stormbeta

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by stormbeta 3y ago
For human-maintained config, TOML is only "better" when the structure is so flat that it's almost indistinguishable from an INI file. Anything more complex and it becomes one of the worst choices due to the confusing/un
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by stormbeta 4y ago
That aspect at least is easy to solve by drawing a stronger line between public content and stuff seen by people you actually know. This would be more of a social change than technical of course. The harder part is figuring out how to handl
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by stormbeta 5y ago
Yeah - as a user, I specifically _don't_ like Apple's approach of breaking things all the time.
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by stormbeta 5y ago
> Anyone who understands what Bitcoin enables and still doesn’t agree that Bitcoin is valuable and good for the world has a wildly different set of values that I can’t understand. You have that right at least. I cannot understand anyone
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by stormbeta 5y ago
The US is at no serious risk of hyperinflation in the foreseeable future, barring unknowable events / disasters.
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by stormbeta 5y ago
> Also, like regular graphics cards, newer versions are highly prized so one might say that graphics cards as an industry is already all about e-waste. Unless you’d like to buy my Radeon 9800 or my GTX 1070? They’re still perfectly good
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by stormbeta 5y ago
I don't mind 16:9 so much as the incredibly poor choices for resolution and panel quality I'm faced with on most Windows laptops lately. It feels like TV salespeople took over and completely ignored what actually makes sense for a
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by stormbeta 5y ago
And this is exactly why I'm so skeptical of cryptocurrencies in general. There doesn't appear any viable way to make them work as currencies that doesn't either have horrendous externalities, simply replicate what existing cu
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by stormbeta 5y ago
Couldn't disagree more. I've always had false positive issues with Apple's trackpads. The newer ones are slightly better in terms of accuracy, but they're so absurdly large that it still happens more often than it used t
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by stormbeta 5y ago
Speaking personally: * No ability to show thumbnails in folder icons * No ability to use single click + hover to highlight * Relative sizing feels way off - everything in Finder always seems to be simultaneously way too spaced out while als
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by stormbeta 5y ago
That and the energy cost, both direct as well environmental. It always surprises me how little cryptocurrency advocates seem to understand basic macroeconomics and unintended consequences, especially on sites like this.
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by stormbeta 6y ago
Exactly. I felt a lot safer using something like KeePass, and synchronizing the encrypted database using something like Dropbox. There's not a central target that would get caught up in large scale attacks aside from Dropbox itself - a
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by stormbeta 6y ago
Consider that for many of us, our phones are now quite literally painful to use one-handed, and we have no alternatives - for devices that most of us use for at least an hour or two a day and is often our primary tech device when not actual
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by stormbeta 6y ago
I own an iPad Pro 11. I don't think it's just you - there's a lot of basic everyday functionality that is pointlessly difficult and cumbersome in iOS. E.g. data management is still the worst of any modern OS by a huge margin,
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by stormbeta 6y ago
I have the QC35's, and the voice assistant integration is, as expected, gimmicky and not very useful. However, you can change the button to control noise cancellation level instead, and that's actually very useful since "high
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by stormbeta 6y ago
Capacitive controls have zero place on any headphones, let alone ones as expensive as these. The fact that you're willing to live with it doesn't mean it's not still a terrible design. And I consider all of those buttons to b
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by stormbeta 6y ago
While this is great news for my QC 35's, the newer Bose 700's have me extremely worried for the future of their devices. Anyone who puts non-tactile touch controls on _headphones_ shouldn't be allowed to design electronics in
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by stormbeta 7y ago
RIP Inbox. Still a drastically better UI for a lot of users than Gmail is.
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by stormbeta 7y ago
The fact that we _still_ can't disable the drafts "feature" says a lot about how little they listen to user feedback. I've not found a single person who likes that behavior, the behavior doesn't make any sense. Ther
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by stormbeta 7y ago
That might have been the intent of helm, but it does not at all reflect the reality of using it in the experience of most people I've spoken with, especially pre-3.0. I've lost track of how many times helm has misrepresented the r
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by stormbeta 7y ago
Not to mention the inability to split the keyboard - on iPad sized devices, trying to thumb type without a split keyboard is a huge pain in the ass.
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by stormbeta 7y ago
The navigation gestures and movements on iOS are a prime example. They're plenty intuitive, but they're obviously timed for the slowest possible user using them for the first time - so by the hundredth time you try to do something
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by stormbeta 8y ago
Yeah, I thought Inbox would actually be safe to use since it was tied to email, but nope. Gmail doesn't have the automated bundling features that Inbox does, and like you, losing Inbox will be a pretty significant blow to my ability to
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by stormbeta 8y ago
Agreed. It's not even the cost I take issue with, it's the design compromises. I want a professional device Apple, not a toy fashion product. I like macOS, but Apple's making it incredibly difficult to take their product line
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by stormbeta 8y ago
The big one I want to see, because it's one of my biggest frustrations with Python, is to finally make lambdas work like every other contemporary language instead of being inexplicably limited to a single expression simply because Guid
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by stormbeta 9y ago
I don't know, I've seen a lot of trust erosion in the last few years even just among people I know (many of whom don't even work in tech), largely driven by them getting burned by problems with sketchy third-party re-sellers.
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by stormbeta 9y ago
I wouldn't have been so annoyed if it was actually treated as the engineering concession that it is. From a user experience POV, the obvious thing to do with an OLED screen would have been to make the notch the same height as the statu
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by stormbeta 9y ago
gofmt, sure. Consistency in style is great. But GOPATH was a mistake in the same way Go's hitherto lack of versioning was: it deliberately breaks easy isolation between projects / dependency management. This mindset only works if
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by stormbeta 9y ago
Not only that, but locking allows for what is IMO the best way to handle this through CI: Always run your builds with maximal version selection in CI (unlocked), and lock the new versions in if it passes all tests, otherwise leave the previ
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by stormbeta 9y ago
And yet my Android apps have often stayed working long past when they stopped being supported, and rarely seem to suffer from the quantity of layout problems iOS does since Android has always had to deal with devices of variable sizes and r

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