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Though the average hackernews reader knows all this, it is not my impression that the average apple consumer is aware of it. Anecdotally, many of the people in my social vicinity choosing apple, are the same people who make their choices ba
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Frank Zappa reputedly.
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A way this used to be possible, also before win11, was misbehaving custom extensions to the explorer shell. IE, some applications install extra menus and handlers as part of the windows shell. Particularly, some such extensions may fight wi
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I have a question about this, that I probably can't explain well in a single comment. Normally I have well-defined schemas for my data, and obviously prefer this for its uncountable benefits. However, over the years I have occasionally
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because the independent appdeveloper and the company ceo have conflicting contradictory goals. the independent devs goals are aligned with the end user. The ceo goals are "aligned" with the users, in the same way a slaughtery owne
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Ironically, we are preaching to the choir :-) It all won't be read by the nonreaders we sought to persuade.
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Yup, it resonates with when you hear someone claim 'well I'm more of a visual thinker'.
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It is, to the generation that 'read' that NFT's were a great idea.
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continuity means 'not walking blindly into a new world war 30 years later', this time with nuclear weapons too.
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that line of thinking gives you WW1, WW2, and at the moment, whatever Putin is doing in Ukraine.
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I have a further, simpler argument. Movies. Ever notice that movie adaptations of books often suck? Well, there are some that don't. When shortstories are made into movies, it often works better. This is because the amount of content t
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I was going to reply, but ipython wrote it already, better. However, understanding his reply requires the ability to read it correctly. Notice that we are not having the hackernews discussions as a long list of small video clips. People w
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they tried, but the police deliberately blackwall them, TFA
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I still cling to doing it manually, as a bonus you get coffee too!
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thank you, you are indeed right. To wit (for people like me) - 3.8 x 10^26 W 3.8 x 10^23 kW 3.8 x 10^20 MW 3.8 x 10^17 GW 3.8 x 10^14 TW
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I have a confused question here. I asked chatGPT what the approx terawatt output of the sun is. It claims it is 384.6 terawatts. I find that hard to reconcile with the earth having 12TW production. Given that your number is probably OK, tha
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This is already written elsewhere, but this game screams to work efficiently with the keyboard, so one can just type country names and hit 'return'. I can already mostly navigate it with TAB + shift-TAB, but as the game loop is
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'Weaveworks created “GitOps” as a buzzword.'
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I work in a shop with about 6 years of event-sourcing experience (as in, our production has run on eventsourcing since 2017). My view is, that 'humans are not mature enough for eventsourcing'. For eventsourcing to work sanely, i
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I don't think he was blaming it on the two-party system. He was just explaining how the two-party system is one of those obviously broken mechanisms that effectively blocks against replacing it with one of the better alternatives. Th
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As a software developer, I am in wonder at the shape some software ships in. The last couple of days, I have toyed with Raspian bookworm together with my father. Its menu contains an 'Add-Remove Software' GUI tool, which seems to
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I manage a 4year old 'vanilla' typescript app at work. It doesnt't really do anything 'wild', looking at it you would think 'that could be built with anything/nothing'. But if you check node-modules
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erh no, those in java allow you to do just that. It is one of my favorite features of java. In essence, you get to embed multiple synchronized maps inside a java enum (if you want to). All handled 'invisibly' for you.
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I am forced to do WPF as part of my day job, but come from 10+ years of Qt and other UI frameworks. I loathe WPF. It feels overengineered and undercooked at the same time. It feels inelegant. It oozes that it was built by people who would n
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to ensure that you are mainly compromised by google and not by their competitors :-).
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Yep, god forbid you can see more than the 10 first characters of a filename - it's a homage to the old 8.3 limitation! And your files were created 'about 7 months ago', not on april 17 in 2023. If you need more details tha
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I currently ship a web app, which among many things contains an 'excel grid clone'. My earlier team collaborators, who by now have jumped ship to other greener pastures, styled the grid in 'that modern way', so on a huge
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Oh, and the (lack of) window borders: This is a concrete and practical problem - I often get into fights with multiple open browsers. I will have 2 or 3 browser windows open, each containing an ongoing selection of related open tabs concern
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He touches upon the tragedy of modern simplified lobotomy crayon full-screen UIs: They are horrible to use for any usecase they weren't specifically built for: In slack and teams, I often end up screenshotting something, because the
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This is evident in physical products. We have perfected 'crap for the masses', unfortunately. Standard problems: - I just bought a (bulk) phone charging station. Even though I attempted to pay more to get a non-shitty product, it

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