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New comment by djaro in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

djaro — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:05:15 +0000

My touchpad doesn't work anymore. Why is it so difficult to connect a bluetooth mouse without a mouse? The "mouse detected, want to connect?" notification shows up ON THE SCREEN but I need to enter a bunch of shortcuts and navigate through multiple items just to be able to click yes.

New comment by djaro in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

djaro — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:02:42 +0000

My touchpad broke and I couldnt download the touchpad driver to fix it on the spot because there was no way to get to the download button with tab and enter, you had to click it.

New comment by djaro in "Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology"

djaro — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:01:19 +0000

Autism is a disability. The function of the brain to normally process social cues is broken. In the same way someone who is blind has broken vision, someone in a wheelchair has broken legs, and someone with ADHD has broken executive function.

This isnt a moral judgement, theres nothing wrong with being disabled, but it remaims a disability that many people struggle due to.

New comment by djaro in "Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology"

djaro — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:55:47 +0000

I mean, it's classified as a disability for a good reason.

I would guess that even if this platform has more autistic people due to being tech focused, autistic tech nerds and programmers are on the extreme end of high-functioning. Many low-functioning autistic people will never be able to have a job or live by themselves.

This is the same issue as high-functioning ADHD'ers saying "ADHD is my superpower", meanwhile people with severe ADHD do significantly worse than the general population in basically any metric, up to having a lower life expectancy.

This isnt to say its morally bad, theres nothing wrong with being autistic or having ADHD, but it is a disability. Just like someone who's deaf can live a totally happy life but still be disabled because they are not able to hear, someone with autism is disabled because they are not able to process social cues at the same speed, even if they are a great person and have a good life.

New comment by djaro in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

djaro — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:00:55 +0000

This is also why apps like Duolingo don't work for most users. They want to turn language learning into a fun, effortless game but effortless is fundamentally incompatible with learning.

Learning is uncomfortable. Reading a difficult (for you) text in a language you don't understand is exhausting and confusing. But that is where improvement happens.

Its even worse since Duolingo added a life system (not sure if they still use it), where you were only allowed to make 3 mistakes before having to recharge your energy. If you get everything right, you are not learning, you SHOULD be making mistakes constantly. That shows you're actually being challenged.

New comment by djaro in "Devtools must be open source"

djaro — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:48:32 +0000

It is crazy how much of the tech industry - one of the biggest industries on Earth - still uses so much volunteer labor. Its crazy because in no other industry would people expect you to not only give away your stuff for free but do it in such a way anyone else can copy your stuff and edit it.

New comment by djaro in "How to Exist"

djaro — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:23:07 +0000

Too much self-awareness can cause you to become blind to the experiential part of life.

Like, when you're at a party, not having fun, but instead thinking: "I am drinking alcohol to lower my social inhibitions at the cost of worse sleep and long-term health benefits, because I think in the long run the possible connections made here and the subsequent rise in social status will be worth it"

New comment by djaro in "How to Exist"

djaro — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:20:20 +0000

It's interesting how this compulsion to work spread even to people that don't need to do it. Just look at how many modern-day billionaires are still flaunting how many hours they work each week. Up to the modern era, work was not seen as an inherent virtue, and even something to be avoided. Even well into the modern era, Teddy Roosevelt went on multi day camping trips completely unconnected from civilization. Just imagine a world leader wanting to do that now.

New comment by djaro in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

djaro — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:07:23 +0000

I hope they kill the internet. Mandatory ID scans might be the last push I need to stop wasting my time on Reddit.

New comment by djaro in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

djaro — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:41:48 +0000

Because children shouldn't be the ones paying for the crime of having bad parents. Children should be safe regardless of what the parents do, because they're independent people and not property.

New comment by djaro in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

djaro — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:40:57 +0000

Because we live in a society and trillion dollar companies exploiting children for the crime of having negligent parents is bad.

The aim here is to protect the children. "Just let parents protect them" doesn't work when there's millions of parents that won't care.

New comment by djaro in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

djaro — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:58:08 +0000

Maybe this is because video games can always add more features. Realistically, what useful feature could even be added to Word? I want to write text. It lets me write text. Program done. I dont see why Word would ever need an update other than maintenance or a security patch.

New comment by djaro in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

djaro — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:08:14 +0000

Wouldnt this be countered by the opposing country running the same prompt on themselves first and fixing all the flaws? One country having this is a cyber superweapon but every country having it essentially solves cyber security.

New comment by djaro in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

djaro — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:09:57 +0000

This doesnt work when all of his friends are playing Roblox and play each others games on there

New comment by djaro in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

djaro — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:03:38 +0000

but the other kids are playing roblox, not minecraft

New comment by djaro in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

djaro — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:08:32 +0000

Books are not nearly as addictive as social media though.

New comment by djaro in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

djaro — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:55:49 +0000

I would say when you start hiring people for monthly salaries rather than for specific tasks.

New comment by djaro in "FAANG Simulator"

djaro — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:14:01 +0000

The median household income in the US is like 83K, which means half of all households survive with less than that. And most households have two earners.

Even New York City has a median household income of ~80K. Half of all households in NYC survive on that.

New comment by djaro in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

djaro — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:06:53 +0000

If a native speaker didn't pass a C2 exam, it's not because they don't understand the language well enough, it's because they are bad at reading/writing as a skill and might make e.g. spelling mistakes.

Any native speaker will still be far beyond C2 when it comes to intuitively understanding a language and using it. No native speaker will ever fail the oral part of a C2 exam, unless they have to talk about a topic they don't know, which would be a case of a lack of knowledge, not a lack of language proficiency.

New comment by djaro in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

djaro — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:57:08 +0000

The thing that makes this illogical to me is that once you reach basic fluency, you stop needing to study since you will now be automatically improving your language skills every time you hold a conversation, read a newspaper, watch a television program, etc. It's genuinely just the relatively small initial hurdle towards ~B1 that is a slog, but after that, you never have to actively study again if you don't want to.