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Agreed, both are pretty good. Especially the YouTube PWA runs just as good as the native app on my Android phone, up to the point where I often forget which one I'm currently using.

There's really no excuse. When I started web development I had at least 3 browsers open at any given time and writing code that worked in all major browsers could be really difficult at times. In more recent years, I would just develop with one, quickly check if everything looks alright in the other ones, do some super-minor adjustments, and call it a day. Sure, some minor stuff may not be supported by Firefox, but it's never deal-breaking stuff. Safari is the only browser that regularly requires more work, but it's nowhere close to the troubles that every single IE caused.

You mean like git repos or zip files?

Could anyone who downvoted this explain their reasoning? Is this statement too radical, not radical enough, ...? I am genuinely curious.

Favicon is there, it just happens to be light grey. I guess someone only tested this one on a browser in dark mode.

I wouldn't be surprised if they supported both, but the pictures on their website all show Prepar3D.

I think it should be noted that Prepar3D exists for 12 years now [1] and has been heavily used by flight sim enthusiasts after FSX development was stopped and before MSFS came to the market. It is somewhat unclear were exactly this is used for professional training. The US Air Force apparently uses it for their pilot training [2], and some sort of F-16 simulator seems to exist [3]. I assume their F-35 simulators are also based on Prepar3D.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator#Loc...

[2] https://youtu.be/NMLg7THwhAI?t=164

[3] https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/r...

Aviation has solved this problem a long time ago by controlling airspace and having laws that are actually enforced. Your plane may not prevent you from entering restricted airspace, but it may very well be the last thing you do as a pilot.

Besides, modern planes have tons of automation that can take control of it, from simple things like preventing it from stalling to more complicated things like avoiding flights into terrain or automatically landing the aircraft at the nearest airfield.

As a non-native speaker, I agree. Such tools are not new and extremely helpful when writing professional documents.

I also think that we are nowhere close to actually censoring words in editors like Google Docs, MS Word, ... even though it might seem like a small change from providing suggestions to enforcing them. But when you think about it, it's a huge change, both from a technical standpoint and even more so from an ethical one.

Providing writing suggestions is certainly far from the worst thing that tech monopolies have ever done.

MS Word has had similar features for a few years now, so I think the world outside of HN already has some experience with it. In a professional setting, it's very useful. It's not just about ethnic slurs, which usually don't even find their way into my documents, but also about checking for clarity and conciseness. In the end, I've found that they usually improve my writing.

Of course, when writing text messages in WhatsApp or composing a novel, these suggestions are not necessary or even harmful. As long as these tools are optional, however, I don't see any harm there either.

Around 2.4% of all global green house gas emissions, but responsible for 5% of global warming [1]. I wouldn't call it minuscule.

I think one of the reasons that aviation is so often in the spotlight in discussions about climate change is the existence of greener alternatives. Of course, those can't replace all flights, but they don't have to. Add to that the fact that air travel has exploded in recent years before Corona, and you certainly have to ask yourself whether taking five weekend trips a year from Zurich to Hamburg really improves our standard of living so much that we should put up with the downsides of it.

Personally, of course, I also like to travel and I think flying is a great invention that brings countries and people closer. Nevertheless, you have to be a bit critical about whether every flight is really necessary.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-h...

Very similar to the situation with the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Switzerland managed to build the longest railway tunnel in the world within 17 years, and we will barely manage to build a few kilometers of supporting infrastructure in the Rhine valley, which is mostly flat and rural, until 2035 [1]. It's embarrassing, really.

[1] https://bauprojekte.deutschebahn.com/p/karlsruhe-basel

That's ridiculous. Kids start asking questions about sex as soon as they or one of their friends mother gets pregnant and they deserve honest answers and they can handle it, probably better than many grown-ups. That doesn't mean they need to know about all or even most aspects of sexuality, but some basic and factual knowledge doesn't hurt.

By now I would assume many people have at least once tried to build an app for iOS in one way or another. And it's easy to see why people prefer VSC which has a pretty classic UI for an IDE / editor, whereas Xcode tries to do so many things differently without good reason.

I mean, at least on iOS Apple did something way more drastic.

Anyway, I feel like the bigger problem is that Microsoft does not use https to open some simple websites. And people, including me, are upset about it. If they just used https instead of microsoft-edge, we wouldn't have any of those problems and everybody would be happy (probably excluding a hand full of people at MS). They could still use their own protocol to open some Edge-specific setting page or whatever.

I guess I'm somewhat OK with protecting microsoft-edge:// links, maybe an argument for security could be made for application-specific protocols. But they absolutely should not use https:// for links that just open Bing and MSN. After all, those are just normal websites and work perfectly fine in Firefox, and of course in Chrome or Opera as well.

At least with carriers we'd have more competition, now everything you mention is basically controlled by two companies. I'm not sure if that's any better.

... because they had to