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by jwells89 2y ago
I primarily use macOS, where shortcuts have been almost exclusively mnemonic (e.g. Command-R → R eload) since the earliest Mac models. F-key usage is relegated mostly to lazy ports from other platforms.
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It’s such a bummer that the A380 got canned. I flew on Singapore Air’s A380 out of LAX a few times and its ridiculous size made for the largest and most comfortable economy seats I’ve ever booked. Can’t even imagine how nice the premium&#x2
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Just use any thin and light gaming laptop made in the past 5 years in clamshell mode with the exhaust pointed at your keyboard. That’ll keep one’s hands toasty even doing mundane tasks, those things somehow manage to be space heaters even a
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What’s “essential” varies a lot between users. As a mobile dev I’ve been using 60% and 65% boards almost exclusively since 2015 and haven’t missed the removed keys much at all. Really though, to me the problem with full-size keyboards isn’t
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by jwells89 2y ago
Yep, cheating is absolutely rampant in any game where the anticheat is ineffective or nonexistent to the point that it’s barely worth playing games like that in online mode. It’s very frustrating, because I don’t like the idea of rootkit-li
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For me that scenario is all the more stressful since that means there’s going to be at least two moves upcoming instead of just a potential single move.
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It’s not great, but what makes it that much worse is the hunt for the next apartment that one needs to start a good deal before lease renewal just in case. Just having a single small cat cuts your options in half, and then of course price
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Stability is one of the reasons why I bought a few years ago (albeit, not in the SF Bay Area). That ever-looming possibility of needing to move again come lease renewal time, whether that be due to rent hikes or the landlord deciding to do
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Relative to US cities, housing in Tokyo is generally pretty affordable. High end condos in the most hot/central parts of the city are still pricy but that’s a small percentage of available housing stock. The places a friend of mine who
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Humans can also take on new research objectives on the fly while rovers/probes can only ever do what they were designed to. The difference in flexibility, capability, and speed are vast.
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Not a Google engineer, but I do keep around a device that represents “potato” specs that I test against when doing Android development. Not a perfect solution since there’s a bevy of old/low end SoCs with varying performance characteri
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I think an overwhelming majority of users aren’t technical enough or well enough versed in UI/UX to be able to put a finger on the frustrations they experience with software, and this is something that’s important to remember when cons
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by jwells89 2y ago
Why would platform maintainers want to encourage the lowest common denominator apps that such an API would undoubtedly result in (as a standardized UI API by definition cannot leverage platform strengths)? Apps like that get made anyway but
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While it’s likely we’re best adapted psychologically for small groups, how much of that is universally relevant in a modern context is unclear. A lot of people have left small towns in recent decades due to their often-gossipy social dynami
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I believe it’s important to not throw out the baby with the bathwater here. My belief is that much of modernism can be made such that people can thrive in it, but this simply hasn’t yet been a goal for the powers that be. Much of the proble
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This is also why image generating models struggle to correctly draw highly variable objects like limbs and digits. They’ll be able to produce infinite good looking cardboard boxes, because those are simple enough to be represented reasonabl
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PWAs can also just disappear if devs get tired of running them or become incapable of maintaining them. In similar situations with native local-first apps, the binary will at least remain on your phone and continue to work for several years
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My hypothesis is that it’ll happen to both iOS and Android once iOS has been forced to allow third party app stores in most major markets. Why? Because historically, iOS has been the more profitable platform for mobile developers by a lar
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I don’t experience most of them either. Windows do get shuffled occasionally but it’s not that frequent. My setup is a Studio Display and now quite old Thunderbolt Display. The Dock issue for example isn’t a problem for me because I have mo
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by jwells89 3y ago
Maybe if it becomes normalized for companies to have several small, localized offices that enable employees to live in lower cost areas while still being within a short drive (or preferably, walk/bike) of home rather than demand that e
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by jwells89 3y ago
I think in cases like this, “untranslatable” is really shorthand for, “cannot be translated without loss of information and/precision”. Of course words can be massaged to produce a similar meaning, but conveyance of the entirety of the
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by jwells89 3y ago
I believe another factor is frequency of moving, because that’d disincline people from buying significant amounts of any kind of heavy and/or bulky media, of which books are both. More than a small bookshelf’s worth is a real pain to h
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One obvious advantage of centralization, though, is that the government is much better equipped to enact programs to keep towns afloat (whatever that entails). Red tape and obstructionism on the local level is minimal and is unlikely to cau
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I think the situation in Japan is a bit different, with how the overwhelming majority of its population is concentrated into just a few cities, with that concentration intensifying as the few remaining young people in rural areas move to th
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Less than it used to be, though. There’s several 600+ nit panels that are plenty usable in even sunny rooms. These aren’t going to be cheap, though. Most LCD monitors with good brightness are midrange and up.
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Also known as “yes click syndrome” or “make the stupid thing work already”, a phenomenon which can be and has been weaponized.
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Sidecar works really well. Been using my 12.9” iPad with it and with a cheap folding stand with this setup I’m almost as productive traveling as I am back home with dual 26” monitors.
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M1 Max 16” 64GB here, love it. I don’t feel much need to upgrade and doubt the urge will start to creep in until maybe M5 or M6. It chews through everything. Even better, I got it at a steep discount because I bought it after the M3 came ou
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Not really. These APIs are useful, but they’re still too primitive to make a dent in library usage. To do that you need things like highly capable “batteries included” (yet easily customizable) widgets and the more generally applicable part
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From my point of view, a lot of trouble could be saved if it were a priority in browser development to reduce the number of libraries and layers necessary to build things like SPAs. There’s been a lot of movement in this direction for CSS w

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