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[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 month ago

That would be very cool to have in a code autoformatter

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago

Sounds good enough for my boss to me

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

Lets see if they can improve power efficiency on the M3 Macbooks

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 10 months ago

At this point they should just consider disconnecting the UK from the wider internet

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 10 months ago

I was using the N900 when it came out and at that point Android was in no way superior to whatever Nokia was doing. Their main misstep was choosing Windows Phone and shipping the N9 as a dead-on-arrival product. Nonetheless the UX was pretty ahead of its time and we could have had a real Qt based Linux phone OS

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 11 months ago

Maemo and Meego were so good

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

Because currently Gaza is still officially occupied territory and Israel is reponsible

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 11 months ago

I feel like most things degrade as a matter of scope-creep, while trying to implement features that are actually complex and non-trivial.

Take the unholy mess of modern Microsoft Office. MS Office might have been a good tool for a single purpose back in the 80s, but the addition of multiple generation/layers of features that have been halfway abandoned but kept for compatibilitys sake, make any more complex task non-trivial. There are multiple approaches for implementing templating MS Word, none of which are really good. MS Macros have been great... if you are trying to get arbitrary code execution on Windows machines. And collaboretive editing features include halfway abandoned sharing features and a half-baked Web Version of Office 365.

As a matter of fact I don't believe this is purely out of corporate greed, but rather a lack of scope limitation during design. People don't ask if they should, if they simply can do. We shouldn't have macros inside of Text Documents, there should be another tool for that. We shouldn't have SQL queries pulling into Excel Worksheets. We shouldn't use Excel as a database, but people had to change names of biological genes to avoid these being autoformatted in Excel.

But as a matter of fact, in general one is limited to working with the tools one knows, so convincing someone to use the correct tool for a job will always be harder than just delivering additional features, that we know will make the overall product worse.

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 60 points 11 months ago

Guess he has only been working 250x as hard as the other employees

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago

Let me guess... US? I can never understand why people dont lobby for higher minimum days off there

[-] alcasa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

All the religious groups that emigrated to the US? This take has so many issues, but pilgrims, quakers and mormons are probably somewhere on the cult spectrum

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Not on a theoretical level, but how would you practically have to pay costs, access specialist doctors?

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