realharo

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[–] realharo@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kotlin is a really nice language with plenty of users, good tooling support, gets rid of a lot of the boilerplate that older languages have, and it instills many good practices early on (most variables are immutable unless specified otherwise, types are not nullable by default unless specified otherwise, etc)

But to get the most "bang for your buck" early on, you can't beat JavaScript (with TypeScript to help you make sense of your codebase as it keeps changing and growing).

You will probably want to develop stuff that has some user interface and you'll want to show it to people, and there is no better platform for that than the web. And JS is by far the most supported language on the web.

And the browser devtools are right there, an indispensable tool.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Peace treaty signed, then Russia invades 2 years later anyway and takes over everything?

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If users have the "I can always upgrade later" option, that screws with the purchases of the higher end models "just in case I need it in the future".

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That's trivial to filter if you just look at how much time has passed between posting and editing. Reddit comments are only very rarely updated after more than a day.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Another advantage is that it doesn't force people to initially buy the higher version because "what if I end up needing it in the future" (like what Apple forces you to do with non-upgradable storage), even if you never do. It lets you buy the cheaper version for now, with the possibility to change your mind later.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Which is exactly like the "camera collabs" that phone makers sometimes do that end up being nothing more than marketing gimmicks.

Like the OnePlus camera "by Hasselblad" that is quality wise the same as any other smartphone camera in that price category.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Flutter - the framework - is great. Dart as a language is tolerable - lot of ugly boilerplate, manual codegen, and things you can't quite express correctly are everywhere, but if you're not too much of a stickler, Flutter is still worth it (at least until Compose Multiplatform matures - if ever).

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn't AI be good at detecting and flagging ads like these?

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

Sounds like this was the strategy from the very beginning - get tons of attention with crazy unrealistic announcements, then later turn it into a boring old regular city after everyone already recognizes the name.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago

With enough technological advances, they might be able to just switch to salt water.

It's silly to imagine all these "way out there" scenarios without also imagining progress in other areas.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Pretty sure these things need to be certified and there are laws about what parts you are and are not allowed to use.

Not saying highly regulated industries don't ever have problems (look at Boeing), but it's not like they can just arbitrarily decide to cut costs wherever.

[–] realharo@lemm.ee 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

There are many different types of capacitors, most of which don't contain any liquid at all (including the most common type - ceramic capacitors).

But in general, you would use specially rated components and materials if you need them to last decades - not the cheapest most basic parts you can find.

Other types of implanted devices have dealt with the same things decades ago.

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