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Illustrator for iPad. Especially coming from CS6. It seems like most of the functionality exists, but some things are incredibly tedious to change or are buried too many menus deep. It’s almost an uncanny valley thing, it’s too close to what I’m used to that it throws me off. I tend to only reach for it when I specifically want use a stylus/pencil and then go back to desktop as soon as I can.

> I feel like I stepped into a meeting of an anti-car cult...

Every single thread or post about anything adjacent to cars or public transportation devolves into this. There is hardly any nuance, little effort is made to respond in good faith, and there are insults and insinuations thrown around all the time. Anyone perceived as being on the “wrong side” is instantly given a label and mocked. You don’t even have to be overzealous about it. Even the most benign comment will have someone piling on usually. “Just one more bus bro”

Which means we should keep doing it right?

This was fun, definitely some in there that I didn't know and will have to read about. I thought a few were a little bit contrived but depending on the order you guess in they might be a little more obvious.

> So many people here pretend like there's no problem.

Or maybe they think that the proposed solutions are worse than the problem.

Don’t the guidelines also say to avoid making comments like yours?

MacOS doesn’t have python? What?

This matches my experience in the midwest as well. “Let me see your bill real fast”, “you pay nothing up front”, “you can get 4% extra value at resale”

All of it is a scam. I head these people off early if I see them walking around my neighborhood.

So why is it called autopilot if it’s just cruise control? And what about “automatic piloting” doesn’t include the part where the thing drives itself?

“Why doesn’t X do Y yet?”

I really appreciate that this site hides the twitter content by default and informs you that there “may” (will) be tracking enabled if you show it.

I got it in school and was not confused.

This largely matches my experience working with a team internally who were trying to get Backstage deployed. Or maybe I should say they got it deployed, the lead dev in charge left, and now it sits there mostly used by interns and completely un-serious people who’ve still got the idea that someday it’ll turn into this amazing must have tool that everybody will suddenly adopt.

One of the biggest problems is that they didn’t try to actually interface with other teams to sell why Backstage might be something they want to use. Instead they got it 20% populated with low hanging fruit, and the rest of the company is blissfully unaware that it even exists.

Is this an ADHD coping strategy? I’m not trying to second guess, I’m actually very intrigued because the way you described your thought process is very similar to mine, but I’ve never been tested or diagnosed.

In any case thanks, this will help me in the future I think.

They’re bringing up a valid point that has no indication of heavy support one way or another and you call it corporate boot licking.

How can you say this nonsense so uncritically?

Because the joke doesn’t land if typing “git gud” doesn’t actually do something.

To your point, I would say that it’s “easy” rather than strictly helpful. There is a plugin I maintain internally that can be invoked by calling “helm <thing>” if I go through the necessary steps to have it installable by the helm plugin command. Under the hood it’s just a small binary that you can put in your $PATH and it’ll work fine, but there are tons of developers and PMs and other people at the company who don’t know what a path variable is, or how to set it, or what a terminal is, or what shell they’re running, or who know that they can do “helm X” and “helm Y”, so why not “helm Z” for my plugin, etc … It would be a hell of a lot easier to just ship the raw executable, but to those people and execs and mangers and stuff, it looks good if I can show it off next to the native stuff.

Whenever I have to help users with it, I notice that nearly everyone uses it with helm and not calling by the binary directly. It just comes down to the fact that presentation and perceived ease of use counts for a lot when people evaluate whether they want to make a tool part of their workflow.

One of the main issues they raise is that the bristles on common brushes can be left behind and are difficult to pick out of food, so the wet rag probably exceeds expectations in that way.

Safari + Vinegar is my favorite way to watch youtube on any platform. One minor bug I sometimes notice is that the PiP option stops working between videos until you actually hit refresh.

Agreed about Orion, I keep it around and update it and try it out every now and again but I don’t think the experience is there yet.

it’s funny that you bring up contractual obligations while google ignores the iOS app store rule (contractual obligation) about locking features like PiP behind paywalls.

none of the three listed examples in the beginning are even difficult or uncommon problems.

helm, except everyone I’ve ever worked with who has spent enough time with it freely admits that it kind of sucks.

You can use the three dots menu in the top right corner to Select Messages, drag or tap the buttons that appear, then Delete in the bottom right. That said you are definitely correct that in general this is a thing in the OS and sometimes there’s nothing you can do but wait.

Would you mind listing a couple issues you’ve seen with it? You’ve got me curious if they affect me and I just don’t notice it what. I don’t have all that many contacts though, so it may be just be a numbers game.

Wow, today I learned there is a Wikipedia app. It never occurred to me to look for an app since it’s been a habit for 20 years to pull it up in a browser. Are there any other notable differences or features in one vs the other besides the two you mentioned?

Flagging is at 30 or 31 karma, it’s downvoting that is locked behind 500.

> Educate yourself

My self-managed on-device music library has 100% uptime. I don’t know why you think managing your own library has to include everything you mentioned.

How is what the author wants any different from playing the game and ignoring any of the side content they don’t want to do?