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elboru
·2 months ago·discuss
Why?
elboru
·2 months ago·discuss
I can understand the historical reasons related to China and Korea, but Brazil? What did they do to them?
elboru
·3 months ago·discuss
Back in 2011, when Motorola released a phone that could do something similar, I was sure that was going to be the future. It’s been 15 years.

I still dream of the day when my computer lives on my wrist, and I just have a few dummy screens in different formats that can connect to it so I can consume media or be productive.
elboru
·3 months ago·discuss
There’s definitely a way to prove it, ask it to spell out a moderately complex program.
elboru
·4 months ago·discuss
I remember being excited about Edge, I even started using it because it was fast and had a couple of built-in features I liked. It was a big improvement over the old IE, it felt like Microsoft was going the right direction, but then they kept using dark patterns to change my default search engine to Bing.
elboru
·4 months ago·discuss
Or their constant use of dark patterns to push you into using Bing and Edge. I was actually an Edge user myself. I liked a few of its built-in features, and it felt pretty fast. But then they started tricking me into changing my default search engine to Bing. I fell for it a couple of times, and then I quit.
elboru
·5 months ago·discuss
I hear people saying that every day in Slack and Teams
elboru
·5 months ago·discuss
That era taught me how much regular users can tolerate awful, slow interfaces.
elboru
·5 months ago·discuss
Wow, so it has surpassed humans.
elboru
·5 months ago·discuss
And now Apple started to lose it.
elboru
·6 months ago·discuss
I read the other day that one of their devs has a vanilla CC setup that consists of 10 agents running in parallel. Why doesn’t he just ask one of those agents to fix it??
elboru
·6 months ago·discuss
Still, code describes what and how, but not why.
elboru
·7 months ago·discuss
Tip: Look for someone selling their grownup children’s Lego collection. I recently found a couple selling their children’s old Lego collection in Facebook Marketplace. I got an enormous bag of them for just a few bucks. It was a headache to filter out the garbage in them (small non-LEGO toys, unique pieces that were not really useful, a few mixed mega blocks, broken pieces, etc) but it was worth it, my children love them!
elboru
·7 months ago·discuss
For some reason comments were moved from the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315583
elboru
·8 months ago·discuss
I’m as confused as you
elboru
·8 months ago·discuss
I sincerely believe one day we'll get an official release of one of those Airpod straps: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hilarious-accessory-reminds-us-at...
elboru
·8 months ago·discuss
Build a wall?
elboru
·8 months ago·discuss
Previous comment thread has an interesting conversation about why it hasn’t became a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793466#45793922
elboru
·9 months ago·discuss
I recently spent some time in a country house far enough from civilization that electric lines don’t reach. The owners could have installed some solar panels, but they opted to keep it electricity-free to disconnect from technology, or at least from electronics. They have multiple decades old ingenious utensils that work without electricity, like a fridge that uses propane, oil lamps, non-electric coffee percolator, etc. and that made me wonder, how many analogous devices stopped getting invented because an electric device is the most obvious way of solving things to our current view.
elboru
·3 years ago·discuss
Well maybe they were not as good at manipulating as others can be.