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A little off-topic, but maybe someone can answer this. I sometimes use Excel when I want to see a CSV file formatted nicely, but apparently Excel has bad support for CSV files, opening them unparsed (e.g. each line of the CSV taking up a single cell.) Apparently you have to use the "Import CSV" wizard. When building apps that export CSVs, many times customers have had issues with special characters appearing weirdly, so I've needed to format the files using some sort of DOS character set.

Apple Numbers and Quick Look opens CSV files without any issues whatsoever.

Why is CSV support in Excel so poor?

Yeah, one could make a similar argument with self-hosting: How the data is transferred physically through undersea optical cables, how internet routing works and the complexity of it down to how the hardware underlying his Nextcloud installation works. It is really a miracle that it all works, though.

I've been self-hosting my e-mail, and I'm thinking of switching to Google Apps, Fastmail or Protonmail due to the fact that sometimes my emails just go directly to spam. There's also the worry that my server might get hacked, and the maintenance that you often have to do. My time is orders of magnitude more than the few dollars a month all this costs.

Don't use Paypal, or you risk randomly losing your money.

It's back up now :) (Webhook.site owner here)

I used to have a pod machine, and just found it didn't make very good coffee. It didn't really taste like espresso. In fact, it didn't taste very good at all.

After that, I started using a french press, which was nice, but I like espresso more, and so I got a Sage Barista Express. Great machine, no plastic waste, once you learn to use it you can create coffeeshop-quality drinks at home for very little money–plus you can experiment with different beans.

The difference between a proper espresso and pods is huge.

Of course it runs NetBSD.

Interesting bit:

> The program which synced the host list generated by consul template with the HAProxy server state had a bug. It always attempted to find a slot for new webapp instances before it freed slots taken up by old webapp instances that were no longer running. This program began to fail and exit early because it was unable to find any empty slots, meaning that the running HAProxy instances weren’t getting their state updated

Honestly surprised (and disappointed) about all the climate change denial on this site.

Your experience certainly sounds bad, but none of this is normal; mail sound, USB-C cable brittleness, 1password slowness, all of it works nicely for me.

It's time to refactor London.

Ha, I imagine it would have been almost a fulltime job to prevent takeovers on large Efnet channels!

Reminds me of taking over channels on IRC :)

Making it harder also heightens the bar so low-quality or malicious apps don't get in.

I wonder if most developers that trash on PHP for trivial issues like seen in this thread haven't been using it for many years, or had a bad experience (e.g. maintaining a legacy app).

Some developers live in a kind of technical vacuum where, I guess they assume, the technical features of their programming language are what makes the difference in the value of the business they're building.

In reality, the difference is in how easy it is to hire developers, the package library, overall ecosystem and developer experience, or: how can I make a great product.

I guess it depends. As a solo entrepreneur, I do it all the time, because I care about my customers.

Working at Instagram, probably not, since it wouldn't be my job to handle support.

I think it's worth acknowledging over your customers that the bug has caused them lost time or other kinds of issues. Whether you do that with an apology, it doesn't really matter, but I know I'd personally feel better when a vendor emphasizes with me.

Something you definitely don't want is to sound like it's an inconvenience for you that they're reporting bugs. Bug reports are extremely helpful and you should be grateful that they're taking the time to report them to you.

> utterly unconvincing

Why?

Sure, I guess you can also do that. I'd still advise to not go out and "fix" everything the minute you boot up OS X. It's worth learning how and why it works before you hack it.

It's honestly not that bad, but I'd advise to go into it with an open mind. A lot of switchers get angry at macOS when their habits from other systems don't work with it (e.g. wanting to maximize all the windows)

Feels like Apple is just continually making the Safari browser worse.

I think they just want to push people towards native apps so they have full control. Apple always wants control.

First they prevented plugins like uBlock, made it very expensive to create your own plugins, and now they're messing up LocalStorage.

Depends on the environment. You can easily run Docker containers on the new Air.

12" MacBook with the i5 or i7 (it's rare now, though). I've made do with the m3 version and while PHPStorm runs slow, it's bearable.

lol, he confused gigabits with gigabytes

Embrace, extend, extinguish?

I mean, yes, that seems like how you would do it. If you've lived in your city for a while I don't think you'd really need maps all that often. I still remember printing out routes in the age before GPS!

Also, regarding texts, I carry an iPhone, but I'll answer text messages when it fits in, which can take hours. Don't want my phone to control my life.

It has happened on several different monitors and MacBooks, even putting it to sleep and waking it can sometimes switch them, so I have to go into System Preferences and drag 'em around.

Not sure what the issue is either, once you add the necessary permissions for your apps, it doesn't ask again.

Only complaint is Apple seem to ignore long-standing bugs that have been there for years, like monitors switching around every time you dock your MacBook. They should make a Snow Leopard-like release and clean out their bug tracker.

I operate a "electronically supplied services" hobby company, https://webhook.site, and I just didn't want to deal with VAT payments to individual EU member countries. So I switched from Stripe to Paddle, who handle all the VAT payments for me, take a fee and give me a lump sum. EU just has way too much bureaucracy for small-medium sized companies. I'm also using Patreon which is similar (they also handle VAT and subscriptions), but it seems most people prefer Paddle to Patreon.

Tangentially, I'd recommend everyone to stay away from Paypal. You will lose your money or your account sooner or later. Let someone else (like Paddle) handle Paypal payments and that risk.

Good points. Difficult and unforeseen issues like these are exactly why you'd use a framework of some kind, where thousands of users have already tested and fixed various issues.

Just something to bring up as idle conversation around the water cooler.