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871.
by jdiff 3y ago
If it's always the worst that's getting all the indie dev attention there's probably something to it that you're ignoring or prioritizing lower than the people putting in the legwork.
872.
by jdiff 3y ago
Going public and being legally beholden to growth at all costs has ruined far more.
873.
by jdiff 3y ago
You already know this but the free market regulates itself precisely equally as well as cancer. The only way any of it ever stops seeking exponential growth is when it dies with disastrous collateral damage.
874.
by jdiff 3y ago
It's all bad. Let's not add more bad when we're struggling with our existing bad.
875.
by jdiff 3y ago
And if it's a handheld console, the phone screen certainly dwarfs the original console's.
876.
by jdiff 3y ago
A hunch isn't science. Just because they're demonstrably harmful mentally doesn't mean they are physically.
877.
by jdiff 3y ago
You can perform the tricks yourself. https://chat.openai.com/share/1d3fa32a-ab41-4747-b09e-543668... Skepticism is one thing, jumping straight to "they're all screenshots, they're all fake" is anoth
878.
by jdiff 3y ago
Even in the noncommercial world, Hurd's gone precisely nowhere. RedoxOS is a toy and had a GUI within a year or so. Brutal got in within two. SerenityOS not only built a GUI but the beginnings of the first greenfield web browser to gai
879.
by jdiff 3y ago
Those do look quite nice, fairly far away from the nightmares I've dealt with before. They also seem to avoid the problem of just about summoning a whole separate archaic syntax just for jamming variables into a string.
880.
by jdiff 3y ago
They do, but very well-defined ones, little placeholders that just concern themselves with formatting. You include the whole variable name and that makes it brittle, now random bits of string data have to be kept in sync with actual code, a
881.
by jdiff 3y ago
Maybe string interpolation is just a bad idea. Let strings be strings, use string formatting functions if you want to shove data in them.
882.
by jdiff 3y ago
They're not vanishing silently and peacefully into the night, they're killing themselves with chronic poor health. That's the entire problem, they're not dodging it, they're embracing, amplifying, and accelerating i
883.
by jdiff 3y ago
Sure, your weird struck-by-lightning-57-times strawman might cost more than your average suicide-by-mcdonalds person. But healthy people are more productive and are productive for longer and only a vanishingly small portion of them are ever
884.
by jdiff 3y ago
He didn't say "since COVID" but "since before COVID." COVID isn't the exciting event, it's an arbitrary landmark.
885.
by jdiff 3y ago
Nobody fed that false fact into any LLM. Garbage in, garbage out isn't fake news.
886.
by jdiff 3y ago
No, it isn't. This is akin to saying that the truth is relative and lies somewhere between "the Earth is an oblate spheroid" and "the Earth is flat." Perception and perspective varies, sure, but fact exists regardle
887.
by jdiff 3y ago
What's the point of this pedantry? Self satisfaction?
888.
by jdiff 3y ago
The logic reminds me of finding the truth somewhere between the extremes of "the Earth is flat" and "the Earth is an oblate spheroid." We'll just say the Earth is a cube and if both sides are unhappy, we know it&#x2
889.
by jdiff 3y ago
> But it wouldn't lock the target in place when they stop
890.
by jdiff 3y ago
If they have the legal right why shouldn't they? Why should corporations be allowed to dictate what the general public does?
891.
by jdiff 3y ago
A "sans serif clone"? That phrase is utterly meaningless. I also wasn't calling it monospaced, just pointing out that there's precedent for the choices made here. It's a fine typeface, not my cup of tea, not even cl
892.
by jdiff 3y ago
It can apparently be even further shortened to "read article."
893.
by jdiff 3y ago
Plus updates without having to drop into Desktop Mode, and a much more streamlined initial install and setup.
894.
by jdiff 3y ago
None are to be found here. No more shenanigans than are found in nearly every monospaced typeface in existence that sinfully mixes the exact same slab serifs and sans on the same glyphs.
895.
by jdiff 3y ago
That's one sale. Governments need design, too, and those designers deserve to be paid. Designers choosing to blur the line on sans vs serif doesn't make it a bad typeface, or some sort of corporate scam to make one sale.
896.
by jdiff 3y ago
Nobody's selling this font. Cynicism in regards to corporations is a good thing but this is cynicism to the point of disconnecting from the actual underlying facts.
897.
by jdiff 3y ago
This is a horribly disingenuous and dismissive response. Sometimes good ideas fundamentally just don't work, they miss foundational issues that make them incompatible with reality. That just happens sometimes. Not everything can be pol
898.
by jdiff 3y ago
It's a lazy path of least resistance, I'll give you that. Much easier to trod a well-worn path than risk doing something actually disruptive.
899.
by jdiff 3y ago
This has little, if any, recognizable connection to facts in reality.
900.
by jdiff 3y ago
HN is in no way an alternative, and that's okay. For the masses that use Twitter, HN is completely uninteresting and completely fails to replace Twitter. HN is too niche, too obscure, too old, and too strict to be a Twitter, and that&#

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