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by wffurr 6mo ago
Usable has to come first. That's what all these designer types are missing. It's user interaction design, not visual design. The interaction is key.
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by wffurr 6mo ago
I have a lot of gripes with Apple's various design decisions over the years, but they're at least consistent across their apps, which is the point of TFA. Mystery gesture navigation is also now on by default and terrible on Andr
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by wffurr 6mo ago
The number of JavaScript dropdown replacements that don't work correctly with the keyboard is stunning. It always amazes me how many forms fail at this basic usability aspect. The browser has homogeneous form controls built in, jus
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by wffurr 6mo ago
I've internalized the delete shortcut in gmail and configured one of the swipe directions in the app to be delete. For a long time, I archived every email, but there's so much crap like this now to wade through. I also discovered
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by wffurr 6mo ago
>> Like imagine if you were at the grocery store, blocking the isle and someone lightly chimed a bell at you That sounds delightful. We should have more bells lightly chimed around us.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
The idle power usage on those is atrocious compared to say an Intel N100 or an Arm system.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/lg-display-starts-ma... is a better article but LG is light on details of their new proprietary display tech.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
As a parent, the only solution is sticking to ad-free subscription services. PBS is a godsend here, but there's other good options out there too. Tragic that the public broadcasting funding was cut when there's clear harms in th
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by wffurr 7mo ago
I was going to say Nomorobo fixes this, but it's not supported on most landlines anymore.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
I'm missing the benefit to this over just adding on phone service to my cable internet bill.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
Presumably that was the submitter's choice.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
If you ride conservatively (use lights at night, use good judgement at intersections) and stay away from buses and trucks, the exercise vastly outweighs any risk.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
I don't think you understand what "de-escalation" is. It's not ignoring antisocial behavior or failing to confront people.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
There was a post from Apenwarr[1] recently that gave it a name: "the AI Developer’s Descent Into Madness", ending with "I need an agent framework. I can have my agent write an agent framework!" [1]: https://a
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by wffurr 7mo ago
JVM bytecode didn't have support for C and required GC. Even in the early days it was a lot heavier than Wasm.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
Can you use WTF-16 for strings in your language?
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by wffurr 7mo ago
When I was a kid and I got a new set, I would build it according to the instructions, play with it, and then disassemble it and sort it into my brick collection. Occasionally I would get the instructions back out and re-build it, and other
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by wffurr 7mo ago
A cursory search didn't turn anything up in the vim repo or elsewhere. I can see why the authors of the fork wouldn't want to stir up drama, but I am really curious too.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
I would guess it means they accepted AI generated submissions into the vim codebase. There's a discussion in the EVi repo about needing to find people who know vimscript. Funny enough, I am planning to use contributing some vimscript
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by wffurr 7mo ago
There are no zero cost abstractions: https://youtu.be/rHIkrotSwcc?si=oSBlKG9M_Ey8sVIU
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by wffurr 7mo ago
>> For the past decade, UX designers have fetishized flat, monochrome, low-contrast designs with zero visual cues or opportunities for feature discovery Yeah but why? Is it just a design trend? Is it just fashion? Or is there some
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by wffurr 7mo ago
Come to Massachusetts, we have a lot of roundabouts and even a few old style two lane rotaries.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
Running reds is a favorite pastime of Boston area drivers. Enter just after the yellow and buzz the pedestrians waiting, lurk in the middle of the road and make a left turn once oncoming traffic is stopped for the red, or just blow it for
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by wffurr 7mo ago
Why do they do this? I just don't understand the regression in user interfaces in the major operating systems over the years. Is there some academic discourse about this? Is there some trend in UX or designer education that's p
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by wffurr 7mo ago
I think it's great to have a lower cost entry level option for the MacBook, especially given how resistant Apple has been to allowing local development tools and shared files on iPadOS. It seems like a worthy replacement to the M1 Mac
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by wffurr 7mo ago
Lower level, GC optional, supports stack allocated user defined types. Initially designed for C and C++ as an LLVM backend.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
What? I think you forgot some words in there. The EU has applied tariffs for climate reasons with the carbon border adjustment. The idea is for a country to have domestic climate standards, and then apply tariffs on importers who import f
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by wffurr 7mo ago
If this was the stated rationale and goal of the trade war, I'd be all for it. This is exactly the kind of situation tariffs are for.
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by wffurr 7mo ago
I have some clip-on USB-C to Lightning adapters that work really well for charging and Carplay. The connection got flaky at one point, but cleaning the port with some iFixit tools fixed that right up. Clinging to my iPhone 13 Mini until it
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by wffurr 7mo ago
That's an M1 Pro chip. Looking at the base MacBook Pro / Air models with the base M1 chip, the multi-core score is about the same, and those laptops are also still going strong: device | cpu

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