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elboru
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Why?
elboru
·2 месяца назад·discuss
I can understand the historical reasons related to China and Korea, but Brazil? What did they do to them?
elboru
·3 месяца назад·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 месяца назад·discuss
There’s definitely a way to prove it, ask it to spell out a moderately complex program.
elboru
·4 месяца назад·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 месяца назад·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 месяцев назад·discuss
I hear people saying that every day in Slack and Teams
elboru
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
That era taught me how much regular users can tolerate awful, slow interfaces.
elboru
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
Wow, so it has surpassed humans.
elboru
·5 месяцев назад·discuss
And now Apple started to lose it.
elboru
·6 месяцев назад·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 месяцев назад·discuss
Still, code describes what and how, but not why.
elboru
·7 месяцев назад·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 месяцев назад·discuss
For some reason comments were moved from the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315583
elboru
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
I’m as confused as you
elboru
·8 месяцев назад·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 месяцев назад·discuss
Build a wall?
elboru
·8 месяцев назад·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 месяцев назад·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 года назад·discuss
Well maybe they were not as good at manipulating as others can be.