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Programming languages! It is ironic because I am a programmer and I write programs and develop software for a living. But proliferation of programming languages has made my life worse. Too many programming languages and every company has their own favorites! It may be an unpopular opinion on HN but I don't enjoy learning new syntaxes every year for relatively few benefits in new concepts or paradigms. In my ideal wor…
Seems to have eaten up all the gains from SSDs and more modern CPUs. The hardware gets better and excel stays slow
when you need to get to a person and you don't fall within their voice prompt system you end up saying "operator" 7 times and then the computer is like "Did you want to talk to an operator?" and it says please enter your 10 digit phone number.. And you're stuck in hell for 10 minutes.
I bought already a couple of them, and somehow none of them seems to work well, or they are too sensitive and I can't figure out where to measure my temperature and what counts as fever.
I finally found some thermometers that I used when I was younger, and now I can reliably measure my temperature and I can tell what counts as fever.
They didn't actually made my life worse, I don't want to be that dramatic, but I definitely dislike them.
Microsoft Teams :D
Smartphone is easily the worst, too distracting and addicting. Internet I could still handle when I only had access to it in certain places.