MainlyMortal's comments

This is exactly the type of thing I'm talking about and why I'm convinced it's about the metrics/engagement boosting. I don't believe for a second that real people are using chatgpt/others for rewording real thoughts even from another language because those phrases are not natural even in translation. You'll also notice in the original post that that it always ends with a question that encourage replies. If the original poster even bothers to reply it's always the "you're right" at the beginning and then rephrasing the reply. Once you've seen it you can't unsee it.

Have you seen Reddit recently? Every single subreddit is full of AI posts with AI replies. I'm actually convinced a large majority of that is Reddit themselves artificially boosting their engagement metrics. The saddest part is that the engagement makes it obvious that the general population can't differentiate between AI and real humans even with the telltale signs.

I upvoted you because you were unfairly downvoted. I don't even use a Mac any more after 20 years of exclusively using them but it's actually hilarious how bad magit is compared to this. It's all well and good making the most of limitations that are self imposed but people need to remember to look outside their own bubble.

Your comment about the docs is the real reason .NET/C#/F# isn't gaining any new users. The dotnet team should actually be embarrassed about this but it's clear they don't care so neither will anyone else. It's 100% quantity (slop) over quality for Microsoft. Their website and guides are terrible and irrelevant for both new and experienced devs.

Modern C# is probably the best general purpose language out there with the best tooling along with the dotnet framework. Too bad the guides and public information all align with the latest trends Microsoft are pushing to appear relevant. Blazor, MAUI, Aspire e.t.c. are all distractions to maintain the appearance of being modern. None of which are production ready or actually good for that matter.

Back to my original point. If you want to create a new web app then you're REALLY pushed to use Blazor, which is confusing, has many flaws, is basically alpha and is just a bad idea in general. For some reason you're shown a laughably simple guide spread over eight pages which could be a single page. You finish the "guide" and so you go to the "documentation". That documentation page is full of buzzwords that confuses new developers and belittles old developers. The end of this page links back to the pathetic guide. It's seriously like this for everything they do. There's tiny little nuggets of information scattered over thousands of useless pages.

I may sound blunt but it's a fantastic technology ruined by terrible management, poor communication and clearly the worst developer relations team any tech company has ever assembled. How can any company with this much money, this much recognition and this great of a technology fumble it so badly. Well... I actually do know why and it's obvious to anyone capable of critical thinking.

It's honestly the best of the lot but slept on in these parts because of being Windows only. KDE started to clone this as a native feature but it seems to be abandoned. Story of linux I guess.

I really, really can't recommend PowerToys enough.

I think what most people, including tiling people, would actually want without realising it is Divvy (macOS)/gTile (gnome)/PowerToys (Windows).

A regular floating window manager but you can move any floating window into a tiled window based on a grid of potential locations.

It's hard to explain in words but look any of them up and it's the best no-compromise solution for everyone.

U.K. view here... and I'd guess this applies the the majority of the world too.

I was born in, grew up in and currently live in a location that the HN community never even thinks about. Most people in here have no idea of how the regular 99% live and then base their whole world view on expensive capital cities and hold the strangest views of housing.

I bought my current house in the 2010s, my mortgage is still half the price of renting and I could manage to pay for everything by myself even if I were on a minimum wage. The problem isn't anything to do with housing it's to do with your own warped view on the world.

I don't say this to be contrarian or to necessarily make a point. I want you to look up the minimum wage of your country and think about how literally everyone else happily lives without thinking twice about these things. You all live a massively privileged life yet these things concern you more than they should.

It's quite ironic, or rather unfortunate, that recently we're seeing the opposite problem in the Elixir community.

A lot of the big famous companies used in case studies about how Elixir and Phoenix are amazing, save money, save resources, save development time etc. are starting to abandon the stack for technically worse solutions. And for no good reason other than coming from management it seems.

I agree that it's a great platform for rewrites in that once you have a working solution, and you know the bottlenecks, then you understand how to break it up to make it concurrent, parallel and distributed with minimal effort.

I also think that it's a great prototype language too, though. You can get up and running just as fast as Ruby on Rails for like 99% of projects. Or at least used to be able to. I have a rant about the last five years of Phoenix churn being responsible for the low adoption of Elixir but that's for another day.

I'm not going to pretend to know a lot about networking but I use Netgear's Orbi routers and receivers. I've tried MANY different router and powerline adapter brands and nothing even comes close. I know it has something to do with using a proprietary communication protocol but it honestly works so well that I just accept it as magic and live my life.