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New comment by dfunckt in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dfunckt — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:28:19 +0000

You can quickly get the "lay of the land" and discover primary sources which you can study. Learning from the AI, I agree, is rife with landmines.

New comment by dfunckt in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

dfunckt — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:31:57 +0000

Exactly, plus you now have a new superpower with AI — the ability to dig into and ramp up expertise in mostly any domain. I’d say the article gets it backwards.

New comment by dfunckt in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

dfunckt — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:36:46 +0000

You’re right, I never noticed!

This actually also explains why I couldn’t change my default card the other day - I must have been in that screen that opens from the button shortcut.

New comment by dfunckt in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

dfunckt — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:59:43 +0000

Wait, what? Double-clicking will prompt for Face ID to open your default card for oayment, and from there you swipe down to see the stack — which I suppose is the screen you’re looking for.

New comment by dfunckt in "How I estimate work"

dfunckt — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:57:11 +0000

Exactly. The principle to go by for estimates is finding a balance between time/scope/cost, and figuring out which aspects of the context affect which dimension is the first step.

New comment by dfunckt in "Elasticsearch was never a database"

dfunckt — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:26:47 +0000

I’ve no experience with Elastic but what they’re getting at I think is indexes in Elastic is actually your data because that’s all it does due to the purpose it was built for, whereas in Postgres indexes are, well, indexes — that is, derived data, not the source of truth.

New comment by dfunckt in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

dfunckt — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:19:57 +0000

Agreed. I think you may be too generous with hubris -- that requires agency, but it may just be incompetence. I don't generally like the "old days" argument, but this is consistent with overall trends -- it's frivolous.

New comment by dfunckt in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

dfunckt — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:38:41 +0000

What feels plausible to me is changing the underlying 19x19 px control would break layout of many existing apps, and the design team was hell bent that window corners had to be that round. I’d say it’s simply form over function, and that likely a meta-level argument about user empowerment or whatnot won.

New comment by dfunckt in "How the music industry learned to love piracy"

dfunckt — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:25:29 +0000

I agree with much of your comment on what it takes to succeed commercially in today's music scene, but it also nails why modern (popular) music is so same-y and uninteresting -- just the "logisistics" requirements only fit particular kinds of artists.

New comment by dfunckt in "Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro"

dfunckt — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 08:30:35 +0000

Feels like a missed opportunity they didn’t design the Mac Studio part of the Mac Pro as a replaceable module you could upgrade every other year. Or buy the non-Studio part to upgrade your Mac Studio.

New comment by dfunckt in "CSS Modules"

dfunckt — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 10:33:25 +0000

Right, but what about the name? This isn't Cascading Style Sheets any more. Hmm let's see, Composable Style Sheets. There. Oh, wait...