the__alchemist

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This doesn't work in practice. That's not really how OSS works; it's a naive interpretation. I can go into details if you'd like, but first: Have you taken this approach before? What were the results? I find it usually ends up in discussions/arguments with the owners, and it doesn't get merged. And I see the other side too; reviewing PRs is a burden, and the submitters often will fix their own problem, while introducing complexity or problems elsewhere. Also, it's generally MUCH easier for a maintainer/owner to update software than a rando who wants a bug fixed.

Holy fuck don't connect your freezer to the internet. And if you do, have it be read-only, not change settings. Did we learn nothing from Battlestar Galactica?

Could you please clarify your premise and thought process? This is not making sense to me. I wanted to answer "yes", but I don't understand the question on a second look.

You can see that digital watches are superior by every non-aesthetic measure. Reliability, resistance to mechanical shock, timekeeping (You had one job!) , life before "charges", size, weight, life without maintenance etc. I found a digital watch I hadn't touched in ten years, and it was still running, and still close to the real time.

I wear a mechanical watch (Bremont F15 watch) as a kind of fancy-dress jewelery. It's a fashion / social thing. As a tool, it does not compare favorably.

Network-connected application developers have as a community, desensitized me to this. They are the Boy Who Cried Wolf. Continuous mandatory updates in the name of security. Guilting you into thinking each update is critical due to "security".

I don't care. It's a hassle, and I don't believe the threats they warn of are something to warrant my attention in the landscape of things I should worry about in my life. Anecdotes don't help. To overload with another analogy: Security is a "think of the children" or "full stop": it's a thought-terminating cliche, and I don't believe people who use it.

I am using my own combination file browser/terminal. I landed somewhat arbitrarily at the each tab has its own CWD (PathBuf field), ie how terminals do it. Not the only right answer, but has not been a blocker, and simplifies some things knowing there is [for that tab] a single CWD which can be used to manage bookmarks, assess if the we're in* a git repo, rust project etc.

This approach may present limitations later; will change A/R. But simple = good for now!

I should clarify: I'm referring to Amazon (prime or whole foods), which I understand is significantly cheaper than Instacart. It might be worth cross-shopping in this case.

I suspect this as well. Enjoying it while it lasts... I suspect the facilities being vertically-designed for this helps, but not enough(Especially the prime groceries; I suspect Whole foods has some but not the same extend?)

Do you find it, total price charged to card, to be competitive? What if you already have a Prime membership?

Takeout and prepared food delivery is much more expensive than grocery delivery.

Valid!

IMO grocery delivery is a game changer. I don't use either service, but use a different one[s]. Even with a tip (I have been doing $15/per delivery), it's not much more expensive than normal groceries at Trader Joe's etc, and I don't have to put on outdoor clothes, walk to my car, navigate traffic, navigate the aisles, wait in line, reverse... IMO big QOL of life increase.

And second-order effects like I can always have fresh fruit + veggies / not worrying about rot by getting it in smaller quantities delivered more often.

For those wondering about price: It's much cheaper than takeout or prepared food delivery, but more expensive than getting your own groceries. Offset a bit by less food waste.

Hey - dumb question that is probably a derail: Is there a practical reason in the US to use Instacart over one of the Amazon services? It seems like they are fighting an uphill battle - Amazon has its own grocery warehouses (Prime food), and owns Whole foods. I haven't cross-shopped recently, but am having a hard time imagining them competing on price with either of those services. I suppose the obvious reason is you aren't limited to those two stores, so if you want specialty items, nice baked goods etc you would use Instacart?

In addition to the sibling post, silkworms don't need individual living quarters.

This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes.

*Zotero

AHH. Definition 1.4 and the questions after did it. It went from "Tracking all" to "I don't understand how this follows at all, and this makes no sense to me" 1.3b is a graph, not a union of two graphs?. What are the "two graphs"? What is this operator-like algebra, and what does it have to do with the rest of the definition or the text before and after it? A question about the complement which was never defined? Why are we probably agreeing that {1, 2} contain 3?

Downside to this: it takes a long time, I have to source the parts myself, and I can't separate design or programming errors from soldering errors. (There will be many of those) I have not figured out a system to So: Having JLC do the assembly is a no-brainer for the projects I've done.

OSHPark is a nonstarter for many workflows because they don't do assembly. I can't do anything with a plain PCB!

How do I select parts? That has been a historic limitation; Shenzen (What this article compares to) has vertically integrated systems. What library do I select from?

I'm not expecting it to be cheaper than China, but in the same general range, and being able to at small quantity/fast turnaround is important. Overall: I'm skeptical of the cost and time claims in the article. I am thinking "What assumptions" are here. Do they mean some part of the process is faster than that same part from China, etc. So I'm curious about what the real-world order-to-arrival time is; what the final CC charge is, and then compare that with China. They advertise faster turnaround: Is that really true than 10 days order to arrival we are used to?

That's not a fair comparison: I choose what I read not from the middle of humanity. I choose skilled writers. They write far better than AI. I'm through the opening volley of this book, and it is far better than the best AI prose I've read.

Tangent: I use AI for code, but I've had to ban it from writing readmes and doc comments; the AI models I've used produce text I'm unable to parse, and assume my readers would not be able to either.

Hah Ok, added to Zenodo. I historically struggle with disciplines which have "Theory" in the name. The materials feel to me as an easy intro, then rapid cliff. We'll see! (I think my brain is genetically or otherwise not good at this level of abstracting)

I will just throw this out there:

- You have made the choice to make software only run on MacOS, excluding the (majority) of users who are not using that. This is balanced against the upside of native look and feel.

- I agree that web and mobile have many differences when comparing them to each other, or to PC software. The differences and conventions which relate to application development between Windows, MacOs, and Linux are much smaller than those. (The only concrete example mentioned in this broader discussion was Home and End keys can have different behavior). I see this as a matter of degree, not kind.

I keep coming back to "So, we are deliberately limiting our software to a single OS because... (Vaguely articulated reasons about native look and feel? About cross-platform applications having "bad UIs" and "subpar results"? I can't do anything with that because it's too vague, and doesn't match my experience. Home and End keys or other keyboard shortcuts which are easy to feature-gate if the GUI kit doesn't handle it which it probably does?) When weighing pros and cons, I need to see the cons.

What specifically to you about cross-platform UI means bad job? I.e. what functionality does Windows specifically support that must work when running the application on Windows that Gnome, for example doesn't? (Or any other GUI/OS comparison)

Those are web and mobile apps... Not PC software.

Hah well yes for Windows. This is a mercy, but my mindset is still "Works on Windows, Linux and Mac". (The last being dropped for anything that requires Cuda...)

How do you handle this for your own software? Could you please link me to one of your project's websites and install instructions? What specifically do you find that one OS has that's mandatory for a good/native UIs that others don't?

I hear you on the native UI is better all things considered. I'm trying to figure out how that works in practice. I.e., to accompany a "cross-platform UIs are inferior to native ones", you would be effective to also include the workflows you use. In a realm where you choose options, eliminating one should come with illuminating another, as one must choose a path, and others could be eliminated for their drawbacks as well, leaving none available. What is your path here?

Could you please clarify why you think cross-platform means bad UI?

What does this mean in practice for software you write? What OSes to you build it for, and what OS or GUI-specific conventions to you follow which don't apply to others?

edit: Link software you wrote's installation instructions.