cosmic_cheese

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by cosmic_cheese 5d ago
In the long term, yes, but infrastructure projects are famously drawn out in the US due to meddling from NIMBYs, companies puppeting sham environmental groups, and third parties forcing their way in and holding projects hostage unless they
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by cosmic_cheese 6d ago
I had heard that prices went up as a result of the oil supply crunch. Not seeing where the downgrade is, though. Even the cheaper trims of Ariya are nicer, better equipped, and more powerful than any new car in the low-mid 20s price range a
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by cosmic_cheese 6d ago
It kills me that Japan and other countries have a nice hybrid Honda Fit that the US will never see.
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by cosmic_cheese 6d ago
It’s almost maybe not a bad idea to take a ~30m breather on a 250m trip. Good opportunity to grab a bite to eat too since many chargers are situated near rest stops and restaurants.
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by cosmic_cheese 6d ago
It’s not just old EVs that are cheap, it’s 1-3 year old low mileage off lease models too. My numbers may a bit out of date but for example, depending on the trim and mileage, the Nissan Ariya can be be had at between $15-$25k (with MSRP bei
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by cosmic_cheese 6d ago
Last I checked, depending on one’s needs, used EVs are among some of the best values in the US used car market. Their prices are closer to what prices on used gas cars would’ve been had the market not been turned on its head during the pand
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by cosmic_cheese 6d ago
To be clear, it’s definitely improved some in that time, but there still yet remains plenty of room for further improvement. Google seems extremely reticent to have anything resembling strong opinions in Android’s API design and so there ar
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by cosmic_cheese 6d ago
And following this, I'm sure we've all seen the pattern of manufacturing the data required to justify the removal of features. Bury feature → usage numbers tank → oh hey look nobody uses this any more, guess we can safely cut it!
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
Absolutely. I think that over-reliance on analytics has had a similar effect; compared to relying primarily on proper usability research and in-person user studies, doing that creates a detachment and distance that further removes the proje
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
I'd like to see equivalents of UIKit/SwiftUI components that do most of the layout/navigation heavy lifting for you. For most apps, either the iOS 18+ UITabController or UISplitViewController comfortably covers every platform
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
Speaking personally, JVM toolchain bits like Gradle being involved is a turnoff and has kept me away from KMP. Last I checked support wasn't really there yet, but I'd much rather go the other direction and use Swift Package Manage
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
> I can absolutely see that being more attractive especially with things like the Duo where, I assume, SwiftUI gives you a number of things "for free". Apple may not trumpet it as loudly, but these freebies are handed out in UI
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
The thing that makes Microsoft's case particularly annoying is that they have demonstrated how they can develop half-decent Electron apps with VS Code, but have simply elected not to with anything that's not VS Code. Like yes,
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
Yeah, I much prefer the higher PPI and metal chassis of the Kuycon, but its apparently spotty QC and uncertain brand reputation would make me lean towards the BenQ RD280UG if 3:2 aspect ratio were my dealbreaker. It's just too much mon
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
It’s a factor, but the bulk of those devices can be generalized into a handful of categories. Google could also throw around its weight a bit more to get manufacturers to form a consensus on things like how various components are addressed
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
> WindowSizeClasses, Postures, Navigation3, ListDetailScaffolds, the list goes on. Yes, those are the loose parts. They still have to be assembled correctly for everything to work as expected and every app does it a bit differently (ther
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
As a dev who regularly works on apps for both platforms, I think one of the main causes for poor support for form factors beyond a standard smartphone on Android boils down to Google refusing to give developers fully fleshed out APIs to sup
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
> Really what I want is a “give me 2020 software” toggle. But if we’re wishing, a 2010 toggle would also probably be nice… No kidding. It feels like by some time around 2015 the majority of the commercial software development world gave
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
The thing is, all they really have to do is add an off switch for AI features so they’re not taking up space in the UI and aren’t consuming any extra resources. This toggle should also hide aggressive AI promotions in places like launch scr
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
Speed Download on early OS X releases was a lifesaver back when I was still on 56k dialup. Its multiplexing was the only way I could get decent speeds half the time (browsers would often drift down to single digits) and being able to resume
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
The important part is the quality of the code, how well-considered its design is, how well it gels with existing code, how readable it is to other humans, how well documented it is, how well its author understands it (and thus, can make sur
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
A lot of folks might not want to hear it, but realistically some there's going to have to be a cultural realization that machine-generated low effort slop is not any more desired or helpful than human-generated low effort slop. That&#x
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by cosmic_cheese 10d ago
With the disclaimer that I've never operated in this space, I would imagine that a significant barrier to the creation of new dating sites is that most people who care enough to try to build a good service are spooked by the liability
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by cosmic_cheese 10d ago
Technically true, though that comes with the caveat that doing so requires considerable time and technical skill… we're talking compiling your own kernel and assembling your userland and desktop. The nice thing about classic Mac OS is
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by cosmic_cheese 10d ago
I’m not convinced that it’s impossible to build a modern OS in a way that’s properly modular and allows most functionality to be disabled entirely (as in never even loaded into memory). Windows almost categorically can’t because it’s only e
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by cosmic_cheese 10d ago
> But the OS should be as lean as possible because the entire reason is to run other programs. In my mind Classic Mac OS (minus its design issues) is the ideal to strive for here. It was barely even an OS and more like a substrate for GU
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by cosmic_cheese 10d ago
RCS was DOA from day one as far as I'm concerned. The carriers being involved in any capacity deeper than providing dumb pipes alone was enough to make it pointless, but no E2E in the base spec makes it extra pointless. They may as wel
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by cosmic_cheese 11d ago
Something something Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. While I don't necessarily endorse the view, it's understandable that one might find it difficult to care much about the bigger picture when it feels like their own life is dest
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by cosmic_cheese 11d ago
I've been fortunate to not been impacted as severely as others, but yeah, the combo of the first half of my 30s (and everything that should've represented) going up in smoke, career continuity coming into question thanks to AI, an
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by cosmic_cheese 11d ago
Yep, I suspect the goal is to reduce support footprint/burden to the absolute minimum possible, which is also why they don't maintain their legacy virtualization/translation layers indefinitely (Classic mode, Rosetta 1 (PPC →

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