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So after years of being gleefully told that AI will replace all jobs an omniscient state of the art model, with heavy assistance, takes more than two weeks and thousands of dollars in tokens to do what child me did in a few days? Huh.

They don't! Layout grids are less about the rows and columns and more about the lines separating them (which is why those get a lot of attention in CSS grid). Take a look at how layout grids are used in design and you will quickly find examples that are extremely inconvenient to realize with HTML tables. I'm sure it can be done and I'm sure some poor email marketing dev had to, but the result would be entirely static and not able to reflow.

I think CSS grid is too powerful to be represented in markup. I rotated the idea in my head for a bit but the most I could come up was elements that covered a small subset of CSS grid and which completely lost the entire appeal of being able to handle tracks dynamically.

Yes and no. <table> layouts were a hack that solved a real problem but came with massive downsides. People didn’t tell you to not use <table> to lay out content because grids are bad (they are quite handy! take a look at Grid Systems by Josef Müller-Brockmann) but because <table> both posed technical and accessibility problems. A layout grid is not a table (or a <table >). A table (with and without <>) comes with attached semantics, hierarchy, reading direction etc. and is extremely rigid, which makes it a bad fit for differing screen sizes.

It’s true that this was a blind spot for a long time and that it was frustrating to not be able to efficiently lay out content in 2D when <table> was just there. But it was the wrong choice then as it is now and it has been baseline available for 8 years now. I hope it won’t take another 8 years until the comparison stops :o)

The history lesson is appreciated but how does this relate to the current state of the stock file explorer that ships with the OS? I’m using my phone now and not ten years ago.

edit: oh, I think I get it. My original post wasn't intended to be read "iOS invented the file explorer, has Android also a file explorer app" (which would be silly, of course) but "when Files app released, the AOSP file explorer that commonly ships as the default was lacking, has this improved (caught up to Files app)"

While I bet there’s some technicality I’ll get gotcha’d on, iOS apps do the exact same nowadays.

Ghost Commander was better but I think I still prefer the iOS Files app.

I used the AOSP app I think? I’d usually agree with you but in this case I really wanted some more bloat because that one was dire :)

Am I supposed to be mad about them not supporting a feature during a time when I didn’t use iOS or is this somehow supposed to impact my current day use of Files app?

I don’t have one of those! I do have an SMB share mounted that I’m currently playing music from, though, and it’s working perfectly fine.

That’s entirely up to the app developer. Of course apps can see files if they’re developed to do that.

Certainly wasn’t ahead with the stock file manager that came with my last Android phone.

Im not sure if Android has caught up but the iOS file explorer app is excellent.

I can only navigate to a video by long-pressing, copying the URL and pasting it into the URL bar, otherwise I get a meaningless "something went wrong" type error message. Mobile Safari, no content blockers, not logged into a Google account. After almost two decades of making the website worse they finally succeeded in breaking "clicking a video". I wonder what the hotshots at Alphabet manage to break next :o)

Why, Windows itself ships with multiple Windows desktops these days.

even better: those will be spam guaranteed and can just be filtered by rule then

Did you try before or after Valves push for proton? Both of those are rated Platinum.

Every frog will be boiled. Remember this when you argue “oh but it will still be possible to sideload via adb” “oh but you can turn it off” “oh but you only need it on the first run” “at least they don’t…”

You won’t be able to. It will be mandatory. They will do it. If you give these companies an inch, they’ll take a mile.

The moment they don’t actively work entirely aligned with your interests, they work against you.

Trying and doing aren’t the same thing. I’ll take competent community members over incompetent leadership any day of the week. And I am right to think so, seeing how they entirely bungled even kicking out the people they wanted kicked out. They literally had their first security incident at second zero of their attempt to “bring security up to this decade”.

I'm not sure if you just didn't understand what I'm looking for. If I'm searching for a good rails screencast to get a feeling for how it's used, a blogpost consisting of "rails new" is useless to me. I know that these tools can oneshot tasks, but this doesn't help me when they can't.

this just means the bugs it creates are better camouflaged

Pathetic

this is definitely closer to what I had in mind but it's still rather useless because it just shows what winning the lottery is like. what I am really looking for is neither the "Claude oneshot this" nor the "I gave up and wrote everything by hand" case but a realistic, "dirty" day-to-day work example. I wouldn't even mind if it was a long video (though some commentary would be nice in that case).

What I want to see at this point are more screencasts, write-ups, anything really, that depict the entire process of how someone expertly wrangles these products to produce non-trivial features. There's AI influencers who make very impressive (and entertaining!) content about building uhhh more AI tooling, hello worlds and CRUD. There's experienced devs presenting code bases supposedly almost entirely generated by AI, who when pressed will admit they basically throw away all code the AI generates and are merely inspired by it. Single-shot prompt to full app (what's being advertised) rapidly turns to "well, it's useful to get motivated when starting from a blank slate" (ok, so is my oblique strategies deck but that one doesn't cost 200 quid a month).

This is just what I observe on HN, I don't doubt there's actual devs (rather than the larping evangelist AI maxis) out there who actually get use out of these things but they are pretty much invisible. If you are enthusiastic about your AI use, please share how the sausage gets made!

It turns out that offline is less annoying than online now. sure, you can't block the ads, but at least none of my daily transactions make me wish great harm upon the other person. everything in the article is enabled by the customer not being able to punch the engineer, who coded the feature, in the face. or management, who demanded the feature to be as horrible as possible, A/B-tested to perfect the needle with which it will torment you. being shielded and removed to this degree from the user, the customer, doesn't drive healthy products.

No, it’s literally the first sentence. Not the projects fault that people keep linking the source code repository instead of the website.

props for picking "realistic" results but if you want to attract users you should probably cherry pick better ones or cheat. all of those look horrible.

The actual first sentence of Toybox:

Toybox combines many common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable.

They had a minor security incident right off the bat, demonstrating they don’t even fully understand what they stole. They aren’t equipped to do the job.