I’m not a professional designer, but I like Liquid Glass. If you don’t like it, stay on iOS 18 or switch to Android.
Aside from the criticism of icons, every complaint in the article just came across as nit-picks.
Readit NewsPapaPalpatine commented on More assorted notes on Liquid Glass morrick.me/archives/10068... · Posted by u/freediver
PapaPalpatine commented on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more businessinsider.com/micro... · Posted by u/taubek
I really hate all of these executives trying to shove AI our throats.
PapaPalpatine commented on Ruby on Rails Audit Complete ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-a... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
You don't miss things like enums, exhaustive switch or any other basic language features? How about `method_missing` its such a crazy idea to me that something like this exists, I know why it exists but I am like why, why such bloat and complexity.
No, I honestly don’t. I can emulate an Enum without having an Enum type. I rely less on a compiler and more on myself with automated tests.
PapaPalpatine commented on Ruby on Rails Audit Complete ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-a... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Serious question: do people actually enjoy writing Ruby? I feel I’m writing in something like Bash. I never felt this way until I picked up other languages like Rust, Zig, C#, and learned a tiny bit of programming language theory. After that, the loose and squishy feel of Ruby really started to bug me. Also, it seems like every Ruby programmer I know only ever uses other dynamic languages like Python. It’s never like they’re experts in C++ or something and then decided to start programming in Ruby.
What an odd question lol. Yes, people like writing in Ruby. I’m one of the. Switched from C# in 2016.
If it works, then don't change it.
I would trust a floppy-powered Windows 95 system over the horror show that passes for common operating systems in 2025.
What will they think of next? Adding AI to the ATC system?
Let's be a little more reasonable. I don't think anyone is saying we need AI. There are numerous other technological advances between floppy drives and AI that our air traffic control system could benefit.
Was using TeamCity, then dropped some moving to another system.
The broader point was basically that the Rails UI integration tests took a very long time, and required the whole system up, and we had a pretty large team constantly pushing changes. While not 100% unique to Rails, it was exacerbated by RoR conventions.
We moved much of the UI to a few Next.js apps where the tests were extremely fast and easy to run locally.
> Rails UI integration tests took a very long time
How many integration tests do you have? I generally only test a few core flows and then leave the rest to controller/request tests.
PapaPalpatine commented on The Miscalculations of Covid School Closures newyorker.com/books/under... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Your numbers and etiology are complete nonsense, and again I'm not sure how they're relevant to the question of school closures, unless you believe schools (and I would think, to be consistent, all of public life itself?) should be shut down indefinitely to prevent COVID infections?
> Your numbers and etiology are complete nonsense, and again I'm not sure how they're relevant to the question of school closures
Are you really this dense or do you just enjoy arguing about COVID? The school closures were in response to COVID, you suitcase.
PapaPalpatine commented on Ask HN: What's the ideal stack for a solo dev in 2025 · Posted by u/kieloo
As a lover of Rails, I’d vote that. It’s known as the single-developer framework.
PapaPalpatine commented on Japan plans to sell rice from emergency stockpiles to cut prices japantimes.co.jp/news/202... · Posted by u/Pamar
Surprised a rich country like Japan cares so much. Rice is super cheap
Is this not in rounding error territory for most household?
> The price of rice in Japan is up 60% year-on-year as of last month
Maybe read the article a bit before jumping into the discussion.
In an environment that supports advanced Unicode features, what exactly do you do with the string length?
I want to make sure that the password is between a given number of characters. Same with phone numbers, email addresses, etc.
This seems to have always been known as the length of the string.
This thread sounds like a bunch of scientists trying to make a simple concept a lot harder to understand.