ben0x539

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by ben0x539 3y ago
As a habitual comments skimmer, thanks for selling me on the article. :)
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by ben0x539 3y ago
Yeah I admit at this point in my life, much like I used to start up the SNES to play Zelda back in my parents' living room, I start up my Windows system to play Monster Hunter or whatever, while trying really hard to ignore the whole d
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by ben0x539 3y ago
> I'm trying really hard to come up with a scenario where optimizing the desktop experience for the average user is a bad thing. Again, maybe I'm a sore loser, but it definitely feels like a lot of software is becoming increasi
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by ben0x539 3y ago
It also helps that there have been very few important (big, complicated) applications in the past decade or two. Firefox is there? My development environment is there? I'm probably good.
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by ben0x539 3y ago
ok maybe i'm a sore loser, but looking at where the popular desktop OSes have been going going i think i'm fine with linux remaining an enthusiast thing
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by ben0x539 3y ago
> So paid social networks just can't work, because a "free with ads" service will trivially outcompete it before it starts to visibly rot. The "free with ads" service will "outcompete" by immediately be
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by ben0x539 3y ago
Everybody website is trying to pivot to doing what tiktok is good at, instead of what they were good at. Most websites are probably not going to eat tiktok's userbase. I guess we can't have nice things because what those websites
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by ben0x539 3y ago
The way Twitter verification used to work and why was of any value to other users was that, if your twitter name was, idk, the name of an important politician or company, the blue checkmark meant that someone at twitter took some amount of
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by ben0x539 3y ago
Someone at Facebook hates concurrent programming and is aiming to do for threads what Stack Overflow did for google searches for info about stack overflows.
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by ben0x539 3y ago
Ah, I read step 3 as "a bunch of data gets condensed into one public indicator" rather than "a bunch of data gets published"
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by ben0x539 3y ago
I figure plenty of people wouldn't really mind if you left out the decentralized part specifically, but I assumed a bunch of nice things about git are there because they were basically required for a decent decentralized workflow.
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by ben0x539 3y ago
Previous job had a locally hosted Github Enterprise and I was always resentful when everybody else on Twitter was like "github down! going home early!". :( Of course it still sucked when some tool decided I needed to update depend
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by ben0x539 3y ago
> At that point it's worse than what you already know from your browser - it may show the service is having issues when you can access it, or that the service is ok when you can't. Worst case you have more data points to draw c
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by ben0x539 3y ago
I think as an external user I'd be happiest if they just provided multiple indicators on the status page? Like, Internal metrics: Healthy External status check: Healthy Did ops announce an incident: No Backend API lat
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by ben0x539 3y ago
My view is that the design of this site, targeted at niche users, is not alienating because it is designed by people from the same niche. It's great for that purpose much like niche tools like git or whatever are for people in the righ
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by ben0x539 3y ago
That's honestly great to hear. I've not been super convinced of the way I've seen AB tests used to justify decisions but I figured it's just me not liking the results, and that the prevalence of shitty websites means tha
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by ben0x539 3y ago
> Not having some indication is worse than it flashing. I figure it's more that there's no one-size-fits-all thing. "Normally", that isn't a problem, because you just switch to another program that suits your pre
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by ben0x539 3y ago
Yeah so you put in the address of the author or site owner or something, standard procedure.
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by ben0x539 3y ago
I fear the wider , wider problem is that hubris pays off, it's not economically optimal for most sites to show this humility you'd like to see. Someone decided it's worth it to annoy us grumpy nerds in order to sell fraction
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by ben0x539 3y ago
It doesn't have any flashing elements until you click the thing, that's probably what counts.
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by ben0x539 3y ago
It's "popular" in that it's widely deployed, but I think it's fairly unpopular in that people really don't enjoy operating it. When I worked for a high traffic website, I was told people would occasionally reac
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by ben0x539 3y ago
I agree that there should be universal undo, but I think by contrast the (informally) transactionality of the "try" model can be a big deal if your system is concurrent. If you do a thing, find out it isn't what you wanted, a
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by ben0x539 3y ago
Well, sometimes the users ask to see them and they don't like numbers very much.
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by ben0x539 3y ago
That's fair. I figure a lot of the same design pressures apply though, and of course there's a cost to diverging from what the rest of the world is doing.
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by ben0x539 3y ago
Yeah, until you're trying to install something that uses OpenGL. :)
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by ben0x539 3y ago
I imagine at some point people were like "is it more work to investigate this (and similar future questions) or switch to shipping AppImages instead". :(
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by ben0x539 3y ago
Yeah, in general, things work out nicely. :) I figure this genre of post and the post it's responding to are mostly about exceptions. My impression is that exceptions become more and more prevalent as (app?) development practices diver
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by ben0x539 3y ago
I'm responding to a comment that expects app developers to make do with a specific version of a library. That expectation seems to be in line with that in the post that TFA responds to, which is unsurprisingly addressed in TFA. There&#
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by ben0x539 3y ago
It's a lot, but I think we've lost that battle and society has collectively decided it's okay to sacrifice untold amounts of storage space in service of things like more stable installations, extra features, etc. It's ae
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by ben0x539 3y ago
I generally trust the applications that I run natively to not be malicious, but I don't always trust them to not step on each other's toes, or make a well-intentioned mess of things.

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