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That's true. Agree there.

I use the cheap Muji ones and the Muji gel pens (which are refillable for under <£1)

https://www.muji.eu/product/recycling-paper-notebook-dark-gr...

https://www.muji.eu/product/gel-ink-ballpoint-pen-0-7mm-1104...

Get through a notepad once a month or so and a refill every 3 months.

Well they had a chance to and failed so I'm fucking off.

Don’t depress me further :)

So much this. We need something which fits in the space that 8+ year old vehicles exist in now. Which isn’t dealer serviced subscription shiny shit that costs a small fortune.

I agree. However the ChatGPT situation is the first hype that’s really been harmful rather than just disruptive. It can and is being used to generate low accuracy noise which degrades quality information. I suspect our demise isn’t going to be a big bang but a slow fizzle of information decay. And this is the start of it. At best it’s going to make us stupider.

Am in this situation. The 3-4 load isn’t caused by me but is the minimum work necessary to keep the company from crashing and burning. The cause was a cargo cult restructuring that caused enough ceremony, overhead and friction that ingrained expertise left. The company made no effort to retain people either and won’t pay enough to attract new talent.

The solution is simple and will be applied within the next quarter.

Sure feels like Tesla owners are being experimented on to some degree...

Well the mechanical keyboards, the key caps start falling off and won't stay on or the crappy lead free solder gives out on the keyswitches. The rubber dome ones, the rubber domes wear out and crap gets in and then it's end of the road. The ones that survive that tend to find out they have a coffee allergy.

I'm sort of on the fence on that one still. The web is a fucking mess these days and the well developed apps are quite refreshing in comparison to half baked piles of excrement web offerings from the big technology companies and open source ecosystem.

What I really want is Gopher and a few well engineered portable native apps that aren't supported by advertising hegemonies.

Oh and nothing freedesktop has gone anywhere near.

Not a fan of the idea:

1. I don't look at a keyboard so there's not much point in making it look fancy.

2. I destroy keyboards in 12 months. Even good quality mechanical ones. I probably can't afford to own this.

3. It looks like bits are going to fall off it when I inevitably catch the edge of it moving from my mouse to my keyboard.

4. It doesn't have enough keys on it and the default positioned layout sucks.

5. It's got transparent bits. My backlit laptop keyboard already looks like a cat litter tray after a couple of weeks. This is going to require a lot of upkeep.

I think the only keyboard I actually like at the moment is the Cherry Stream SX TKL. Costs $26, feels like an old ThinkPad, has all the right keys in the right place, if you break you won't cry, no bits fall off it when you shake the crap out, it doesn't look like a Christmas tree on acid or ever like a cat litter tray. I had 11 keyboards to get to that and it was the cheapest one. Ugh.

Eich doesn't seem like the sort of person who makes mistakes, preferring to do a PR backtrack after misjudging his audience after comparing them to his own dubious standards. Never the sort who thinks they did something wrong but likes you to think they did.

This instantly puts me off WhatsApp from a reliability perspective. Your identity needs to be decoupled from something someone else controls.

You could build a ray casting engine, textures and maps that would fit in that easily. It might not be doom but something similar is possible.

As someone with an EE degree I would agree with this. I was disappointed to find out that my career was mostly cutting and pasting stuff out of datasheets and using crib spreadsheets written by some revered dead guy who didn't haven any EE degree anyway and worked it out by reading some books.

Does it gaslight you into believing it won?

Both of them run like shit in my experience. I mean Discord is basically mIRC that looks a bit better with a shit version of zoom strapped on the side.

If you stick with Ubuntu LTS you have to put up with the bugs they never fix for longer!

I had that a while ago. MySQL in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was a complete fuck up with loads of upstream bugs that weren't patched out. Unfortunately company policy was only Ubuntu with system packages.

Eventually I persuaded them to let me use CentOS 6. What they didn't know is they ended up running Debian stable for the next 7 years thanks to a pact with the other sysadmins. Eventually it all went to AWS and Amazon Linux which is basically a uniquely fucked up version of CentOS.

Really I'd rather run FreeBSD but no one wants to pay me to do that.

Debian is pure + quality control. Arch is just pure.

Also I want to use Linux to solve problems, not create problems that need solving :)

1. Correct.

2. Yes they have. Half their developer tools were rewritten in WPF, they offered huge stacks including CRM on top of Silverlight and a huge chunk of windows 11 front end is WinUI.

3. Teams fucking sucks. VS Code is heading in the same direction. I've never used Azure Data Studio.

I am glad to hear this. The more things that are directly derived from Debian the better. It's one of the last respectable Linux distributions without vendor crapware and customisations stuffed in it by default.

It's not /that/ expensive if you stick to B&W. I mean I can pick up a fairly good 35mm Praktica body, Zeiss nifty fifty, some rolls of Ilford, all the chemicals, tank, dark room bag and film puller for less than half the price of my Nikon Z 50mm f/1.8 lens. As for scanning, you can do that with your DSLR/mirrorless, a lamp and some diffusing plastic.

But yeah, is it worth the hassle? Probably not.

Good times indeed. I had a Bronica SQ-Ai in the 90s. Sold it all and went digital when the Nikon D100 came out. Now well in Nikon Z land.

Sometimes I want to go back to film. Not necessarily large format as I would hate to lug the things around now. Perhaps some East German 35mm stuff :)

While in jest, this is so accurate that it's not funny.

I've seen the outbound version of this which gets sent to our customers:

  Dear customer, extra 20% this year, kthx.

I don't think you are living in the real world.

Most React applications do not end up like that in the real world. They turn into poorly architected over complicated nightmares, particularly on sprawling apps which is the reality in the corporate space. Not everyone is building hyper-focused single function tools which can be crammed in an SPA type framework. And the users suffer for this.

One of the finest turds I've seen recently is my electricity company's meter reading facility which is an over-engineered react interface for a single web form with two fields and a confirmation box. The whole thing pulls 590k down to do that and takes 5 seconds for the initial page load on an M1 MacBook Pro. That's the real end game for most people. The only reason it's like that is because the people who built it don't know how to do it any other way.

And lets be honest about Microsoft: they do everything from a front end or user interface perspective and randomly discontinue bad ideas about 5 years down the line. Like Silverlight, most of WPF, bits of ATL and MFC, an entire mobile phone platform that got rewritten. And their competing framework WinUI 3 doesn't even work properly. Their own O365 web platform is a fine example of where this turns into a buggy mess. I bet react is dead to them within 2 years on one of their schizophrenic switcharoos. The only reason they're into it now is to capture some market from Electron.

I’ve never seen it happen either. But the point is this allows them to be bypassed entirely.

It’s not loose schema at all. All the tools that wrap it are.

You don’t know something is going to work unless you actually do it.

Try selling React shit to corporates who have corporate malware infested Edge running on overloaded Citrix nodes or the average corporate android that was made about 3 years ago.

We still get <100ms page delivery with server side rendering and lightweight JavaScript DOM overlays. Our React infested competitors, not so much to the point their clients have been shitposting on twitter about it.

And we actually can debug our product!

I expect hoards of graphic designers to arrive at Redmond with pitchforks and torches this afternoon.