webdever (u/webdever)

webdever commented on The German language broke my website speedbumpapp.com/en/blog/... · Posted by u/nullderef

nneonneo · 6 months ago

new|save|set|info|end didn’t cut it?

webdever · 6 months ago

Sure if you want to be too terse. I'd say most people would want

Start|Save|Settings|Info|Exit

At a minimum but given the style, both that and yours would be super cramped given the font size they wanted.

Further, the post is about German

Start|Speichern|Einstellungen|Info|Beenden

(no idea if those are correct)

Also, those buttons I made up. I what I remember something like 通信 being one button.

webdever commented on The German language broke my website speedbumpapp.com/en/blog/... · Posted by u/nullderef

webdever · 6 months ago

that's a common issue. I worked on a Japanese product where most of the words were 2 characters and they had made horizontal menus that fit 5 buttons across (mobile). You can imagine that didn't work with anything other than Chinese. Yea, they had to redsign.

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webdever commented on Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"? · Posted by u/jbornhorst

webdever · 6 months ago

In the hope that someone else has the same issue as I do and knows a solution - for me, my eyes, I have a double image. It moves. I have 12 pairs of glasses I've gotten from 3 "doctors" and several visits to places like Warby Parker, Jins, ZOff.

In all cases, all the doctor did was stick me in the machine, read off the numbers, give me some glasses. They work 10% of the time. I don't mean one in 10 doctors gave me good glasses. I mean on Tuesday pair #3 works. On Wednesday pair #7 worked at 10am but then stopped working pair #11 worked at 5pm. More often than not, no pairs work.

I feel like I need some kind of adjustable lenses (I'm imagining something steampunk with multiple lenses or a dial so I can dial in what works AT THIS MOMENT) but AFAICT no such thing exists

Does any one else have this issue?

Note: I have no pain

Anecdotes

(1) A doctor in SF put me in the machines, measured my eyes, made me some glasses. I come back a week later and using them is worse than not using them. I tell them they don't work. They get upset and reprimand me. Finally they give in. Make a new appointment. A week later doctor sees me, makes a new prescription, orders glasses, a week later the same, using them is worse then not.

Again they get angry an berate me. They give my some BS about I should take them home and let your eyes get used to them. I respond, if that's the case then the doctor could not make a prescription with his machine because I'd need to take the machine home to "let my eyes get used them" before he'd know if it was working.

Anyway, they finally let me make another appointment. the doctor measures and claims he knows what must have happened (didn't tell me) and orders another pair. A week later I check. These ones are marginally better than than not wearing anything AT THAT MOMENT. It take them home, every time I try to use them they're worse than not using them. (oh, and they apparently charged the eye insurance $999)

(2) My previous SF doctor I had a similar experience in that their glasses didn't work. They didn't berate me. They re-ordered once. I was shy and didn't complain the second time even though they were no good and I never used them.

(3) I've bought lots of glasses at Jins (Japan) - They have fully automated machines for measurement. I've got 2 pairs from them that help the most often, though not always.

(4) Last time I bought glasses I was at ZOff in Japan (because the wait for Jins was too long). The "doctor" their claimed my eyes were fairly good - meaning the images are clear, it's only the double vision that's the issue (letters look like there's a ghost 15% as bright/dark) about 4cm down from the actual letters)

webdever commented on MacBook Air M4 apple.com/macbook-air/... · Posted by u/tosh

gavinray · 6 months ago

Gen question: why do people care how bulky a laptop is?

I buy gaming laptops because they're the only powerful laptops and their size has never bothered me when traveling

webdever · 6 months ago

When I'm walking around S.E. Asia and it's 90 degrees and humid I care about every extra gram.

Even an Air is too heavy IMO compared to say an LG Gram. But, I need the specs and the screen so I lug around a MacBook Pro 16" at 4.6lbs - often I have to lug around 2, my corp one and my personal one.

Given an iPad Pro 13" is 1.3lbs they "could" (for some definition of "could") make a 16" device with keyboard closer to 2 lbs.

webdever commented on MacBook Air M4 apple.com/macbook-air/... · Posted by u/tosh

electrograv · 6 months ago

I really wish Apple would make a MacBook Air variant with display quality on par with the iPad Pro or MacBook Pro (ProMotion/120hz and XDR/HDR, at least). The screen quality is the only reason I currently use the Pro despite its chunkier weight, since the local compute/memory of the Air is already plenty for me (and most users).

The iPad Pro proves that weight and battery life is no excuse here for the lack of state-of-the-art display tech in the MacBook Air. And as for cost — the base 14” MacBook Pro M4 (at $1600) isn’t significantly more expensive than the 15” MacBook Air M4 configured with same CPU/RAM/SSD (at $1400).

It’s really quite a shame that the iPad Pro hardware is in many way a better MacBook Air than the MacBook Air, crippled primarily by iOS rather than hardware.

webdever · 6 months ago

As others have said, they do this on purpose. It's the same with memory. I'd probably switch from a Pro to an Air if I could get 64gig ram (for LLM work) but they'd rather charge me $4800 instead of ~$3200 (guessing the price given the top end 32gig Air is $2800)

It's frustrating because I'd prefer a lighter device. In fact, even the Air isn't that light compared to its competition.

I'd happily pay +$500 ($5300) for Macbook Air PRO if it was effectively the same specs as Macbook Pro but 1.5lbs lighter.

webdever commented on Show HN: Time travel debugging AI for more reliable vibe coding nut.new... · Posted by u/bhackett

webdever · 6 months ago

> it's amazing to use Claude to prompt an app into existence, and pretty frustrating when that app doesn't work right and Claude is all thumbs fixing the problem.

Such an in interesting sentence. App that doesn't work doesn't seem like it's yet come into existence.

This has been my (limited) experience so far. I haven't been able to get an AI/LLM to help me build an app. Even React apps it fails at. I have been able to get an LLM to help with coding questions similar to Stack Overflow questions though (though not always)

webdever commented on Should managers still code? theengineeringmanager.sub... · Posted by u/blah2244

n_u · 6 months ago

Strong yes for 3 reasons

1. Reducing dev friction.

When I had managers who coded they were ruthless about removing friction in the dev and deployment pipeline because they had to deal with it too. If build times went up, deployment infrastructure broke or someone’s PR broke dev they would roll it back immediately. If someone consistently blocks PRs the manager noticed the trend and would address it.

2. You get a much better sense of IC’s contributions by writing code.

There are ICs who play politics very well and sell themselves but that set is not the same as the ICs who deliver. If you are writing code you start to notice which ICs have written key features, built critical APIs or worked on hard problems because of comments and Git blame.

3. Understanding your codebase.

I hope most managers have solid CS and engineering fundamentals but that is a necessary but not sufficient condition to grasping the full picture. There’s a reason it takes time to ramp up to full productivity on a new codebase. If you work in the codebase and have had to use that one annoying but critical library or dealt with that tech debt from 2 years ago then you know what is hard and what isn’t. I’ve found when a codebase has a quirk that makes developing certain features hard all of the non-technical people keep forgetting why we can’t do that thing and all the technical people have it burned into their brains.

webdever · 6 months ago

I tend to agree but, playing devil's advocate, is this true for other roles? Does a movie director need to know how to build sets? How to sew costumes? How to use Blender/Maya/Houdini? My manager can code, used to code, sometimes does code, but they aren't familiar with their team's current work.

Like imagine you were a coding manager 10 years ago with AI experience. Sometime over the last 10 years your team does AI infra. You, as a manager and as an IC, have zero AI experience (you've never trained a model, never used a trained model, never using any of the various AI frameworks). Are you still okay to manage this team or should you be replaced with someone who does have that experience?

webdever commented on Apple's Software Quality Crisis eliseomartelli.it/blog/20... · Posted by u/ajdude

lostlogin · 6 months ago

> I can never find what I'm looking for

Overcast might be the app for you. No affiliation, I just like it.

webdever · 6 months ago

I've used Downcast forever. No complaints. No idea how it compares to Overcast.

webdever commented on Apple's Software Quality Crisis eliseomartelli.it/blog/20... · Posted by u/ajdude

hnthrowaway0315 · 6 months ago

Just curious, why did they decide to use Electron instead of native? After all those are Apple MacOS software.

webdever · 6 months ago

It's not electron, but it is a WebKit view (HTML based)

So is the App store on all platforms AFAICT.