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by creshal 3y ago
Tourists and immigrants giving their money to an US company that funnels all the money away from the local tax collectors and underpays their workers is still a net negative. All we're left with is their pollution, and no tax revenue t
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by creshal 3y ago
Sure, but who's going to write the driver in the first place? Linux's "millions of lines of code" are a really underappreciated asset, there's tons of obscure hardware that is no longer supported by any other active
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by creshal 3y ago
Looks like you offended some Americans' sensibilities, but it's pretty much on point outside the US. We already have a coffee culture, we don't need union-busting megacorps giving us worse for higher prices and lower worker w
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by creshal 3y ago
> Millions of lines of kernel, all of which have to be made preemptable. ~90% of those are device drivers, which you'd still need with a microkernel if you want it to run or arbitrary hardware.
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by creshal 3y ago
I suspect a large part is that the visual nature of the topic simply lends itself to endless bike shedding and fashion cycles; maturity and stability are going to be anathemata in these contexts. But it also doesn't help that input&#x2
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by creshal 3y ago
UIs should be repetitive, but we keep reinventing them anyway to satisfy the vanity of product owners/designers/managers/clients/... and built entire industries around making slightly the UIs slightly more differently
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by creshal 3y ago
Which of the 7251 reactive JS frameworks do you want to pair with which of the 15281 css frameworks to achieve the result?
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by creshal 3y ago
> The Linux m68k port is probably a good example of this, hard to see it having any kind of commercial value these days There's some 500 Eurofighters around with two dozen m68k each for their avionics (though not running Linux – and
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by creshal 3y ago
Itanium never had much potential to begin with, and the amount of systems that ever made it out of corporate vaults can probably be counted on two hands. If those companies want to fix their decades of neglect, they can pay kernel maintaine
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by creshal 3y ago
Please read the second paragraph, too. Wordpress hasn't been about providing "infrastructure" (what does that even mean, when essentials are missing?) for a decade at least.
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by creshal 3y ago
It would've been a lot more clear with old-style coloured isometric icons. Making everything vague, monochrome silhouettes definitely wasn't an improvement.
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by creshal 3y ago
Sending emails, setting proper meta tags, creating forms, not having security vulnerabilities, undoing broken upgrades, caching, … are all features that a fully-featured, bloated CMS like Wordpress really shouldn't need plugins for. It
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by creshal 3y ago
Probably because alternatives like Contao didn't really mature until 2010 or later, by which point Wordpress was already massive enough to have user groups and conferences everywhere, and could afford to just coast by on its momentum e
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by creshal 3y ago
Between Squarespace and Shopify it's really hard to argue in favour of Wordpress these days, yeah. In theory WP can do everything, but it needs a full-time PHP dev (and these days, also a full-time react dev for Gutenberg) to baby sit
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by creshal 3y ago
I can see the reasoning behind Gutenberg, but the implementation is absolutely insane. Everything is needlessly complicated, there's no way to debug it, documentation is either missing or outdated, and so on and so forth. A large custo
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by creshal 3y ago
And now try to get either to work mobile, or in a browser, or at least try to share frontend code between them. That's where electron shines, and all the "classic" frameworks really don't. QtQuick and JavaFX kiiiind of w
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by creshal 3y ago
In their defence, does any other language have one, these days? The landscape hardly looks good, which is how electron et al. got so popular to begin with.
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by creshal 3y ago
I'll be worth it to scammers. As so often with misguided policies, only the honest are punished.
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by creshal 3y ago
> My point: the 'winning formula' of Apple is laser-sharp focus: have a few products, do them as well as anyone else or better, and only introduce a new product if it is mature-ish and very profitable. (We'll see how the v
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by creshal 3y ago
What made them big in the first place were the iPod/iTunes/iPhone and the ludicrous revenues from the App Store. The iPod's only notable hardware that wasn't just a random off the shelf part was the click wheel, the chip
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by creshal 3y ago
A big part of Apple's "winning formula" is taking their giant piles of money and negotiating exclusive contracts for whatever is scheduled to be the most advanced semiconductor node next year. Anyone else literally cannot com
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by creshal 3y ago
Let me guess: Implementing IMAP and SMTP is too hard in whatever javascript framework they used in the new Outlook app, so they threw a JMAP proxy into Azure and called it a day?
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by creshal 3y ago
Yes, but for better or worse, we have lots of natural gas producers, and they'll be in business for a long time. And once the selloff of the US's strategic helium reserve is done with and prices stabilize, more natural gas produce
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by creshal 3y ago
Realistically, all the other fundamental problems of blimps will limit before the helium supply does — remember that it was artificially crippled by the selloff of the US's strategic helium reserve; it was sold under market value and s
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by creshal 3y ago
Helium supply was never really an issue. All the media hit pieces were essentially triggered by the Pentagon stopping to run a price-fixing cartel to the benefit of US universities, who after endless wailing and gnashing of teeth finally ad
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by creshal 3y ago
Trying to cheat the laws of physics so it sucks less than all the other failed attempts at making blimps more than a niche product. Nothing in the announcements indicate any degree of success, so I'll suspect it'll be quietly shuf
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by creshal 3y ago
It's why Starlink satellites already switched away again from black painted satellites (that light up like christmas trees on IR anyway), to having sunshades that reflect the light away at angles pointing away from Earth, to keep the l
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by creshal 3y ago
It makes you a target if you position yourself as a faction of one that tries to influence decision making. That's a contest you're not going to win, 99% of the time. If you just go with the flow, and are reasonably competent, cha
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by creshal 3y ago
Unless the budget is limited, and estimates have to be "optimized" to meet political goals. At that point, disengage and waste as little time as possible on making up shit.
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by creshal 3y ago
There's two levels here: 1. The screenreader transforms the visual structure into something understandable for the human behind it 2. The human tries to make sense of it and maintain a mental model of what the screenreader is presentin

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