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I always see these kind of comments, that many sites don't work in Firefox while they do in Chrome. When I encounter a broken site I always also check it in Chrome but the times where it is actually a browser's fault is like once a year. Usually it is some blocking of cookies or something that I have enabled in Firefox. Even sites from Google which everyone seems to describe that they are specifically made to work only in Chrome I never had issues with.

I have never owned a touchscreen laptop and I agree with most of the criticism in comments here against it. But after just briefly using one from my father I have to say there is some thing in our brain that makes it kinda more satisfying, if that is the right word, to touch on things that appear on a screen. Even as a power user being used to just using keyboard most of the time, after 10 minutes with a touchscreen my mind prefers to touch on screen instead of touchpad.

Previous discussion (626 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313623

I agree with your point about Google being more stable company then the rest so the decision probably makes sense. But there was a study done by multiple news companies in Czechia by asking about news topics and Gemini was consistently the worst in citations and straight up being incorrect (76% of its answers had "issues", I don't have exact issues specification).

I have used MAUI at my previous job to build 3 different apps, used only on mobile (Android and iOS). I don't know why many people dislike XAML, to me it felt natural to use it for UI, I researched flutter and liked MAUI/XAML more. Although the development loop felt smoother with flutter. What I didn't like was the constant bugs, with each new version that I was eager to update to fix current issues, something new appeared. After spending countless hours searching through the projects GitHub, I am under the impression that there aren't much resources dedicated to MAUI development from Microsoft, the project is carried forward by few employees and volunteers. If I would start another project I would seriously look into Avalonia. But I always was a backend guy so now at my current job I do server backend development in C# and couldn't be happier.

Did I really just waited couple of seconds on 2 different loading screens to see a small blog post that is more of an advertisement to some AI tool? Also the analogy of something that tries to stay as open as possible (self-hosting) needing its "iPhone" moment to be locked into single ecosystem doesn't really work for me.

Yes, this video and the one before called "An intuitive approach for understanding electricity" are absolutely great.

Holy moly, you must have very different life than most people I guess. I am from the younger generation which supposedly avoids making old-style phone calls as much as possible and I don't think I know anyone who has made less than 100 calls in the last decade.

Yes to both OpenJDK and large size.

curl -k "https://dl.google.com/android/repository/commandlinetools-li..." -o commandlinetools-linux.zip

unzip somewhere, set path variable

yes | sdkmanager --licenses && sdkmanager "platform-tools" && sdkmanager "ndk-bundle" && sdkmanager "build-tools;33.0.0" "platforms;android-33"

I followed the same logic when deciding what kind of blinds control to choose building my house few weeks ago. Now I am in the planning of adding automation to it. Did you use Shelly Plus 2PM or are there any cheaper options to choose from (they seem to start at 30€ in my country shops)? Did they fit nicely in the wall switch socket?

Always though that's the stupidest way to play the Pokemon Go. Maybe it made a little bit of sense in the beginning when small villages had almost no content but even than you just missing most aspects which make this game interesting. I guess that's the time we live in.

We had some zip files that if content was unzipped with 7-zip the files were correct but not if unzipped with Windows explorer. I am struggling to remember what were the contents of the zip files I think it was some data that was loaded by our or third party application what would produce a crash if not unzipped correctly. I never got to the root cause because coworker told me to "fix" it by using 7-zip and was not bothered by it since then, only when I passed the knowledge to newer coworkers. It was happening still on Windows 10.

Windows has been for years corrupting files unzipped via explorer. I am not going to trust them with 7-zip now.

Me and my wife also wanted to eliminate corridors as much as possible when we designed and discussed our house with an architect few years ago. Because of the property constraints and our other requirements about all of rooms we abandoned the idea of eliminating corridors and ended up with one long corridor through the middle of the house. After living in the house now for a few weeks we have no regrets - our son can run and ride in the corridor in the way he would not be able to otherwise and we found a way to decorate it that is quite pleasing. I am not saying that someone may be able to architect the house in other way to better use "wasted space" as you put it but we are very happy with our decision.

Sixty symbols (same author as Numberphile) video on this from 9 yeas ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uqf71muwWc

This is something I wish I could find more actual data than people opinions. On the surface it seems like a natural fit to use the black surface to also heat water and also increase longevity and efficiency of solar panels. But many people argue that this doesn't make sense from economic point of view and can decrease longevity of the overall system. Sadly right now I don't think there are enough sources to make confident decision.

I am in the process of building a house in central Europe. My source of heat will be a ground-source heat pump from boreholes, which means using it as cooling for solar panels in the summer would be quite cheap (I specifically ordered a model of the heat pump wich has cooling mode build in). Added benefit would be that heating the boreholes in summer should increase their longevity because there is a potential of "sucking out the holes" (don't know if this is the right term in english) after decades of using them as a heat source - again something I could not find data supporting this claim so I don't know if I should be worried about this.

My combination seemed like a great fit to install water cooled PV but probably will not do it just because there is not a single contractor who does it and nobody who has it installed to give me advices. I hope that in 25 years when I should suspect to do a PV change it will be decided if it is a good idea or not.

With all this Electron and PWA focused development a cannot shake a feeling that we add an extra layer of a "runtime" on top of an operating system, that could be avoided. An extra layer which occupies RAM space and processor time which feels unnecessary but it is where we are headed. I wonder if the reason is simple, that we (myself included) have not provided anything better or the reason is that big corporations who control most of the market have pushed this technology forward. I hope we can learn from this and bring back some of this lost performance while keeping the productivity and security gains.

There is a case in C# where using compound assignment is actually slower [0]. Based on comments this should be fixed in .NET7 I haven't checked it myself.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/badamczewski01/status/15618171584...

I don't know which class of SD card I used, it wasn't the top speed one, but switching to older M.2 SSD connected via USB case was night and day difference. I have RPi4 connected to a TV as a home center with full Raspberry OS because some local TV providers play only in browser. After switching to SSD the OS became snappy and playing video streams (less optimized then youtube) in browser is now non problem.

Slight OT: I am thinking about buying a camera. I have never had a good camera system nor I ever had a flagship phone (iPhone/Samsung/Pixel). I though a mirrorless with good lenses would be a good starting choice. I don't want to do professional photography, I just want to shoot holidays in nature and my upcoming baby. I did some internet research and was blown away when people compare photos from best phones to photos from mirrorless/DSLR cameras. My impression now after some research is that you can get better looking images from camera if you are willing to do some post-processing in Lightroom, etc. If you compare raw images then a lot of times people tend to say that the one taken on a phone looks better (I know it might not look more "real", just that people like it more). Would you agree that buying a camera is worth only if you are willing to do a lot of preparation and post processing but if not just buy a phone with all the advantages it brings? Is it even worth buying a camera in 2022 if you are targeting a price of about what top model iPhone costs?

Let's leave pure love of photography aside for the sake of argument.

Async/await is not for parallelism.

My wife would actually appretiate your first fiew points the opposite way - don't have shit laying around when you go to sleep and be minimalistic about decorating your rooms. I am not saying that I like the ORI products but I think your first points are just a personal preference. Having have mechanical contraption above my head would scare me too.

I would agree that Facebook is practically dead but Instagram defeated by TikTok? In very young teens' maybe, that is not really my social bubble but Instagram is far more prevalent everywhere else. Speaking as a someone from Central Europe.

Yeah, there certainly is a ton of videos where he just "fucked around to entertain children" but he said it himself that he could just keep doing it forever. There was more serious side to him, like the book club, but I have no idea what he does now.

I think it's this one [1] and this is the text from it without WSJ paywall [2], but the main issue was with the video included in WSJ not in the article text itself. If I remember it correctly it is few clips from Pewdiepie's videos stitched together out of context to make him look bad. Note that I am not saying that he did not push his jokes too far but still a "serious newspaper" should not take short clips out of context, like if you took any 10 seconds from Dave Chappelle last special that would make him seem like a horrible person.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube... [2]: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/disney-severs-ties-wit...

After reading the article on Pewdiepie I stopped thinking about WSJ as a serious newspaper.

Others have said no, but I think you can. The ".NET Framework compatibility mode"[0][1] was introduced in netcore2.0 (which actually is now quite a long ago, geez), which means that if your libraries don't use some windows-specific APIs/functionality, like WPF, there is a big chance that you can use them just as they are. I have never used my own .NET framework library like that but I think have used some 3rd party library targeting .NET framework in production.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/porting/third-p... [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/porting/#net-fr...

Slight off topic but I am curious about using bits in an integer for flags. As the article mentions Gross uses 2 least significat bits for flags and the rest is an integer for reference counting. When someone considers whether to use most significant bits or least significant bits are there any major differences? Is is easier to implement or faster because of processor architectures/instruction sets to use least significnt bits or is that just a matter of choice?

The Nextcloud Windows desktop client is very poorly written. We needed an in-house file hosting solution to replace really old Samba shares and Nextcloud seemed like a great option because we also were looking for a non-Google alternative to Google Docs/Drive (one of our clients has anti-Google policy).

After moving all files to Nextcloud server everyone (company of 20+ people) installed Nextcloud Windows Desktop client and connected to it with only virtual files option set (nothing is transfered until opened/edited). The initial "sync" after first seup took about 2-3 days to complete for everyone. Reason? Probably too many small files. The share contained about 300+GB of data in around 500k files (not sure about that number only a guess). Nextcloud checks every single file with server which computes hash for it which is stored locally. You can find threads on their community forum or reddit by people experiencing same slow behavior when they have a lot of small files. There were some promises from devs to resolve it with the latest client update but we didn't verify it yet.