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by nxc18 2mo ago
WinUI3 is horrible, but that is an implementation detail. WPF isn’t so bad (of course for business reasons no one should use either). I still see WPF and AppKit as both being superior UI technologies to web+react, if you ignore the challeng
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by nxc18 2mo ago
I think the universe of SPAs that should exist is far smaller than the universe of SPAs that does exist, and the hype around react is largely to blame.
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by nxc18 2mo ago
They’re pretty easy to keep, set a reminder to water once a week and that’s basically all you need to do. Maybe if you want to go crazy, test if the soil is dry first.
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by nxc18 2mo ago
Does this argument change now that Spotify does offer meaningful connection to fans?* Spotify tells me when any of the artists I listen to are coming to town - I’ve found and bought tickets this way and I don’t go to a lot of live shows in
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by nxc18 2mo ago
Very slightly off topic but also on, I’ve noticed a tendency for well-meaning accessibility folks to drive to bad outcomes to meet some standard. Color is one where the standard is usually right, but there’s pretty strong evidence that the
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by nxc18 2mo ago
There’s an interesting economic point to be made about the specialization of labor and the benefits that arise from that. Just like it is more efficient to have a food system than to have everyone feed themselves from their backyard (if the
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by nxc18 2mo ago
> In 3 years, all this compliance shit will be out the window, because AI screen readers and agents are going to make the whole point moot. Since the whole compliance racket is totally disconnected from actual accessibility outcomes, why
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by nxc18 3mo ago
Is that true or does it only feel true because they nerf the old models just before every major release?
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by nxc18 3mo ago
Even something as simple as buying a movie ticket can require submitting a name using only Japanese characters.
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by nxc18 3mo ago
If you can’t read, you can’t write, and if you can’t write, you can’t think. Depending on your place in the class hierarchy, and the orientation of your moral compass, this may or may not be a good thing.
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by nxc18 3mo ago
I don’t think Phil had any other options while existing under Satya and a relentless push to services revenue. If Windows can’t make a case for itself without moving heavily to services (advertising and pushing 365, primarily), how could Xb
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by nxc18 3mo ago
And this attitude is why we have the software we have in 2026. The profession used to recognize value beyond next quarter’s dividend (jk, we only do stock buybacks now for tax reasons).
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by nxc18 3mo ago
Seatbelts and airbags sometimes kill people, too. Sometimes people die in unlucky ways.
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by nxc18 3mo ago
People for some reason forget that for most election apps you can run it in a browser tab and avoid almost all of the overhead. You can run slack, teams, outlook, Spotify, figma, and just about everything else in a browser tab; you get Linu
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by nxc18 3mo ago
I was really disappointed that air cleaning didn’t take off after Covid. Super disappointing to see society just collectively decide to not learn any lessons. Even if there were no mortality or productivity benefits, you’d think cutting dow
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by nxc18 3mo ago
Does it? Do people actually play those games? I thought people just liked buying them and never playing the vast majority of them.
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by nxc18 3mo ago
Console stores also have sales. Often with pretty huge discounts. I just bought a bunch of games on Xbox in the 1-5 dollar range. I see similar sales on PS5 all the time.
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by nxc18 3mo ago
They fired all of their SDET, eliminated the SDET role/discipline, and made SDEs responsible for quality and shipping their features, a major conflict of interest. This happened ~2014/2015. https://newsletter.pragmatice
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by nxc18 3mo ago
True, those things make Windows unusable. They also make the Mac worse, but not so much worse that it isn’t an absolute breath of fresh air compared to any corporate provided Windows device.
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by nxc18 3mo ago
Try using any demo app from their user showcase on web.
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by nxc18 4mo ago
GitHub enterprise is getting worse release after release. Cloud demand/usage spike is just an excuse.
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by nxc18 6mo ago
Loads, the various attempts to overthrow the Weimar Republic for one, but many smaller, like the Impresa di Fiume. Maybe not “for fun” but largely for justifications that pale in comparison to the suffering they unleashed. Americans ready t
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by nxc18 6mo ago
> Nobody starts a revolution for funsies They definitely do, see the 1900s. I think modern day Americans do not understand how bad war is because they’ve been engaged in it for nearly 30 years continuously without directly feeling the co
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by nxc18 6mo ago
I think it counts as effectively unhackable since it remained unhacked until five and a half years after its successor went on the market. I wonder if, assuming they continue making Xbox, they find a way to mitigate this in the next generat
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by nxc18 5y ago
Fair enough, you’ve been very convincing and I think you’ve identified a blind spot of mine. I’ll need to take some time to develop a better understanding of these sub cultural movements. Thank you.
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by nxc18 5y ago
Does going on tour and spending long hours hacking computer systems count as lying flat? I’d say they were just contrarians who worked differently, and we’ve got lots of those, working hard, in all parts of society. Entrepreneurs also rejec
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by nxc18 5y ago
You can make analogies to the current, active antiwork movement. I think it is pretty clear that all of society is poorer for the existence of these people. Perhaps China’s ability to keep a lid on it is one small part of their relative eco
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by nxc18 5y ago
When I spend too much time on TikTok (about an hour I think), it slips in a video of a relatable young person saying something like “hold on! You’ve been scrolling for way too long now!…” or alternatively, “I understand it’s easy to keep wa
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by nxc18 5y ago
Can you please elaborate? I’m trying to avoid causing distress but I don’t see how what I’ve written is anything other than clear, neutral, and respectful (even more than usual for an Internet forum). (PS: I don’t discuss mechanisms of depr
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by nxc18 5y ago
Key phrase is “a lot of”. To break down the full statement: - “Sometimes I wonder” => this is an explanation/story I’ve thought about; it is one of many models of the world and I have doubts about how applicable it is - “a lot of” =

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