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On a more serious note, there's a big difference between a vehicle like a car that is operated by one person, and a ship with a large crew with dedicated tasks.
[0] https://transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-11/collisio...
But even there I feel like the cookie banner at least offers some benefit to me, whereas all the other modals asking to send me notifications, subscribe to stuff, register here, follow us there, are completely superfluous and we should push back against those first.
Also, I don't really see the supposed collapse of birth rates after 2015, at least it doesn't seem half as drastic as those in the 70s (which can be explained by people having more money) or the ones caused by war.
First of all, they'd always need more energy because staying in the air doesn't come free. Lifting a whole car for the usual 1.2 people in it seems wasteful.
Secondly, the noise problem would be huge. I don't see how flying cars could ever be more quiet than road-using cars (again, more power needed to overcome the drag that's generated by the lift, and propellers, jet engines or whatever aren't exactly quiet on their own). They'd also produce their noise up in the air where it can spread over a much larger area compared to land-based transportation, where even a small line of greenery reduces noise levels quite nicely.
Finally, even perfectly self flying cars (and obviously, I wouldn't want to have the average car driver handle a 3 ton flying machine over my head) would need a big amount of space around them in all directions. I doubt that there's enough air space to handle the amount of car traffic that even smaller cities currently have.
There's a reason we only see helicopters used in a small niche, and I don't think flying cars or the currently worked on drones are ultimately that different from helicopters.
Not defending 11 here, it's just that 10 was pretty ill received here an hn and ever since 11 came out, the opinions suddenly changed, which seems a bit weird to me.
Asking quick questions in such an environment is also not that much of a disturbance because most people are working on similar features at the moment and there's a high chance that they don't need to do the whole context switch to assist you. It's really highly productive.
For the times where you really needed some time for yourself, headphones work just fine. I wouldn't want to wear them all the time as even the best ones become uncomfortable after few hours, but that's also not really needed in a small shared room.
> Too much bloat as one software must cater to everyone’s needs.
Yes, maybe, but especially web apps are usually quite focused on a limited feature set, in my experience. Isn't the usual prime example of bloat (Microsoft Office) a desktop app?
> Open invitation to authoritarian software like DRMs, Adware, blobs, etc.
So there's no DRM or Adware in desktop apps? Surely the author can't be serious about this one. At least a browser gives me simple tools to control them, for installed desktop applications it becomes much harder.
> Use of Internet as propaganda tool.
Sure, but on the other hand I would argue that Twitter works well as a website and there's no need for a desktop application. It's actually great that I don't need to install anything to access it.
> Inefficient and bloated JavaScript.
Fair enough. I do however think that, by now, there are many "time-tested and efficient best practices" in the world of web development. The web world isn't moving half as fast as critics like to pretend, and the underlying technologies have stood the test of time remarkably well. I think time-tested is actually one of the main reasons that web technologies are as popular and successful as they are.
V(greeting, // initial value "hi"
V(capitalize), // custom function call "Hi"
V.concat("!"), // String method `concat` call "Hi!"
V(send), // custom async function call Promise { <pending> }
V.status, // automatic promise chaining + getting property Promise { 200 }
V(console.log), // automatic promise chaining + global function call logs 200
)
Languages are already quite political, but maps and all their borders and city names are much worse. Some borders are disputed and both sides have made the distribution of maps with the "wrong" borders illegal, the Catalans hate to see the Spanish names of their towns used in the Spanish version of the website, sometimes borders are moving fast and the inhabitants of newly founded countries usually feel really strong about the correct representation on every single map in the world, and even if you use maps without borders or labels at all, it could be illegal to plot some kind of harmless data on it, like wind speeds that have not been published by the country's authorities.
Stuff like this inevitably floods the inboxes of a lot of companies, so I'm not surprised at all to see it happen on GitHub.
Using both macOS and Windows 11 on an almost daily basis, they are really not that different when it comes to nagging users. Both show full-screen displays on startup from time to time where they want to change some settings (activating Siri, using Edge as default browser, ...), try to sell additional services, make you use an online account, and come with a lot of bloatware.
Applications that work and look good in Windows 11 are likely to look good in Windows 12. It doesn't look like a reboot at all and more in line with the regular changes that we have seen within Windows 10 between the larger updates.
Also, the macOS system preferences nag the user until iCloud is activated.
> No one's like "there's a new lane on the 5 and it's not moving any faster than it was before, I think I'll start taking it".
The point here is that the new lane does actually "solve" traffic immediately after it has been opened. The improved travel times create the demand and eventually this leads to more congestion.
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/a45e028d-4b81-4bef-9546-970838ab9...