And all the other benefits of the world around you at large. Come on dude.

"Small price to pay to have smartphones and EVs" /s

That seems to be the standard argument, "Sure, not everything is ideal but look at longevity & all the cool toys we have now thanks to [money|billionaires|fossil fuels|etc]".

I knew I was building a library if unplayed games for a reason.

I think the evidence of all human progress disagrees with this statement fairly strongly.

Human progress is driven by a small percentage of the population

The human body is driven by a small percentage of the overall genome. It remains to be seen if that small percentage really doesn’t play a part… we tend to remember those who scored the goal, but often forget about what it took for the scorer to have a shot in the first place…

I think people don't speak at their phones simply because the experience is so horrible.

I would LOVE to be able to voice control the various aspects of my phone but it's so mind numbingly frustrating that I'm annoyed just thinking about it. If it was better I would sacrifice other features for it.

Totally agree, the second I have to switch from a normal voice to a stupid voice with the correct nuances for the unit to "work" is usually the last time I use it.

Our google home basically sits there all day waiting for my wife to say "play abba", she has a strong non-English accent and it's about the only thing it seems to pick up. Don't get me on cars where I have to say the exact sentence to do anything.

Get a lab diamond. It will end up costing around a quarter of the price.

Or have fewer flaws, more colourless, more brilliance, be larger, for the same price.

Same thing, just that's more convincing to some people/shows it's not 'cheaping out', it's just a better deal.

I haven't used windows in a long time but I love seeing features like this.

I mean, even if you take one tenth of those figures that's still 18 million people.

Ah yes, the "server side rendering is really simple to build" crowd has arrived. Let's reduce the nuance of the argument by insulting new Devs!

Everyone mentioning multiple apps such as "rectangle" or "amethyst" doesn't really understand how restrictive they are compared to tools like i3 or sway.

Window snapping, tiling and screen navigation is a HUGE deal. I basically don't use my mouse when programming in Linux and it's really difficult to do the same on Mac.

I used to love tiling window managers. But I found out that UI heavy applications (those with a lot of extra things around the data itself, eg an IDE with toolbars and stuff around the actual editor) don’t seem to fit well into half a screen, so I prefer to use a predictable arrangement where for instance the left and bottom bit of my terminal is visible even though part of it is obstructed by the web browser. (Then I can click the web app and see if the log message I was waiting for appears in the terminal.)

I use Hammerspoon for this and I have keyboard shortcuts that will move the window and resize it to a predefined position. And I have shortcuts to select certain apps quickly.

Hammerspoon is scripted in lua so I don’t feel very constrained in what I can do.

There is also Phoenix, it uses JS.

Then you want "yabai".

which, while better than the native macos experience, is really clunky compared to i3.

Maybe your code is ok and understandable to you when you first write it, but when someone else has to work on it a month or two later, a lack of types makes it significantly more difficult.

It sounds like your process is a bit of a drag on you and I think you should improve it.