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Comment · 3 months ago
The 5 cm example had a line break between the 5 and the cm when I read the page in my phone. A joke?
Comment · 3 months ago
Sorry for all the nasty replies here. You do you! I’m a car & bike guy so I’m glad you got a cool car and modded it as you like. I’m hoping for an old 900ss or monster for my delayed mid life crisis purchase but money isn’t there.
Comment · 9 months ago
I agree but I think the problem will be if the consequences are that dire then entire classes of business will cease to exist OR the cost of doing things properly will be passed on to the consumer.

I struggle to see how data brokers, social media, etc are a net benefit to society so would be happy to see those sorts of businesses cease to exist, but I suspect I'm in the minority.

Comment · 11 months ago
It's a nice thought but think of the cost!

You do have to wonder what the hell the people in charge of the Windows UI are thinking. They seem to have got it so badly wrong. But so has Apple in macos.

Comment · 11 months ago
Don't kwow why you're getting downvoted, seems like a reasonable comment to me.

I agree, JavaScript and all it has enabled is a curse.

If one wanted the good bits of JavaScript I'm sure there are languages they were copied from that could be used instead.

Comment · 1 year ago
Still not feeling any sympathy. These people are actively working to make society worse.
Comment · 1 year ago
I had a job in the early 90s where another team were using Wang 2200s which I'm sure were coded with line-numbered BASIC.

Could be one of those with the everlasting ERP type software running on an emulator.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think Fusion360 is one of the worst things I've seen. It presents as local but it feels like every mouse click causes a web request to happen.

Something that should be local and snappy is just an awful experience.

Comment · 1 year ago
Such a weird and absurd conversation to be having from the PoV of someone who started using computers a long time ago.

Offline first apps 'sound like the future'? I agree they're far better than the trash we have now, but it's not like we can't build them now.

We should be building them now. The web was never meant to be an app delivery platform :(

Comment · 1 year ago
6502 zero page instruction vibes.
Comment · 1 year ago
I saw this yesterday. I was asking it to update an SQL query and it was saying, 'I did this' and then that wasn't in the query. I even saw it put something in the query and then remove it, and then say 'here it is'.

Maybe it's because I use the free tier web interface, but I can't get any AI to do much for me. Beyond a handful of lines (and less yesterday) it just doesn't seem that great. Or it gives me pages of javascript to show a date picker before I RTFM and found it's a single input tag to do that, because it's training data was lots of old and/or bad code and didn't do it that way.

Comment · 1 year ago
I used stty to make interrupt ktrl-k, then configured the terminal app to make copy/paste ctrl-c/ctrl-v.

I use copy/paste more than I use interrupt.

I hated MacOS keyboard shortcuts at first, but cmd-c/cmd-v do work around this problem.

Comment · 1 year ago
Agree to both points. The UI part of macOS is trash, and there are a few times I'd like to have kept a window on top but couldn't despite the random updaters and reminders doing it without asking.
Comment · 1 year ago
I get various app update dialogs opening up and stealing focus. Fusion360 is pretty bad when you open it - it takes forever too.

Focus stealing happens quite a lot on macOS.

Comment · 1 year ago
The problem (as far as I can tell) is that for Windows and MacOS you can't install the docker daemon etc without installing Desktop.

I have a Mac for work and containers are a pain. I've tried Podman, UTM, colima, Docker Desktop etc and it all boils down to the same thing - run a linux VM and have the command line utils cooperate with the VM to run the containers.

It comes down to which solution has the least friction and irritations and Docker might still win there.

My current setup is UTM running a debian VM which I share my source directory with and ssh into to run docker. This is simpler for my brain to understand because the linux VM isn't a hidden component I forget to manage.

But it's not obvious how to mount the shared directory and I'm constantly running into networking problems - currently I cannot connect as myself and must sudo ssh for it to work. A reboot (of the Mac) used to fix it, but no longer does. I've given up trying to fix it and just sudo.

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