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sudders··on The sad beige aesthetic: why has the world suddenly turned taupe?
Now I am interested in the result. Care to share some photos?
sudders··on In 2019, Volkswagen decided to create a car OS. How’s that going?
I was in the market for a new car in 2021… and tested a whole bunch of EVs.

All my previous cars were VW's. But the abysmal software was _the_ reason I didn't go with VW (or any of the other brands) this time.

Skoda Enyaq was the best of the bunch, the UI was fairly intuitive but still slow and unresponsive.

VW Id4 was over the line bad, but the worst of them all, it still annoys me to this day, was Audi Q4. For a car with that price point, it was like the engineers made a sport of how bad they can make a UI.

A pop-up saying something about privacy every time you start the car. Very regularly a pop-up saying "no data connection, while you could see LTE in the background, and everything appeared to just function normally. And many, many more

The only usable part is the fact that you can use Android auto/carplay.

In the end I went with a Polestar, and honestly I am very pleased. Would recommend it to anyone.

sudders··on California Exported Its Worst Problem to Texas
What I came here to say
sudders··on Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world
Yes, however we are unanimously siked for framework.
sudders··on Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world
The sleep then hibernate sounds promising. But is it something you need to configure yourself?
sudders··on Bringing the Framework Laptop to more of the world
Can't wait for framework laptop to run Linux/Ubuntu stable (without battery drain issues)

Then I'll be switching all the developers in our company over to a new machine.

(Currently running XPS 13, but we are due an upgrade, especially on memory)

sudders··on Star's strange path around black hole proves Einstein right (2020)
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/einstein...
sudders··on Brexit VAT rules: shipping notice on a Dutch ecommerce store
The thresholds are going to disappear soon™
sudders··on You Are Not Free to Move Out of the Country
I have not read the article through, but as far as I can tell this is about US citizens.

Because of that I'm wondering why the cover photo is from Bruges, Belgium, more specifically:

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.2091441,3.2241047,3a,90y,334...

sudders··on Developing a reactivity system with Lamport clocks and incremental computation
This really is brilliant in its simplicity.

Not having to maintain complex data structures to keep track of property dependencies as opposed to using light weight integer comparison to track changes. I can imagine @tracked being many times faster than @computed

sudders··on Worries grow over a K-shaped economic recovery that favors the wealthy
In related news, water is wet.
sudders··on Expose – A fully open-source ngrok alternative written in PHP
You'd be surprised how PHP has evolved in the last couple of years. With frameworks like ReactPHP you can really code anything you want in PHP.
sudders··on Signal PINs
3rd
sudders··on Comparing Ember Octane and React
This is amazing
sudders··on Telehealth will be free, no copays, they said. But patients are getting billed
This is just a drop on a hot plate. The entire system is rotten, and it needs to go.

But by all means, everyone is stuck playing the blame game, the red ties point to the blue ties and the other way round.

In the mean time, nothing changes and regular people loose.

Fuck Republicans, fuck Democrats, fuck Libertarians, fuck them all. The whole system needs to start over.

sudders··on Telehealth will be free, no copays, they said. But patients are getting billed
The more I learn about the US healthcare system, the more i'm sad for everyone living there.

All these loads and loads of information you need to know to go to the doctor. How can regular people ever get the healthcare they need, and we're not even talking about the vulnerable, low income, low schooled.

This. Is. Ridiculous.

I'll take socialism over this nonsense any day of the week.

sudders··on The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER Bill
To put it in perspective, I broke my ankle 3 years ago, and in the end, I paid, from my own pocket, 45EUR. For 1 ER visit, x-rays, cast, a few follow-up consultations and renting crutches for a few weeks.
sudders··on Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
I think you miss the biggest point. This will have a significant impact on the wages of women. As suddenly women are not longer at a disadvantage when companies need to decide who to hire for a certain position.
sudders··on Ember.js Octane Edition
We have been using Ember for the last 5 years, and have been continuously shipping new features and updates on a daily basis. Our different applications have been following every upgrade path, and because of that we have not required a rewrite of our codebase.

Ember has been a great choice for our business, and has given us the opportunity to punch well above our weight class.

Ember is a wonderful front-end framework and deserves a lot more credit than it is currently getting.

Great job Ember Team, keep it up, the community loves you!

sudders··on Ask HN: Which domain registrar and hosting provider do you prefer?
I'm a longtime Gandi user. But I absolutely loathe the new web UI. To the point where i'm considering moving my 200+ domains somewhere else.

At the time I chose Gandi for the 2 factor auth, and because it was a European company, but in the meantime there is plenty of other registrars offering the same.

sudders··on Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?
Sorry. Only just saw your question.

The touchscreen works out of the box, but I don't use it that often, the few times I've used it I noticed that if I have an issue it's mostly related to the program I'm using and the lack of proper touchscreen support for that particular program.

sudders··on Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?
I had to switch to a new laptop last year after my old MBP first generation retina died.

I couldn't justify the price, the specs and the keyboard of a new MBP anymore and after much deliberation I chose a $1200 HP Spectre x360.

I do mostly web development work (Ember.js, PHP and Node), and after running Win10 for a few weeks and hating the performance (especially for Node). I installed Ubuntu Budgie, and have been smoothly running it ever since.

The latest Linux kernel provides me with excellent battery performance and for a machine a third of the price I must say I made the right choice.

sudders··on Ask HN: How long does it take to learn a new keyboard layout?
went from AZERTY to QWERTY, and took me about 2 weeks to get entirely used to it
sudders··on Ask HN: Which project management and team communication software do you use?
Trello (with Planaway) and Slack

We are looking into switching Slack to Hangouts Chat (why pay for 2 services when you can do it with 1). However we are getting mixed feedback from our test users… Anyone here with Hangouts Chat experiences?

sudders··on Ask HN: What is your blogging platform of choice in 2018?
Self hosted Ghost. Been running smoothly and I'm happy about it.
sudders··on Python Environment
It's funny because it's true
sudders··on Ask HN: Where have you registered your domains and why?
I use gandi as well for all my domains (about 100). But ever since they switched to the new v5 platform. I've been getting very inconsistent problems. I had to migrate all the domains to the new platform, but every so often I find some domains that haven't been migrated. All on the same account with different handles, which makes it hard to find the ones that haven't been migrated
sudders··on Jeff Bezos Has Spent $42M Building a Clock to Run 10,000 Years
Apart from the "because he can". Is there any use for it today?
sudders··on Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018?
Start with what you know, don't spend months figuring out a certain database tech for example when MySQL/mariaDB is just as good for 99% of the use cases.

I know there's a lot of bias out there against PHP. But I would still use it over the alternatives, there's a large community. With excellent frameworks who do the heavy lifting for you. (Symfony, Laravel). Great support and tooling, a large recruiting base and easy to pick up.

I personally love using Drupal 8 (which is built with Symfony), it has an excellent database abstraction layer, you can easily swap MySQL out for Postgres for example. There's a lot of functionality built in, and very developer minded (compared to WP) with many extra 3rd party addons. It also has a proven track record with deployments from small SMB to large enterprise users. It can also easily be extended with any Symfony packages.

For front end, I swear by Ember.js it is a framework which makes a lot of important decisions for you. You don't loose time setting up your tooling, deployments, state management, ... A great community, many excellent add-ons. A proven track record (LinkedIn, Twitch, Apple Music, ...) And on top of that, it has been around for 6 years, and is still actively developed with regular releases, with a excellent deprecation support so you can easily upgrade to new versions.

sudders··on Simple method for computing distance between point and an ellipse
Congrats on the find, although I'm not familiar with any of the material presented it's a clear and nicely written Blog Post.
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