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New comment by sevenseacat in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

sevenseacat — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:40 +0000

This is not correct. You got points for doing reviews, no matter which option you chose in the review (except for skipping it obviously).

New comment by sevenseacat in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

sevenseacat — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:42:00 +0000

This doesn't make sense to me, because anyone could answer questions. You only ever needed 1 reputation to do so, which you got on signup.

New comment by sevenseacat in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

sevenseacat — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:32:51 +0000

See this kind of bullshit is what drove people actually providing the answers away.

And if no-one is answering the questions, people will stop asking them.

New comment by sevenseacat in "StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month"

sevenseacat — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:30:32 +0000

Same sort of numbers, same sort of story here...

New comment by sevenseacat in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

sevenseacat — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:18:07 +0000

it literally comes in black or silver?

New comment by sevenseacat in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

sevenseacat — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:17:16 +0000

if there was a purple or teal one I would buy it in a heartbeat. Hell, even navy.

New comment by sevenseacat in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

sevenseacat — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:16:26 +0000

I can imagine the palm area on either side of the touchpad would get pretty funky too. On my space grey MBP its visibly worn there.

New comment by sevenseacat in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

sevenseacat — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:14:21 +0000

same

New comment by sevenseacat in "CSS-Tricks has a new owner"

sevenseacat — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:55:18 +0000

And Tailwind joining Shopify made quite a few people really look at Tailwind and say ... do we really need this after all?

New comment by sevenseacat in "The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI"

sevenseacat — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:24:49 +0000

I absolutely question the attention to detail and work ethic of anyone working on five issues at once, let alone "far more".

New comment by sevenseacat in "Show HN: Encarta 95 Web"

sevenseacat — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:20:21 +0000

Mind Maze yesssssssssssss

New comment by sevenseacat in "The new iPad mini"

sevenseacat — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:08:46 +0000

Starting at $1,099 AUD. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

edit: That's more than a MacBook Neo, they're only $1,049!

New comment by sevenseacat in "Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you bought"

sevenseacat — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:18:17 +0000

Everyone is instead digging into the big backlogs they accumulated in previous generations

New comment by sevenseacat in "How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving"

sevenseacat — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:10:06 +0000

I think its because the constant bullshitting is behaviour that is so foreign to us, we feel a curiosity about it, a need to understand it.

New comment by sevenseacat in "The Origin Story of Kid Pix"

sevenseacat — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:53:23 +0000

oh man I loved Kid Pix in like grade 1!

New comment by sevenseacat in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

sevenseacat — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:48:15 +0000

I mean, I've not heard much good about support from Shopify in the case of dodgy merchants

New comment by sevenseacat in "Where is all the new, good software?"

sevenseacat — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:53:38 +0000

There are so many stupid little bugs in software these days that should be straightforward to fix, but just aren't fixed. Visual quirks and rendering issues. Notification bells that don't clear properly. Formatting problems. And vibecoded apps like Claude Code themselves are the biggest perpetrators.

New comment by sevenseacat in "Where is all the new, good software?"

sevenseacat — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:50:22 +0000

You've also skipped the 1 hour reviewing code becoming 2-3 hours, or even more.

New comment by sevenseacat in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

sevenseacat — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:58:21 +0000

even at API rates, that's an absolute insane amount

New comment by sevenseacat in "Sorry, I'm in a meeting"

sevenseacat — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:37:38 +0000

I had to do this on a previous project, otherwise people would just book meetings right until they closed (timezone differences...)