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bnt··on Microsoft Is Dead (2007)
How is Windows dead? How else does over a billion people access tools like Chrome and Google Docs, if not through Windows? iPads? Android Tables? Windows don’t have to be the dominant force, they just have to exist as the glue (or foundation) for everything else to work.
bnt··on Undocumented arm64 ISA extension present on the Apple M1
I exist there for I am?
bnt··on The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
Oh, awesome! Thanks for the feedback!
bnt··on The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
Really? For me only 1 of them connects to the Mac, the other one doesn’t recognize the Mac.
bnt··on The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
Offtopic: if you plug in a pair of Apple ear/headphones into the headphone jack on the OWC, can you control the volume via the built in controls on the cable of the headphones, like you can when connected to the Macbook?
bnt··on Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
Tho, LiveWire is AJAX, while LiveView and Stimulus Reflex are Sockets. LW is a pleasure to work with for small pieces of interactivity.
bnt··on Lost my job due to Covid-19 but managed to lose 49.9 lbs (19.5 kg) because of it
This is amazing, congratulations! As someone who’s been struggling with excess weight, I’d love these interviews to focus more on HOW they achieved the results and the struggles they overcome (and how) along the way! Hopefully 2021 is the year when I get into the healthy mindset and lose the extra 60 lbs.
bnt··on Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
Interesting, forcing mobile Safari to pretend it’s a desktop solves the issue.
bnt··on Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
What’s worse, Reddit disables NSFW/porn content in Incognito on iOS Safari and prompts you to install the app. How that got past Apple is beyond me.
bnt··on Freelancing on the Internet Sucks
Good luck, there is a new “we are fixing freelancing” startup coming out every week. Unless you’ve actually been freelancing for years on multiple platforms + actually worked in Core Ops within those networks + worked in traditional recruitment - you’re clueless about what the actual problems are.

This shit is HARD. Getting clients and devs to sign up for yet another service is HARD. Having a shitty landing page expecting people will sign up with NO clear USP to the talent is just a waste of time.

This is coming from someone who has built and sold several of these services in the past 5 years.

bnt··on Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
It also eases restrictions to water access, in some distant future
bnt··on GitHub Releases Dark Mode
I have mild astigmatism and dark themes simply don’t work for me. macOS dark mode gives me nausea. For me it’s old school plain white IDE.
bnt··on GitHub Releases Dark Mode
This feels more inline with Windows Dark Mode (since Github is a Microsoft company).
bnt··on Google Poly is shutting down
Beyond ML, can GCP even compete? They will never be able to catch up to AWS, and Azure is growing super fast.
bnt··on Google Poly is shutting down
At this point, why is anyone relying on Google APIs (or even GCP!) for serious work? It feels like Google is contempt with Search, Ads and Android.
bnt··on Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.
Personally, I feel Laravel is amongst the top reasons why PHP is so vibrant. The amount of innovation that sprung from Laravel and it’s close ecosystem is amazing, LiveWire, Inertia, Alpine.js, Tailwind just to name a few.
bnt··on PHP 8
Really looking forward to the match expression syntax!
bnt··on Laser fusion reactor approaches ‘burning plasma’ milestone
Apparently most people think stuff just happens on the first run. I write code for a living and in most cases it doesn’t run as intended on the first run, I can’t imagine making a fucking fusion reactor “just work” by assembling it and pressing “start”.
bnt··on Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax
But bicycles don’t cause air pollution nor do they damage the roads. So you got me puzzled why they should be taxes. Pedestrians are taxed too much anyway
bnt··on Victoria follows South Australia and imposes electric car road tax
But you still need to maintain existing and build new roads, and not only trucks drive on the road. What about snow? It needs to be removed for normal cars as well as trucks.
bnt··on M1 Macs Review
I have a maxxed out 16” and Steam is still laggy for me.
bnt··on TailwindCSS v2.0
The exact problem is the 99% of people who DON’T do this and their markup ends up a Frankenstein’s monstrosity. I don’t know if it’s the new crop of front-end “developers” who don’t know the very basics or just hipsters being hipsters and YOLO all the things. Tailwind (IMHO) promotes bad practices and needs to explicitly state that you SHOULD use @apply or a puppy somewhere will die.
bnt··on M1 Mac Mini Teardown
I’d love them to just ship the MB 12” board inside a keyboard with 2 USB-C ports and have a modern day Commodore. It can be powered by the USB-C monitor.
bnt··on macOS Big Sur
So current Intel Macs can’t run iOS apps?
bnt··on Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers
And it costs an extra €224 to go from 8 to 16gb. This is ridiculously expensive.
bnt··on Ask HN: Why aren't video games priced higher than $60?
Gamers are mostly young adults without a steady income (or no income of their own) and market research shows $60 is the psychological limit the mass market is willing to pay?
bnt··on Ask HN: Easiest JavaScript front end framework for a back end dev?
Both! I find Vue easier because it feels more like the old days of jQuery and AngularJS (HTML templates etc).
bnt··on Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake
Why does “poorly edited English” matter when the content seems to be on point? Not everyone on the Internet is a “native” English speaker. Content matters, not who and how they wrote it.
bnt··on Switch from Ruby to Crystal
Well, not from a PR standpoint (and the author may not even be aware of what’s up with Nikola lately), but it’s used in production which is a huge positive.
bnt··on “Portugal is a nation of people who don’t actually tell the truth.”
Well, 99.9% of Cloudfare customers will never hear of this, and out of the 0.01% that do, maybe 3 will look to move their business elsewhere. It’s the sad nature of business these days, either we don’t care or we don’t have good alternatives.

But his statement is shameful.

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