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New comment by wtetzner in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

wtetzner — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:44:24 +0000

Why would you ever disable paste? It can only make it more likely that the user will make a mistake (and hate you for making the form harder to fill out).

New comment by wtetzner in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

wtetzner — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:34:26 +0000

> Hover over the green button in the top left of the window.

Weirdly it still doesn't quite do what I want. It leaves a gap around the edge of the window for some reason.

New comment by wtetzner in "Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]"

wtetzner — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:53:58 +0000

AI models in general seem to get different assembly languages mixed up easily.

New comment by wtetzner in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

wtetzner — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:06:44 +0000

Right, but the whole point of this thread is that the advantage Windows has is that it comes pre-installed.

New comment by wtetzner in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

wtetzner — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:04:16 +0000

I'm not sure I understand what your point is...

Without Windows they probably would have been written for whatever else was most popular instead.

New comment by wtetzner in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

wtetzner — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:41:47 +0000

If it came pre-installed I don't see what the difference would be. Many people don't know how to do anything other than launch certain applications on Windows either.

New comment by wtetzner in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

wtetzner — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:39:07 +0000

Some of which run better on Linux than Windows.

New comment by wtetzner in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

wtetzner — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:16:08 +0000

It's not though, unless the new feature and existing features continue to exist as disjoint things. If the new feature subsumes the old ones, then you've reduced the number of features in the language.

New comment by wtetzner in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

wtetzner — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:38:26 +0000

Can you explain how this is relevant here?

New comment by wtetzner in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

wtetzner — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:52:38 +0000

I think there's still value in generic AST-level operations. Like expand selection and shrink selection. Or select around the current node vs select inside (whatever that means for the current node type).

New comment by wtetzner in "The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usability engineering (1996)"

wtetzner — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:41:45 +0000

We've had clear, legible printer icons for decades.

New comment by wtetzner in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

wtetzner — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:46:58 +0000

Especially now that they've made RAM so expensive.

New comment by wtetzner in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

wtetzner — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:34:07 +0000

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be easy to understand what studies are actually demonstrating, based on how often you see people making giant leaps to conclusions that don't really follow from study results.

New comment by wtetzner in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

wtetzner — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:31:15 +0000

> It is not something that helps anything at all physically.

That's a pretty strong claim to make.

New comment by wtetzner in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

wtetzner — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:26:48 +0000

Regardless of "health benefits", the phrase "you can feel" seems pretty relevant when it comes to what someone finds comfortable.

New comment by wtetzner in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

wtetzner — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:24:10 +0000

> they've done a grand job of royally fucking up the colors of whatever's on screen.

Pretty sure that's the point?

New comment by wtetzner in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

wtetzner — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:04:51 +0000

> Why does Rust standard library use libc?

Because that's the stable public interface provided by pretty much every OS except Linux. On Linux, if you don't want to depend on the OS-supplied libc, you can use musl.

New comment by wtetzner in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

wtetzner — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:01:32 +0000

I don't think GP is arguing that's the best way to design an OS, just that interfacing with non-Linux Unixes is best done via libc, because that's the stable public interface.

New comment by wtetzner in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

wtetzner — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:38:24 +0000

This is a very flawed analogy.

New comment by wtetzner in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

wtetzner — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:29:40 +0000

Since when do we measure productivity by lines of code?