webdever's comments

Sure if you want to be too terse. I'd say most people would want

Start|Save|Settings|Info|Exit

At a minimum but given the style, both that and yours would be super cramped given the font size they wanted.

Further, the post is about German

Start|Speichern|Einstellungen|Info|Beenden

(no idea if those are correct)

Also, those buttons I made up. I what I remember something like 通信 being one button.

that's a common issue. I worked on a Japanese product where most of the words were 2 characters and they had made horizontal menus that fit 5 buttons across (mobile). You can imagine that didn't work with anything other than Chinese. Yea, they had to redsign.

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In the hope that someone else has the same issue as I do and knows a solution - for me, my eyes, I have a double image. It moves. I have 12 pairs of glasses I've gotten from 3 "doctors" and several visits to places like Warby Parker, Jins, ZOff.

In all cases, all the doctor did was stick me in the machine, read off the numbers, give me some glasses. They work 10% of the time. I don't mean one in 10 doctors gave me good glasses. I mean on Tuesday pair #3 works. On Wednesday pair #7 worked at 10am but then stopped working pair #11 worked at 5pm. More often than not, no pairs work.

I feel like I need some kind of adjustable lenses (I'm imagining something steampunk with multiple lenses or a dial so I can dial in what works AT THIS MOMENT) but AFAICT no such thing exists

Does any one else have this issue?

Note: I have no pain

Anecdotes

(1) A doctor in SF put me in the machines, measured my eyes, made me some glasses. I come back a week later and using them is worse than not using them. I tell them they don't work. They get upset and reprimand me. Finally they give in. Make a new appointment. A week later doctor sees me, makes a new prescription, orders glasses, a week later the same, using them is worse then not.

Again they get angry an berate me. They give my some BS about I should take them home and let your eyes get used to them. I respond, if that's the case then the doctor could not make a prescription with his machine because I'd need to take the machine home to "let my eyes get used them" before he'd know if it was working.

Anyway, they finally let me make another appointment. the doctor measures and claims he knows what must have happened (didn't tell me) and orders another pair. A week later I check. These ones are marginally better than than not wearing anything AT THAT MOMENT. It take them home, every time I try to use them they're worse than not using them. (oh, and they apparently charged the eye insurance $999)

(2) My previous SF doctor I had a similar experience in that their glasses didn't work. They didn't berate me. They re-ordered once. I was shy and didn't complain the second time even though they were no good and I never used them.

(3) I've bought lots of glasses at Jins (Japan) - They have fully automated machines for measurement. I've got 2 pairs from them that help the most often, though not always.

(4) Last time I bought glasses I was at ZOff in Japan (because the wait for Jins was too long). The "doctor" their claimed my eyes were fairly good - meaning the images are clear, it's only the double vision that's the issue (letters look like there's a ghost 15% as bright/dark) about 4cm down from the actual letters)

When I'm walking around S.E. Asia and it's 90 degrees and humid I care about every extra gram.

Even an Air is too heavy IMO compared to say an LG Gram. But, I need the specs and the screen so I lug around a MacBook Pro 16" at 4.6lbs - often I have to lug around 2, my corp one and my personal one.

Given an iPad Pro 13" is 1.3lbs they "could" (for some definition of "could") make a 16" device with keyboard closer to 2 lbs.

As others have said, they do this on purpose. It's the same with memory. I'd probably switch from a Pro to an Air if I could get 64gig ram (for LLM work) but they'd rather charge me $4800 instead of ~$3200 (guessing the price given the top end 32gig Air is $2800)

It's frustrating because I'd prefer a lighter device. In fact, even the Air isn't that light compared to its competition.

I'd happily pay +$500 ($5300) for Macbook Air PRO if it was effectively the same specs as Macbook Pro but 1.5lbs lighter.

> it's amazing to use Claude to prompt an app into existence, and pretty frustrating when that app doesn't work right and Claude is all thumbs fixing the problem.

Such an in interesting sentence. App that doesn't work doesn't seem like it's yet come into existence.

This has been my (limited) experience so far. I haven't been able to get an AI/LLM to help me build an app. Even React apps it fails at. I have been able to get an LLM to help with coding questions similar to Stack Overflow questions though (though not always)

I tend to agree but, playing devil's advocate, is this true for other roles? Does a movie director need to know how to build sets? How to sew costumes? How to use Blender/Maya/Houdini? My manager can code, used to code, sometimes does code, but they aren't familiar with their team's current work.

Like imagine you were a coding manager 10 years ago with AI experience. Sometime over the last 10 years your team does AI infra. You, as a manager and as an IC, have zero AI experience (you've never trained a model, never used a trained model, never using any of the various AI frameworks). Are you still okay to manage this team or should you be replaced with someone who does have that experience?

I've used Downcast forever. No complaints. No idea how it compares to Overcast.

It's not electron, but it is a WebKit view (HTML based)

So is the App store on all platforms AFAICT.

To pile on, though can't repo on demand, sometime in January, Airplay between Mac and AppleTV just started randomly disconnecting.

As someone who works on both I don't notice a difference. Mac sucks just as much as Windows (or visa versa). There's things each does better and things each does worse.

No,

(1) I'm not setting up your server to repo the issue. I have no idea what all that code is going to do. Is it going to try to pown my machine?

(2) No, I'm not going to use your server as a repo. I have no idea you aren't updating it every 5 minutes with a new version.

There's a reason developers ask for an MCVE (Minimal complete verifiable example)

https://www.google.com/search?q=MCVE

It's not unreasonable to ask for one. Sorry if that sucks for you because it's difficult for you pair down your code but that's where we are. Try it on the other side and you'll start to get it.

subdomains are not always the same origin. See "public suffix list". For an example think of abc.github.io vs def.github.io

I didn't get the part at the end about trusting browsers. As a website owner you can't rely on browers as hackers don't have to use a browser to send requests and read responses