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Unlike address bars in other OS file managers: - Finder Go To does not provide suggestions/completions (unless there is only one single match in the current folder, it'll complete the name of that) - Finder Go To does not respect the current directory (it always uses `~/Library`) making relative navigation tedious - It's an entirely separate action and UX flow for absolutely no good reason

In any other OS one can open the file manager, press Ctrl+L and start typing a path, pressing tab at any point to get contextual completion suggestions.

> ⌥⌘P

Those are breadcrumbs, not an address bar. Note the fact you cannot type or paste a path into it, as is a core feature in practically every file manager in every other OS. There is no apparent difference to breaking this convention, beyond impairing users' workflows. Finder also has the "Go to" dialogue, but again, it is a functionally inferior solution.

There is absolutely no good reason for these design choices other than to "be different for the sake of it" at the expense of good UX

Steam Controllers support both WiFi and Bluetooth connections, and yet Stadia does not support them

Yeah I've been self-learning 3D "the hard way" and have been really enjoying it.

Keeping it as low-level as possible, I'm using CycleJS for dataflow management and Regl.js for drawing via a CycleJS-Regl.js driver.

All state is explicitly managed observables/streams in CycleJS, which maps out to Regl.js draw commands, which are basically raw frag/vert shaders with some bindings mapping my state from CycleJS to appropriate uniforms/attributes.

I probably would be able to produce some usable output much faster if I used an engine like Unity or a framework like Three.js, but I feel like I would have missed out on gaining so much knowledge by only working with high-level abstractions and never having to even touch GLSL code.

> None of this is meant to say macOS is garbage or anything like that.

I think an OS as prolific as macOS having such shit UX kind of implies it is garbage though.

The year is 2020 and macOS still doesn't have a location/address bar in Finder.

Basic native UI interfaces still completely lack keyboard controls.

Window snapping is still non-existent.

I understand Apple strive to be different, but lacking these basic features (among many others) makes macOS have an arguably inferior workflow to Windows or Linux/BSD DEs.

Excluding these things are not unique and quirky subjective design choices Apple can continue get away with. They are baseline expectations for a workstation computing environment to meet, which macOS does not. The way I see it, macOS is increasingly falling behind in UX. Not only have Apple failed to make their own improvements and innovations; they've failed to keep pace with Microsoft and the Open Source community.

Posted from my 2019 MacBook Pro

As someone who dropped out of highscool after 10th grade and never went to university/college one great way I've found for learning mathematics without any foundational basis is trying to learn CG/3D programming.

I always felt like maths was too abstract to keep me engaged, but when the output of your work is immediately observable visually it becomes a lot more engaging. There's just something so much more satisfying being able to "see" the results.

Plus as a self-taught programmer, I find it much easier to learn front-to-back by deciding on a desired outcome and working towards it, rather than progressively building up abstract fundamental skills that can later be combined to achieve a desired outcome (which is essentially the traditional academia path for learning STEM fields)

I can't wait for this situation to escalate to the point where Riot are trying to sell their own bespoke hardware, required to play their games

> This person said something I don't like, guess I had better behave like a gatekeeper while hypocritically accusing them of being one

This is you right now

Great, yet another Google messaging service I can be disappointed about when they randomly decide to shut it down.

I've seen people saying elsewhere this story was shared that they lived in the area and replied to the CL post, the lady turned out to be some crazy nutjob and it became apparent that there were very good reasons that she had nobody to spend Christmas with.

Just because you've forgiven someone for being a shit human doesn't mean you need to welcome them back into your life with open arms. Forgiveness just means to let go of any resentment, it doesn't mean you can't learn from your lessons and change who you choose to interact with

Exactly this.

Statistically the most common cause of car crashes is driver fatigue.

Forcing undivided attention toward a boring subject for prolonged periods always results in cognitive fatigue.

I guarantee fatigue would be a similarly common occurrence in plane crashes caused by pilot error.

Either our planes should be flying themselves, or our pilots should be given cocaine before takeoff

Even more incredible, this guy has a patent on recharging mobile devices? Filed in 2012?! Does the US patent office even read submissions before approving them? Or are they just dinosaurs who have never even used a mobile phone up to 2012?

https://patents.google.com/patent/US9448603B2/en?inventor=Le...

I'd like to point out that the patent isn't even relevant and this lawsuit will probably get thrown out straight away, copied from the article comments, the patent specifies:

> An image-capturing mobile device, comprising Shotwell is not an image-capturing device.

Gonna take a wild guess that anyone reading HN probably hasn't used IE in the last decade aside from the purpose of downloading another browser

> IMHO Wordpress itself is grossly undervalued.

It's kind of hard to put a monetary value on a product that is free

While it's true that there are clear psychological effects to using social media habitually, I don't think just because someone may be dependent on something to be happy means the provider has any obligations to continue service.

There is a similar dopamine response cycle with gambling addicts, but a casino barring an addict for the safety of themselves and other customers is hardly seen as "unfair" or unethical regardless of how the banned person feels, because similar to with social media bans, it is generally seen as being for the benefit of the community and even the banned members themselves.

A banned FB addict might spiral into depression just like a barred gambling addict, but in both cases if anything the ban is helping the person face and overcome their addiction rather than continued service which would be enabling or perpetuating their addiction.

> This is not only censorship but false advertising

Proprietary platforms are under no obligation to host your content. Choosing to deny access or full use of their products to you isn't "censorship"

Sorry I meant I don't see the appeal in contrast to using CSS in JS solutions, BEM clearly offers better separation of concerns compared to traditional CSS, but this problem is already solved when using CSS in JS, because you explicitly import the styles you want to apply to an element, having to line up class names in your CSS and DOM is a non-issue as the classnames are autogenerated

Despite trying using it a few times I've never seen the appeal in BEM, it's just bringing excessive and redundant verbosity to CSS class names as well as introducing unnecessary complexity in maintenance (e.g. if you change a class's name you need to also need to apply the change to any derivative class names)