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When we upgraded our appliances, the "smart" or "wifi-enabled" ones were specifically avoided like the plague. "Dumb" appliances - especially fridges, for some reason - are becoming hard to come by, but they do exist. Electrolux, KitchenAid, even LG all make some no-frills models that can save both money and frustration. Hopefully those companies continue serving the "luddite techie" market.

This has nothing to do with the companies you mentioned, and everything to do with the emergence and acceptance of DevOps/SRE best-practices over the last decade or so, which can hardly be reduced to an occasional `apt update`. There is a saying how "The building codes are written in blood". this translates quite well to modern software development lifecycle. It takes a non-trivial amount of work to maintain an internet-facing system in a secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable fashion, especially when e-commerce comes into play. At least if it's anything more serious than a toy project page or "brochureware". And modern developers don't want to deal with this toil - it's a solved problem at this point - they want to code features and build products, and it's wonderful that platforms exist that enable them to do so without having to lose sleep over the CVE du-jour.

that's a weird criterion. market cap has little to nothing to do with it. I don't think it's reasonable to be mad at anyone in this particular situation - we all knew that 32-bit was going away - but there are certainly other reasons to be disappointed by both Apple and Adobe separately.

the story also goes that, since he was only given milk and bread while in solitary confinement, he would make inkwells out of bread, in order to write with said milk. I can't remember off the top of my head what he used as a writing utensil.

this was meant as a reply to yardie's comment, but my HN client won't let me edit or delete it.

I'm not sure it's possible to "give" inaccurate information to Equifax.

I agree. I don't know Kotlin and am reasonably well versed in Python, yet I immediately grasp the Kotlin example as more readable, while having to squint at the Python one for a few seconds. (this is anecdotal of course, and does not account for the example possibly being contrived)

yes, i have the yellow one. it looks awesome, but i'm really longing for some post-apocalyptic touches (think Metro rather than Fallout). don't have an airbrush though, nor do I know how to use one. So this will have to wait...

they also wear all black, and use at least two keyboards simultaneously to hack twice as fast.

that must be why the 'x' key is worn out?

true! I'm very tempted to finish mine with custom airbrushed patina á la "abandoned soviet cold war bunker" :)

you can use any old phone cable by the way!

I have one (sans modules, obviously, for now), and I use it daily with great satisfaction. Not sure yet if it improves my RSI symptoms, but it's not making them worse. It does take a bit of time to develop muscle memory for the different layers. I'm eagerly awaiting the modules to be ready (got the trackball, track point, and the key cluster on order). one other point, I did not find the palm rest to be very comfortable, and wish I could attach it at an angle to the keyboard itself. currently it's sitting in a box since I carry the uhk with me, and it's somewhat hefty.

^ does not contribute

I think such arrogance is uncalled for, but also it would be interesting to hear your experiences that led you to this conclusion.