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When we upgraded our appliances, the "smart" or "wifi-enabled" ones were specifically avoided like the plague. "Dumb" appliances - especially fridges, for some reason - are becoming hard to come by, but they do exist. Electrolux, KitchenAid, even LG all make some no-frills models that can save both money and frustration. Hopefully those companies continue serving the "luddite techie" market.

This has nothing to do with the companies you mentioned, and everything to do with the emergence and acceptance of DevOps/SRE best-practices over the last decade or so, which can hardly be reduced to an occasional `apt update`. There is a saying how "The building codes are written in blood". this translates quite well to modern software development lifecycle. It takes a non-trivial amount of work to maintain an internet-facing system in a secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable fashion, especially when e-commerce comes into play. At least if it's anything more serious than a toy project page or "brochureware". And modern developers don't want to deal with this toil - it's a solved problem at this point - they want to code features and build products, and it's wonderful that platforms exist that enable them to do so without having to lose sleep over the CVE du-jour.

that's a weird criterion. market cap has little to nothing to do with it. I don't think it's reasonable to be mad at anyone in this particular situation - we all knew that 32-bit was going away - but there are certainly other reasons to be disappointed by both Apple and Adobe separately.

the story also goes that, since he was only given milk and bread while in solitary confinement, he would make inkwells out of bread, in order to write with said milk. I can't remember off the top of my head what he used as a writing utensil.

this was meant as a reply to yardie's comment, but my HN client won't let me edit or delete it.

I'm not sure it's possible to "give" inaccurate information to Equifax.

I agree. I don't know Kotlin and am reasonably well versed in Python, yet I immediately grasp the Kotlin example as more readable, while having to squint at the Python one for a few seconds. (this is anecdotal of course, and does not account for the example possibly being contrived)

yes, i have the yellow one. it looks awesome, but i'm really longing for some post-apocalyptic touches (think Metro rather than Fallout). don't have an airbrush though, nor do I know how to use one. So this will have to wait...

they also wear all black, and use at least two keyboards simultaneously to hack twice as fast.

that must be why the 'x' key is worn out?

true! I'm very tempted to finish mine with custom airbrushed patina á la "abandoned soviet cold war bunker" :)

you can use any old phone cable by the way!

I have one (sans modules, obviously, for now), and I use it daily with great satisfaction. Not sure yet if it improves my RSI symptoms, but it's not making them worse. It does take a bit of time to develop muscle memory for the different layers. I'm eagerly awaiting the modules to be ready (got the trackball, track point, and the key cluster on order). one other point, I did not find the palm rest to be very comfortable, and wish I could attach it at an angle to the keyboard itself. currently it's sitting in a box since I carry the uhk with me, and it's somewhat hefty.

^ does not contribute

I think such arrogance is uncalled for, but also it would be interesting to hear your experiences that led you to this conclusion.

Training AIs. I strongly believe this will be an occupation class in the future.

Admittedly, my understanding of the problems you describe is superficial at best. But it sounds like you are citing a rather narrow set of requirements (memory safety in network code where protection against exploitation is paramount) as a means to generalize that Go is overall not a good language and should be avoided in new code. I don't think that's fair. As with everything, it may be not suitable for the scope you outlined, but it evidently has its place in a multitude of other uses.

This sounds like someone (your friend?) had a quota to fill by any means necessary, as opposed to actually enforcing consumer standards. Rather shameful, IMO.

> It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

I know the source says that, but wouldn't mind seeing some elaboration on why that is the case. If the `newsguidelines` made a point of mentioning it, there's perhaps some merit to this "illusion".

I don't want to sound like a snob (but will go ahead and do so anyway) - there has been a noticeable Redditification of HN over the past year. More so in comments than the submissions. We're not into the puns and meme trains territory just yet, but the shifts to conversational style and vibe are unmistakable.

To actually answer OP's question - Lobste.rs is worth a look. It can be quite technical, if a bit on the dry side. It's public, but accounts are by invite only. That said, if anyone might be able to extend an invite (to myself, OP, or both), that would be much appreciated indeed.

except this isn't Reddit.

is there a more appropriate verbiage the author should be using?

I know what you mean. but I'm also not sure what innovation can be expected from something as utilitarian as an OS. Do you have any ideas of what you'd want to see?

a friend and I were recording a song one day. I wondered why he wouldn't build himself a vocal booth. His reply was: "I'd like to record a song. If I were to start building a vocal booth, at the end of the day I wouldn't have a recorded song, but a vocal booth instead." Really made me reflect and become more mindful of goals and outcomes of my decisions and actions in work and life.

fortunately, some of the folks hanging out on HN are capable of building just the terrifying thing you speak of.

> nuance-free tabloid version of activism

Thank you - this is a very apt description of how I feel about them as well (also as someone who otherwise agrees with their efforts)

I agree about the inconveniences of lugging around a DSLR kit. And for documenting a trip or taking amazing photos while out and about, high-end phones like iPhone or Pixel are the absolute best. But to me, this is a very utilitarian approach. Nothing can replace the experience and flexibility of a DSLR as a photographic tool. And while photos taken with a phone are comparable to camera shots in terms of quality or resolution, no phone can approach the optical capabilities of real glass at the extremes of the range (ultra wide or telephoto), and those qualities are not reproducible in software.

to be sure, I'm not trying to knock phone photography; it just for me personally achieves a different outcome than what I'm looking for.

I second this comment! My old D40 has survived also almost 15 years of use and abuse, and is still going strong. I've since upgraded to a D90, which is also already a senior citizen in tech years, and it is still as reliable as ever. I don't feel the same confidence in their new Z line, although time will tell.

the practice of buying the cheapest version of something, in my experience, should not be applied to things like tools. there is a remarkable difference between a $20 no-name multitool and a nice Leatherman, or a nice pair of binoculars and a cheap Chinese knock-off. electronics, of course, is a totally different story. everything has nearly the same brains, with perhaps a UI quirk or two on the cheapest version.

isn't /s a reddit thing, and a really annoying one at that?