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by deergomoo 1y ago
Absurd take. Speed is not the issue! Optimising for speed of production is what got us into the utter quagmire that is modern software. Lack of correctness, lack of understanding and ability to reason about behaviour, and poor design that b
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by deergomoo 1y ago
Heidi was the default option on our work machines a few years ago and it’s one of the buggiest pieces of software I’ve ever used. Does it still lock up the entire UI if a query takes longer than five seconds to return results? Does it still
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by deergomoo 1y ago
> you end up in the interface's declaration so you have to jump through additional hoops to get to it Bit of a tangent, but this really annoys me when I work on TypeScript (which isn't all that often, so maybe there's some
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by deergomoo 1y ago
I can’t rule out that at rush hour in either country it makes a difference, because I haven’t experienced it. But I’m with you, with an express travel card set in Apple Pay (so you can just plop your phone down on the reader without opening
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by deergomoo 1y ago
I want a 7-10” central display that spends 99% of its time showing CarPlay but also has a radio if I need it, the backup camera when I’m in reverse, and lets me change a couple of settings for convenience features like auto locking etc. Eve
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by deergomoo 1y ago
> "Android" but for cars. Is this not just Android Automotive? A lot of Volvos use it, it’s a lower-level OS type thing that sits below Android Auto or CarPlay.
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by deergomoo 1y ago
I bought a Mazda3 a few months ago and I love it. It is exactly what I want as a driver. I even adore the scroll wheel and wish it could be in any car I own in future. Yeah it takes slightly longer to do certain actions in CarPlay, but I ca
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by deergomoo 1y ago
Yup, the web is a thoroughly mediocre application platform†, but the world’s best application distribution platform. †I know this claim will rub some people the wrong way, but if you compare the capabilities of web tooling to build rich app
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by deergomoo 1y ago
It’s insanely buggy. My wife has two user accounts, one for her work and one for everything else, so she can switch out of the work user at the end of the day to put it out of her mind. She comes across bugs on the regular that I’ve never s
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Don’t forget our old friend “The compiler is unable to type-check this expression in reasonable time”
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I feel exactly the same way, it’s profoundly depressing.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I was concerned that I would still be semi-reliant on Google Search for things like local business opening hours etc. While it's true that Kagi doesn't return that stuff at the top of a search (I'm outside the US so YMMV), in
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by deergomoo 2y ago
In my experience, both SQL and real-world database schema are each complex enough beasts that to ensure everything is fetched reasonably optimally, you either need tons of entity-specific (i.e. not easily interface-able) methods for every l
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by deergomoo 2y ago
My gripe is that iCloud Tabs haven’t worked right for years. Everything else that syncs in Safari works perfectly fine: tab groups, bookmarks, reading list. But iCloud Tabs, the feature that shows what you have open on other devices, is alw
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> redirecting to the sign-in page if you don’t have a session Is this not access control?
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> Now, unfortunately, Apple is on a rigid yearly OS update schedule I cannot think of anything that less needs yearly major updates than macOS. It's a mature, 25 year old OS that, unlike iOS, is used for an enormous range of profess
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Apple doesn't fix bugs†, they just eventually replace the feature or ship a different way of doing the same thing, whose bugs hopefully don't overlap those of the first feature. We're on Sequoia 15.3.2 now and the keyboard sh
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I find Apple Maps to be a much more pleasant app to use, though that's at least partially down to it being permitted to do things Google aren't on iOS (nav on the lock screen, syncing with the Watch etc.) In my experience it also
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> Promote Craig Federighi, after all these years I am still not convinced he is the right person for the job Yeah I wonder about Federighi. He doesn't seem to catch much criticism from the Apple pundits—I assume because he's on
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> its type system has historically been an afterthought This is a rather outdated view. PHPs type system isn't the most expressive thing out there, but it's very achievable to have end-to-end type safety these days. For a start
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by deergomoo 2y ago
MAM vs MDM. MAM is good when you want your developers to be reachable on Slack but they all (for good reason) refuse to install an MDM on a personal device—at least that seems to be how my employer feels.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I lump modern TV bullshit (crappy "smart" features, motion smoothing, horrible default settings) in with modern car bullshit (huge touchscreens everywhere, the near total death of real physical controls). Everyone you speak to at
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> My strategy is to buy cheapest TV on the market Unfortunately if you're a stickler for image quality this isn't an option. You can still not connect it to the internet of course, but if you're buying a high end TV there&
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I find it appalling that no matter how much money you spend on a Samsung TV, you'll get banner ads in the fucking source switcher . Absolute total disregard for their users. LG still has bits that are ultimately ads, but at least they
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I used the Kagi free trial when I was doing Advent of Code in a somewhat unfamiliar language (Swift) last year, as well as ChatGPT occasionally. The LLM was obviously much faster and the information was much higher density, but it had quite
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Slightly weird that the logo seems to have copy-pasted the "ravel" part of the Laravel logotype too (the hard-right-angle "r"), just changing the colour to blue.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I find it remarkable that despite the massive improvements to CSS and JS in the last 15-ish years, additions to HTML are glacial. I mean we only just got popovers for christ's sake. It's like JS and CSS are fully on board with b
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by deergomoo 2y ago
The web is the best application distribution mechanism the world has ever seen. Even though things have improved enormously in the last decade and a half, the ceiling is still miles below native (though the floor is far more accessible).
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by deergomoo 2y ago
They also removed subpixel antialiasing several years ago. Since then, “1x” screens (i.e. ~110ppi or lower) have looked like shit on macOS compared to the same display driven by Windows or Linux.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> Starmer The UK recently announced plans to go big on AI even before the Trump meeting. Much to my dismay, as we've actually done a really good job of grid decarbonisation so far and there's no way building a ton of GPU-filled

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