> OP treats all implementation details as equally valuable parts of "the journey,"
Do they? That wasn’t my take away from the article.
My impression was that the author missed the enjoyment of problem solving because they overused AI. Not that they think all problems are equal.
For what it’s worth though, I do agree with your more general point about AI use. And in fact that’s how I’ve used AI code generation too. “Solve the tedious problem quickly so you can focus on the interesting one”.
That backlash is already happening. Which is why we are seeing the rise in right wing extremism. People are voting for change. The problem is they’re also voting for the very establishment they’re protesting against.
I think that would lead to even less civilized relationships between politicians and parties. Politicians throwing their rivals into courts and prison is not usually an aspect of a healthy civil society.
Politicians being above the law is not an aspect of a healthy civil society.
Throwing politicians into courts and prison after due legal process for crimes they actually commit is an aspect of a healthy civil society.
If your judicial system is so corrupt that every accusation against a politician is a ruse manufactured by their enemies and no fair trial is possible, then you don't have a healthy civil society either way.
It actually seems like an interesting bit of phrasing.
I think the ad, and you, are talking about malpractice insurance and other documentation to prove that you didn’t do malpractice.
The comment you replied to is actually taking about the underlying act of malpractice.
The first line of defenses against actual malpractice is that professionals are supposed to have some self-respect and standards. But of course our society is structured against professionalism. The insurance company or hospital admin doesn’t care if you are a real professional who does the right things when nobody is looking, that’s too hard quantify.
The ad is offering the opportunity to be a professional.
What happens in other countries when the doctor amputates the wrong leg or operates on the wrong patient? Does the government pay damages arising from malpractice?
In short: in some, yes. In my country, one's private insurance company may pay damages for injuries caused by medical malpractice. This may be included in the home insurance or some health/injury/accident insurance. Otherwise and in addition, you are covered by the provider's malpractice insurance. Private medical providers must have malpractice insurance. There is also a national scheme, regulated by law, that covers all public providers, which in practice would be all the emergency departments etc.
They are. Those $10M+ lawsuit verdicts get paid one way or another, and everyone is doing unnecessary cover your ass work to be able to not be in the line of fire for that lawsuit.
As an Apple user myself, I still find it really hard to watch official Apple presentations because they’re so full of stupid adjectives that make their products sound like divine intervention when in reality they were just built to look “cool”.
I mean, I get the need to promote things in a favourable light. But Apples language sets off my “bullshit detectors” with every sentence they utter.
It’s no wonder they polarise people like a religious cult.
It’s supported by any xterm compatible terminal emulator. But like with most things in this domain, expect plenty of edge cases where it should work but doesn’t.
> Firstly it solves the age-old problem of low-contrast text, like when you `ls` a broken symlink and the red background colour is too near your current theme's foreground colour.
That’s already a solved problem. You use a terminal theme that produces high contrast against all the 16 terminal colours.
Plenty of good themes exist.
The bigger problem, in my opinion, is software that uses 8 bit or 16 bit colour ANSI codes and thus overrides your terminals theme. Personally I consider this rude behaviour but I know there is a subset of HN that disagrees with me here.
My understanding is it ensures proper contrast for all cells regardless of the type of fg/bg color (palette, 8 bit, 24 bit). So if a program uses 24 bit fg color and a bg from palette (or a default one) it would still preserve the contrast. (haven’t tested, just my impression from reading the docs)
I've never actually made a palette, but it just doesn't seem practical to me to expect theme creators to always find a contrast-safe 16 colour palettes. I would imagine that it even seriously restricts the range of themes that can be made. I can imagine that such a thing is possible for smaller palettes like say 3 colours though, but then that's not actually useful for UIs.
I think the fact is that small palettes come from the days of lower resources, not from efficient program design.
Those units weren’t unsold. They went for ridiculously low prices and everyone went nuts trying to buy one (edit: this isn’t even an exaggeration. People were buying up multiple tablets. Even buying non-discounted tablets then asking for price-matching afterwards)
Ironically this showed that there was demand for webOS. It was just priced wrongly from the outset
> Ironically this showed that there was demand for webOS. It was just priced wrongly from the outset
I think the frenzy at the discounted price showed there was demand for a 10" tablet for $99 rather than interest in WebOS. Besides the $499 iPad I don't think there were any other 10" tablets around.
People like watching TV and movies on tablets. Not everyone has space or wants a bedroom TV. Not everyone wants to watch whatever their partner or roommates are watching on a living room TV.
A 4:3 ratio screen is also much nicer than a 16:9 ratio screen for reading books and PDFs. An A4/letter paper is closer to 3:4 than 9:16 so it's way easier to read even two column pages without zooming and panning over a single page like you need to do on a 9:16 ratio screen.
> I think the frenzy at the discounted price showed there was demand for a 10" tablet for $99 rather than interest in WebOS.
That’s basically what I meant. Albeit that I was emphasising that people are also happy with something that wasn’t iOS / Android if the price was right.
Right, but HP hadn't figured out how to make and sell profitable $99 10" tablets, they had figured out how to wash their hands of unsold inventory of $500 tablets that people didn't want. They had no moat in selling cheap tablets because as soon as the hardware became affordable enough to do it for a profit anyone else could have too.
You say that but HP already have an established and mature supply chain for hardware which, isn’t common. And particularly with portable drives like laptops and PDAs. HP were in better position to capitalise than you claim with your “anyone” comment.
Their “$500 tablet” could be easily dropped to $100 because it wasn’t a particularly high end device to begin with. I mean, it did have some niceties. But there was also a hell of a lot of corners cut too.
Ironically, this was the same problem Palm faced with its WebOS phones before they sold to HP. Their phones were nice but they felt far too sluggish and basic considering their price point. I actually wanted a WebOS phone but ended up with Android (likely HTC) because you got so much more for your money.
Given HP (and Palm) has experience building portable devices like PDAs, there really isn’t any excuse for their failing in price and hardware for the WebOS tablets and phones. They already had experience in this market so should have really known better.
This is not a reason to avoid it, but to be very careful when shopping and to buy only something that is not adulterated with anything, for instance pure whey protein concentrate or isolate (when produced correctly, those are made by just filtering the whey, without adding anything, though even some of the companies that do not add sweeteners still add lecithin as emulsifier and an anti-caking agent, to be able to market the powder as "instant"; however these additives are far more benign and in far smaller quantities than sweeteners and fragrances).
I meant that the problem many atheists have is consuming enough calories rather than too many. But I guess it depends on the discipline. Triathletes, for example, would burn plenty of more calories training than boxers might.
Back when I was athletic, I definitely had a problem putting weight on rather than taking it off.
I have one of those ASCII keyboards too. They’re awesome.
Though I use mine for Phantasy Star Online (PSO) rather than Animal Crossing.
Amazingly, there are still PSO servers available which are still very active. All the more impressive when you think that Sega discontinued their official servers around a decade ago.
I've been meaning to try that out as well. I recently picked up the FlippyDrive Deluxe, which comes with an ethernet connectivity kit. I think the software only supports using it to transfer files over a local network for now, but the idea is that eventually it'll be usable for online play.
Do they? That wasn’t my take away from the article.
My impression was that the author missed the enjoyment of problem solving because they overused AI. Not that they think all problems are equal.
For what it’s worth though, I do agree with your more general point about AI use. And in fact that’s how I’ve used AI code generation too. “Solve the tedious problem quickly so you can focus on the interesting one”.
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