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I like that calligraphy example, I am afraid that's how a field would stagnate: the tools become advanced, but now with less and less people wanting to approach and struggle with learning the field, the human intuition, the community effort, and the mastery to push past the bleeding edge withers.

(Unless if AGI could do something like that.)

This cliche keeps getting repeated, but it offers no actual insight and ignores all nuances.

because now they don't need to respect the LICENSE...

Perhaps we should start treating them as criminals instead of assuming that they are idiots.

You can deliberately put comments and descriptions using those language.

Forgive my lack of knowledge, but how is simply zipping the original file would "defrag" the file?

Shouldn't the file be moved into different disk fragment first, for that to happen?

And with all kinds of telemetry they collected, they managed to create the pinnacle of UI/UX redesign, as shown in the Settings Panels in Windows 11, right?

So you propose we roll the dice and hope for more accidents to happen?

> Funding for this project is crowdsourced using GitHub Sponsors and Patreon.

Based on the project github page, it seems that this is their version of weird/fun stuff, that is not done as a part of their job.

And the file served is of pdf file. The font used is Titillium Web. The color of my bike shed is that of brown wood color.

Did I also contribute to the discussion of the tool?

Yes, of course there are people who really want to do those. But op was presenting their main point of view related to "the slow evaporation" part.

Like op, more and more people can't get past the idea of starting or contributing to FOSS is no longer worth their time, due to various reasons, such as: their free labor of love was turned into another corporate money making tool.

I wonder how much % of windows are Surface tablets, that they think going with this decision is wise.

Having employees unionize is also at odds with the interests of the business.

Surely the C-suites of the company will employ whatever brilliant ideas that we talk over the water cooler. The water cooler is the fountain of innovation after all.

Perhaps they should put all the water coolers in the executives' offices, so they can listen to all the brilliant conversations that take place at the water cooler.

Why is it that every time someone tried to push RTO agenda in a thread, "water cooler talk" has always been pushed like it is one of most important thing in a job?

Is "water cooler talk" the new "open office layout"?

Not sure if this is a sarcasm or "you are holding it wrong" moment.

In python, you can simply substitute `A` with an iterable or generator object, which can be a of unknown length.

I believe back in the Java days, there are packages that are also doing something like this (comment preprocessor for generating code)

Those plugins would try to point out that the comments that they would preprocessed would look somewhat different from regular comment, e.g.

//this is a regular comment

//#while comments that start with '#' would be preprocessed.

It's still an issue that would shoot the foot of the next person who would maintain your code though.

So to continue our bikeshedding:

Hacker News has no shortage of resourceful people that can silently handle the issue by themselves (the first comment even said themselves that they could simply use Reader Mode!). But the main point of my reply is: look at the number of replies that focus on the style of the website, and compare that to the number of replies that focus on the point of the post/article.

The first sentence literally points out that the post is a continuation of previous post that elaborates on why Go Enum sucks.

It just dawns to me that "complaining about the style or minor usability of the website" is a type of bike shedding that happens regularly in hacker news.

Instead of contributing to the discussion related to the post, it's easier to just go "the website sucks."

Because no one ever feels lonely in the office pre-covid/pre-remote work.

Open sources can have a restrictive license, just because a project doesn't use WTFPL doesn't mean it's not open source.

existing software support*

Any hardware issues (mind you, the failure rate is pretty high, especially keyboards), and you're left with a broken device.

People have been disagreeing with OP in their own link, providing counter arguments and those didn't change OP's opinion a little bit.

Oh wow, someone learned something new and exciting today! Instead of celebrating them expanding their knowledge and horizon, let's make fun of them!

> Maybe Mozilla should hire more people in those places, if they need to do so to save money.

They did hire from places with cheaper labor cost, such as Taiwan. They still got axed.

So maybe until you prove your worth as great leader that gets company from decline into growth, your salary shouldn't keep growing by the millions?

Or recently: why bother wearing face mask at all if it doesn't fully prevent covid-19?

Or: why should I do my part when everyone's selfish?

When you are detained by the police, you don't have to do the guesswork of what you did wrong.

The police should/would tell you.