How is this propaganda? Either it's true or it is false. You haven't said or proved this is false.
"consumer side" still Lenovo.
"They learned their lesson" and so have we.
"7+ years ago" it still happened
The only propaganda is coming from you.
That's a bit harsh. If it was from a web dev company, sure. But this is from someone doing it as a hobby for the good of mankind. Yeah, the might not work for some people but it's not the end of the world. It's like saying that girl has one strand of hair out of place so I'm not going to date her. You must be fun to be around.
It takes effort to break scrolling on a website. It's not something that just happens unexpectedly, it's a conscious decision to prioritize fancy animations over accessibility.
I don't believe it is harsh given how this is a critique of the philosophy that permits a programmer to needlessly hijack user input. Especially given the context here is an OS, AND a supposedly minimalist one at that.
P.S: Last sentence probably violates HN guidelines and is just rude and unnecessary if you want to prove a point.
I have an idea if you want to code it. You know how we can drop the vowels from sentences and still understand the sentence? What if we do that on the first stage? May not work for every case so have to identify. Worse comes to worst, use full word. Probably not saving much though. Worth a try.
You got a lot of flak for what is clearly a take from someone that isn't versed in compression techniques. But as one might to a student; you're on the right track! This idea is similar in form to "arithmetic coding" which is what people are using to chip away at this. Namely, finding smaller encodings which can be used to predict common parts (maybe a recognisable word, more likely a sequence of bits or characters) of the full encoding, then cycling through storing "hints" for each part it would get wrong until it can predict the exact desired output
I think you have it backwards, but I like the direction of thinking. There is redundancy in the language itself.
> However, vowel-only sentences were always significantly more intelligible than consonant-only sentences, usually by a ratio of 2:1 across groups. In contrast to written English or words spoken in isolation, these results demonstrated that for spoken sentences, vowels carry more information about sentence intelligibility than consonants for both young normal-hearing and elderly hearing-impaired listeners.
What you're describing is a form of lossy compression. Yes, it can compress the file, but you're losing some information such that there's no way to convert it back to it's original form without external information. And, as you noted: it may not work for every case, which means some information would be permanently lost.
It means he wants to sit back, write a lazy comment, and have someone else do all the work ("code it up", hah). Toss his brilliant ideas that are "worth a try" over the fence and move on to the next brilliant idea. Without any research or due diligence or even consideration for the comparative amount of effort it takes to have an idea, vs executing on it. Ideas are a dime a thousand.
This is the same kind of person who's got a great business idea, they just need you to write up an AirBnb clone in a couple of weeks, and they'll give you 5% of the company.
