This is a great way to sour many customers for all products automatic owns. I don’t buy the “it must be a bug story.” They just flipped the switch and only deal with the squeaky wheels for people that complain.
Did I expect free updates and features forever. No, Only the bare minimum to keep it running.
Hell, if it was owned by a small company or an individual I wouldn’t mind donating to keep it maintained once in a while. I don’t feel the need for a subscription for a podcast app. The fanciest feature I’ve used in the past 10 years is the sleep after 15 min options.
Saddest is that they are advertising their own apps. Good to know which one to avoid.
At this point i don’t trust large programs anymore. Someone recommended to use Lens to manage a k8 cluster. That application was a 600mb install file and if I’m not mistaken double that after installing on a Mac. Desktop software has become so crazy. Meanwhile the blender download is 300mb.
It is not that I’m looking for over optimized software. But a 2gb k8 console doesn’t spark trust in the developers to begin with.
It's not much better on mobile. I just checked a few apps on my iPhone: Instagram, TikTok, Duolingo are all about 500mb each. And many of these apps are gigabytes when you use them for a bit and it caches things.
I just cleared Snapchat's cache a few days ago, I barely use the app, and it's somehow taking up 5GB on my phone.
This resonates with me, I’ve never considered knowledge as something you can live.
But comparing it with photography, it influences how you experience the world. Sometimes it makes you feel like an outsider documenting instead of being in the moment.
I always cringe a bit when people take endless videos of fireworks or concerts. There is a fine line between wanting te remember a feeling or moment and just brainlessly recording.
I’m wouldn’t be surprised if this second brain movement is similarly lacking its connection with “reality” and when lacking clear intention.
I disagree, Think this developer is the has the most overrated worldbuilding out there. People are just willing meaning on whatever they make. Just a cheap trick where gamers, starving for actually decent storytelling in gaming are walking straight into scrapes to fill a void.
I would grade something as portal 2, or dwarf fortress as literary vehicle vastly superior
No? The complaint was that they had to use a third party or community one, as though those people are doing by some kind of magic unavailable to them; they for some reason don't want to use those (maybe they're not suitable for particular use case, I don't know) and it's somehow terraform's fault that they haven't then written their own. It is possible, so I just don't understand what the complaint is.
> It is possible, so I just don't understand what the complaint is.
And it is also possible to write in assembly, will you?
> The complaint was that they had to use a third party or community one
And isn't that fair? People want support? Official support? Is that wrong? And yes community modules especially since they might not be from the same group lack consistency, documentation and often doesn't get updated as regularly. The magic is the vendor is the only 1 that can properly coordinate updates.
> as though those people are doing by some kind of magic unavailable to them
Then why are you using Terraform? The APIs behind Terraform are also available to you so you can use that directly. There's no magic unavailable to you either. And you go beyond not using those APIs and build your own servers and data centers too.
I don't get why Terraform is a fair abstraction you're defending yet you're arguing against people wanting a higher level of abstraction.
I'm not arguing against higher abstraction, I'm not saying write assembly.
Modules are the same abstraction as L2/L3 constructs. In either case if you don't want to use someone else's (and you want one) you write your own. If you then haven't, it's not Terraform's or AWS CDK's fault.
What it does have is modules, which accomplish the same. And of course, if you don't want to write them then just as with L2/L3 constructs you are limited to using others'.
I've always found that Terraform does it exceptionally well, mostly because of the dependency graph and how good providers map resources so that they don't end up in a dead lock.
I tried it a couple of times, but the showstopper for me was the hosting model was the show stopper. I think the premise of the language and platform has so many amazing aspects that are very exciting to me. But it also i had a hard time imagining pitching this together with unison cloud to my team. All the components together at this moment in time. A very big investment into an ecosystem.
Hope some smart developers would take the learning and try to integrate it with existing languages like clojure.
Still going to follow what unison is doing because it is so exciting
As a hobby comic creator I think the “paper” medium itself still has unexplored narrative devices. Think it might be fun to experiment with it a bit in vr, but I wonder if games are not more suitable then comics. Seems like you are trying to put a book inside a film, like the first scene in StarWars.
It’s not only push notifications, it’s the combination of everything communication channel combined. I recently unsubscribed to a services that kept spamming me their “lifetime subscription” product, while I already was on their yearly premium plan. Over the course of 2 weeks, I received 4 push notifications, 4 emails and 2 times when I opened the app it had a full screen ad. I’ll never use this product again. Ironically, this app focuses on sleep quality, focus and meditation.
4 years ago I was using a Fitbit, and for some reason they thought push notifications was a great channel to promote a new watch product. It blew my mind that someone at Fitbit thought that was a great idea.
Anyone considering using push notifications for marketing purposes, I’m sure you’ll make a couple of sales short term, but for me, you damage your brand
I agree. Push notifications could have been useful, but companies abuse them so heavily that they're the opposite of that, and I keep them disabled across the board.
Super exciting, procreate is such an awesome program. Bold move of making it portrait. I bought my iPad a long time ago for procreate, best purchase I’ve done. It reawakened illustration for me. Curious what we can make with this. Although I can’t find the minimum requirements anywhere yet.
Think people didn’t get the link turd to polished turd in this blogpost. Is what you get when you ask a beginner artist without any guidance to create something, and instead of making something that has the right competition, perspective, proportions, colors and values etc, they tend to over render the image. Making it look “pretty”, the issue that it tries to compensate shitty foundations with glitters and sparkles, widgets, shadows and highlights.
Ultimately it often doesn’t have the right impact.
Ai art falls in the same category for me. Polished turds, bad writers, bad ideas, bad concepts, boring subjects.
I’m hoping it mostly inspires a generation to make cool shit and enjoy it. If you take a skilled artist to use ai art, the results are good, if you take beginners and give it tools you get polished ai art turds. Things that looks cool but ultimately missing the foundation to make it work.
At the same time, perhaps it doesn’t matter, and people want to have polished turds regardless.
Compare this to a game like unpacking, carefully crafted rooms and smart storytelling. Or vampire survivor, addictive gameplay loop with assets that almost seem like they come straight out of some gamemaker pack. In the end, it’s all about intend, and no amount of polish is going to fix
Precisely, and it doesn't matter how you realize it - by hand or with something more automated (digital manipulation), or with matte painting/photobashing (the most recent resentment target), or with any ML tool.
If you don't have the eye, taste, and rigor, you're going to create something boring. If you do, you'll create something interesting. The issue with the examples in OP is not the tool - it's the creators who were sloppy (and also incredibly rushing as it's just a tech demo created in 72 hours).
Did I expect free updates and features forever. No, Only the bare minimum to keep it running.
Hell, if it was owned by a small company or an individual I wouldn’t mind donating to keep it maintained once in a while. I don’t feel the need for a subscription for a podcast app. The fanciest feature I’ve used in the past 10 years is the sleep after 15 min options.
Saddest is that they are advertising their own apps. Good to know which one to avoid.