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Why?

I can understand the historical reasons related to China and Korea, but Brazil? What did they do to them?

Back in 2011, when Motorola released a phone that could do something similar, I was sure that was going to be the future. It’s been 15 years. I still dream of the day when my compu…

There’s definitely a way to prove it, ask it to spell out a moderately complex program.

I remember being excited about Edge, I even started using it because it was fast and had a couple of built-in features I liked. It was a big improvement over the old IE, it felt li…

Or their constant use of dark patterns to push you into using Bing and Edge. I was actually an Edge user myself. I liked a few of its built-in features, and it felt pretty fast. Bu…

I hear people saying that every day in Slack and Teams

That era taught me how much regular users can tolerate awful, slow interfaces.

Wow, so it has surpassed humans.

And now Apple started to lose it.

I read the other day that one of their devs has a vanilla CC setup that consists of 10 agents running in parallel. Why doesn’t he just ask one of those agents to fix it??

Still, code describes what and how, but not why.

Tip: Look for someone selling their grownup children’s Lego collection. I recently found a couple selling their children’s old Lego collection in Facebook Marketplace. I got an eno…

For some reason comments were moved from the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315583

I’m as confused as you

I sincerely believe one day we'll get an official release of one of those Airpod straps: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hilarious-accessory-reminds-us-at...

Build a wall?

Previous comment thread has an interesting conversation about why it hasn’t became a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793466#45793922

I recently spent some time in a country house far enough from civilization that electric lines don’t reach. The owners could have installed some solar panels, but they opted to kee…

By auto-play I mean in the feed, there’s an option to stop it from doing that, but after a while YouTube decides to turn it on again. It also has an option to hide Shorts, but same…

Premium users still get auto dubs, still cannot completely disable auto play, still cannot completely hide Shorts. It’s amazing how UX hostile companies can get when they don’t hav…

“No need for compatibility testing” – I think that’s a really important feature. Not everyone can accept all types of blood. It becomes a real challenge when a person requires cons…