eviks

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by eviks 8mo ago
is SQL file text or code?
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by eviks 8mo ago
Have you though of some more modern language agnostic solution like wasm plugins users could write in anything, with the help of typed languages if they like? Or is that not feasible for a scripting project like this?
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by eviks 8mo ago
> deleted the files. How about them apples, Task Scheduler? > Obviously, Windows wasn't going to let me go by without punishment. Obviously! You just rent this piece of deprecated garbage, not own! > Now, I would receive error
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by eviks 8mo ago
It's even less correct to exclude the whole decade of unreliable when discussing unreliable. Any product becomes good if you ignore the times when it's bad
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by eviks 8mo ago
They got the memo... directly from Apple that drops fully functional phones with their SDK updates, only giving you tiny crumbs of security update once in a while
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by eviks 8mo ago
You can't do that because the design of the whole system is dumb - instead of matching by unique (within the app) universal (=across apps) menu item id like "quit" that's hardcoded into the framework, you must match
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by eviks 8mo ago
That still leaves all the AI stuff in the bloated binary
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by eviks 8mo ago
Oh, that makes more sense, thanks
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by eviks 8mo ago
Blocking keybinds is from a different section of the article
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by eviks 8mo ago
Ignorant backwards compatibility cult in a nutshell: instead of retaining the same muscle memory or, if the keys moved, having a similarly ergonomic combo, the nominal labels are preserved, defeating the original design purpose. Same with ⌃
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by eviks 8mo ago
> Most importantly for our conversation, the Fn key was resolved internally inside the keyboard That's the worst part about Fn, limiting user customization and wasting keyboard space. Good that this was partially dialed back, but ba
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by eviks 8mo ago
That's a lot of work to do it per app! And remember to do for every new app
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by eviks 8mo ago
Not only can disable it, but with the right tools like Karabiner elements you can turn it into something useful - double tap cmd+Q to quit: no accidental activations, but retains muscle memory
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by eviks 8mo ago
Is there any hope for these incompetent design churners to realize that users can do better and give us some power? Like, why can't I simply tweak a few things in a visual designer and have that as my toolbar design in all toolbars wri
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by eviks 8mo ago
> and I don't want to learn 2 locations for every feature. No one forces you to, you can learn it only once for the toolbar as it's 1 click instead of many clicks for menu navigation. Just like when you use shortcuts you don&#x
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by eviks 8mo ago
Cool features, what are the chances that's going to happen in the next decade?
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by eviks 8mo ago
Indeed, creating a file is of little use in a file viewer, and is [p]age up old enough? > if you want to be pedantic I don't, the question is how you justify that in the search for consistency? I don't get the C-j, the issue wi
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by eviks 8mo ago
Yes, it's an very common mistake, there is also decades of history behind fixing it. But the debate here is not j/k vs [n]ew file/[p]rint file, but about the inconsistency of using one logic in navigating lines of text in
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by eviks 8mo ago
Yes, a slight misunderstanding, I only meant that the fact that K types in insert mode doesn't mean you move to Ctrl+N to replicate its functionality, you should still maintain the same position ( K )
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by eviks 8mo ago
Nope, you'd then do Ctrl+K, not N
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by eviks 8mo ago
> only really helps when you can see everything you're about to change on the screen Which is still a net positive over the alternative?
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by eviks 8mo ago
They should've prepared themselves and their customers better before that happens - one tiny example: there is no anon payment option listed at the main payment flow and no warning that credit card. Or maybe there is some smart way of
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by eviks 8mo ago
> Proton did not provide any information to the FBI ... Swiss justice department > This is an important distinction Not really, that's a minute procedural distinction without a difference. > can only happen after all Swiss leg
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by eviks 8mo ago
Excellent self-owning example: > Dropbox were perfect in 2012 You mean that dumb app that forced you to move files into a single folder instead of adapting to your workflow was prefect? Yeah, no, we shouldn't normalize that, we shou
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by eviks 8mo ago
Sure, but this also has an easy solution - don't morph, have an inactive menu in place (with an indicator of wort work in progress) that activates when the work is done
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by eviks 8mo ago
Have you heard of async? You can get instant menu with a delayed menu item
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by eviks 8mo ago
> Better to give me everything I can discover in a menu Of course you're not given everything, that'd be hundreds of items > rather than make a zillion fugly buttons and cluttering up the chrome. This isn't the only alt
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by eviks 8mo ago
How would a user learn about this convention?
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by eviks 8mo ago
This is just a silly excuse to do nothing to clean your garbage. Easy customization with thoughtful defaults is an easy way to make everyone happy > how it deprives functionality from power users. That's already the case, so nothing
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by eviks 8mo ago
> But the real bad news is that we can’t get rid of these things by simply toggling some option in about:config. In a better designed customizable browser like Vivaldi you can just see the menu itself and move/edit/remove/

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