Are the admins officially letting this community exist, or have they just not responded about this? I realize it’d probably only been on their radar for hours, and the community is only 4 days old. But if they’re okay with this community, I’m going to be worried.

I hate it. I really enjoy programming, and don’t enjoy social niceties. And I definitely don’t enjoy someone looking over my shoulder all the time.

So that leads to 2 situations: I’m programming, but someone is looking over my shoulder and stopping me constantly (or doing nothing), or I’m watching someone else program and constantly frustrated that it’s not me.

Even during an emergency I’m often better off just doing my thing solo, and the other person using their own methods to investigate and fix the problem. Chat is still available to share information and progress without it being a constant annoyance.

The only thing I think it’s really good for is learning to program, and unless the people are the same level, it’s probably only good for 1 of them.

I think this is a well-intentioned but horrible idea. I’d much rather have a benevolent dictator who is willing to listen to suggestions than someone who is controlled by whatever majority of users is voting today.

I hated this when streaming services and cable providers did it, and I hate it here, too. I hope you get an answer to this.

Next to the time (11h) I see a pencil icon that says when your post was created, and when it was modified.

I’ve used a few different flavors of Linux, and I now use a System76 with Pop OS for work, and I’m quite happy with it. I don’t feel any need to change to anything else.

I think the dock isn’t also a standalone speaker because of not just cost, but also logistics. I think it’s a lot more complicated to deal with what’s doing what when you need to deal with the tablet being docked or not because when it’s docked, they basically need to act like a single device (like a TV), but when it’s not they need to do their own thing independently.

I think if I wanted to use them independently, I’d just have a charging dock for the tablet, and a speaker. And then I wouldn’t have to try to figure out what it should do in each configuration.

But I also think I must not quite be the target market for this, because it hasn’t interested me much at all. I already have tablets, laptops, speakers, and even a Nest display in the kitchen that I got for free and basically don’t use except as a speaker. I can’t really see this improving my life.

I had found another extension, but when I enabled it for all sites, it make my browser slower, so I removed it again. It also sometimes failed to detect the community link. I ended up using a bookmarklet instead. That way, it doesn’t have to parse the page, and it can never fail to parse the page… It just rewrites the URL.

I like the color of the first one, but the second one has a lot of atmosphere that the first doesn’t. Hopefully neither of them are final, or that’s just a bad screenshot for the second one.

I think there’s a bit of language confusion in the article there (‘search engine’ etc), but I’m very interested to see if they make Google allow other app stores to act like first-class citizens, instead of heavily restricting them, even if the user does everything they can to allow them to install and maintain apps.

As for Apple… I would probably have been an iPhone owner long ago if they weren’t so heavily restricted. I like their products, just not their refusal to allow apps that didn’t come from their store.

I think it’ll depend on how expensive it is to maintain the existing features under the new EU law. My understanding is that the phones are thinner (maybe lighter) and more easily waterproofed because of the current design. If it costs more to keep those features with a replaceable battery, they might split the market rather than try to charge higher prices in the other markets. They might even just drop those features in the EU rather than raise prices.

It’s definitely going to be interesting to see what they do.

They are really intent on not listening to the community, aren’t they? They experienced a boom with all the changes they made for Covid, and they hit a slump when they clawed those things back. Their response is to add other features instead?

If they’d concentrate on making the game easier and more fun to play, they’d be better off. Obviously it’s possible to go too far with that and make the game pointless, but I think it’s pretty clear they are nowhere near that point.

The current AI doesn’t produce working software on the first try. It has to be guided into it, and still requires a decent programmer to end up with a decent product at the end.

Even if the AI got it correct the first time, the initial prompt is unlikely to be correct, for multiple reasons.

This all means that AI can merely assists decent programmers, it can’t replace them. It can speed them up, even if only by taking a lot of the typing out of the equation. But it can’t replace them.

AI could theoretically reduce the number of programmers in a company, but my experience has been that the company has a budget for programmers, and that’s what they’ll pay for. I’ve never cleared my to-do list at work, and I can no longer imagine it actually happening, no matter how much help the computer gives me.

I remain unconcerned about AI taking programming jobs.

I’m not using an app, but rather the site directly on a PC. I’ve been pretty happy with the experience so far, and it’s become something that I check regularly now. I’m looking forward to the communities becoming larger and having more content.

Of course, I’m also looking forward to the mobile experience improving for others, too.

Apparently this update changes what you lose when you die. By default now, you keep equipment, but lose items. There’s also an option in the menu to keep everything, or nothing, as you like.

It doesn’t matter how often we tell people not to feed the trolls, there’s always someone who feeds even the most obvious troll. :(