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Good points on using proper CSV tooling 100%; so that’s why the disclaimer “more often than not” BTW I just realized that I was omitting the field separator ‘-F,’ actually. For those pesky nested comm…

Not on “computer” but some such in your pipeline should be good enough more often than not? awk -v OFS='\t' '{$1=$1; print}' | column -t

What would it need so the US government takes over the company and puts the engineers in charge? Hadn't NASA been run like that at least until some point in the 80s or so? I don't know about…

Indeed looks terrible and as someone in the market for many of those UHD Blu-ray re-scans (yet again after lower res versions) this is almost uniformly unacceptable. “When you finally do see a piece o…

I think it has more to do with the success of the language standardization effort. AFAIK being very serious about that was a declared goal historically; nation states in general not that old etc, et…

Native German speaker from Austria here who has been living in Quebec for many years. I had to study and pass my exams in standard French with a Parisian institution. This is made obligatory by the Qu…

IIRC Kenta Cho had quite a few of his games written in D. https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/ …

I remember full well that music was much richer to me until maybe my mid 20s. It would be amazing to get that back somehow.

Thankfully, by now we put air purifiers and generally good HVAC solutions everywhere.

Interesting that social media's gamification “engagement” really seems to be influencing academia at this point. Also terrible news about LinkedIn apparently becoming an escape hatch? Has LinkedI…

Also continuing the trend of unaccountability at least on a personal level. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_game_(phrase) …

Nice guerilla marketing attempt MSFT :P

I’d guess they have meanwhile unlocked “bigger war chest” to try see how far they can scale up their process? IIRC they actually said they don’t know if it will. Just like last time. Optimization will…

Yeah I was never above ~180-200GB used storage on my 256GB iPhone X. I splurged on that one as usual. Sorry ranting, not aimed at your comment at all just as I came back to this context: So I'm d…

It’s probably fully deterministic in that case. It was bought summer 2015 and the SSD intermittently started to have write errors end of 2019 so 4.5 years. Were you running a “hackintosh” on that one…

It’s not in my experience. “Normal users” are starting to run into this issue as I can anecdotally pass along (browsing, google suite, slight photoshop use, etc). I actually had lots of reservations b…

Ted Nelson’s “intertwingularity” isn’t far off from the data entry problem described. He argues for universal data access where duplication is obsolete. Imagine form data as a single, linkable object …

As someone who immediately deactivates most Tesla features whenever I rent one I’d like to understand what’s the allure of FSD in particular? Do you feel like you are able to read HN while on the road…

I remember when someone at CCC (I think) coined the synonymous “Ortungswanze” <> smartphone - and it got way worse since that. https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&…

Open source / homebrew hardware will be the only way out of this.

Reddit is an especially appalling platform and the only thing more appalling than that is their doubling down on “app vs web” all the while having terrible UX and performance as you say. Something som…

How does software do this usually? :) I guess it’s a combination of heavy multitasking / using it for work + private plus - again - constant-drum of increasingly bloaty websites and applications …

OOM kills are basically the sole reason for me to upgrade iPhones. Nothing more annoying than force-reloaded/lost state in/between apps while on-the-go and under tight time constraints. Also…

Agreed, especially the increasing greediness with regards to RAM and corresponding upselling is unfortunately real at this point. I just upgraded to the iPhone 15 Pro Max because of the 8GB RAM and I …