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Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by FinnLobsien »

JackFr wrote: post #14
FinnLobsien wrote: post #9

As someone who works in marketing, this is extremely true. Right now, LLMs are causing a lot of one-time cashing in of trust. I've seen this pattern a bunch: 1. Person builds trust on X/LinkedIn or via an insightful blog/newsletter (substitute your channel of choice here) for a few years because they have unique opinions, interesting stories from personal experience, are entertaining/charismatic, or share data/insigh…

Path to X happiness: - Eschew the "For You", Read tweets only from people you have chosen to follow. - Only follow people who have a bona fide livelihood outside social media, avoid anyone for whom income is largely driven by "engagement".

I agree, but sadly it’s kinda like telling someone the best way to have fun at the casino without losing too much.

It’s an environment designed for the exact opposite of your best intentions.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by sebastiennight »

jknoepfler wrote: post #77
rapnie wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We stopped considering the user as a human being Imho once you say "user" you are already halfway on that path. Look how impersonal your sentence is. Users are an abstract concept that belongs to the app, which in turn is created by the developer who has all kinds of dreams for that app. Just keep calling them people, persons, or specific stakeholder names that correspond to the role they have, and their identified…

Try starting your user stories "As a human being fully endowed with creative and critical faculties who yearns for purposeful, reciprocal engagement within my Lebenswelt..." and see how it goes?

My understanding of user stories is that they specifically are NOT supposed to start with "as a user", but instead, should start with what you called an "empathy sutra" in a sibling comment.

E.G. "As a single mother of four, I want my children to have a nutritious lunch but have very little time to prepare it" might be the first phrase of a user story for your foodmaking robot.

neither "as a user" nor "As a human being fully endowed with creative and critical faculties..." help the product and tech team understand the constraints and yearnings of the person this feature will serve.

PS: I used to have a PO who would write "As a product owner, I want a feature that does X" and it drove me crazy

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by ruszki »

winrid wrote: post #133
solid_fuel wrote: post #119

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No I think it's a consequence of so much of the industry abandoning caring about the craft in favor of just shipping whatever garbage checks off their Jira tickets. This is the same attitude that leads to vibe coding. It's the idea that the code doesn't matter and the only thing of any importance is the business attached to the product. It's stupid and shortsighted, but the entire industry seems pretty damned nearsig…

It's mostly the result of hiring too many stupid product managers and engineers that don't give a shit. Even if you didn't read the code if you cared even an ounce you wouldn't ship this crap.

The problem is that there are more of those, than those who care. And when money pours in, it’s a lost fight. When there is wealth, it’s beneficial for you in the short term to just grab from it as much as possible, than to improve things, if you’re not good in your job. And hell, most people are not especially good.

There are still pockets, where if you don’t push it, you loose. But you need to search for it. Average developers won’t ever work at such places. They won’t ever encounter them, because almost no developer jobs needs that.

Btw, you can make such positions in every company. I did it, several times. And it’s very beneficial even salary wise.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by DeathArrow »

fifticon wrote: post #15

This reminds me of trying to use File Explorer in Windows 11. I wish I could turn all their electron-app "improvements" off, to make it useful again, like it once was.. Case in point: Explorer now has tabs. I don't need tabs, I need a single tab, and a window title bar so I can drag the damn thing around. And.. my single tab, now tries to show the folder name, truncated to a few useless characters, so I now have tabs…

>I don't need tabs

I do use tabs in Explorer quiet frequently.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by throw1234567891 »

hunter2_ wrote: post #107
andai wrote: post #85

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A little while ago I ran Windows XP in a VM, inside Windows 10. I noted that when I pressed the start key, the start menu opened. I noted that when I pressed Win+E, an explorer window opened. Fully rendered. After a single video frame. On Windows 10, the same thing happens, only several hundred milliseconds later, and then you get to enjoy watching the UI elements get painted in one at a time. Twenty years of progres…

Presumably that's to keep hardware sales up, e-waste be damned. You won't notice it taking 8 times longer when you have 8 times as many cores, or whatever.

Tell that to my Citrix guy.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by throw1234567891 »

iknowstuff wrote: post #105
elevation wrote: post #22

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> Explorer now has tabs. I don't need tabs Hey now! The `nautilus' file browser on linux got me hooked on tabs and for years it's been a glaring deficiency of File Explorer. Many tasks involve a collection of directories, and tabs can be ideal for reducing demand for screen space. I concede the the current Windows implementation is poor but I hope they improve it, rather than dumping tabs entirely.

tbh all tabs seem like a deficiency in the window management paradigm to me. Instead of tabs our WMs should just allow us to easily list and transition between all windows of an app.

I can’t imagine working with a browser without tabs.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by account42 »

marcosdumay wrote: post #88
pjc50 wrote: post #32

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The tabs are fine. Tabs in "cmd" are also good. The window handles, on the other hand .. this was correct in Windows 3.0 and there's basically no good reason to have changed it. There should be a title bar. Active window should have visibly contrasting title bar. There should be sufficient grab space all round a window to get hold of it. Bonus points: move your mouse pointer very slowly around a bottom curved corner…

The tabs and address bar on Explorer seem to actually be a copy of the default behavior of Dolphin. If you are going to copy someone, copy from the best, I guess. But Microsoft managed fill their top-space¹ and not let enough space for the address to be properly displayed, so they need to hide information all the time. The tabs on PowerShell are actually not a copy of Konsole. I guess that's why I always get annoyed…

With Dolphin you don't get a tab bar until you use multiple tabs. Like OP I never saw the point of the feature though - directories aren't like webpages where I might want to open tabs to read later so anything I open should just be a new window that gets its own space.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by account42 »

ShadowOfThePit wrote: post #26
fifticon wrote: post #15

This reminds me of trying to use File Explorer in Windows 11. I wish I could turn all their electron-app "improvements" off, to make it useful again, like it once was.. Case in point: Explorer now has tabs. I don't need tabs, I need a single tab, and a window title bar so I can drag the damn thing around. And.. my single tab, now tries to show the folder name, truncated to a few useless characters, so I now have tabs…

Of the things that you could complain about modern Explorer and Notepad, you choose tabs? Really? A handy QoL feature that many have been requesting?

Why not? Not every text editor needs to be an IDE.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by account42 »

kazinator wrote: post #111
djkoolaide wrote: post #103

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On his YouTube channel he claimed that FLAC is different from WAV[1]. No need for any of that in my subscriptions anymore. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QNXQ0KOWyc

No; he clearly acknowledges that FLAC is lossless, so the audio is bit for bit identical to the original waveform. The claim is that FLAC decoding digital hardware performs processing which causes noise ("computer hash") if it is not isolated from the audio paths. He gives an example of some hardware where isolation eliminates the problem, supposedly. I'm skeptical of the claim. Not in the sense whatsoever that I sus…

A decade ago I had a portable "MP3 player" that supported FLAC. The processing required to decode it is not that significant.

Re: Stop Ruining It

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Post by rcxdude »

account42 wrote: post #149
kazinator wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No; he clearly acknowledges that FLAC is lossless, so the audio is bit for bit identical to the original waveform. The claim is that FLAC decoding digital hardware performs processing which causes noise ("computer hash") if it is not isolated from the audio paths. He gives an example of some hardware where isolation eliminates the problem, supposedly. I'm skeptical of the claim. Not in the sense whatsoever that I sus…

A decade ago I had a portable "MP3 player" that supported FLAC. The processing required to decode it is not that significant.

Given a sufficiently crappy hardware setup that the CPU activity is injecting noise into the audio path, then in principle the FLAC decoding could be more inconsistent in that regard, because the processing is much more data-dependent with FLAC. But even with WAV your CPU activity is not going to be completely regular, so this still stretching credibility as something you should actually care about instead of just fixing the underlying problem, which should only be a problem on utterly bargain basement non-audiophile/fool setups anyway.
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