What a major victory for birds all across the globe. A feather is not ours to steal and parade around as if it’s our own culture. Maybe the ASF could replace this with a lock of human hair instead.
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For people like me who aren't sysadmins, but simply have to do maintenance tasks on VPSes from time to time, something like this would be a godsend.
Let’s be real, at this point YouTube is too big to fail. Without Google’s capital it would be impossible to do this at scale. Also I would much rather support Google and independent creators rather than Netflix and the entertainment industry.
It's Google's world, we're just living in it.
I agree that it isn't beneficial to label a very livable condition with the same word that we use for much harsher illnesses, and it doesn't help that it's not a visible condition. But as somebody with ADHD, it really hurts me to keep seeing this argument repeated ad nausea.
Maybe the issue isn't that it is being overdiagnosed, but rather the fact that the only treatment we consider worthwhile is prescribing amphetamines to children.
Gives me peace of mind knowing my EQ curve always is on even if I'm using software that's outputting direct to my interface.
Nobody's watching a 25-minute video on TikTok.
Lol. Where else are you going to go? YouTube is a de facto monopoly when it comes to self-published shortform videos.
The consequences of the "everything-is-free" Web 2.0 internet has created some very arrogant consumers that won't even pay $10/mo. to support content creators.
- Respect the UI conventions of web browsers and not override standard behavior
- Respond immediately to user input
- Not take up hundreds of megabytes of RAM
I have yet to use a React app that doesn't immediately "feel" like it's using React. There's some weird added latency that I can't really describe, but I don't feel it on Angular apps.
My old Intel MBP would have a drained battery after 90 minutes doing the same CPU intensive stuff I'm doing for >5 hours on my 16" M1 Max.
The hardware is absolutely bonkers. It's unlike anything else. I wish I could say the same for the current state of Mac OS.
In practise this rarely is the case. I have yet to use a React app that consistently respects Cmd+click as my intent to open something in a new tab, has sub-100ms draw times for any UI action, and doesn't need to load multiple megabytes of JS to bog down my CPU for basic CRUD stuff.
I have yet to work on a React + Tailwind codebase in the wild where the margin/padding metrics aren't hardcoded and repeated across tens of different components. We've traded the elegance of well-written SCSS for improved developer ergonomics and faster build times because webpack is so slow at compiling stylesheet changes.
If you want to practise proper DRY for spacing, typography, etc. in a React app, you'll just end up nesting tons of components that ultimately result in needless complexity.
Another reason: The trend today seems to be to offload most of the data processing to the client side, only using the server as a glorified database pipe. Naturally, this results in a higher demand for frontend development.
Another positive side effect of dense UIs is that they work as noob repellant. I've heard SO many people mention they chose Logic instead of Ableton "because it looks like Windows 95". That's all you need to tell me about how your mind works lol.
The consequence of this was that in Europe, people preferred free online messaging over costly SMS.
20+ years down the line and old habits die hard.
I find it very hard to argue against regulation which is only meant to make devices more interoperable. USB-C for charging is mature enough at this point that it seems reasonable to declare it THE charging port.
An interesting - partially ironic - observation here, is that Apple actually designed the reversible USB-C connector and submitted it to the USB-IF - a team of bureaucrats. Bureaucrats, who of course previously were responsible for blunders such as micro-USB-B 3.0, and more recently, the ambiguous shitshow that is the current state of the USB spec.
I wholeheartedly believe that Apple is such a design-driven company that they would actually engage with regulators again (gasp, even the EU), if they were to come up with a better connector design down the road. Everybody wins.
Maybe I'm just having my "old man yells at cloud" moment and I'm annoyed things are changing.
Granted, for desktops, x86-64 still has a lead in performance, but it's impossible to max out an Intel-powered laptop for more than 2 hours on battery power. Getting close to that level of performance, but without the horrible fan noise and burning lap is much more preferable to me.
The entire Pro lineup - laptops, tablets and phones - all have 120Hz displays. I would fault them for releasing the 60Hz Studio Display, but it is literally impossible to source a 5K panel with higher refresh rates at this time of writing.
External monitor support being shit - honestly not my experience, but OK - is more likely to be a byproduct of limited USB-C bandwidth, which you can work around using Thunderbolt docks or the built-in HDMI port. I will agree that Windows handles multiple monitors much better than Mac OS though.
The one thing Mac OS X got right in 2001 was consistency and predictability. When you learned how the UI worked in one app, it was almost guaranteed to behave the same in other apps.
Now today, we have this mess of Catalyst apps, SwiftUI apps, old Cocoa apps, and even worse, Electron apps.
Scroll speed and behaviour is inconsistent across all of them.
Drag-and-drop support, once a hallmark of the Mac UI, is spotty at best.
Even basic stuff breaks every once in a while. It's wild to consider that Apple literally wrote the book[1] on how to provide a consistent experience for an entire OS, and yet they don't seem to be able to follow it themselves anymore.
[1]: http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf
But until Apple's dominance starts to wane, there's no chance in hell they will provide iMessage for other platforms unless forced by regulation.
If push comes to shove, they can implement heuristics which run texts from non-Apple devices through a harder spam filter. Spam isn't non-existent on the iMessage network, and there already seems to be a rudimentary spam filter in place.