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Comment · 2 months ago
I hate nothing more than when a random mistype on a website or app causing shit i don’t understand to happen without reasonable ways to undo it or discover it. I don’t really care if the app can be controlled with a keyboard i want the ui to be discverable and usefull.
Comment · 9 months ago
systemd not SystemD
Comment · 9 months ago
systemd not SystemD idk why people got that in their head.
Comment · 11 months ago
I'd love to find more info on this but from what I can find it seems to be making webpages that look like those product, and seemingly can "run python" or "emulate a game" but writing something that, based on all of GitHub, can approximate an iPhone or emulator in javscript/css/HTML is very very very different than writing an OS.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I always see people saying magit is awesome but i really can't stand it. Especially the keybindings and transient which seems the main draw.
Comment · 1 year ago
I think I broadly agree with this. I am super frustrated that everythign always wants me to search for things. As an example Finders default search while looking at a folder is the whole machine instead of a filter in the directory you are viewing in seems totally insane to me. It's almost like they don't want me to know where my files are.

I can understand that it's a result, to a degree of cloud services and peoples primary mode swapping to opening and app and opening recents or searching instead of opening a file to open an app but it does mean that you're at the mercy of what I experience as some pretty crap search algorithms that don't seem to want you to find the information you're looking for. I keep encountering searches that rank fuzzy matches over exact matches or aren't stable as you continue to complete the same word and I just don't understand how that's acceptable after being pointed out if search is what I'm supposed to be using.

Comment · 1 year ago
Awesome I wasn't having enough trouble figuring out what I could tap and not now everything has this crappy distorted look.
Comment · 1 year ago
this has been a known problem with YouTube for ever and they seem to have no interest in fixing it.
Comment · 1 year ago
> If so: why, and what for?

A huge amount of important existing software is written in C. If the code is already written or needs to inter-operate with other pieces in many languages I typically write C. There are a also lot of things that can be easier in C because that modern safer languages would stop you from doing foot shooting things that C won't it's quicker sometimes to write or prototype in C.

> If not: why not, and what do you use instead?

A not insignificant part of my career has been fixing bugs in C code that's been around forever. It's almost always the same class of dumb bugs that wouldn't exist in other languages. This is not anecdata the research agrees. No new projects should be started in C there are better tools.

Comment · 2 years ago
I really dislike reading website that take over half the screen and make me read off to the side like this. I can fix it by zooming in but I don't understand why they thought making the navigation take up that much of the screen or not be collapsable was a good move.
Comment · 3 years ago
YES PLEASE. I'd really like to see us head towards 3 6 hours days.
Comment · 4 years ago
I think most is doing a lot of work there. No one I know who games or does CAD is mining crypto because it's in no way worth it and I imagine there's nothing but anecdata for your statment either.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is actually a big part of Modern Monetary theory: From the wikipedia page

  ...the primary risk once the economy reaches full 
  employment is inflation, which can be addressed by 
  gathering taxes...
Comment · 5 years ago
It seem pretty common for people who own Apple products to say "2013 macbook air" and that is easy to find on the device or in the software. Apple makes it pretty clear newer is better. Intel has a bunch of lakes and numbers and an easier way to tell would be nice all around. Though Apple has less skus to differentiate making it much easier for them.

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