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Why?

I can understand the historical reasons related to China and Korea, but Brazil? What did they do to them?

Back in 2011, when Motorola released a phone that could do something similar, I was sure that was going to be the future. It’s been 15 years.

I still dream of the day when my computer lives on my wrist, and I just have a few dummy screens in different formats that can connect to it so I can consume media or be productive.

There’s definitely a way to prove it, ask it to spell out a moderately complex program.

I remember being excited about Edge, I even started using it because it was fast and had a couple of built-in features I liked. It was a big improvement over the old IE, it felt like Microsoft was going the right direction, but then they kept using dark patterns to change my default search engine to Bing.

Or their constant use of dark patterns to push you into using Bing and Edge. I was actually an Edge user myself. I liked a few of its built-in features, and it felt pretty fast. But then they started tricking me into changing my default search engine to Bing. I fell for it a couple of times, and then I quit.

I hear people saying that every day in Slack and Teams

That era taught me how much regular users can tolerate awful, slow interfaces.

Wow, so it has surpassed humans.

And now Apple started to lose it.

I read the other day that one of their devs has a vanilla CC setup that consists of 10 agents running in parallel. Why doesn’t he just ask one of those agents to fix it??

Still, code describes what and how, but not why.

Tip: Look for someone selling their grownup children’s Lego collection. I recently found a couple selling their children’s old Lego collection in Facebook Marketplace. I got an enormous bag of them for just a few bucks. It was a headache to filter out the garbage in them (small non-LEGO toys, unique pieces that were not really useful, a few mixed mega blocks, broken pieces, etc) but it was worth it, my children love them!

For some reason comments were moved from the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315583

I’m as confused as you

I sincerely believe one day we'll get an official release of one of those Airpod straps: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hilarious-accessory-reminds-us-at...

Build a wall?

Previous comment thread has an interesting conversation about why it hasn’t became a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793466#45793922

I recently spent some time in a country house far enough from civilization that electric lines don’t reach. The owners could have installed some solar panels, but they opted to keep it electricity-free to disconnect from technology, or at least from electronics. They have multiple decades old ingenious utensils that work without electricity, like a fridge that uses propane, oil lamps, non-electric coffee percolator, etc. and that made me wonder, how many analogous devices stopped getting invented because an electric device is the most obvious way of solving things to our current view.

By auto-play I mean in the feed, there’s an option to stop it from doing that, but after a while YouTube decides to turn it on again. It also has an option to hide Shorts, but same thing, they simply ignore it. About the dub thing, I get it could be tunnel vision coming from english-only speakers, it didn’t occurred to them that outside their circles is common for people to be bilingual or even multilingual, but that auto dub thing hasn’t been fixed for years there are tons of complains, the way I “fixed” it was setting my language to English, but from time to time I get my own language dubbed to English.

Premium users still get auto dubs, still cannot completely disable auto play, still cannot completely hide Shorts.

It’s amazing how UX hostile companies can get when they don’t have real competition.

“No need for compatibility testing” – I think that’s a really important feature. Not everyone can accept all types of blood. It becomes a real challenge when a person requires constant transfusions and can only accept one specific blood type.

Wow, the amount of ads I get is insane. For every three posts, one is an ad:

  - Post (from a friend)
  - Ad
  - Post (from a random page I don't follow)
  - People you may know (I don't know any of those people)
  - Ad
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)
  - Post (from a random page I don't follow)
  - Ad
  - Post (from a friend)
  - Post (from a page I follow)
  - Ad

It’s so frustrating having a nice Shortcut idea just to hit a limitation right away.

Thanks for this, a few months ago I was trying to find an old video but it was impossible to find with regular queries, there's just too much SEO garbage recently added to YouTube.

For privacy reasons, the system handles all communication with your associated server; your Message Filter app extension can’t access the network directly.

Thanks for the documentation link, I was uneasy about using this type of extension.

I use Bouncer, but this should be a functionality given by iOS, I don't feel comfortable giving a third party app access to read my messages.

the original work had taken me maybe an hour. And the cost of keeping the data around was approximately zero. It seemed he didn’t consider that.

You're missing the time other developers will spend trying to figure out why that code is there. When investigating a bug, upgrading, or refactoring, people will encounter that code and need to spend time and mental energy figuring it out.

Recently, I've been modernizing a few projects to run in containers. This work involves reading a lot of code, refactoring, and fixing bugs. Dead code—either code that is no longer called or code that never was—is one of the things that most wastes my time and energy. Figuring out why it's there and wondering if changing or deleting it will affect anything is just tiresome.

Answering "Why" is usually the hardest question. It becomes especially challenging when the original developer is no longer with the team.

I'm just making up problems to worry about.

Isn’t that what parenthood is all about?

Sometimes you simply don’t need that knowledge. Not needing to understand something frees your mind.