My wife is a travel agent. Lately she has been telling clients not to look at fares while she is looking as the dynamic pricing will jack up the fares she can get for them if they look at the same routes she is.
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mrkstu commented on Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on? · Posted by u/dennis-tra
Old enough to remember when work place mandated Windows machines were common place - now it feels like things have flipped in software dev, and macOS has become the "workOS". While no fan of Windows, I now find in my older age I am much less inclined to run Macs for personal/home use than I was 20 years ago - it feels too much like being at work now!
While I of course agree modern Mac laptops are great and Apple's silicon efforts have been superb, just seeing one makes me think of work and not pleasure now, somewhat ironically how I also felt about beige IBM boxes in the early 90s...
Job’s aversion to making a ‘gaming machine’ has paid off these decades later…
mrkstu commented on New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS github.com/ravynsoft/ravy... · Posted by u/kasajian
There are objective criteria that macOS definitely fails at. Various government agencies here in the states can't use macs even if they wanted to due to lack of #a11y support or the ability to load their own root cert stores.
I agree with you that for MOST people, MOST of the complaints boil down to "I just don't like the Mac UX," but there are organizations that cannot tolerate the risk of forcing employees to use equipment that doesn't follow even the basics of section 508 or DoD guidance.
You can import new roots via Keychain, correct?
mrkstu commented on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/andrem
it means that the cost of moving from X is too high (be it in terms of time, cost or lack of suitable alternatives).
In the case of iCloud, for most people, it's probably a combination of convenience (no other tool is so well integrated with the OS) and cost (you can sorta replicate the combo of photos + files + vpn + fake emails, but it'll be more expensive and complex to maintain)
Yeah, VMWare post-acquisition is trying to help what the limits of lock-in are...
First of all, thanks for your work on D2, it is the coolest of them all IMHO. I would definitely use animations because management loves shiny things and if they are happy I get my salary bumped.
I have recently made a solution for dynamically codifying the network layout of AWS accounts with D2. D2 was the only solution that was allowing to render a lot of objects without having to fight the engine with tons of hints. My only complaint was/is that the sdk/d2lib was very under-documented, so initially I started off with generating text as a map before realizing that there is a better way that is barely used. It took me some time to figure out how to use the lib for the trickier parts.
Would love to see that shared in github/lab if you’re allowed.
mrkstu commented on 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/alecmuffett
The evolution of governance of online communities mirrors that of the real-world.
First, everyone did what they wanted. As conflict became more common, power hierarchies started to emerge. we're now at a stage where every place needs to be governed, yet its members have no influence over who does it.
I have online communities will transition into something resembling democracy where moderators are elected from members by members.
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While HN is fairly lenient, moderators in pretty much all online spaces are effectively dictators, they are not elected and they cannot be removed by ordinary users, no matter how many disagree.
And of course, such positions attract people who want power for its own sake and who have agendas they want to push.
You vote for the moderation you like with your digital feet- see X vs BlueSky
mrkstu commented on Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia cnbc.com/2025/10/13/dutch... · Posted by u/piskov
They needed wafers for 70 million, were going to order for 200 million. 3x more is hardly "funneling large amounts of money".
I would call that typical way to run business, perhaps they were making supplies for next three years, before tariffs kick in... Perhaps they were going to expand.
And firing a bunch of directors who complained? I assume if they were given a rational strategy behind the moves they would haven’t made a peep.
mrkstu commented on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26 nngroup.com/articles/liqu... · Posted by u/uxjw
Seems like I'm against the trend here in HN, but I personally like it more the more I use it. (Admittedly I don't have any accessibility issues which may come up for others)
Also, I appreciate the UX improvements (as opposed to the pretty glass effect), such as the much improved menu system and the generally (IMO) improved changes in layout in Calendar, Mail, Safari, etc.
That said I do find it a bit more annoying to access different tabs in Safari but maybe that's why I get for using Safari.
Turning on reduce transparency makes it perfectly usable, generally.
Even with transparency on its gotten much better than the early betas, which is good, since that is the happy code path and gets more testing coverage.
On which side?
Father’s.