If the error isn’t repairable by the user, blocking them from using the app entirely is mean. If the error screen has a message telling the user where to go to set their name, that’s fine but annoying. If the error screen tells the user they can’t use the app until someone checks a dashboard and sees a large enough increase in errors to investigate, that’s a bigger problem.
I think this sense of “less is more” roughly means refactoring? I think the reason these go south so often is because we’re likely moving complexity around rather than removing it. Removing a layer from the stack means making a different layer more complex to take over for it.
I recently upgraded to a 15 (from an SE) and found that the power efficiency is very noticeable. I can leave home in the morning at 50% and still expect it to last the day. Like you said though, I don’t know if the gain in peak performance is noticeable at all, outside of how it might help power efficiency.
lol, I meant a different search engine. This is awesome though, you’re definitely helping those kids out a lot. You should think about giving them sudo and making them manage the upgrade themselves too though, to push them into learning more. A 7yo might be able to handle that but 10+ definitely.
HN _is_ social media. It is the medium, not the algorithm that encourages the behaviour.
Like how a garbage can close to the door is more likely to be used than one on the other side of the room. The people who change their behaviour in those situations aren’t making a thoughtful, rational choice not to use a garbage can on the other side of the room. It is subtle, quick, and mostly unconscious.
“The medium is the message.” This is what that old quote was getting at.
Aren’t block sizes (and minimum file size) normally around 4kB? So a max number of 1-byte files would take up around 16 TB, without adding any overhead. Those drives are available these days
You can only incentivize the behaviour you want. It can’t be forced. RTO does do this in a stronger way than fully remote, in second-order ways. Simplistic as it might be, if those are the only tools available, those are the ones that will be used. It’s been five years since the pandemic now and a better way hasn’t been found yet.
What would a platform that incentivizes rational analysis look like? Social media as a whole definitely does not. Social media incentivizes immediacy, hot takes, and strong opinions. The nature of the medium produces that sort of content and getting deeper, more thoughtful content requires a different medium. I wonder what that might look like.
To expand on this a touch, kids are only in school for 6 hours a day. For ages between kindergarten and grade 4 or so, it is generally frowned on to let them make their way home alone. A single parent with no child care cannot be in an office for 8 hours straight.
I really, strongly believe that if devs were building genuine friendships with their team mates remotely, there would be no RTO. I have only ever seen the opposite: people are distancing from each other more than ever. Aren’t we in a “loneliness epidemic”?
“The medium is the message.” People who work remote become that person who doesn’t value their team, because that’s what the environment promotes. We work in companies because of the team and the community though, that is the whole point of them.
Having it hallucinate a valid url that is spoofing the site I’m looking for feels less likely than someone managing to game SEO. Eclipse is a good example: the first result in Google is eclipseide.org, not eclipse.org.
Life is change. Sometimes that’s worth fighting for and sometimes it’s worth fighting against. Is the current Google worth that battle for you? I’d rather see what comes next.
Podcasts are normally plain mp3 (or similar) files that get downloaded as-is off an rss feed, as far as I understand. I don’t think anyone gets extra ads outside the sponsored/host-read ones.
It might not be a government-enforced thing but there isn’t much reason to go to the effort of putting a red metal octagon somewhere if it didn’t mean stop, in some way. The things don’t just fall of trees and land on the side of buildings.
The markets for smaller phones and the larger Pro Max models look like they’re roughly in the same order of magnitude. It doesn’t look like a negligible demand that is not worth serving.
As the article points out, the iPhone 13 mini sold half as much as the other iPhone 13 models, while competing with the iPhone SE which was the same size at half the price. That isn’t exactly terrible.
I think the way you define ads and social media would be important. We would end up getting something like the cookie banners again instead of real change.
It feels more like a modern version of Luddites where they probably do understand very well how it works and they fear what that means for their own success.
Some of the open models like kimi k2 do a better job of pushing back. It does feel a bit annoying to use them when they don’t just immediately do what you tell them. Sugar-free is a good analogy!
Ruby is a well-sharpened knife. Not everyone should be given a sharp knife though, especially children. And not all jobs need a sharp knife, like buttering toast. So I think it’s good for dull knives to exist as part of your tool belt. If we can only choose one language though, I’d rather it be a nimble, sharp one.