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What a major victory for birds all across the globe. A feather is not ours to steal and parade around as if it’s our own culture. Maybe the ASF could replace this with a lock of human hair instead.

Anecdotally, Firefox has always been faster than Chrome on MacOS for me. Great to see it’s only getting even better.

Give LLMs five more years and this won't be an issue. The fact that it even gets close is seriously impressive.

For people like me who aren't sysadmins, but simply have to do maintenance tasks on VPSes from time to time, something like this would be a godsend.

Out of all the monthly subscriptions I have, YouTube Premium is by far my favourite. I don’t see an issue with paying for something I use so much everyday.

Let’s be real, at this point YouTube is too big to fail. Without Google’s capital it would be impossible to do this at scale. Also I would much rather support Google and independent creators rather than Netflix and the entertainment industry.

It used to work this way on iOS until they absolutely butchered the text cursor functionality with IIRC iOS 15.

This is a great example of how bad the UX has gotten for at-home music playback.

The GUI is buggy to say the least, but the actual torrent transfers are faster in every step of the way compared to Transmission 3.x in my testing.

Nice proof of concept. Might be good enough for basic visualisations but once you det into labelling it becomes unwieldy.

I think the developers at T-Mobile are equally pissed off about this. But with Firefox market share sitting at 3.5% in the US, it no longer makes business sense to spend the extra money required to make their site work in what is now a niche browser.

It's Google's world, we're just living in it.

Not a disease? That's down to semantics and personal opinion. What isn't opinion is the fact that the symptoms of ADHD have been objectively identified on a global scale, in people from very different cultures and social classes.

I agree that it isn't beneficial to label a very livable condition with the same word that we use for much harsher illnesses, and it doesn't help that it's not a visible condition. But as somebody with ADHD, it really hurts me to keep seeing this argument repeated ad nausea.

Maybe the issue isn't that it is being overdiagnosed, but rather the fact that the only treatment we consider worthwhile is prescribing amphetamines to children.

How do you do this specifically? Do you use some kind of bridging software or do you make a shim for each plugin that loads Wine on the fly?

I recently bought a "t.racks DSP 4x4 Mini" which is an inexpensive hardware DSP box capable of the same. I just have it sitting between my soundcard and some active speakers.

Gives me peace of mind knowing my EQ curve always is on even if I'm using software that's outputting direct to my interface.

TikTok and YouTube are fundamentally different and serve no danger to each other.

Nobody's watching a 25-minute video on TikTok.

Hot take - the YouTube Music suggestions algorithm is miles ahead of Spotify and Apple music if your tastes deviate a bit from mainstream music.

"Driving me away from the platform"

Lol. Where else are you going to go? YouTube is a de facto monopoly when it comes to self-published shortform videos.

The consequences of the "everything-is-free" Web 2.0 internet has created some very arrogant consumers that won't even pay $10/mo. to support content creators.

Don't spend all the money you save doing this at once!

Of course I would prefer a native app, but I don't think it is unreasonable of me to expect a web app to:

- Respect the UI conventions of web browsers and not override standard behavior

- Respond immediately to user input

- Not take up hundreds of megabytes of RAM

I have yet to use a React app that doesn't immediately "feel" like it's using React. There's some weird added latency that I can't really describe, but I don't feel it on Angular apps.

I've yet to hear the fans in mine, 9 months in. I can actually use it on my lap without scalding my legs. Battery life is so good that I rarely bring my charger along with me anymore.

My old Intel MBP would have a drained battery after 90 minutes doing the same CPU intensive stuff I'm doing for >5 hours on my 16" M1 Max.

The hardware is absolutely bonkers. It's unlike anything else. I wish I could say the same for the current state of Mac OS.

There's no question that it's still highly in demand, but as a user I despise React apps. Not that there's anything wrong with the technology - well-written React with minimal dependencies can provide a great and responsive UX.

In practise this rarely is the case. I have yet to use a React app that consistently respects Cmd+click as my intent to open something in a new tab, has sub-100ms draw times for any UI action, and doesn't need to load multiple megabytes of JS to bog down my CPU for basic CRUD stuff.

I would argue that any HTML + CSS framework stack is inherently flawed once you move beyond the most basic of UI components.

I have yet to work on a React + Tailwind codebase in the wild where the margin/padding metrics aren't hardcoded and repeated across tens of different components. We've traded the elegance of well-written SCSS for improved developer ergonomics and faster build times because webpack is so slow at compiling stylesheet changes.

If you want to practise proper DRY for spacing, typography, etc. in a React app, you'll just end up nesting tons of components that ultimately result in needless complexity.

A lot of organizations bet the farm on React ~5 years ago because it was the cool new thing. It is very likely that many of the original developers have since moved on to the next cool new thing, and now companies need maintenance work done on their (now unwieldy) codebase.

Another reason: The trend today seems to be to offload most of the data processing to the client side, only using the server as a glorified database pipe. Naturally, this results in a higher demand for frontend development.

April Fools idea: enforce this on HN for 24 hours and watch the chaos

Thought the same thing. This must not be an issue on Windows either?

Ha, I was just about to make a comment about how the Ableton interface is a perfect example of a dense UI still going strong. Wish I could say the same for most new VST plugins that think I want a delay effect to take up half of my monitor.

Another positive side effect of dense UIs is that they work as noob repellant. I've heard SO many people mention they chose Logic instead of Ableton "because it looks like Windows 95". That's all you need to tell me about how your mind works lol.

A good argument I've heard is that in Europe, when people got their first mobile phone contracts, you were charged per SMS message, whereas in the US, unlimited texting was included in your plan.

The consequence of this was that in Europe, people preferred free online messaging over costly SMS.

20+ years down the line and old habits die hard.

As much as I agree with this in principle, there is absolutely no denying that Apple is abusing their power when it comes to consumer lock-in.

I find it very hard to argue against regulation which is only meant to make devices more interoperable. USB-C for charging is mature enough at this point that it seems reasonable to declare it THE charging port.

An interesting - partially ironic - observation here, is that Apple actually designed the reversible USB-C connector and submitted it to the USB-IF - a team of bureaucrats. Bureaucrats, who of course previously were responsible for blunders such as micro-USB-B 3.0, and more recently, the ambiguous shitshow that is the current state of the USB spec.

I wholeheartedly believe that Apple is such a design-driven company that they would actually engage with regulators again (gasp, even the EU), if they were to come up with a better connector design down the road. Everybody wins.

That's actually a great point. I was coming from Windows at that point in time and the contrast alone in UI consistency was huge. But then again, it seems like the MS mantra has always been 'anything goes' when it comes to UI.

Maybe I'm just having my "old man yells at cloud" moment and I'm annoyed things are changing.

I'm writing this comment from a 16" M1 Max MacBook Pro, which is hands down the best laptop I've ever used, also for high-performance workloads. I prefer using Mac OS but I'm not married to the OS by any means, and if it was the other way around I'd be switching to some Lenovo + Linux combo. There's no denying that ARM is a much better architecture for any device that has power constraints. Add Apple's vertical integration, and you have a winner on your hands.

Granted, for desktops, x86-64 still has a lead in performance, but it's impossible to max out an Intel-powered laptop for more than 2 hours on battery power. Getting close to that level of performance, but without the horrible fan noise and burning lap is much more preferable to me.

The entire Pro lineup - laptops, tablets and phones - all have 120Hz displays. I would fault them for releasing the 60Hz Studio Display, but it is literally impossible to source a 5K panel with higher refresh rates at this time of writing.

External monitor support being shit - honestly not my experience, but OK - is more likely to be a byproduct of limited USB-C bandwidth, which you can work around using Thunderbolt docks or the built-in HDMI port. I will agree that Windows handles multiple monitors much better than Mac OS though.

It's so crazy how big the divide between Apple's software and hardware is getting. They're putting out the best hardware ever - by a huge margin - and yet their own internal software quality is going down the drain, fast.

The one thing Mac OS X got right in 2001 was consistency and predictability. When you learned how the UI worked in one app, it was almost guaranteed to behave the same in other apps.

Now today, we have this mess of Catalyst apps, SwiftUI apps, old Cocoa apps, and even worse, Electron apps.

Scroll speed and behaviour is inconsistent across all of them.

Drag-and-drop support, once a hallmark of the Mac UI, is spotty at best.

Even basic stuff breaks every once in a while. It's wild to consider that Apple literally wrote the book[1] on how to provide a consistent experience for an entire OS, and yet they don't seem to be able to follow it themselves anymore.

[1] http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf

This is a great point which I haven't heard before in this age-old debate.

But until Apple's dominance starts to wane, there's no chance in hell they will provide iMessage for other platforms unless forced by regulation.

If push comes to shove, they can implement heuristics which run texts from non-Apple devices through a harder spam filter. Spam isn't non-existent on the iMessage network, and there already seems to be a rudimentary spam filter in place.