Can you elaborate? I’m not familiar with why android fans would make those particular arguments.
Readit Newswarning26 commented on Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/thunderbong
It's mentioned briefly in the article, but I really think the Rebuild Penn Station project has the right idea:
https://www.rebuildpennstation.org/
All these various other proposals ignore the main problem: the original station never should have been demolished in the first place. The only proper solution is rebuilding the original, not designing some new thing that is slightly more acceptable than what's there now.
warning26 commented on Tokyo Achieves Affordable Housing nytimes.com/2023/09/11/op... · Posted by u/jseliger
What's particularly amazing is that it's the free market at work -- the privately run railways have an incentive to develop the land near stations to get more people to ride the train.
Draconian zoning laws and car-dependence have really screwed over the US when it comes to housing policy.
No one knows what fine water mist sprayed into the atmosphere would do. Good god let's not bank on these ridiculous massive-scale hail Marys that may just as well cause more damage than good.
This was basically the plot of that movie Snowpiercer; we accidentally geoengineer a second ice age.
warning26 commented on iOS 17 sideloading support is coming, and Apple can’t stop it bgr.com/tech/ios-17-sidel... · Posted by u/quyleanh
I'd love to sideload on my iPad, but let's be realistic, Apple will do everything in their power to sidestep the spirit of the law. Here are some guesses:
- Sideloading only works with an EU Apple Account, on a device purchased in the EU, while you are physically in the EU
- Enabling "sideloading mode" will disable a bunch of other features for [IMPORTANT_SOUNDING_REASON]
Microsoft thinks this is okay because Google did the same thing with Chrome on the Google start page.
I remember a coworker asking me what Chrome is, because "his computer" keeps telling him to install it.
Not to fully excuse Google's behavior, but baking that behavior into an operating system seems far worse than putting nags on a website.
Google's prompts weren't that different than those "Get Firefox!" badges people used to put up in the 2000s.
warning26 commented on Elon Musk claims Twitter has lost ~40 billion dollars in value twitter.com/elonmusk/stat... · Posted by u/simpli
And whose fault is that? Dude needs to take a good hard look in the mirror before blaming somebody else.
Who would have thought that laying off most of your staff, implementing poorly conceived product changes, and alienating your advertisers with edgy hot takes would cause your company to lose value?
warning26 commented on VSCode Removes Twitter Integration github.com/microsoft/vsco... · Posted by u/tech234a
Anecdotally, about ~20% of the time I attempt to load Twitter on mobile - none of the user-posted images will load.
It's an absolute headache - and there doesn't appear to be a user-side explanation for it.
There's definitely things breaking in new and exciting ways.
It's kind of unfortunate that Twitter has become so politicized that people will downvote you for pointing out that Twitter has bugs.
I suppose if it agrees with one's politics, it therefore cannot possibly have bugs, and if anyone reports a bug, that person is obviously just faking it for political points.
warning26 commented on VSCode Removes Twitter Integration github.com/microsoft/vsco... · Posted by u/tech234a
How is twitter unreliable?
Have you used Twitter lately? About 25% of the time I open it, random content fails to load and I have to refresh the page.
I assume the lack of remaining software engineers probably has something to do with it.
> I read HN on my phone I have to zoom to be able to reliably click a link.
Overall I like the HN UI and wouldn't want it changed, but I do largely agree with this particular criticism; a lot of the click targets are too small IMO. (In particular, the upvote/downvote buttons' 13x13px targets stand out as way too tiny on mobile.)
However, saying that the click targets are too small means the whole UI is terrible seems a bit on the hyperbolic side. You could maintain pretty much the exact same UI with slightly larger click targets and it would fix your issue.