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nickserv commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

coro_1 · 2 days ago

I love Proton but the idea of subscribing and committing to renew annually is a turn off. There's probably be a huge market behind the psychology of this.

They should offer a lifetime option for the core service and monetize the add-ons and new features.

nickserv · 2 days ago

That's exactly the reason why so many people prefer giving up their data, their privacy, their freedom.

Personally I'm happy to pay proton a few bucks a month to not have to give up those things.

I'm not criticizing those that do, just that given my financial situation the trade off is simply not worth it.

nickserv commented on Code formatting comes to uv experimentally pydevtools.com/blog/uv-fo... · Posted by u/tanelpoder

Spivak · 4 days ago

I think the biggest thing is that it doesn't seem to support other formatters. If my project uses black I don't get to have uv format work for me.

nickserv · 3 days ago

Ruff pretty much follows the same rules as black, and can be made identical with some options tweaking.

So when I moved several projects from black to ruff, there were no changes made to the code.

nickserv commented on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license unity.com/products/unity-... · Posted by u/finnsquared

estimator7292 · 4 days ago

That sounds well and good, but Unity forced my last company into the more expensive license unilaterally and with no discussion. They doubled our costs just because they can.

At this point, we should all treat Unity like we do Broadcom. Utterly toxic and should be avoided at all costs because they will shake you down and leave you with a lesser product for no reason other than blind greed.

Nothing Unity does will ever recover the goodwill they nuked for money

nickserv · 4 days ago

Did you change to another engine? If so, which one? If not, what prevented you from doing so?

Genuinely curious.

nickserv commented on Why we still build with Ruby getlago.com/blog/why-we-s... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien

Alifatisk · 5 days ago

I prefer Ruby because of it's flexible meta-programming capabilities, like I would easily draft my own DSL if I have an idea of how I want the syntax to look like. This is such a powerful and underrated feature of Ruby in my opinion

nickserv · 5 days ago

Funny, I don't like Ruby because it has easy access to metaprogramming. It's powerful, yes, but in my experience it's a powerful footgun that makes the code very difficult to understand and debug 6 months down the line. And if you have a bunch of "clever" programmers working on the codebase, the horror...

nickserv commented on Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale derwiki.medium.com/do-thi... · Posted by u/derwiki

nickserv · 9 days ago

I feel like the main takeaway here is that if you want your personal project to last, you should run it on your own server.

nickserv commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko

nurettin · 12 days ago

Have you tried JRuby? It might be a bit too large for your droplet, but it has the java versions of most gems and you can produce cross-platform jars using warbler.

nickserv · 12 days ago

The speed of Ruby with the memory management of Java, what's not to love?

Also, now you have two problems.

nickserv commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

wiseowise · 19 days ago

And average human isn’t spending as much time exercising as chimp does.

nickserv · 19 days ago

And when we did our average lifespan was much shorter.

Time to burn that Gym membership :-p

nickserv commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale

nickserv · 23 days ago

Great news, good on them. Not only does this make their lives better and safer, but it can help many other cities. Sometimes just knowing that something is possible is enough for people to achieve it.

nickserv commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale

Nurbek-F · 23 days ago

Someone has to put a chart near it, describing the decline in driving in the city. When you're limited to 30kmh, you might as well get a scooter...

nickserv · 23 days ago

Yes that's probably the point. Cars kill many more people than scooters.

nickserv commented on People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design andrewcoyle.com/blog/beau... · Posted by u/coyleandrew

brudgers · 2 months ago

"The growth marketing team has identified an untapped demographic".

Non-experts is always a larger group than experts.

A design prioritizing non-experts does not benefit experts.

Moreover, experts know they are trying to solve hard problems and benefit from tools that recognize the nature of solving hard problems entails doing hard things.

Or to put it another way, though there is a large market of people who don't play the violin, a ukulele is not a violin.

nickserv · 2 months ago

Exactly. There is pressure to sell to as many people as possible, as cheaply as possible. This leads to "simplifying" the UI.

Generally this means power users now have to click 3 times instead of 1.

Of course there are alternatives, like having an advanced mode or keyboard shortcuts. But that takes time and effort for a typically smaller set of users.

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