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For human-maintained config, TOML is only "better" when the structure is so flat that it's almost indistinguishable from an INI file. Anything more complex and it becomes one of th…

That aspect at least is easy to solve by drawing a stronger line between public content and stuff seen by people you actually know. This would be more of a social change than techn…

Yeah - as a user, I specifically _don't_ like Apple's approach of breaking things all the time.

> Anyone who understands what Bitcoin enables and still doesn’t agree that Bitcoin is valuable and good for the world has a wildly different set of values that I can’t understand. …

The US is at no serious risk of hyperinflation in the foreseeable future, barring unknowable events / disasters.

> Also, like regular graphics cards, newer versions are highly prized so one might say that graphics cards as an industry is already all about e-waste. Unless you’d like to buy my …

I don't mind 16:9 so much as the incredibly poor choices for resolution and panel quality I'm faced with on most Windows laptops lately. It feels like TV salespeople took over and …

And this is exactly why I'm so skeptical of cryptocurrencies in general. There doesn't appear any viable way to make them work as currencies that doesn't either have horrendous ext…

Couldn't disagree more. I've always had false positive issues with Apple's trackpads. The newer ones are slightly better in terms of accuracy, but they're so absurdly large that it…

Speaking personally: * No ability to show thumbnails in folder icons * No ability to use single click + hover to highlight * Relative sizing feels way off - everything in Finder al…

That and the energy cost, both direct as well environmental. It always surprises me how little cryptocurrency advocates seem to understand basic macroeconomics and unintended conse…

Exactly. I felt a lot safer using something like KeePass, and synchronizing the encrypted database using something like Dropbox. There's not a central target that would get caught …

Consider that for many of us, our phones are now quite literally painful to use one-handed, and we have no alternatives - for devices that most of us use for at least an hour or tw…

I own an iPad Pro 11. I don't think it's just you - there's a lot of basic everyday functionality that is pointlessly difficult and cumbersome in iOS. E.g. data management is still…

I have the QC35's, and the voice assistant integration is, as expected, gimmicky and not very useful. However, you can change the button to control noise cancellation level instead…

Capacitive controls have zero place on any headphones, let alone ones as expensive as these. The fact that you're willing to live with it doesn't mean it's not still a terrible des…

While this is great news for my QC 35's, the newer Bose 700's have me extremely worried for the future of their devices. Anyone who puts non-tactile touch controls on _headphones_ …

RIP Inbox. Still a drastically better UI for a lot of users than Gmail is.

The fact that we _still_ can't disable the drafts "feature" says a lot about how little they listen to user feedback. I've not found a single person who likes that behavior, the be…

That might have been the intent of helm, but it does not at all reflect the reality of using it in the experience of most people I've spoken with, especially pre-3.0. I've lost tra…

Not to mention the inability to split the keyboard - on iPad sized devices, trying to thumb type without a split keyboard is a huge pain in the ass.

The navigation gestures and movements on iOS are a prime example. They're plenty intuitive, but they're obviously timed for the slowest possible user using them for the first time …

Yeah, I thought Inbox would actually be safe to use since it was tied to email, but nope. Gmail doesn't have the automated bundling features that Inbox does, and like you, losing I…

Agreed. It's not even the cost I take issue with, it's the design compromises. I want a professional device Apple, not a toy fashion product. I like macOS, but Apple's making it in…

The big one I want to see, because it's one of my biggest frustrations with Python, is to finally make lambdas work like every other contemporary language instead of being inexplic…