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Comment · 1 year ago
VPN use will increase.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just don't watch YouTube.

Everything became junk when primed for 10-12, or 26-30 minutes - a race to the bottom. AI's a further nail into what YT was.

Comment · 1 year ago
The world was very pious then. To have written that paragraph a century earlier may have resulted in ostracizm. To have written it like that was enough given the limited backing that ould be given. It was enough to influence those around and after Newton, it was, in that sense, remarkable.
Comment · 1 year ago
Dyson always struck me as scammy. All the way back to the 19990s. More proof.
Comment · 1 year ago
MacOS hasn't evolved. It sticks with old paradigms because it's stuck in its ways.

With keyboards, that includes mappings that give RSI and finger strain for the sake of not adding a handful of keys.

For the window manager, that includes non-windowed applications, from a UI perspective never moving on from single application views - just giving an illusion of multiple apps.

Despite the strides NextSTEP brought Apple as an OS, some of which shows through at the command line, the UI and UX just hasn't moved on.

Comment · 1 year ago
REGEX that's incompatible with Office doesn't win users.

> powerful spreadsheet functions like TEXTSPLIT and VSTACK...

...won't matter to almost anyone when you still can't right-click a row and press 'd' on a keyboard to delete that row. Everyday stuff like that matters, not an oblique function.

I still cannot find my way around the semi-ribbon interface, while half the options are still in menus. It seems like pot luck whether or.not the right-clicked 'format' will have the option. Perhaps it's not even 'format'.

Fancy functions to learn don't matter when ChatGPT can string together existing functions to do the job and leave an average-lay-power-user happy. 365. Meanwhile, python's python-XXXx libraries provide a superior UI, a UI that's entirely in my head, than LibreOffice.

Comment · 1 year ago
You seem to be chatting down some perceived tangental competition in order to chat yourself up. That kind of self-promotion's no good. Especially when picking ethereal "your writing sounds weird" ad homineming a decently detailed, reasonably hard-hitting, article.

Perhaps you don't like the conclusions it draws?

You then put words in others mouths. Then cannot leave the thread alone. You've already been called out by failing to pander some cheap anti-Electron sloganeering to the HN crowd, too.

I suggest, if you're going to talk-up your APP, to do so by focusing on positives. Perhaps read some posts by people that promote successfully, such as patio11.

Comment · 1 year ago
If they are not conscious, does that make them unconscious? And if so, do they snore?
Comment · 1 year ago
If you want an 'in' to money and power, stay close to AI as money and power's been convinced enough to get insecure about it thus chase it with existential money and power.

To be fair, this happened a couple of years ago but continued stoking of the insecurity flames is required.

If, however, you already have an 'in' to money and power, no action needed unless one's ego wants more, is deranged, etc.

Comment · 1 year ago
Still, cotton underwear.
Comment · 1 year ago
On the one hand, there are lots of articles explaining that #000000 is not true black, and #ffffff is not true white.

On the other, there are lots of articles explaining that black on white will cause readers discomfort so recommend camouflaged light grey on dark grey, or vice versa, as better.

Comment · 1 year ago
AmigaOS had dictioary.library which AmigaWriter used as could any other app, such as Lemmings.
Comment · 1 year ago
Be more resilient.

HN pussy foots enough. That pussy footing is what causes pent-up voting - its trend followers and "i agree/disagree with this"ers not having the gall to cast first vote.

Justifying this will make it even worse, as a wall of text will be needed before anyone does anything. Then you'll get downvoted by the trend followers citing the wall of text dissenter rather than thinking still.

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