dahauns · HackerTrans

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...if only they were at least somewhat as passionate about QC.

It really pains me to be that cynical, because I do find their products incredibly fascinating and inventive. But for anything but their lowest-end toy products the design aspirations - and boutique price tag - clash hard with the reality of their quality track record.

dahauns

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

Heh, when it comes to audio software, you could throw a lot more in the mix, e.g. Logic Pro, Native Instruments (at least in the past - shame what happened to them) and - arguably ;) - Steinberg among others.

dahauns

vor 2 Monatendiscuss

>but on that Windows PC they work as well as the really good alternatives.

I know I'm a rather late here and essentially just ranting a bit while waiting for github to finally do as it is told, sorry :)

But that's exactly the (frustrating) issue - as I've laid out in another post - no, they don't work as well. It's not about others being better in every aspect (yeah, they usually aren't), but about expected baseline features that are simply missing.

(And to be honest, I've become a bit jaded regarding the resulting discussions :) No, that thing doesn't just suck in general. No, it's not impossible. It's Apple's implementation. External Display Support flashbacks incoming ;) )

dahauns

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

How is having to manually reconnect each time when switching between, say, an IPhone and a Windows laptop every time fine or even remotely seamless?

I do not have to that even with my ~30€ JBL buds.

dahauns

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

>Their ability to connect and move between devices is 100x better than any competitor.

This statement only has any merit if your usage pattern is 100% limited to Apple devices, otherwise it falls apart.

It would be fine if they fell back to "at least as good as the competition" in a mixed use case, but in the mixed case they are worse than what even low-budget BT buds often offer (no BT Multipoint, no ear recognition, etc., hell, not even a battery level over BT...and even pairing/reconnect is often a crapshoot reminiscent of the state of BT Audio 10-15 years ago). It was honestly a really disappointing realization.

dahauns

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

The most impressive part of Control's RT (on PC at least) was that it very much applied to (most) dynamic objects - and it features a TON of dynamic destruction.

The "office building" setting meant resticted areas, sure, but it features TONS of reflections - especially transparent reflections (which are practically impossible to decently approximate with screen space techniques).

Oh, and: The Northlight Engine already did more than most other engines at the time to get "90% there" with a ton of hybrid techniques, not least being one of the pioneers regarding realtime software GI.

dahauns

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

I'm not sure what argument you are trying to make with picking out a single command and vaguely asserting doubt.

It's about having a high degree of systematization and standardization and detailed guidelines around command structure and behaviour. The same with parameter naming and handling. About actually being able to work with typed data at input/output/pipes instead of only raw bytes, with all the benefits that entails (and a "standard library" of cmdlets/modules liberally making use of that). And so on. Having the whole .NET runtime available as a first-class citizen if needed is a nice bonus as well.

Don't mistake lack of familiarity for obtuseness.

dahauns

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

  $file = Get-ChildItem "C:\some path\having spaces.txt"

  Write-Output $file.DirectoryName
  Write-Output $file.Name
  Write-Output $file.BaseName

Or if that's still to verbose:

  $file = gci "C:\some path\having spaces.txt"

  echo $file.DirectoryName
  echo $file.Name
  echo $file.BaseName

People should really get over their aversion against powershell.

dahauns

vor 3 Monatendiscuss

I certainly won't argue that pwsh is even close to perfect, but...obtuse is just about the most unfitting description of powershell. It offers a level of structure and consistency that is - even with all its shortcomings - orders of magnitude above the wild west of the daily reality of the linux cli.

Just because it's the mess we are all intimately familiar with, doesn't make it less of a mess.

dahauns

vor 4 Monatendiscuss

> I pushed through to the bitter end of Ghosts n' Goblins. And damned if I wasn't rewarded with the message, "This was all an illusion created by Satan."

Weeell...here's the thing. Erm. You didn't push through to the end. You just got the "bad" ending.

The game does very much have a proper ending, and reaching it is surprisingly straightforward.

You just have to beat it twice.

dahauns

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

In Austria you don't need an Austrian passport/Personalausweis for a Digital ID registration. Your original passport (or equivalent) in combination with a certificate of residence, student permit or similar is fine.

dahauns

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

Apologies that I'm latching onto your post for visibility, but for the sake of discussion - the European Identity Digital Wallet project specification and standardisation process is in the open and lives on github (yeah, the irony isn't lost on me :) ):

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet

https://eudi.dev/latest/

Everything's very much WIP, but it aims to provide a detailed Archictecture and Reference Framework/Technical Specifications and a reference implementation as a guideline for national implementations:

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-doc-archi...

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-wallet-re...

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-doc-stand...

You'll find several (still evolving) Technical Specifications regarding ZKPs (including a discussion area) in the latter.

dahauns

vor 5 Monatendiscuss

And the usual corollary: Not just thanks to his training data, but because training data of that kind and for this kind of topic - still - exists.

dahauns

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

>verifiable "never looked at the original source"

...erm.

To adress the elephant in the room: Who exactly is supposed to be verifiable to never have looked at the original source? You or the LLM?

dahauns

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

The new Windows 11 22H2 task manager?

Works just fine here (1920x1200 125%, 4K 150%, 1080p 100%).

dahauns

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

Nah, that's not a "sacrifice", but the only sane way. In the ideal case, clearly document the constructor with a warning that it's not ISO conformant and offer a ISO conformant alternative.

In my (unfortunate) experience, DateTime/Timezone handling is one of the things most prone to introduce sneaky, but far-reaching bugs as it is. Introducing such a behaviour change that (usually) won't fail-fast, will often seemingly continue working as before until it doesn't and is deceptively tricky to debug/pinpoint/fix ist just asking for a fast lane into chaos.

And even with JS going the extra mile on backwards compatibility, I don't think most other languages would introduce that kind of breaking change in that way either.

dahauns

vor 6 Monatendiscuss

>Ok, you can click on the sun icon to fix it by switching to night mode, but then... aaaaargh!

TBF, I felt so perfectly trolled with this one I couldn't help but chuckle... :)

dahauns

vor 7 Monatendiscuss

Huh, fascinating. The Patagonia structure is actually strikingly similar to the Bosch model - non-profit owning the shares, but no voting rights, trust having voting rights but no shares - just taking it to the logical 100% conclusion without the residual influence of the Bosch family (having retained a few percent in both).

The model has worked well for many decades for a 100 billion$ revenue company like Bosch, good to see others taking a cue from them.

(Also goes to show that even constructs like these are not safe from corporate fuckups - see the emissions scandal...)

dahauns

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

>and has the best parts of Typescript

I really like C#, but I wouldn't go that far - unions are at least on the horizon, but I've sometimes come to miss the power and flexibility of TS's structural typing...(And so has Hejlsberg, apparently, seeing his reasoning for choosing go over C# for tsc :) )

dahauns

vor 8 Monatendiscuss

>- Less bugs (Visual Studio has been progressively getting worse).

Eeeeeeh...it's not quite roses and rainbows on the Rider side either, and that's coming from a Jetbrains fanboy. (Although admittedly, I'm not really up-to-date on the current state of VS in day-to-day work)

But yeah, the coding/refactoring support (Resharper et al) and general quality and integration of tooling (database tools, package managers, version control, debugging (esp. multi-process) etc.) is the big one for me.

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