from learning Dvorak?

I feel the same with jujutsu: I have to learn it on top of git, and I don't see a lot of benefits from knowing it.

>And what benefit did you get from learning Dvorak?

More comfortable typing, less wrist strain, etc. It's just a better layout.

Yes - this puts it perfectly. I am a very fast typist - I can type ~156wpm in QWERTY. When I was a kid and learned about Dvorak, it was tempting - but I already typed so fast that learning another keyboard just seemed like it would cause "misfires" in my brain - and virtual keyboards are all QWERTY.

Same deal with jj vs. git. I've learned git. I've used it for 15 years. I'm proficient with it. I'm sure jj is better - but I'm not sure it's better enough to be worthwhile.

It doesn’t support submodules. So no, not totally compatible.

Reminds me of how I started using Git when it was up and coming: It was the best Subversion client out there and no one knew I was using it!

I don't even like using "natural" keyboards despite the ergonomic advantage because it ruins my muscle memory when I'm on the (much more prevalent) "regular" keyboard.

Looks like the Perl of Git too. Those commands are wild compared to vanilla git.

> How many redditors say 120fps is essential for gaming or absolutely require a mechanical keyboard?

Those don't fit the others - they don't really require the user to adapt or are more complex in any way but are just nicer versions of the standard.

I mean let's not be hasty. Mechanical keyboards used to be just normal keyboards when computers were still computers.

That is a fair argument. I don't know why they dropped out of favour - price? Noise?

My guess would be price. Shoppers probably got more sensitive to the price of a keyboard as the price of computers dropped, and approximately none of them were choosing between two computer-bundles at the store with any regard for keyboard quality.

Most people and companies just use the keyboard that shipped with the computer. I don't think noise is as much of an issue as people make it out be.

Marketing made up this story about linear switches being for gamers. So now every mechanical keyboard needs to make unnecessary noise and offer extra resistance for harder bottom out or you're not a serious typist.

But that's not inherent to the keyboard. Linear switches are not any louder than cheapo office high-profile membrane.

I'm not a gamer these days, but from what I've seen, the gamers like a different type of keyswitch than regular typists. Normal typists like a clicky keyswitch where it clicks with very little travel, and has plenty of travel after this to avoid bottoming out. (so, Cherry blue)

Gamers want mechanical keyswitches with no click at all. (Cherry brown I think)

This is the marketing mythos I was talking about. The best typist keyboard is regular linear switch. Typing without bottom out is impossible. Clicking is just audio. Of course most mechanisms of producing clicking mean some degree of tactility (added resistance), but any tactility bump you have to overcome means you come out on the other side with more force which means harder bottom out. The way to reduce bottom out force is to not have any resistance, which is what linear switch is.

The most popular type of switch is brown because it's essentially a linear switch that is not marketed towards gamers. It's just sad.

Cherry browns are more like an average mechanical switch (and not in a bad way - they're a good middle ground if you use your keyboard for different things). Gaming oriented keyboards would use different ones.

I find the resistance to be a hindrance when typing. Fastest typing speed and comfort for me is my thinkpad keyboard which uses scissor switches with a very low profile - you need less effort per keystroke!

Right, that's why I recommend linear switches. But they're marketed as a gaming switch and they don't deserve this harmful reputation. They're simply the only non-stupid type of switch.

Low profile scissors are a compromise. They are tactile but it's for once functional as it compensates for the obvious lack of travel. The result is a mediocre but still above average experience. You can type fast on them but with more fatigue than high-profile linear.

Marketers want you to believe there's at least three different distinct switch types for different purposes because they want to sell you the same keyboard twice or thrice. But in reality there's linear and stupid. And some of them make unnecessary noise. Some of them make really sweet nostalgia noises like Alps switches but it's still a worse typing experience.

Both noise and resistance is something where mechanical keyboards can provide all desired options with the right switch choice. Gaming-oriented mechanical keyboards tend to have particularly low activation forces.

There really isn't any reason not to choose one except for price - and that's a fair consideration if you're fine with rubber domes or other alternatives.

Pretty much everybody who does work at the real office where I am has a mechanical keyboard by now.

If I understand correctly, you had 30 working panels for the core functionality. You then vibe-coded an additional 486 new panels that use fake data? That's not quite how you presented the project in the title.

What do you mean? It says used AI in the title. That already implies it doesn't actually work.

> Staff engineers at FAANG are vibe coding these days and their stuff absolutely works.

60% of the time it works 100% of the time

You really want to claim that with the amount of outages lately?

We are trending towards zero nines (not 100) uptime.

I use Gemini CLI and given the might of all their engineers and AI tools, the features they ship are constantly buggy and broken.

It's so easy to pump out borderline useless functionality with AI that nobody is actually testing or designing it.

I reminds me of very early ChatGPT with mostly correct answers but some nonsense. Given its speed, it might be interesting to run it through a 'thinking' phase where it double checks its answers and/or use search grounding which would make it significantly more useful.

"a Google hater mis-interpreting something and the posting ragebait." Isn't exactly a thoughtful comment either. It's exactly the kind of no facts baseless accusation that you claim to be tired of seeing.

The textbook thing was a non issue when I was in college. Previous year books were sold on to the next year, and lecturers gave us page numbers for at least two editions.

I think all of the books for my year were about $150, not just one.

Now I'd assume everyone is using digital books so it might be different.