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Frankly it doesn't look like it's ready to be useful. As an example tried "Braze notifications" and the first result was about Brave, then two mildly relevant, and then a long stretch of "Who's hiring?" topics from which HN seem to mention only notifications.
Overgeneralization detected! I live tiny, and spend less than I used to. I'm not in US though. But I think the general principle is the same everywhere: many of those who come to alternative homes do it not to save (especially from IT crowd), but for the fun of trying something different, and they happily spend a lot. But some do it to practice self-restraint. Others to keep themselves busy with DIY. Many different goals, many different compromises, all of that leading to different budgets.
Guests fiddling with their phones is not QR-dependent from what I experienced.
Also, waiters can be helpful, and friendly even when there's no paper menus. In my current city most restaurants are QR-enabled, and they serve food as nicely (or not) as paper-based. Absolutely the same experience except how you looking into menu. I just stopped noticing the difference.
EDIT: Maybe important note that I'm neither in US, nor an EU country.
Interesting idea. Though maximally-simple claim doesn't look warranted to me. It feels more complex than most of Forth incarnations.
How's this important for a project which is obviously an experiment in PLs field? You either interested in such things, or not, nothing else applies.
I can easily agree that Mac's touchpad is nice, as many other pieces of its hardware. MacOS however is not as good as it used to be (comparatively), because other OSes advanced significantly while retaining better configurability.
Btw, any touchpad should be used for a limited time, say in travel conditions. If you use it so much it became a decisive factor of choice - you are voluntarily marching towards RSI.
System wide function keys (play, pause, volume up, etc.) that work everywhere
What's so special about it? The only difference between my Asus with Linux, and Mac in this regard is that on Mac I have to use touch stripe which is inferior experience compared to physical keys.
I also see no discernible difference in many other things you mention like wifi stability.
MacOSX UI nowadays feels quite outdated compared to e.g. default KDE. And I don't even like KDE that much.
It's absolutely not like that. Apple extracts profits in a lots of ways, including those which rely on gathering personal data.
I didn't like FB well before it became fashionable, but I don't understand your logic here: what is that exactly that you can't entrust WhatsApp to send, but you can trust Apple, or your mobile carrier?
I must note switching from novelty to boring phase is a crisis which every growing project will come through once it starts to expand its workforce. I saw it in teams with very average tech stack many times.
I mentioned history of numbers, and it starts not from PIE speaking peoples, so I'm a bit lost as for what exactly is your point.
I'm a member of multilingual family, and I'm inclined to insist it's not about Germanic grammar cases, because it's true for non-Germanic languages as well.
If I ask you to count the number of red balls in a bag with only 3 yellow balls, then the initial count in your head is 0,
Sorry, no. Humans count from 1. That's just a basic fact reflected in the history of numbers, which at early stages often didn't treat 0 as a number, but as a special case. And if you would say "I counted zero red balls" most people around will find it an unusual wording. Normal way of saying it doesn't involve mentioning 0 at all: "It's empty", "There are no red balls" etc.
For example I could prepare presentations with it, or deal with long emails, and write code - all day long. While it was less comfortable compared to full-sized PC, it was normal, alright. Appearing in the same situation with any modern smartphone I would surrender immediately, because it would be literally crippling experience. Not to mention that it was technically much more flexible.
It's not a point if postmodernism, however. Noting that earthly life is unfair, and humans (and therefore human institutions) are inherently morally fallible predates postmodernism by millenia. The novelty of postmodernism thought was their claim that reality is not defined externally, and therefore its presumed unfairness makes it a sort of conspiracy intended to perpetuate that unfairness.
"...asking the subject about their eating habits over the last period"
exist only in your imagination and in fairy tales.
I'm afraid, this argument is both wrong (maybe you just haven't been lucky with people around you), and inapplicable (the talk is imaginarium).
Summary: the linked text doesn't answer the headline question. It's more a literary excercise
Were as Windows has been used to support
It's turning things upside down. Windows has been used in remote because it became dominant, not vice versa. It won in enterprise segment before e.g. even remote support, not to mention remote apps became widespread. And Win's success wasn't that much related to its technical excellence as most of admins from 90s would say
the effort of physically going somewhere is high
Ok, I realize there's a context for it. Still can't help, but laugh at how low is a "high" mark for physical effort when in office.
We have historical experience which pretty clearly shows that not increasing the price of aggression surely doesn't stop it. Contrary to what feel-good gurus say about "breaking the cycle of violence", in real life, it only breaks when the price of continuing is getting too high. And yes, when it comes to war it's definitely not a fairytale with all good men rewarded, and bad men punished. So if you wanted to say to that war is bad - I think almost nobody would oppose it. Not answering with weapons to weapons means there will be more of it, however.
Do you apply this principle consistently or only when and how it suits you?
Of course, I do. Not to say I don't have biases, or that I'm always have an access to 100% correct information. Life's not that easy, of course, but it still doesn't mean that it's always blurry, relative, and let's do nothing as your nihilist approach suggests.
if you call something fmt() you start needing to make up equally clever short names for everything else, and it becomes less principled.
Not necessary. There's a very sensible "huffmanization" principle created within Perl/Raku community which says that the need for a name/token to be overly descriptive is inversely proportional to frequency of its usage. So you can have short names and they still be human-parseable just because they are used often, and your brain used to register it. FWIW they will be easier human-parseable, because longer words take longer to read. With this approach one can has both fmt, and formatSomethingSomewhereSomeday
Can we decide that saving a victim from violence by applying violence to an aggressor is net positive? Yes, absolutely
Your opening lines seem yo be in contradiction with the ending.
"Illegal" is not equivalent to "bad thing", though. There are more people living under oppressive regimes than not.
I'm concerned by the fact that Amazon can delete files from a device I bought. How is this related to your comment? I don't see
Afterwards, Jeff Bezos apologised [...] It is therefore unlikely to happen again.
If it's still technically possible (it is), it will happen again. It's implemented to be used, even if occasionally. And mere existence of this feature is a clear declaration, you don't own it, you rent it. Many people may find it acceptable, taking other circumstances, but it's a big bold minus.
I don't think that effects of sun exposure significantly changed since long-long-long time ago as neighboring comment suggests. What certainly changed however is human life longevity. Your tanning strategy should work against burns, and likely has other benefits (e.g. vitamin D). But I suppose your skin still gets damaged, and it makes it age faster. Outdoor workers seem to look more wrinkled after 40 compared to office dwellers. Not sure how the sum of all factors plays here though. Does it worth to look older, but have more natural D (and possibly higher testosterone levels)? Dunno