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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.

That’s a perfect solution for me, thanks for the idea!

Trial and error?

I’ve also heard that because of lockdown only the stronger variants of different viruses made it. So we’re dealing with them now. But I haven’t heard of any study about it yet.

This. Even if I don’t fully agree with the motives, it’s dishonest to say they are just afraid of science and math ignoring the politicized atmosphere we’ve been dealing with in recent years across all spectrums of society.

The local hospitals in my community have been full of hospitalized kids with different respiratory issues this winter. My doctor commented that this is a post-pandemic effect.

> I don't think having a cold or two is going to put many people in this category.

Have you been around kids post COVID? Winters after the pandemic have been a nightmare for many parents. My nephews have basically been "sick" the whole winter (getting sick, staying home, recovering, going back to school, getting a new virus, repeat).

Good point, my region is not as far from the equator as the Netherlands so those issues are not that noticeable.

It is, my region (outside the US) got rid of it and I couldn’t be happier. Other than a few systems/apps with the wrong time causing some inconveniences, I didn’t hear of major issues.

This was my first experience with an iPhone too. A rich guy (friend of a friend) had one, my friend and I spent the rest of the night trying it.

Not in mine. But you surely build a barrier of “respect”, I learned that early in my career. I was too formal and “too respectful”, that built a barrier with many people, a barrier other teammates didn’t have. That barrier can be useful though, but you need to be aware of it.

Abortion is different, you wouldn’t say murder is something only religions prohibit.

What do you mean? My first real world project after college was based on ASP.NET MVC, that was 12 years ago. I left the company a long time ago and the project is still healthy and growing they upgraded to ASP.NET Core but they keep using MVC.

Well maybe they were not as good at manipulating as others can be.

So many commenters dismiss AI risks so easily, acting like they actually know what will happen the next decade.

If your name is John Connor where would you most likely be during the afternoon?

I used to pick on my wife for saying “please” to Alexa. Now I say it every time I request something to ChatGPT.

Still, for the median income American that would mean working almost half a year to solely pay a Civic (not considering gas, services, etc) sounds insane.

iOS 17 comes with a voicemail transcription feature. Not sure how useful that would be since I don't even remember when was the last time I got a voicemail, everyone just hangs and sends a WhatsApp message (if anything) at least in my country.

Being able to easily use different profiles, I like to have one profile for work and one for personal stuff. Chrome/Edge implementation is really nice, you can have different taskbar icons, different theme, history, bookmarks, etc.

I’ve also been around for years, but I don’t see it as a recent phenomenon. I’ve noticed that usually most top comments (for most topics) contain contra-arguments, or critical comments of any sort against the article. Sometimes it’s useful to learn about other perspectives, but often it feels forced or just plain negative/ego inspired. I could go back years and check old posts and notice that same trend. One famous example is the Dropbox post.