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wizardman··on My next Mac might be the last
While we're getting things off our chest I wanted to share something.

I'm still using the original iPhone SE (you know, the small phone with bezels). The design of Safari for iOS used to be perfect. The + sign to open a new tab was right in the middle. Switching to incognito was 1 tap away. The open tabs were stacked open behind another.

Apple redesigned Safari in iOS 15 to accommodate it for the bigger all-screen iPhones. The address bar was moved to the bottom for better reachability. The + sign was moved away not to be so close to that horizontal line that replaced the home button. Incognito was hidden away. The stack of open tabs become a grid.

Even though the redesign made sense for the bigger bezel-less phones it was a regression for phones like the iPhone SE. I would have loved if they introduced the changes only to newer models but I can also understand that maintaining 2 different UIs would've been more work.

wizardman··on Ask HN: Nuclear plants in war zones: A valid reason not to build more
(Disclaimer: I'm just a random guy who doesn't know much about energy production. I'm just sharing my opinion.)

Unfortunately, we don't have other reliable clean alternatives. At the moment nuclear energy is the cleanest reliable energy we have. This is why China is building 150 reactors at the moment:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...

Also it is not in anyone's interest to have a nuclear accident. What if there is a nuclear accident in Ukraine and the wind starts blowing east?

There are other more likely things that scare me more like chemical/biological warfare and military drones that can fit in a backpack.

wizardman··on Show HN: An informal comparison of several programming languages
I believe they have a feature where the compiler adds free() calls on your behalf and where it isn't sure either:

- it drops down to GC/RC (you need to ask the dev team which one exactly) or

- you manually handle the memory with `unsafe`

wizardman··on Show HN: An informal comparison of several programming languages
I would love if you also added Vlang and shared your experience especially since you're already familiar with Go.