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by quacked 1y ago
I deeply hate Microsoft, and most modern commercial software design, but OneDrive has consistently been the best app I've ever used for large file storage. Can anyone explain why they hate it so much? I have near instantaneous access t
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All good advice; I would also advise doing whatever is possible to be considered personally useful by very important executive staff that you like personally, even if it means doing jobs that are trivial but showy for non-technical users (l
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Most of the people I work with are 35+, but even the juniors in MechE, Aero, etc. tend to have some scripting experience that doesn't necessarily translate to having a robust intuition about DBs, the relationship between frontend and b
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> I'm regularly amazed at how little non-developer/technical users complain about strange and confusing behavior. I am a highly technical user that works with a lot of people with traditional engineering degrees but little to n
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The way I see it is that US companies cannot simultaneously compete with foreign workers who are as good or better than US workers but are willing to work harder for less money, and also retain a high QoL for US workers. If US companies wan
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by quacked 1y ago
Well said! It is consistently frustrating to me to read so many analyses mentioning "comparative advantage" when what they mean is "minute labor protections compared to American standards". Americans can't freely co
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This isn't a failure of PowerPoint. I work for NASA and we still use it all the time, and I'll assure anyone that the communication errors are rife regardless of what medium we're working in. The issue is differences in the w
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by quacked 1y ago
Do you think that there shouldn't be any steel mills in the US?
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Ask HN: How much would it cost to build a new commercially viable OS?
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If it were possible to turn off reports back to the manufacturer of what features were used and how often they were used on a grand scale, we'd enter into a golden age of software. I hate using technology now, with every button click r
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I highly disagree that Andor feels highly detailed or lived-in; it's like acting school charades level depictions of rural people, imperial bureaucrats, high society parties, etc. This is especially bad in season 2. I agree from a writ
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Really? Every Figma mockup I've ever seen appears to be imitating that exact style. I don't think I've ever seen something different from any Figma product, even in their own advertisements. I thought it was a classic case of
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I deeply, deeply despise the Figma-style design language that everything uses now, where there's barely any indication of what's clickable vs. what isn't and every screen is an endlessly-scrolling set of tiles and pills. No b
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It's always weird to see Quakerism be mentioned somewhere else. I grew up Quaker and still sometimes attend Quaker meeting, and I related to his ceiling-tile counting; I used to count the wooden boards that formed the ceiling of our me
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by quacked 1y ago
I don't disagree with anything you're saying. I think we're making the same point, namely that if one business operates American-style and the other business operates third-world style, the third-world style business will win
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by quacked 1y ago
The market has not decided on anything; to employ Americans, you have to pay huge amounts of extra taxes and provide all sorts of legally mandated protections, and to operate an American business, you have to follow all sorts of operational
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by quacked 1y ago
Using your principles, the only societies possible are pre-industrial, pre-legal societies residing in areas not desired by neighboring states or bands of raiding warriors.
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by quacked 1y ago
> Do you think every police department in the US oppresses minorities and infringes on civil rights or something? There are some people who not only believe this but can make very compelling cases that this is the case. It's a dead
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I think that the time may come in the near future where "proper" white collar Americans will have an obligation to flagrantly violate new laws and be arrested on purpose in order to create a critical mass of people who both have e
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by quacked 2y ago
Thanks, I intuited (1) and (2) but I hadn't thought about (3) or (4). I think waterproof mechanisms are about the only time I've encountered them where I haven't immediately despised them for total lack of haptic feedback and
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Capacitive touch buttons are #1 on my hate list for "inventions". They have all the downsides of touchscreens with none of the upsides, and they're imitating a control device so perfect that it basically hasn't been chan
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by quacked 2y ago
That's a very good idea. I'd love it if cars had this.
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No engineer that works for SpaceX, with SpaceX, or is closely connected to engineers who work for SpaceX would agree with your assessment that SpaceX's success is due to: > "break[ing] something the government runs by defunding
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Billions of dollars were going to flow into the coffers of the cartels either way; the people want drugs, the cartels are willing to use violence in order to organize who gets to distribute and at what prices they sell. There's no such
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by quacked 2y ago
^ people downvoting your comment are wrong; it's completely true. The nation-state is a martial construct; the difference between it and its neighbors is a line of demarcation upheld by an external-facing military, and its own legitima
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by quacked 2y ago
> The FDA approved the first generic auto-injector in 2018. Sure, but the length of the time it took, plus the lack of any pressure on the price of name-brand EpiPens, is a huge problem, in my view. The legal barriers to market entry sho
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I know what you mean, and I agree that innovation can and does happen without a profit motive. In the context of the paragraph, I was talking more about the cultural and decision-making environment within SpaceX and Blue; they're a lot
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One thing that is curious to me is that the "free market" appears to only be "free" once you've amassed a certain amount of capital, which you can then expend to defend your enterprise from any number of legal chall
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I am no fan of Musk, but I have always admired his tactics and insights as a technical executive. His actions in X and the government are bizarre, though. I am starting to wonder if he aims to take control of the government directly within
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