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mrkwse commented on Raycast for Windows raycast.com/blog/raycast-... · Posted by u/a32

mrkwse · 4 months ago

I'm not sure I see the benefit of this over PowerToys beyond system-wide indexing for file search (which I'd want in Explorer, not a separate launcher app). Let alone the premium tiers.

- AI? What's the benefit beyond agents in more domain-specific environments (or gen-purpose site) vs native to a launcher app?

- Custom window management is available with PowerToys

- Unlimited clipboard history - I'm not sure I want or need this over PowerToys retaining it for system uptime.

- (Free?) Extension library looks a step beyond what's currently available for PowerToys' Command Palette, but will Raycast gain more Windows-focused extensions faster than Command Palette does?

Competition is good, but I don't see how this adds value as a premium service beyond PowerToys

mrkwse commented on The Balatro Timeline localthunk.com/blog/balat... · Posted by u/mxfh

_mitterpach · a year ago

I remember watching the YouTuber Northernlion play this game and you could immediately tell that Balatro was special. The mechanics, the logic, the graphics, everything just worked.

Balatro is an absolute indie darling and one of the greatest games of this decade. I still think it not getting the GOTY was a miss, this should be a wake-up moment for the industry. Gameplay talks. Not micro transactions, not ultra realistic graphic, gameplay. If your game is fun, people will play it.

Hope many more games like this will come out in the upcoming years, if the industry learned anything.

mrkwse · a year ago

I'm rooting for it to have a great run at the BAFTAs (which - if maybe in part due to some British bias - feels like the gaming award of highest renown due to its proximity to the film and TV counterparts, even if _The Game Awards_ generally get more fanfare).

I think GOTY is probably a tough call against Astro Bot, but there are a lot of categories it could do well in, and even the volume of nominations it's received I think is really impressive and a great achievement for a solo effort.

mrkwse commented on Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/m... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

chrishannah · 3 years ago

So what they're saying is, they want all the benefits of having a permanent full-time job, but they don't want to work permanently or full-time?

mrkwse · 3 years ago

I don't think it's a safe assumption that gig workers are typically choosing gig work over full-time contracted employment, but rather choosing gig work over unemployment/benefits.

mrkwse commented on UK Blocks Microsoft’s $69B Activision Deal bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

lunchladydoris · 3 years ago

Why? Revenge? I would think that all parties involved prefer money over revenge.

mrkwse · 3 years ago

Well it depends on how Microsoft's accountants manage the maths:

Hypothetically, if MS + Activision - UK > MS + UK - Activision (assuming it's only blocked in UK), it's plausible that Microsoft withdraws from UK to pursue its business with the merger everywhere else. The UK is a decent sized market, but it's far from the biggest.

mrkwse commented on People who use Notion to plan their whole lives technologyreview.com/2023... · Posted by u/FinnKuhn

ralfd · 3 years ago

… His secret is the workspace app Notion…

… the reason Notion has such a devoted fan base is its flexibility…

… Notion’s most devoted fans say they’re unlikely to jump ship to any other promising platforms anytime soon…

Is Notion so good, or is this product placement PR?

See: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

mrkwse · 3 years ago

I'm someone who has used and paid for Notion for several years at this point.

What I would say is that it's very versatile. It has almost Atlassian Jira levels of features (and arguably of bloat), and it's possible to reasonably organise a lot of thoughts/knowledge/tasks in a wide range of ways.

I think the reason why it's so popular and oft lauded is because the range of capability allows people to really engineer workflows and processes that work for them and that without the prompts of the examples that Notion and its community provide they may not otherwise arrive at.

So for me I'd probably say that the product itself is fairly good. It's far from flawless (e.g., it uses Electron), but does a solid job of a wide range of things. The killer differentiator against its competitors, however, is the library of templates and example projects - this initially was produced by Notion itself but then the community really grew, shared its own interpretations, and _productivity content creators_ really latched onto it as a good conduit for communicating workflows, processes, and systems for working/getting tasks done.

mrkwse commented on Apple Music Classical learn.applemusic.apple/ap... · Posted by u/tosh

mrkwse · 3 years ago

I'm really keen to dive into this however as someone knee deep in the ecosystem it's baffling that it doesn't have proper native integration with Apple TV/HomePod. You can Airplay with your phone as the source, but not with the receiving device being the source (which is typically a nicer and more reliable approach as some phone applications can interrupt the streamed audio).

mrkwse commented on UK: Food inflation rises to 18.2% as it hits highest rate in over 45 years grocerygazette.co.uk/2023... · Posted by u/open-source-ux

andy_ppp · 3 years ago

I cannot believe supermarkets these days, it is insane the increases in prices, I’ve seen £5 for a tube of normal toothpaste and £6 for a tiny Pizza that is sometimes available for £3. How people on modest salaries survive I don’t know.

Quite often I’m starting to notice dark patterns in pricing where things you normally didn’t worry about will have randomly increased by £2-3 and you get the checkout and you’ve spent £25-30 on next to nothing.

I wonder if inequality increases caused by printing trillions of dollars during COVID are anything to do with this inflation? Could it be that making the rich endless more wealthy and increasing asset prices is bad for society?

How do we fix this? Some people think redistribution of the increases the wealthy have had over COVID back to the poor would be a good move, but is this all inequality?

mrkwse · 3 years ago

For me the actual dark pattern in pricing is when prices remain fixed but quantity/volume really reduces. It's subtle on the aisle, but if you use online shopping it's blatant when the product you usually order is no longer available and it suggests an item that is identical in terms of the product it is and price, but has a glaring reduction in weight.

mrkwse commented on Apple iPhone 14 Pro Camera test dxomark.com/apple-iphone-... · Posted by u/luu

mrkwse · 3 years ago

Seems a strange omission not to evaluate the ProRAW capture. I can understand having the rankings being in the typical/regular mode (as competitors may not have comparable modes), but surely there's value into evaluating what the enhancement offered by the top-quality mode offers?

It's a bit like evaluating the drive characteristics of a sports car but not once taking it out of comfort mode.

mrkwse commented on iPhones and action discoverability alexanderell.is/posts/iph... · Posted by u/otras

mrkwse · 3 years ago

I think the swiping back on new tab feature is a very well thought out piece of UX.

If a user taps a link that is set to open in a new window/tab, while the bottom/top (depending on user config) URL bar does animate to show the transition, the user may still expect to be able to navigate back to where they came from (especially in such a case where they haven't deliberately made the decision to open in a new tab).

I'd argue it would be worse UX for the back swipe to not navigate to the previous page in such circumstances than that it does but closes the tab (which is reasonably signalled by the URL bar animation).