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To me it seems that all social media platforms converge to some user hostile version of Reddit. You can argue that it got worse over time too, but it still is the platform that gives me most control over what I like to see.

The other model that seems to work well for users are obviously platforms like Signal/Matrix/Whatsapp.

If (and that's a big if) Putin "finishes off" Ukraine, do you really think it's just back to normal for Europe/Russia relations?

There could be good reasons to switch from Thinkpad to Framework, but I think this 'issue' isn't one.

It's a setting that can easily be turned off in the BIOS UI. One could argue that this shouldn't be the default (and I would agree), but in practice this is a none issue.

> I saw the pain points of git (and GitHub) firsthand working on Kubernetes open-source.

The article could have been interesting if the author actually expanded on what these pain points are. I'm genuinely curious about those.

You might have read about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28483777

It guess it depends a lot on personal preferences and expectations, but I'm very content with my Bitwig setup on Linux. There are obviously a lot less native third party VST plugins available on Linux, so if you already own lots of them and want to make a switch that could be a problem, but if you're just starting out, there's more than enough available:

https://www.kvraudio.com/plugins/linux/vst-plugins

Your comment could have been mine. Many years ago, I found GObject interesting, but was afraid using it would lead to friction when used outside GNOME's ecosystem.

But what about potential loops, as in a cyclic graph. How to make sure they terminate?

It might be a gain, but that doesn't make it corruption.

I'm not sure this is a convincing example of policy that results in a net negative? It seems to be a positive for truck drivers from other parts of Europe. Maybe for most EU citizens too if it leads to lower transport prices?

Interesting observation! I think it's the same with music. I love all kinds of music, from the very weird/experimental to big budget larger than life sounding mainstream productions. Being also a bedroom music producer with limited time, I would love to match these big budget productions, but I don't have the ability to get to that level. So instead of trying to make a weak imitation, it's more fun and rewarding to create something different or weird.

To me, the parent poster didn't imply that golang's naming is better, they just wondered why there's a lack of naming conventions regarding threading in general.

Fair enough, maybe it was just buggy behavior that made this process confusing to me, as I agree that something like this could in theory provide a smooth experience.

I agree that the whole identity verification stuff is confusing in element. I think it would be less so if they just generate and present the backup security key at account creation, telling users to use this when they want to login on a different device and drop the whole ad-hoc 'scan a qr code' process.

Having said that, is the UI/UX apart from the above really terrible? When using as a simple messenger app, the experience for me is almost the same as WhatsApp (which almost completely replaced sms at least in the Netherlands). The biggest issue I have is that when you open the emoji selection screen when typing a message, you have to close this and reopen the keyboard to continue typing, which is a bit silly, but not a deal breaker.

It's a difficult problem to tackle for sure. The easy solution (at least, if you allow yourself to simply ignore the consequences of doing so :) would be to just increase import duties so that retail prices match with locally produced products, but I guess that's quite incompatible with the idea of a free market. It also won't make you a popular global player.

Still, as a thought experiment, I wonder how it would work out for the global economy if every country/economic block in the world would simply match prices of imported products with comparable locally produced items. I guess one of the big issues would be how to assure comparisons between products are fair.

It's just postfix notation. I don't see why you shouldn't be able to do something like:

index.html open | sed

A declarative programming language should indeed allow you to think mostly about the result you want and not much about the how, but I'd say GP's comment is more about the design phase. The actual implementation could still be highly imperative.

According to wikipedia Samsung's revenue is around 17% of SK's GDP. Still a huge amount, but considerably less than 40%.

Performing artists can also collect performance royalties, but I think am/fm radio is excluded from this and I don't know how much it is in comparison to songwriter royalties.

I think in the context of music, composer and writer are essentially the same, but maybe you meant specifically text writer?

In my experience the usage of notifications in native apps is hardly less spammy than web notifications.

It's nice that the iPhone SE performs so well, but there's more to a phone than just the CPU.

Indeed, using tailwind without some build pipeline is not recommended. You'd use something like PurgeCSS to remove all unused css classes. Which admittedly kind of defeats the whole idea of keeping it simple.

It defines css classes for most css properties. Their website [1] explains why you might want that pretty well. Regarding file size, the idea is that you use something like PurgeCSS in your build pipeline, which removes all unused css classes. A bit like tree shaking for css.

[1] https://tailwind.css

Add tailwind css or another utility class css framework and you can do the whole frontend in html :)

Ha, that caught my eye too. I'd say DynamoDb is kind of the poster child of the whole NoSQL thing.

> The important question is that whether this relationship is disruptive, neutral or positive (like being addicted to training). Drinking isn't inherently bad, but the author thinks so. My impression is that there are equal number of studies on pro/contra moderate alcohol consumption.

Not sure if it's part of the 'official' definition of addiction and forgot what the source of it was, but I always liked the explanation that if there's no negative (emotional) feedback loop, it's not really an addiction, but just a habit.

As someone fromnEurope, I was in the same boat as you with a NY Times trial subscription. I didn't even tried to call them, since they not only require you to call them to cancel your subscription, but do it during US east coast office hours too.

In the end I just canceled the recurring payment contract at PayPal. A few weeks later I received a 'Sorry to see you go' email from them and that was it.

I'm not sure if credit cards also allow you to cancel recurring payment contracts, but sepa directdebit does (which is the payment method used if you used for example the Dutch iDeal payment method as initial payment.

> and despite its excellent concurrency characteristics the BEAM still lacks basics such as a battle-tested raft implementation.

A couple of years ago the RabbitMQ team has published a raft library[1] which they use in their implementation of persistent queues. It has a flexible API and implementing your own state machines is quite straightforward, as it follows the OTP gen_* behaviour paradigm.

And by now, I'd say it's pretty well battle-tested.

[1] https://github.com/rabbitmq/ra

So what are you going to do when the virus is gone in your city/state/country, isolate yourself from the rest of the world? Because the timeline/situation will be different for many other places.