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ewindal··on Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
Discord will forever be behind Slack in usability as long as it doesn’t have threads. Nothing quite like having three different conversations going on at once in the same channel.
ewindal··on The absolute worst scenario happened
Backups were extant, but inaccessible, and non-functional due to causing a kernel panic when applied. [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ma4mwl/the_absolu...

ewindal··on Hit Japanese app Crabhouse forced to change name on iOS
> It is impossible to even get into Clubhouse

Is it? Don't you just need an acquaintance on the inside? I got invited by someone I worked with once upon a time shortly after installing the app just to see what all the fuzz was about.

ewindal··on Google isn’t happy with Microsoft over online news
Because this law is literally just about letting Murdoch cling to power. It’s such an obviosly corrupt law.
ewindal··on Flutter 2
They are obviously talking about feature parity between the platforms android and iOS that their _mobile app_ targets. You cannot be this dense.
ewindal··on Flutter 2
Still doesn’t explain why you think removing LoC in a mobile application removes features from a web application.
ewindal··on Why Nuclear Must Be Part Of The Energy Solution (2018)
And we've failed doing that with software for longer, yet we still keep building software.
ewindal··on Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit
> It's a huge upgrade from the past when there was absolutely no mobile optimization.

It’s not. They went in trying to make a mobile first experience, and somehow made it worse than a desktop first experience browsed on mobile. Base reddit works fine on mobile. The redesign is absolutely trash, bloated, slow and ugly.

ewindal··on Overweight and healthy is a big fat lie, obesity study finds
Isn’t doping in cycling mostly blood doping, ie. replacing «old» blood with blood collected prior to a competition? I doubt that has any real effect on your body beyond the immediate effect of the new blood binding oxygen better than the old blood.
ewindal··on Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook
Probably for the better. People who have already gotten a competitive offer must be determined to leave.
ewindal··on Linus Torvalds' good taste argument for linked lists, explained
Conditionals are so simple it’s basically the first thing anyone learns. Anyone can understand the first approach. The latter requires knowledge that is specific to lower level languages,concepts that are certainly not taught universally.

The latter approach is definitely not the easiest to understand. It is, however, what Linus considers «good taste in coding.»

ewindal··on Excess mortality from March to December of 2020
Corona doesn’t kill you by overdose, hanging or self-inflicted gunshots.
ewindal··on Reddit is slowly killing the old interface? native image galleries are invisible
I fucking hate it. The redesign is actively harmful to the quality of subreddits. It makes the subscribers the ones who dictate the content, not the community members. The vast majority of subs don’t participate in any meaningful way, they just upvote the funny picture in their feed, haha, while the people who frequent the subreddit and dictated most of the content prior to the redesign are completely disenfrachised. I’ve seen a bunch of subreddits go down the shitter because low effort memes and blog posts-like pictures conquered the front page after the redesign.
ewindal··on Twitch streamers report DMCA takedowns for in-game sound effects
Youtube streaming is in many ways bigger than twitch. It has way more concurrent viewers, and the top channels are usually bigger. But there’s no discoverability. You can’t really move there or start there to build an audience.
ewindal··on Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved
That’s literally only because Amazon worked with them to introduce the needed features so they could launch Luna. Controller support was shoddy before iOS14, for example, so the web app approach wasn’t viable for xCloud or Stadia.
ewindal··on New study finds psilocybin greatly and quickly relieves depression
Which is completely irrelevant in many cases. Depression can be caused by serotonin deficiencies, and once you’ve got depressed (pun intended) values, it’s difficult to return to baseline without medical support.
ewindal··on New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars
I was replying to a comment whose parent said anything sent would end up as soup. The joke might’ve been bad, but it certainly is on the reader for not seeing that obvious connection.
ewindal··on New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars
Clearly beign silly isn’t appreciated.
ewindal··on New nuclear engine concept could help realize 3-month trips to Mars
Forget equipment. The only thing that survives that mode of transportation is soup.
ewindal··on Fasting improves chemotherapy results and protects from side effects: study
Definitely. I started deopping breakfast. At first it was hell. But you get used to it. Noe I’m down to one meal a day. It’s very convenient, and my energy levels aren’t affected by food intake.
ewindal··on Trapped in his body for 12 years, a man breaks free (2015)
Iirc ot’s easy to find online and pretty short. The ending is pretty haunting, so I recommend everyone read it if it sounds interesting.
ewindal··on Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere
There’s nothing stopping there from being several great filters.
ewindal··on Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Uncertain Biological Basis of Morality (2013)
> I prefer this formulation: what's moral is what minimizes overall human suffering, now and in the foreseeable future.

Which makes some people arrive at antinatalism. Suffering is too subjective to be a useful metric.

ewindal··on The greatest privilege we never talk about: beauty
It is, though. Luck (genetics) determines your baseline and roof. No amount og grooming and training will change your potential.
ewindal··on Rust Is Surprisingly Good as a Server Language
Assuming you take ~4 seconds from wanting to compile til you have your answer, that’s 60 minutes a day for a thousand compiles. An hour. Doesn’t seem very efficient to me.
ewindal··on Linus Torvalds: 'I Do No Coding Any More'
Commit messages cover the entirety of the change, and only exist in the context of the commit it is attached to. A comment is without exception outdated by the next commit, unless it is rewritten for that commit.
ewindal··on Siri, What Time Is It in London?
There’s nothing worse than being forced to use a language you didn’t explicitly request.

Well, maybe some things are worse.

ewindal··on Ask HN: I lost my job
None of those things are intrinsic to leadership, but they certainly inform characteristics that are useful to being seen as a leader.
ewindal··on On Being a Generalist
If you ever want to rise in the ranks as an engineer, design and business are practically required.
ewindal··on Microservices – Combinatorial Explosion of Versions
I don’t see how this is a problem. I see that the combinatorial explosion exists, but that isn’t an actual problem. The entire point of microservices is independent deploys, meaning you literally only have two permutations per deploy, new and old. If you think deploying 10 services at once is feasible, you don’t understand the appral of microservices, and should never have opted for them in the first place.
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