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by bborud 9mo ago
I'm not quite sure I understand what you are saying. Is the essence of what you are saying that it is hard to agree on a spec for the Markdown (and how it is translated to HTML or directly to DOM?) Or that this represents a technical
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by bborud 9mo ago
I’d like to use that extra processing and efficiency to get longer battery life when the phone isn’t doing anything special, and to have better performing apps.
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by bborud 9mo ago
Mostly, but they made mistakes too. Just look at the M5 vs the M6 vs the M7. The original M6 came out in 1984 and it is still the preferred model to this day in terms of film cameras. The M5 was too large and the M7 was too «electronic». P
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by bborud 9mo ago
Upgrading to iOS 26 was a mistake. All the slow, distracting UI features that only makes the iPhone feel like some slow Android phone is really not an "upgrade" in any reasonable sense of the word.
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by bborud 9mo ago
I don't understand why Apple change things needlessly. What other purpose does it serve? How does this positively affect the bottom line? How does it improve life for Apple's users? Breaking basic interaction with windows purel
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by bborud 9mo ago
Why is this a problem? To me it sounds like a it would be an advantage because you have everything you need to render it already built into the software.
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by bborud 9mo ago
I don't think so. I think it would be sufficient to document the exact markdown it supports and let the chips fall where they may. Yes, it would push markdown in a certain direction, but that's OK as long as it stays faithful to
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by bborud 9mo ago
Please read the posting. He says why in the second paragraph.
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by bborud 9mo ago
Isn't this what one would expect? Not least because when something is "as expected or better" people rarely feel the urge to express that. But when something goes wrong we tend to be more ... communicative. And that negativ
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by bborud 9mo ago
Well, then I'd first have to ask how you define "communist" or "quasi-communist" to understand what you mean. The term "communist" means different things depending on the context of the person who uses th
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by bborud 9mo ago
If you sit people down and talk to them, I think you will find that most people around the world are actually able to distinguish between peoples and their governments. However when you look at what people say online, or when you ask group
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by bborud 9mo ago
But people do treat sites such as reddit as a source of truth. That's part of the problem.
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by bborud 9mo ago
It's actually a bit more complicated than that. And unlike the US during the 20th century, Europe has actually had to contend with the far right abolishing democracy and committing genocide on its own population before. It is underst
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by bborud 9mo ago
What if it isn't? What if the sentiments expressed represent what Europeans think of the US?
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by bborud 9mo ago
Then you read it, but understood nothing. Perhaps you should have some remedial civics classes?
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by bborud 9mo ago
Microsoft trying to push copilot on me is just the kind of thing that would drive me to investigate alternatives. This is the same kind of annoying as all those cookie pop-ups which more and more often lead me to think "fuck it, I&#x2
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by bborud 9mo ago
Your code is a strategy memo to strangers who will maintain it at 2am during an outage. Optimize for their comprehension, not your elegance. The senior engineers I respect most have learned to trade cleverness for clarity, every time. YES
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by bborud 9mo ago
My argument is that it stops being a community when it becomes a business.
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by bborud 9mo ago
There are degrees. I don’t think congress has been this weak before in our lifetime. And most people seeming not to care scares me. I have been looking at productivity numbers for congress over the past decades. And I don’t get why people a
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by bborud 9mo ago
Then you have a much darker view of humanity than I have. What you seem to suggest is that because building a community on volunteers is hard it is not worth doing. What makes a community worthwhile is its ability to resolve differences pro
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by bborud 9mo ago
Really? You read the constitution and managed to not absorb how the system is structured? Hint: Look at who has which powers. Congress has the power to check every other branch. Neither the President nor the courts have symmetrical power ov
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by bborud 9mo ago
Well, in the same vein I could tell you to re-take your primary school civics classes and write me an essay on the key components of a modern democracy. The mechanism by which we choose leaders isn’t even in the top three most important pre
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by bborud 9mo ago
Why do you think it makes a difference if they are paid or not? Or more to the point: what are you saying? That people have different standards when paid? That lack of remuneration justifies poor effort? Isn’t that a very transactional vie
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by bborud 9mo ago
I suppose all sites that have a voting component run the risk of becoming unpleasant. Hacker News, and we who frequent it, ought to have that in mind.
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by bborud 9mo ago
Wouldn’t a functioning congress have resisted the executive aborbing its powers? After all, congress was supposed to be the most powerful branch. For good reason.
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by bborud 9mo ago
Elected heads of state have moved towards totalitarian rule before. Besides, elections isn’t what defines a functioning democracy. Why do so many people fail to pay attention in history and civics class? And why do people get so upset when
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by bborud 9mo ago
One could easily ask the same question about the US. With congress having abdicated it raises the legitimate question of exactly what the US is now.
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by bborud 10mo ago
Notice who makes these predictions that programmers will become irrelevant.
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by bborud 10mo ago
Your brain does a far more impressive job of fooling you into believing that the image you see of your surroundings in your brain is actually what your sensory apparatus is seeing. It very much isn’t. Just the mechanism to cope with your
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by bborud 10mo ago
I agree global vs local edits as a discriminator, but there is a bit of a sliding scale here. For instance when you edit a photo of something that is lit by multiple light sources that have different color temperatures. The photo will pro

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