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rangoon626··on Goodbye Xamarin Forms
Cool find! Thanks for sharing!
rangoon626··on Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles
I hope Toyota succeeds with fuel cell technology.

Everyone on this board seems to think that the next auto fuel source has to be one-size fits all, like with gas.

It also seems that carbon activists can't talk enough about how tortuously slow it is moving away from gas cars, but won't embrace anything other than batteries to actually make that happen. You're just shooting yourself in the foot, which is why no one takes all of the whining seriously.

rangoon626··on Pelosi and a lifetime of trading
She can be capitalist like you describe, she just shouldn't be allowed to serve in public office while she does it.
rangoon626··on Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for healthcare planning
Well if that's the case, they should start with general nutrition
rangoon626··on Approved fracking compounds can form PFAS a.k.a. “forever chemicals”
Bless your heart if you think that both parties aren’t a uniparty at this point.
rangoon626··on Software Developer Shortage Is Coming
Or we could try moving away from the full-time thing and run the field under a contract model instead of initiating an arms race?

This crunch is entirely the fault of the c-suite.

rangoon626··on Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
Yes, but who ever called Classic Mac OS a thoughtless user interface? Even when they redid it with Platinum.

It had far more affordances and consideration than even modern Mac OS, and it showed by (lack of) this commentary against it.

rangoon626··on Uefa warns teams could be fined if they move drinks at news conferences
I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed seeing him do that.
rangoon626··on Solar assets ‘underperforming’, modules degrading faster than expected: research
Everything I have read from manufacturers who bring their manufacturing back to the US and automate it say that Chinese manufacturing issues has to do with competence and training, and that you have to constantly watch for quality issues.
rangoon626··on Apple employees push back against returning to the office in internal letter
I am extroverted and I never want to go back to an office again.

Yes some people need the office to socialize, but I personally have probably a few too many hobbies and probably an oversized Dunbar number. I really don't need office culture "perks" playtime.

I strongly feel that hobbies and community are the answer, not onsite white collar office work, lol.

rangoon626··on Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
Take that same thinking to other personal care and cleaning products, and start to go through your bathroom and kitchen. You’ll be surprised at what we’re being low-grade poisoned with each day.
rangoon626··on Pfizer vaccine reprograms innate immune responses
You wanna force this on everyone? Cool. Then I get to enforce outlawing fast food consumption… especially things like Krispy Kreme donuts.
rangoon626··on Pfizer vaccine reprograms innate immune responses
You guys are brave posting this kind of thinking here, but you do have support for presenting this view.
rangoon626··on Australia Joins the Race for Supersonic Flight
The same graduating class of environmentalists who complained about supersonic flight also complained about nuclear energy and also promised global cooling.

These people need to sit down and shut up for once.

rangoon626··on We’ll stop selling our Code Editor app for iOS soon
Panic lost their cool, and their marketing is completely stale. You are exactly right, it’s a lot of “You’ll love it”’s these days.

I used to like Coda and Coda 2, but I was more of a Mac simp back then, and didn’t realize that they literally just plopped in some other editor (can’t think of the name at the moment). Plus, the one-window workflow was just a bad idea. Especially if you have multiple monitors at your disposal.

Insane to think that they only thing they make now that has actual utility is their FTP client. Still. After all these years.

rangoon626··on Ask HN: Is Google Search Dying?
I can relate and it depends.

I find that if I am searching about programming topics, especially in option, DDG does great. If I am searching about more general things, like say a list of smoke points for various cooking oils (last night), google seems to do better.

rangoon626··on BYU Study Suggests Night Shift Mode Doesn't Help iPhone Users Sleep
I wonder what setting they used for nightshift? Because the color temperature scale really varies. If you slide it to the left (less effect) it really looks not much different. If you slide it all the way to the right(maximum effect), it looks very very yellow.
rangoon626··on White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
Yes, for ten years we should mine lithium in massive quantities and dump the toxic dirt into the waterways surrounding the mining sites.
rangoon626··on White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
You are correct. And there’s other good research going on too, but people like this won’t hear it.
rangoon626··on White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets
Which ones are those? As far as I can see, ALL “clean energy” has some trade offs.

Mining lithium is a horrible, polluting process that wastes tons of fresh water. One thing to put small quantities into phones and computers. Another to suggest that they should be used for all cars (unless the end goal is to have only the super rich driving cars).

Solar panels involve mining coal (so much more moving away from the coal economy) and quartz, and will pile up as toxic junk after 10 years or so.

Wind turbines can’t be repurposed after their useful and short (comparatively) life and will pile up as junk.

It’s not even a question of “don’t have catastrophic outcomes”, it’s a question of a slow-moving guaranteed catastrophic outcome, or the possibility of a fast catastrophic outcome.

rangoon626··on Google is saving $1B per year as a result of employees working from home
Yeah.

It’s totally fine to ask everyone to stop eating meat, but millions of Americans running their cars to/from the office everyday? Not a peep.

Our politicians and business class are wholly unserious about this as they were about COVID-19.

rangoon626··on Cuomo Aides Spent Months Hiding Nursing Home Death Toll
Cuomo needs to be tried for what he did.
rangoon626··on iOS 14.5: Share Lyrics and Song Clips
Lol this does remind me of hit clips though
rangoon626··on Changes at Basecamp
This seems much more inclusionary to all employees
rangoon626··on Changes at Basecamp
And those who didn’t essentially lost out on a bit of compensation.
rangoon626··on Changes at Basecamp
Seems kind of like an ableist “perk” to me. I understand that it’s one of those things that’s not intended to be, but the net result is still the same.
rangoon626··on Changes at Basecamp
Providing gym memberships is kind of problematic, if not outright insensitive. Body positivity is a thing and self-love can be expressed in more ways than just this one.
rangoon626··on .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI
Yellow Box, from Microsoft
rangoon626··on All-new iMac features the M1 chip
Still just 16 GB RAM?

I don’t see how this is appropriate for today’s MacOS. MacOS will use RAM. Currently it’s using about 34 GB of 64 GB on my machine.

I understood on their ultralight notebooks, but the iMac is not giving me confidence about what they might offer for their Mac Pro.

rangoon626··on Justice Thomas suggests regulating tech platforms like utilities
This kind of regulation will lead to a monopoly. It will make it harder for upstarts to compete. Anne then we’ll really be trapped.
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