The danger is also for Alice, if she gets moved to Bob's project when things start falling apart in production.

Exactly. And at that point Alice is debugging code she didn't write, using patterns she doesn't recognize, with no institutional knowledge of why things were built that way. That's the real cost of not investing in Alices.

DOGE wasn't actually trying to make things more efficient. You can't count it as an honest attempt.

You got the timeline wrong.

The break-up of Yugoslavia was a long, arguably still on-going, process, the final phase of which happened peacefully. Serbia and Montenegro, that made the post-1992 Yugoslavia, agreed in 2003 to change the name of the country to Serbia and Montenegro, pending the Montenegrin independence referendum scheduled for 2006.

Considering the possibility of another country name depreciation in three years, they agreed to keep the yu domain.

Fun fact, had the Montenegrin referendum gone the other way, the plan was to use .cs as the national domain, which used to be owned by another ex-country, Czechoslovakia.

It was not my intention to describe the civil wars (plural) and the genocide.

They were part of the larger, longer, and not always violent, process of the break-up of countries named Yugoslavia, leading to the deprecation of the .yu domain, which the thread was about.

> On one hand, that account of the attempted project takeover smelled to me like Jia Tan.

Oleh was basically the sole maintainer for many years, and the development basically stopped when he left.

Yes, I know you can be legit, but when you first contribute a few useful things, then jump to maintainership and want keys to the kingdom, the pattern looks similar (sans the last step which is embedding some backdoor). At least in how the article described it.

> The video slop can well replace TikTok and Reels. Make educational content about your hometown. Explain how to throw an uppercut.

There is a fundamental issue of trust here. Facebook has me tagged as history nerd so I get to see those slop videos. They are fun, but always superficial and often plainly wrong. So unless the slop comes from a known, trustworthy source, the educational element is simply not there.

For throwing an uppercut it's even more important, if you follow wrong slop instructions you can end up breaking your wrist or fingers.

I keep my Voodoo3 2000 with the idea to frame it, but I still haven't found a good way to do it.

You should just find a good shadow box for it, it'll look good

That doesn't mean those lines were of any quality though.

They're still being used by those orgs to this day, so they're doing the job at least.

Are you doing the maintenance yourself? I guess at some point the yearly maintenance costs exceed the value of the car itself.

Not the OP but have a 20-year-old car. The relevant calculation is not cost of annual repair v value of car, but rather annual cost vs annual cost of a new car. Even if you amortize the upfront cost of a new car over 20 years, the increased insurance cost and (depending on where you live) property taxes plus some annual maintenance, at least for me, is substantially more expensive than annual maintenance on my current car.

Yes, precisely. The 2018 Mercedes I had before this one was a lot more expensive to keep rolling. And super unsafe.

I did a from-the-ground-up rebuild (including the engine) just after buying it. That cost an arm and a leg but all in (including the original car) it still came to ~half of what a new one would cost. Anything that had been 'improved' on it was brought back to stock. It's been super reliable, I've had it since jan 2020, put a considerable number of kms on it and it hasn't let me down (so far :) ).

As for doing the maintenance myself, I don't have experience with this kind of car at all, I've worked a lot on classic Mini's, Citroens (2CV and DS) and Austin Maxi. But never anything like this so I'm more than happy to let someone else earn a buck on it. But it's been pretty cheap to run so far, fuel, oil, regular service and once a control arm that got bent out of shape.

Compared to a new vehicle I'm considerably better off.

The car of Theseus. Glad it's working for you! I hope you get many, many kms out of it!

That would not be the case amortized I expect. You can sell virtually any car for $5k as a floor price I’d say. Most yearly maintenance amounts to changing oil. Maybe tires every four years. Every 5-10 years maybe a bigger couple hundred dollar job. That has been about my experience owning used cars. But still well below $5k/yr.

> I guess at some point the yearly maintenance costs exceed the value of the car itself.

This is often mentioned but is not relevant.

In terms of cost, what matters is whether an equally good (for whatever metrics a car is "good" to you) replacement car will cost less or more.

> In other words we could see negative impacts from both without them canceling each other out.

See William Gibson's concept of Jackpot.