StuckDuck

Woah, I have been watching all of this guy's videos recently, I love how deep he dives into niche topics. His video on segmented displays got me very interested in the clever designs that came out of technical constraints, and challenged me to get back to design a little bit. It's nice to see him linked here

Italy blocks ChatGPT*

Nice :)

Yeah, I guess probably "free software" was a more appropriate term

Unfortunately it seems like nowadays with open source being very widespread that many companies or people simply ignore/forget that these libraries that they include in their software aren't just "public domain" because the code is public, but they have a license that should be respected and actually has legal value, so what often ends up happening is that they take advantage of open source software or libraries in their proprietary software without even giving a crap about their authors and their community

I think the gnome project deserves a mention here, their docs program is really complete, and covers many high level aspects of how to use the software. Most gnome apps also use it

This article is from 1999, what do you mean?

I'm not defending Amazon

Yeah, it even seems very weird as well that a company would paint this image on themselves

This article is so wrong on so many levels. First off, Amazon is definitely not selling "suicide kits", let alone advertising them. What they really meant here is the automated "people usually buy this with" section that suggests other items that are commonly bought along with the viewed item, meaning that the viewer had to be at least aware of what they were searching for (they were probably looking for some chemical).

Second of all and most important... WHY the hell were these CHILDREN buying stuff off of Amazon, somehow WITHOUT THEIR PARENT'S KNOWLEDGE? Did they just pay with their own cc, have it delivered to the house all while their parents/guardians DIDN'T notice?

If their parents are so uncaring for their children, then I'm not even surprised they wanted to commit suicide.

Just my 2¢ and sorry for yelling a bit

HackerNews is basically just text and links, so... I don't see how a CDN would only complicate things, honestly

#7085B2 #04977C #202b38

I used to be on twitter (wonderful thing, I know) for about a year during 2020-2021. I never really any social media accounts aside from that, but anyways, during that time on the site I felt so stressed, anxious, and manipulated that it actually kind of hurt me for a while. I was led into agreeing with things that I simply did not believe in, and that influenced a lot of bad decisions in my life.

I think it has changed me for the worst. I used to be a much kinder and more open person, and now I constantly feel inadequate or toxic. 2021 was also a pretty bad year for me. And plus around that time, the twitter communities I engaged with were absolutely ruthless with pushing political, SJW agendas, participating in movements they poorly understood, and enforcing their views on everyone. If you've been there you'll know what I mean

Seeing hundreds, hell even thousands of 14,15 year olds being "indoctrinated" by other, equally treated 14,15 year olds is so depressing and almost caught me. I deleted my account earlier this year and will never regret it. Sure, I had some popular tweets, but I don't care about that small hits of fame anymore.

If you engage in communities, or even small groups of friends, which you feel are uncomfortable or unhealthy, then all power's to you to leave, and I highly encourage you to do that if you want to.

Agree. Still, this is horrible

> I was frankly astonished that Windows would drop them into a temporary user profile without dire warnings about its transience

Does it? I recall using Windows 7 and being dropped into ~TEMP sometimes, but I was warned with a notification.

No, this was on a clean install

Cloud apps != Web apps

I never had a problem with the former, and appreciate their capabilities. Many cloud apps are also web apps, but not necessarily (see Sketch)

I never did.

> just brushing off anything made with web technologies because “it wasn’t designed for this” feels very shortsighted in my opinion

That's more of an ideological reason for me. But even setting that aside, you can't ignore the practical downsides I listed

> The fact of the matter is that web technologies are the best tool for the job

As a former app developer, I can assure you that creating truly native apps with the OS's toolkit has been way easier than any web application framework I have ever used, ever.

For example, here are some side projects I built for Windows:

- a web browser, but kind of forgot about it - a web page editor with live HTML preview, finished but never really released it

On the other hand, it took me hours to get started making a simple react project (setting up the project, styling it, making the basic navigation components), and never finished it.

Sure, my experience is no empirical evidence of anything. But it seems to be a common misconception that building with web technologies is easier than native toolkits.

I understand that the main problem is having to write everything from scratch for every platform, assuming you're not targeting a specific one (then you should definitely go native).

But trust me, outside the Windows world the app dev's life is a lot easier (see GTK, Qt, etc. that work on any OS as long as the DE implements it)

For more complex projects porting is often an option, and for those cases I still think cross platform TKs are much better than web apps. And you usually don't need a web version if the software works natively everywhere possible.

Yes and loads more. I don't use notepad++ on the daily but it is a far superior experience than whatever VSCode gave me

> Have you considered that your computer is the problem?

I wouldn't say so, Elementary OS's built in code editor takes a few seconds at most to open a file

Then again, Electron is really slow (among other things), but anyways, regardless of the toolkit you're using, your app is still an overly complex .html page, doing things the DOM was never meant to do or programmed for, e.g. DOM traversal becomes slow. (Unless you use something like React Native, which is 'truly native', but mobile only)

Honestly the idea of web apps sounds a whole lot like trying to make a video editor app in MS Word

> As someone who has been into mobile app development since 2010, the comments above read like a punch to the gut. We grew up believing that the native experience was better than the web!

It is

With the transition to web apps, we have lost some excellent quality standards, integration, and availablity. 10 years ago you could have productively used your computer and software without ever needing to touch an internet connection. Nowadays it's either: - the browser is the portal to everything - apps are just slow, unresponsive, ugly looking WebViews

It's sad that the bar is so low these days that VSCode is considered acceptable. That takes 30 seconds to start up on my i5-8250U with MX150 graphics.

Notepad++ launches instantly on a 10 year old 32 bit computer with a *low end CPU.

Not criticizing your service btw, I'm sure it's well developed. I hate the general concept at the base tho.

Agree with it being weird but intuitive != commonly known. Just because windows does it a certain way doesn't mean it is intuitive. It's just widely known and assumed. If GNU developed to be the worldwide market leader then we'd all find the CDE drag and drop applet system 'intuitive'

I'd say macOS actually is a lot more polished than Windows, but I agree with you that it is damn confusing. Try "closing" an app for example and you'll find that half the time it will not have closed properly, or maybe it did, who knows? It depends on the app. If it's vanilla you can bet it will have to be closed with CMD+Q

Something to note which wasn't mentioned here is that `cd` is not a binary executable, but instead a shell command. You won't find it anywhere in /bin, /sbin and so on. That's also why `sudo cd ` doesn't work, `sudo` will try to execute `cd` as root but it's not an executable so it won't find it. (tip: do `sudo -i` instead)

Wikipedia hands down because it includes about all the information I could ever need from the internet at any given time

Yep, and that's the story of how I lost years worth of discussions and chats because Discord thought well that linking a phone number doesn't automatically allow you to verify yourself with it.