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“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization Without Atlantis?”

The slogan of the Russian Revolution of 1917 was: "Factories to the workers, land to the peasants."

If the factory is yours, then everything inside is yours ;)

But it's funny how low wages under the broken Soviet economic system turned such things into a semi-official, informal work perks, allowing people to make ends meet.


It was less the low wages and more the general unavailability of things (shortages). Lots of things you couldn't just buy but you had to know somebody who knew somebody.

I wouldn't call it "funny" though. It ws quite sad and I'm glad it's over.


As I mentioned in another commebt, I don't even consider anything related to that to be a viable government system.

That said, the general unavailability of everything was caused by an incompetent government rather the the system itself but the system itself caused the government. My point is that it was a succession of demagogueries hiding personal interests that caused the recurring and unrecoverable tragedies of that state. Being controlled and misguided is not exclusive to any particular government or political system.


System consistently produced an incompetent government that had lots of power.

This is not false but totally an oversimplification.

I don't think communism is a good form of government and I don't think the soviet union was marching the right way.

But the biggest blunts came from other much more serious mistakes caused by politicians ignoring science, like the big famine and many others, including the Chernobyl connerie


1. The problem is with using HTTP for APIs, not with GraphQL. HTTP was designed for rich (hypertext) documents, not for APIs. So layering GraphQL or any other APIs over HTTP is a hack.

2. GraphQL is useful for small remote teams b/c of mandatory staticly-typed schema and built-in schema documentation. Otherwise it's lots of back-and-forth between backen, frontend, QA, etc. You forced to use external tools like Postman collections, and still having communication problems.


> After years of debate and confusion, the GraphQL Working Group has reached a historic decision: starting with the October 2027 spec release, all GraphQL responses will return random HTTP status codes between 100 and 599.

> Additionally in order to make GraphQL AI Agents friendly, the GraphQL response body will be switching from JSON to Markdown.


Imagined vs discovered tasks

The way to really figure out what needs to be done is to start doing real work.

https://basecamp.com/shapeup/3.1-chapter-10#imagined-vs-disc...

  imagined   tasks ==      Jira
  discovered tasks == Dark Jira
IMO, tickets for planned work are an anti-pattern. Tickets are good for reactive work: bug reports, support, etc. Use Kanban board for tracking them.

Planned work should be organically discovered from the plan by the developers (or agents) who will be implementing it, not assigned via Jira tickets by the project manager. Shape Up recommedns using Hill Charts for per-scope (vertical slice) progress updates.


This. You always find out new stuff during the development. Nothing ever goes according to the plan.

I have a favourite illustration of the way projects work, right at the top of this page: https://bureau.ru/about/fff/

(The page itself is in Russian. Basically, it’s about the “flexible scope” principle from, you guessed it, Getting Real: https://basecamp.com/gettingreal/02.4-fix-time-and-budget-fl...)


yes here voice mode != hands-off mode, so you can't DWC (Driving-While-Coding)


Yeah, doesn't really add much, I think if you want dictation your OS very likely has it built in. Certainly wouldn't be worth submitting to HN.


Claude Code's /voice mode isn't very accurate comparing to other speech-to-text (e.g. Google Translate).

Also it takes about 500ms to activate after you press SPACE, so the initial words are missed out. It took me some time to realize it.

Does Handy has a better speech-to-text accuracy? Is there an activation delay?


/ði ˈɡloʊbəl iˈliːt (ænd ˈɛvɹiˌwʌn ɛls) ʃʊd swɪtʃ tu fəˈniːmɪk ˈspɛlɪŋ/


global elite and everyone else said switch to phonetic spelling?


Actually, phonemic ;)


jʊə ˈkɪlɪŋ miː smɔːlz!



PHP is too high level for this task - might as well write Rust compiler in a Tiring Machine.


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