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by phantasmish 9mo ago
If someone cracks “smart glasses” that’s the next smartphone-size market and revolution, guaranteed, no question about it. VR headsets ain’t it but I’m convinced the reason every company is working on them and developing AR stuff for their
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
You mean the “roulette-wheel do-something-vaguely-backish” button?
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
Nb I see tons of rendering bugs across a bunch of apps and I suspect it’s because I disabled as much animation and transparency as I could. Things like the keyboard opening slightly off the screen to the right then jumping into place, some
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
There are like a half-dozen blatant bugs I encounter between daily and weekly in Safari. Text input and textarea editing is buggy in a couple ways, Apple Pay has a positioning bug where sometimes its bottom button is about 1/3 off the
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
This is like complaining all modern movies are superhero movies. It’s hard to think that unless you’re hardly looking at all, or have fairly narrow taste and aren’t counting most of the medium.
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
He’s announced having done more things I might have liked, than he’s actually done. Lots of crowing about crap that never happens.
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
New Jersey solved this: just put up signs saying “you’re on a toll road, go check what you owe and pay later”. No toll plaza! Then when you forget, which you 100% will if you’re not dealing with it frequently, or just reasonably assume they
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
One of the two things I mentioned is already happening, and it’ll be pretty surprising if the Republican army isn’t used for voter intimidation. Why even have it, if not for that kind of thing? It’s not like they didn’t already use both cov
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
The usual way for this to happen doesn’t involve suspending elections. And I’d not bet on a guy that old and infirm winning again in 2028 even if he could legally run. We’ll see how ICE at select polling places and iffy federal-run voter
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by phantasmish 9mo ago
I tried to help them steelman this but the only couple examples of good things I could come up with, I’ve not seen liberals complain about. Hm. Coming up blank.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Try the Quad (or Quint) Cities if you want a dynamic with more than two cities. Three on the Illinois side, one (or two) on the Iowa side. (It started as a “tri cities” so the bump to five isn’t the first it’s seen) Bonus points: an OK nati
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Yeah, a matter of preference I’m sure. I prefer not having to scrunch a little at the waist to reach e.g. “cargo” pockets, and there’s nothing like interior breast pockets on jackets, for pants (various sorts of hidden pants pocket exist, y
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Yeah suits are kinda ass. Again, the need to have trousers so closely matched they can pretty much only come from the same batch as the cloth in the jacket. Sucks. Looks nice, but man that blows. Jackets are dope, though. Get some summer-
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
One really appreciates the “pocket” label of this format if one wears suits, sport coats, or blazer jackets, or almost any of several styles of coat that fall under the category of “overcoat”: these books really were pocket size! For those
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Yeah, I’ve noticed the classic line showing up on shelves and they seem a ton better, but I don’t recall seeing them several years ago when we were doing lots of Lego-buying. Really limited selection and mostly big, expensive sets too, not
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Big problem with modern LEGO for me is that so many modern sets are almost all teensy-tiny pieces, so they look good on the box—the adult-aimed ones have always been like this since they started targeting that market, but now it’s like 95%
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
Can confirm that Magnatiles, specifically, were maybe the best value for the dollar we ever got out of toys for our kids. Idk if the quality has held up but our kids abused the hell out of the things and it took them years to finally break
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I haaaaate the fake typing noises.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
When we were making a long move and temporarily without a stable address I looked into getting a PO Box and it seemed impossible without a real address. I ended up finding some kinda sketchy-feeling services aimed at people RV living, and
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I’m in the US and was able to look straight up from where I’m sitting at a shelf of canned food and spot a store brand can labeled “kidney beans”. We call them that, too.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
My work email is barely better. If it matters it reaches me in Teams (ugh, unfortunately). Email is full of spam, most of it company-internal (no I don’t give a shit about yet another “newsletter” that you probably had an LLM write anyway,
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
> I have a family, a house, and just lots of other things that require email correspondence. Weird how much this can differ. I have those things and sometimes go months without looking at my email. 99.99% of messages I care about are in
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
It’s so easy to host, and I once implemented a partial in-browser client (using, basically, a web bridge that I also wrote on the other side) in no time, starting from not knowing a single thing about it aside from having used xmpp chat cli
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I can assure you that plenty of people who were using computers before smartphones, and who have used them every day at work for decades, also do not grasp what we could consider the very basics of file management.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
The way we used to enforce those laws before the mid-70s was much closer to “big companies get broken up” than it is now. The modern standard for how and when we intervene is not necessarily the correct one.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
At my company doubling the writing-code part of software projects might speed them up 5%. I think even that’s optimistic. Imperfectly fixing obvious problems in our processes could gain us 20%, easy. Which one are we focusing on? AI. Duh.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I never stopped calling “telemetry” spyware. It’s weird to me that others accepted the shift in terminology.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
N-gate was by far the best thing about HN.
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
I dunno about Windows Explorer, but macOS’ finder seems to hash completed transfers over SMB (this must be something it can trigger the receiver to do in SMB itself, it doesn’t seem slow enough for the sender to be doing it on a remote file
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by phantasmish 10mo ago
They’d need to improve desktop Linux a lot to threaten Apple. It’s far more tolerable on their relatively tightly-controlled and stable hardware platforms than it is elsewhere, but it’s still a features-weak jankfest compared to macOS. I

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