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It might be childish, but I think the “act like an adult” (or not) is a good way to frame the bad behavior that’s been so present lately.

It encapsulates so much of how I want to describe things.

Selfish behavior - this adult is just a child who didn’t learn to share.

Mean and vindictive behavior - didn’t learn to empathize as a kid

Lying? You’re still a child. Grow up and then join the adults.

I came here to say something similar. Ever since I found out about alt + left click drag anywhere in window to move, and alt + right click drag practically anywhere on any side to resize, anything else feels user-hostile.

I rarely use windows anymore, but just like you installed a tool to get this behavior.

This UI feature saves approx 3 seconds on average for resizing windows. Plus, more importantly it more predictably works, and is an easier target to hit than a 2-10 wide pixel line or square region.

It’s an easy deflection. Dismiss any opinions because you’re using it wrong or not the latest.

Good for anything >= 1 month old.

Use other nonsense fear inducing argument in the mean time, continue gathering gobs of VC money, get your bag, continue till the bubble pops.

In all fairness, and putting hype and anti-hype aside, I’m really interested to see the actual value of LLM/agent services after the VC money subsidies dry out. Would people we willing to pay for services at 10x the current price?

I have hope that the newer generations don’t align with “big bad guvmit”, and there’s been enough negative experiences (direct and indirect) with healthcare that people will vote for alternatives.

Also, I am saddened by the shared anxiety of healthcare in US (availability while jobless, f*** by big bills, lack of care, etc). The raw amount of shared mental stress must contribute to lower lifespans :(

Ah yes, the teeneager point of view of “why is everyone trying to ruin my life!”

Adults that didn’t grow up.

Cell phones are fine. It’s their locked-down non-open nature and Apple, Google, Samsung that make cell phones not general computing devices.

I really hope we can convince enough people to care about general computing.

I agree in theory. In practice people who are automated out of jobs are not taken care of by society in the transition period where they learn how to do a new job.

Once having a job is not intimately tied to basic survival needs then people will be much more willing to automate everything.

I, personally, would be willing to do mind numbing paperwork or hard labor if it meant I could feed myself and my family, have housing, rather than be homeless and starving.

We all have skin in the game when how it’s sold is “automated intelligence so that we can fire all our knowledge workers”

Might be good in some timelines. In our current timeline this will just mean even more extreme concentration of wealth, and worse quality of life for everyone.

Maybe when the world has a lot more safety nets so that not having a job doesn’t mean homelessness, starvation, no healthcare, then society will be more receptive to the “this tool can replace everybody” message.

Murder is still murder. Whether it’s done in person or through a screen.

IANAL.. I know current US computer crime laws are extremely broad and ill-defined. Curious to hear opinion from someone who actually knows some law.

You’d be surprised in the variety in how people eat food.

I know some people that roll a pizza slice (from crust to center) to eat it. Blasphemous, and inspiring.

Not OP, but here’s what I think they mean: if you want to eat healthier then get rid of all the junk food in your home. Only buy healthy food. No more deciding between health and unhealthy. You made the choice for your future self by changing your environment.

I got a question for everyone: as a web user, have you been affected by performance limitations of a particular JS engine? Have you switched browsers b/c of JS speed?

My n=1 as a long time Firefox user is that performance is a non-issue (for the sites I frequent). I’m much more likely to switch browsers because of annoying bugs, like crashes due to FF installed as a snap.

It honestly is pretty surprising, given that JS runtime runs website code single-threaded.

That’s awesome! I want to do the same if I start a company.

Indeed quarterly earnings make people think short term, disregard long term. Focus on growth above all else

> It’s literally the ads and bloatware

I hope more companies and MBAs open their eyes to this: that the long term cost of user-hostile changes is negative compared to respecting users and building good products.

Also currently it helps to stand out from the sea of crap products.

Play the long game. Make good products. Bring joy and positive experience to peoples lives. Sleep well at night.

I am happy “autodefenestrate” is the first new word I learned in 2026. Thank you.

Autodefenestrate - To eject or hurl oneself from a window, especially lethally

The last 3 generations of nvidia gpus have been a big middle finger to PC gamers in terms of price and power usage

Gone are the days of affordable graphics accelerators in the $300 to $500 range. Now it’s $1000 to $2000. 400 watts now instead of 100.

Yup. Plain and simple.

I won’t purchase or use anything Elon Musk does. Bad behavior and corroding society needs to be met with social disapproval.

Well said. I’m in the same boat of being on the fence about python. I’ve been burned too many times in the past.

And even if uv was perfectly solves all of our woes, it still seems worse than languages that solve packaging and deployment with a first-party built tools.

There’s only so much lipstick and makeup you can put on a pig…

> But that's what people want, right? Overamped everything is how those demo loops at Costco are set up, that's what sells, that's what people want in their living rooms, right?

I just want accurate colors to the artists intent, and a brightness nob. No other image “enhancement” features

Gosh. This sounds a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday with extra steps

A bunch of problems pop up when a handful of super wealthy corporations can control markets.

Mint is probably around 0.05% of desktop/laptop users.

I think root comment is looking at the overall picture of what all customers can get for their money, and see it getting worse.

This wasn’t mentioned, but it’s a new thing for everyone to experience, since the general trend of computer hardware is it gets cheaper and more powerful over time. Maybe not exponentially any more, but at least linearly cheaper and more powerful.

Wow, this is great, unlocks lots of freedom. I was under the impression that this was not possible, maybe through web components or <slot>.

As a side note, I’ve been going through all the HTML elements slowly to learn the fundamentals, and it turns out that lots of elements are just a <div> or <span>, with different default styles and default ARIA things.

And a <div> is just a <span> with display block…

This and TFA both help me to realize HTML is pretty darn simple.

Go is much more approachable. Small set of features, easy to pick up quickly. Good for beginners and for teams to work together in.

Rust and Zig have much much more depth.

There are definitely scenarios where Go is the good choice. For example, for teaching someone’s first C-like low(ish) level language

Executives like that make me daydream about different ways to build medium/large organizations that put executives on the bottom (or not have any) and engineers on top.

These little lords of small fiefdoms make my skin crawl

Shhhhh that’s a primary unspoken feature - lack of responsibility

Very well written, thank you.

I recently was very sick and was thinking about the people whose employers put their work output over their health.

Is this sarcasm?

Dismissing concerns of issues that affect people today with the promise of some solution that may or may not happen to the degree you think it may address the real problems of today is really not cool.

On other note, Chicago in winter may be icy driving. It may be harder to convince Chicagoans to join the “revolution” that sunny day Californians (or any other non-icy weather areas)

“It is a crime to commit crimes using our product or service”

Yeah… crimes are crimes.

Specifically identifying road signs, traffic lights, and dead traffic lights is a narrow problem that has feasible solutions. To the point where we can reasonably say “yeah, this sub-component basically works perfectly.”

Compared to the overall self-driving problem which is very much not a super easy problem.

Job replacement and AI slop are both legitimate reason that people have negative opinions on AI

Amongst many other legitimate reasons.