> For apps that run locally—no servers, no cloud costs—subscriptions make no sense anymore

Never did tbh. These apps should be one time purchases at best.

Why don’t third party keyboards take advantage of this situation? Why hasn’t Google updated Gboard on the App store in years?

What about Ubuntu though? I haven't used used Ubuntu since I switched to MacOS a few years back. But I would suggest that to even non-IT people

It's not only about the happy path working, it's also about the user being able to figure out the sad path.

The recently sunsetted Reddit public chat was a good example. They were tied to a subreddit, so only people with some shared interest came together. And the moderators could set an entry barrier based on karma. And you stood to lose your reddit account if you misbehaved in a public chat

I understand and appreciate Reddit’s approach.

On the other hand, I think there might be a way to solve this problem for live anonymous chat in a way that doesn’t rely on threats of “punishment” or “banning”.

I think most people looking at this problem don’t appreciate how much realtime information can be calculated from the event stream and how that information can be leveraged toward solving it in near realtime.

Why does people care if their Reddit account is banned? I've never understood this. Can't you just open a new one?

Replace “reddit” with “google” in your sentence. Now how does it sound?

Like you're talking about something completely different in function and purpose.

Not for quite a lot of people it isn’t, no.

I’m guessing you’re over 35 (as I am).

I know plenty of people in their 20s whose entire online life is centered on Reddit.

They make hundreds of comments a day. It’s where all of their social interaction is. it’s where they coordinate activities with people. It’s where they chat with people. it’s how they communicate with everyone.Losing that handle would be disastrous. You can’t just change it.

Clickbaits are the degrading practice the pope just condemned. I can sorta see the humour in this one

Yeah, I was thinking "wow, this is well outside the HN title guidelines" but this feels like a case where humor might win the day.

I know one popular author who doesn't care: Brandon Sanderson. In addition he makes it possible to buy DRM free ebooks from his website.

In his words: “My experience has been that readers want to support things they like … But if they are at a point in their lives where they can’t, then it’s better to let them read the stories they want … and let them support artists when they’re capable of it. So I am a big fan of giving away books for free.”

Source: https://www.jotdown.es/2016/12/brandon-sanderson-i-want-to-s...

I thought F1 was supposed to look a lot faster in person. The cars going at 300kmph don't look so fast on a screen because the camera stabilisation. Someone who makes drones on YouTube collaborated with RedBull to shoot Max Verstappen with a drone at those speeds. And Max was impressed by the perception of speed from the drone footage compared to regular TV broadcast

Link to YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pEqyr_uT-k

Okay, that was a cool video. It's always cool to see how things go wrong and how the challenge was overcome. That has to be a really cool and fun job.

your eyes/brain stabilize better than any camera/software.

Having attended f1, rally and euro hillclimb races in person, I also thought the F1 in the v8/v10/v12 era indeed looked slower than on TV. I think the reason is they were so scandalously loud that you would expect something visually faster from something that is ripping your ears off even with plugs.

Not sure if this helps. But you can copy a file and paste it in your terminal for the path to appear.

Marginally different from dragging it into the terminal. Worse actually, because you can overload the NSPasteboard handler and perform a custom action on the file when you paste it instead of only getting the path.

I guess the only point I’m making is that it’s possible there is some pathological reason why so many people want an “open in terminal from finder” feature. And maybe they are too embarrassed to explain why because they are employed by shitty companies that give little executive function over their workflow. All they want is a little bit of relief from their sadness, just one right-click shortcut to take the pain away for a brief moment.

Or maybe they’re all just weirdos, who knows.

I have this turned on in my code editors and Obsidian. The main advantage is reducing the cognitive load. You don’t have to double-check whether you remembered to close your string, bracket, or parenthesis — it’s just there.

The cognitive load of typing two quotes? Golly. That term is starting to take on "whatever" meaning, apparently.

The cognitive load of keeping track of all the open delimiters.

In my perceived experience, every time a delimiter is opened, it automatically closes, allowing you to move away from it without thinking.

Even in places where this is not available (Slack, comment boxes, etc.), I close the delimiter as soon as I open it

You don't have to anyway, a syntax error will show up on your screen pretty much immediately.

Which I'd like to avoid as early as possible

Do they know where we live? Aren't orders fulfilled by Amazon?

Amazon also has sellers that do their own fulfillment.