I don't know if anyone else agrees, but for some reason no one can replicate the smoothness of the Apple trackpad. And now with that PLUS the heatless apple silicon - I don't think I could go to another OS and the x86 hardware world. I would just feel like I'm in clunky-land. Now don't get me wrong, I like a lot about Linux desktops, but Mac gets a lot of things right. I don't want to take anything away from people migrating from Mac, but the PC didn't kill Desktop Linux, Mac did.
Readit Newsthrowmeaway222 commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik
xml + xslt should never have been allowed client side. not sure why no one decided to force this as a server side operation, or at least require it to be done in js.
BUT since it's there, don't take it out, or at least take it out of the spec and then require all browser vendors to auto-install a plugin that re-performs the missing feature, and warn that this page relies on a plugin or something
throwmeaway222 commented on Ask HN: Is React still the go to front end framework to learn? · Posted by u/tgreiner
throwmeaway222 commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1
Hossenfelder is absolutely the BS detector and takedown machine that physics needs :)
> Personally, I wrote 200K lines of my B2B SaaS
That would probably be 1000 line of Common Lisp.
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> redundant. At that time, CBA claimed that launching the chatbot supposedly "led to a reduction in call volumes" by 2,000 a week, FSU said.
Yeah it is reduced because as soon as someone calls they're trapped in a 30 minute "I'm sorry I didn't understand, what can I help you with" And people just give up and decide, maybe the $20 ATM fee isn't worth contesting...
Then again, this means the bank may be saving money too.
throwmeaway222 commented on Why Can't the U.S. Build 5-Minute E.V. Chargers? nytimes.com/2025/08/19/cl... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
also the power is too damn expensive here (I'm in ca)
throwmeaway222 commented on Are We Engineers? (2021) hillelwayne.com/post/are-... · Posted by u/walterbell
we are programmers, but with high level languages and llm help, maybe even that is a stretch.
maybe we're react element orchestrators
throwmeaway222 commented on AGENTS.md gets it wrong in 2 ways joshwand1.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/joshwa
Agents.md is just wrong altogether. if you're using claude just let it summarize for you and save it in its own way. There is absolutely no reason to standardize because the agentic code may have different ways of picking stuff up anyway.
Too big to fit all this crazy stuff?
Project overview
Build and test commands
Code style guidelines
Testing instructions
Security considerations
ui is a CRA app, it uses yarn dev (even that is more than you need)
server is a Python app and it uses make
yeah everything else both claude and cursor easily find, build and run tests autonomously without even describing these projects.
throwmeaway222 commented on Pre-Sputnik Earth-Orbit Glints overcomingbias.com/p/many... · Posted by u/qsi
> the main author of the paper
Which paper?
The one in the story
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/394040040_Aligned_m...