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Everything became junk when primed for 10-12, or 26-30 minutes - a race to the bottom. AI's a further nail into what YT was.
With keyboards, that includes mappings that give RSI and finger strain for the sake of not adding a handful of keys.
For the window manager, that includes non-windowed applications, from a UI perspective never moving on from single application views - just giving an illusion of multiple apps.
Despite the strides NextSTEP brought Apple as an OS, some of which shows through at the command line, the UI and UX just hasn't moved on.
> powerful spreadsheet functions like TEXTSPLIT and VSTACK...
...won't matter to almost anyone when you still can't right-click a row and press 'd' on a keyboard to delete that row. Everyday stuff like that matters, not an oblique function.
I still cannot find my way around the semi-ribbon interface, while half the options are still in menus. It seems like pot luck whether or.not the right-clicked 'format' will have the option. Perhaps it's not even 'format'.
Fancy functions to learn don't matter when ChatGPT can string together existing functions to do the job and leave an average-lay-power-user happy. 365. Meanwhile, python's python-XXXx libraries provide a superior UI, a UI that's entirely in my head, than LibreOffice.
Perhaps you don't like the conclusions it draws?
You then put words in others mouths. Then cannot leave the thread alone. You've already been called out by failing to pander some cheap anti-Electron sloganeering to the HN crowd, too.
I suggest, if you're going to talk-up your APP, to do so by focusing on positives. Perhaps read some posts by people that promote successfully, such as patio11.
To be fair, this happened a couple of years ago but continued stoking of the insecurity flames is required.
If, however, you already have an 'in' to money and power, no action needed unless one's ego wants more, is deranged, etc.
On the other, there are lots of articles explaining that black on white will cause readers discomfort so recommend camouflaged light grey on dark grey, or vice versa, as better.
HN pussy foots enough. That pussy footing is what causes pent-up voting - its trend followers and "i agree/disagree with this"ers not having the gall to cast first vote.
Justifying this will make it even worse, as a wall of text will be needed before anyone does anything. Then you'll get downvoted by the trend followers citing the wall of text dissenter rather than thinking still.
But what about the opposite: all the other stuff that's surface? Today I had it fill out a calendar, to generate test data meeting specs, to do some simple translation, to proof some reading, to search.
If there's a task that can be directed and it takes less time to direct than do, it's a productivity gain.
That was ～2000. I'm convinced the web has not only gone nowhere but regressed since 2009.
As a human construct, prices are also entirely made up. Treating them as a positivist 'given' akin to 'facts' from natural sciences misses the wood for the trees.
People have no inate understanding of 'menu'. We don't even read short words like that letter by letter, it's read as a block and is far more complex than three bars.
Screens, somewhat counterintuitively, used to be wider. Because they were not on handheld mobile devices. Then we had the menubar and nested dropdowns, suckerfish, etc. It was an exciting time to see a menu, you were never quite sure what you were going to get - I believe there are positives to learning curves for power users.
But I digress. 三 means 3 in Chinese. It doesn't take cognitive load. Why does a hamburger? I really am curious.
SSL for websies, TLS for email, tunnels, XMPP, etc.
Shadowsocks, including outline, has long been dead.
There is no case to justify an assumption as true.
How would you judge the impact of 'technology' over the past 20 years? The 20 years before that were pretty revolutionary too, and so were the 20 years prior to that.. and... the 20 years prior... and... Bias comes from the life one's lived.
How to measure the impact, then? Life expectancy? Education? Gender equality? Access to clean air and water? A safe house that the majority of people can afford doing a job they don't hate? All these things that go into Human Development? Of which HDI [1] is but one, of which some have had progress in some countries. But fear mongering, playing on insecurities, that gets investor money for the hope some fraction of wealth can be accumulated by peddlers of such insecurity. You are a useful distraction.