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Cake day: September 24th, 2023

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  • Yeah there are pros and cons. Desktop apps are not sandboxed. Mobile apps are often missing features and are annoying to install. Websites often have poor performance or janky UX on mobile, and you need to be online, and you don’t have control of their availability.

    I think the best option depends on what the thing is - ordering food from a random pub? Web site. Video editing? App.













  • It’s frustrating when people make excuses for problems - even saying that there isn’t a problem. Like, if everyone was saying “I like Python even though it is extraordinarily slow and will never be fast, which is a shame”… That’s fine. Saying “Python isn’t supposed to be fast and you shouldn’t want that” is delusional.

    It’s not just Python where this phenomenon happens - I gave the example of Git (“you shouldn’t want to version control binaries so the fact that Git sucks at it isn’t really a problem at all!”). Another common one is distributing binaries on Linux - you shouldn’t want to do that so it doesn’t matter that it’s a pain in the bum.

    Pet peeve I guess.