Readit NewsI miss the very calming, cold, solid, metal feeling of desktop software.
Log back in after a vacation, and everything's still there.
A window with "maybe" resizable panels and a menu, and that's it.
The Web used to be the "documents."
For a technology that's been built for documents, all the navigation, footer, and header of any modern app feel like a "hack" compared to elegance of what desktop used to be.
In an old-fashioned desktop application, anything that gets "synchronized" is by choice, and rather feels like magic.
In a web app, even the UI is not a given.
We are forced to stay logged to an "Massively Online Revenue Platform Generation" games, and it keeps getting disconnected, and is laggy.
So "Let's replace the Cloud with self-hosted alternatives," right? -- Good luck with added effort and complexity of config, maintenance, network, db, bugs, updates, and the pain of "admin accounts" in first setup.
We used to have the client and server functionality baked together in any major desktop software that used to connect to FTP, IRC, P2P, Mail, and to each other.
Today it's accounts... Accounts. It's accounts all the way "up."
We used to own the data, and the software.
Now it's full-scale surveillance and dispossession.
raldu commented on Why Can't A.I. Manage My Emails? newyorker.com/culture/ope... · Posted by u/raldu
> "Chatbots can pass the Turing test—but they can’t yet handle an office worker’s inbox."
raldu commented on Becoming a compiler engineer rona.substack.com/p/becom... · Posted by u/lalitkale
Interesting how titles alone has been getting the front page recently.
This is a very confusing blog post. I found myself looking for ChatGPT markers because it doesn't make sense to say: omg zig is so much cooler than C here's why, then start listing the absolute basics of the language that are identical in most modern languages without any actual reflection why writing the same thing in a different syntax somehow makes zig superior?
Titles get the headlines.
So, “Let’s build carbon-titanium-foldable bicycles instead of bloated modern cars, and still get from A to B?”
How many mainstream online platform users care about the difference in KB in their experience, anyway?
The sites in the list are hobbyist clubs with a technical point of view, which wouldn’t make sense for a mass media outlet with millions of daily traffic, and real interdepartmental complexity and compliance issues to deal with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_S...
It's one of the classic subjects in sociology,
https://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/socy-151/lecture-16