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by laumars 5y ago
I’m all for optimising usability but there comes a point where one over optimises. While I love the app-orientated design of Android and iOS (ie you share data between apps rather than apps sharing a file system), they are effectively toy O
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by laumars 5y ago
At risk of stating the obvious, drawing a flowchart, which is ostensibly just drawing boxes, is a whole different level of difficulty to drawing pictures. I will grant you that there are tools that will generate ASCII art using letter shadi
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by laumars 5y ago
I can’t imagine ASCII art to be the quickest thing to doodle. But that aside, someone else has now linked to the source and it wasn’t MS.
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by laumars 5y ago
Microsoft likely didn’t create that art. So I suspect a bigger reason for removing it was licensing, with “optimisation” being a strong excuse for not spending resource on creating original assets.
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by laumars 5y ago
…or a Microsoft engineer used that existing cat art. I can’t imagine they’d be afforded much time to spend designing ASCII art for a debug screen.
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by laumars 5y ago
> When you're a kid you just do things quickly. I don’t think this is a age problem. Plenty of adults are lazy and plenty of kids aren’t.
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by laumars 5y ago
You’re listing off that that’s 30 years ago yet we are talking about 20 years ago, and barely 20 years at that. The difference between 20 and 30 is pretty significant (it’s literally 50% more).
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by laumars 5y ago
It’s old, definitely retro, but I always thought vintage meant older than that. Like how vintage cars are 50+ years old. To that end you wouldn’t call the Dreamcast “vintage gaming” (like you might with Pong machines) but you’d definitely s
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by laumars 5y ago
Haha I still remember the first time I pulled out my G2 in a pub to settle an argument. It was ironically in a pub with poor reception (even by those days standards) so by the time the page loaded, which I think was just Wikipedia, the conv
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by laumars 5y ago
Is 2002 considered “vintage” now? Semantics aside, it was a fun read :)
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by laumars 5y ago
The quality on HN has dropped massively in the last 5 years. It’s still better than Reddit but it’s definitely not where it once was. I also think the peer moderation on here is broken. Again, it’s better than Reddit but I still think HN ca
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by laumars 5y ago
The thing is not everyone is willing to pay more. Some people can’t even afford to pay more. That’s how we ended up in this race to the bottom to begin with. EU offers some protections here but not with services run outside of the EU.
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by laumars 5y ago
> The OP (a) showed some icons that I doubt are in Unicode and (b) mentioned some hundreds or thousands of icons. I saw. But the point you made was far more generalised so I gave examples of where icons can have that feature. > The En
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by laumars 5y ago
> 1. Can't pronounce them, In the case of Unicode, you can use the code name > 2. type them in text, In the case of Unicode, you have the code point > 3. send them in text email, Same as #2 > 4. spell them, Same as #1 (thou
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by laumars 5y ago
> It's sad that "at scale" has become synonymous with "without human oversight". That’s exactly the point of scaling though. You’re using automation to replace a human component. It’s as true now as it was during
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by laumars 5y ago
Markdown is based on a really old nerd convention of stylising plain text. Things like /italics/ and *bold* predate MD by great many years. I was using some of markdown’s semantics even in the 90s. This is what Aaron meant when he
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by laumars 5y ago
There’s already a practice of businesses storing a paper copy of a critical infrastructure password in a safe for emergencies. I don’t see why the same concept couldn’t be used here.
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by laumars 5y ago
> Maybe? My point, though, is that from day 1 it was meant to be rendered as HTML. No, from day 1 it was meant to be readable as plain text and optionally rendered as HTML Nobody is disputing that a key requirement of MD is to be machi
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by laumars 5y ago
> Markdown was meant to be rendered, not left as plaintext Now it’s not. Markdown was intend to be legible in plain text but visually emulate rendered text. The rendering stuff came later but even then it still had an emphasis on plain t
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by laumars 5y ago
Yes. The main use case I have for markdown is: * reading documents in the terminal (like man pages) * note taking In both those instances the less auto-formatting that the editor does the easier it is for me to use the use the file format.
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by laumars 5y ago
If you want to get technical then it should be called 2+1D (two dimensions plus time. Or 3+1D if you want to be charitable about the perceived depth). Obviously that would be a rubbish name though.
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by laumars 5y ago
They’re marketing terms. Marketing terms are usually poorly defined at a technical level because they’re designed to extract the best sounding description from a “holy shit that’s cool” perspective. Eg 4D baby scans, HD being a collection o
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by laumars 5y ago
Go is very much a descendent of Plan 9. It’s written by Rob Pike of Bell Lab / Plan 9, is heavily inspired from languages such as Alef https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alef_(programming_language) which ran on Plan 9
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by laumars 5y ago
Eventually you might be right. But you’re now talking about theoretical future rather than what the literal monetary cost of the service is right now. I say that because my point wasn’t to say that Starlink is uneconomical for the poor and
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by laumars 5y ago
> This is a beta with no subsidies yet and no promotions because they have too many people interested Not entirely true. The hardware is sold at a huge loss. If I recall correctly the dishes cost a grand to make. Musk expects those costs
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by laumars 5y ago
> which is the question being debated in this thread. That was discussed elsewhere in this thread. This discussion in this fork is very specifically about monitory costs. Hence all the dollar signs. ;)
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by laumars 5y ago
My point wasn’t whether the cost is reasonable. My point was just that the first month is a $600 bill rather than $100 like the GP suggested. For some that cost is still reasonable for what they’re getting. And that’s fine. But from a purel
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by laumars 5y ago
You do realise not everyone has $500 to spare? For some people the distinction matters a lot. It’s the same reason some people with high end phones pay a larger monthly phone bill. They want a phone they cannot afford to buy so they pay in
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by laumars 5y ago
The problem with that logic is that it’s not paid across 50 months. It’s a sign up lump sum to pay for the antenna rather than a fixed monthly cost added to your contract duration. Also your post doesn’t take into account the life span of t
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by laumars 5y ago
I know it pays for the antenna but the fact remains the cost of Starlink isn’t just $99/month like you’ve claimed.

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