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by Falkon1313 3y ago
But obviously that implies that you are a chicken dinner. At least according to some people's expectations, presumably.
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
>a release three months ago Calling that 'dead' and demanding status updates is the overreaction here. Unless you're paying this person to work on it full-time. One of the bits of software I use has an update as recently a
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
That seems like a really good reason not to use that ecosystem. It's not the fault or the problem of the person who created the open-source project. If you choose to use open source code in a system like that, then that's what you
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
>"Maintenance mode" is not feasible for any credible corporate application Tell that to the banks, government, and companies still running software older than I am. And for which, on the rare occasions when maintenance is neede
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
>15 years of backwards compatibility [...] is unreasonable to say the least As a Windows user, it's sad that so many people think that way nowadays. I've encountered one DOS program from the early 90s that doesn't run anym
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Or whoever wrote this comment ran it in the wrong resolution. It wasn't designed to be played on an 8K billboard because no one had those back then. Try 800x600 and you should be able to see the text much clearer. It does have other UI
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
If you like the Atomic Rocket site, you might also enjoy Rocketpunk Manifesto. Unfortunately it's been silent since 2017, but there are 10 years of thought-provoking posts and comment threads to read. http://www.rocketpunk-m
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Alas, Mac is one of the biggest offenders of crappy design and anti-usability. When I first had to use one for work I thought it was buggy and defective and losing data. Turns out it was just hiding it because scrollbars were entirely hidde
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
In modern Windows 10, you still get that in well-designed applications. In poorly-designed applications (hate to throw shade at Firefox, but it is one), you may be able to still get that menu by hitting ALT+SPACE. It just pops out of nowh
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
That's exactly it, and that is what is so hard to get other people to understand. It's a random word generator. It can't 'hallucinate' or 'confabulate' anymore than dice can. It cannot possibly be wrong or
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
>How many did say this? I don't know about chess, though earlier computers didn't have the power, so people could've reasonably said that. But we certainly saw it with Go. Many people said that a computer could beat a pers
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Mine doesn't do any of that. (Except maybe the telemetry, which I don't care about.) You've configured yours wrong if it is doing that.
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
>Starting a Bing search when the start menu doesn't recognize an application's name? Pre-installing games with advertisement and microtransactions? I'm always surprised when I see things like this on HN. Also complaints ab
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
One of the big differences is that at some point they seemed to basically delist forums, de-rank most blogs, and totally forgot that personal web pages still exist. All those things are still out there, but you are highly unlikely to find t
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
I wish I'd been able to get the pihole to work as easily as it sounded. It looked cool. But it was incompatible with the router from the ISP I had at the time, and rather than also buy and setup a new router, I just packed it away. Now
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
$2 isn't going to get much from an options trade, or a sports bet either.
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Given the audience (mostly techy people), it seems to be a love it or hate it thing.
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Wow. I just loaded it and then turned off the adblocker and reloaded it. It's like you need another search engine just to find the content in the page hidden amongst all those ads. I can't believe some people actually use the inte
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
This is a nice list of could've, should've, would've's. But you'd have to dig deeper to get to the core. Why did these things happen (or not happen)? Insufficient training? Insufficient processes? Were changes being
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
I remember that, it's why I didn't get a Mac. Although it was a few years later for me. The only computer that I'd used up until then was an Apple II that had been donated to our school. I managed to talk my parents into buyi
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
I would still disagree. 80s home computers pretty much all came with BASIC built-in, up to the PCs with QBASIC. The documentation was right there, and you had everything you needed to just boot up and start programming. Many even booted up
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Closed does mean resolved. One way or another. If it's not resolved, it's still open. If the ticket was improperly marked closed, that just means someone else has to create a new ticket for the unresolved issue.
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
Closed does mean resolved. One way or another. If it's not resolved, it's still open. If the ticket was improperly marked closed, that just means someone else has to create a new ticket for the unresolved issue.
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
> Additionally, some projects close issues once the mainline has addressed them even if the fix isn't in a released version. And that is a general issue with the maintainers not understanding what they're doing, or not understa
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
IIRC, "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" had sources at the back. My copy is packed away and it's been awhile since I read it, so I could be wrong, but that's another that you might consider. "
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
I pay for a whole long list of streaming services. Very often I want to watch something that isn't on any of them. They don't carry old TV miniseries. They don't carry many older classic shows. They don't carry many old
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
On the contrary. Those sites are still free to say what they want. Google is not censoring their freedom of speech. But freedom of speech also means you can't compel someone to say something they don't want to say. That's not
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
That's just a broken site. Breaking it in a different way doesn't fix it.
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
I'll also add 'infinite scroll'. Just use a pager. It's linkable, searchable, browseable, works correctly with the history. Infinite scroll breaks all of that for no good reason.
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
It's to reduce security. Of course a long, random, unique password from a password manager is best for security, everyone knows that. So forcing people to instead use a short, easy-to-type, memorable password clearly couldn't poss

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