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> I'm optimistic about Wikipedia. The popularity means if an important fact is missing it will get added, and the entrenched interests mean the fact will get reverted if it isn't balanced.

That was the hope for Wikipedia, but my experience editing it is the opposite: Editing disagreements are interminable, enormously time-consuming, legalistic free-for-alls, and whoever is most willing and able to spend their days fighting them, wins. That is usually the more radical or politically motivated person or party, some of them clearly acting for outside interested parties. The editors often participate and support such people.

You can find many descriptions of the same thing. Just search around.
We have a Samsung fridge and the ice maker has a major unfixable design flaw (gets jammed with ice). One of the cables in the fridge also has a known design flaw.

I guess we should be lucky our stuff isn’t catching on fire like most Samsung products do (at least when they are not supposed to be).
Oh dear. You may be right. This looks like a big warning for anyone in Taiwan. It seems that after the Afghanistan withdrawal disaster, everyone is seeing the US as a big joke and are now taking their chances.

Looks like war it is then.
I used to abuse new iPhones, and before the warranty ran out claim that the battery life was not up to scratch. They always replaced my phone. Once I got a new phone when the damage was clearly my fault but I played dumb anyway.

I am still buying Apple products. So jokes on me.
Counterpoint, maybe.

My mom is starting some kind of personal vendetta because her 13 month Ipad just stopped functioning. The Apple store told her it's 'fried' and she needs to just buy a new one.
I was just about to comment and say I was wondering the same thing because I am daily driving a Pixel 2 still, but may look to buy soon because of the flagging battery life and the lack of security updates. I was not aware Google Phone's had a reputation for aging off quickly since my brother is also in the same boat as me with his Pixel, is there someone who tracks phone reliability?
We had some installation issues with a samsung washer. The runaround was ridiculous. To see what I mean, try to order a replacement part. Here’s a link to their official US parts distributor. I spent over a half hour on hold with Samsung to get this URL. Rest assured the actual parts distributor doesn’t pick up the phone at all:

https://www.samsungparts.com/

This site truly has to be experienced to be fully appreciated. Try to find a part for one of their appliances (like a latch or hose or something). Here’s a list of some of their model numbers:

https://www.whirlpoolparts.com/PartSearch/ProductBrandAllMod...

You may be wondering why I needed to order replacement parts for one of their appliances during initial installation. Let’s just say I’m not buying any of their crap again either.

If that’s not bad enough to scare you off, their fridges have cameras that use deep learning to translate video into marketing info, then phone it home (joining it with information from local samsung tvs if possible).
I'd like to point out that the natural instinct is to take care of the kids first. Doesn't mean don't take care of yourself, but it does mean that they have a hard priority on everything aside from "bare minimum". This does mean there is a threshold for which most kids'need could be ignored aside from necessities (food, sleep). Can definitely pass on even cuddles at time if cuddling the partner, for example (cuddles are very important, but kids steal most of them)
Not the GP, but my current dream monitor would be a 3:2 or 16:10 OLED in the 24"-27" range with roughly 200 PPI and 120 Hz, preferably slightly curved, with hardware calibration for at least sRGB gamut. There’s nothing close to that in the market.
That has been slowly but surely trickling down. I think the high trim Honda Civics have auto wipers now.

The new tech these days is to spray fluid out of the wipers themselves. The blades have a lot of holes laser cut into them, as the blades move across the windshield they spray fluid just an inch ahead of the blade. It's starting to become very common in the luxury car brands, even the lower tier Lexueses and BMWs are getting them as the newer gen cars are released.

It doesn't sound particularly cool, but when you try using them it is a very nice feature to have.
Somatic Symptom Disorder, sometimes called Psychosomatic Disorder, is defined in the DSM V and does not mean the symptoms are "all in your head". It refers to patients with a compulsive-to-the-point-of-self-damaging focus on their condition, even if that condition is a diagnosed medical condition.

In other words, it's not a blank check to ignore these people.

More on SSD here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK519704/table/ch3.t31 and here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK532253
Given that 54 of your last 60 submits (90%!) were Ask HNs, perhaps you are overusing this feature.
Thanks for taking the time to engage. And I want to be clear, I think Portable Text could be something really excellent for it’s intended use case. I guess I just see that as fundamentally at odds with what Markdown is. I understand your point that Markdown is often used in place it probably shouldn’t be, but I still think we’re talking about two different problems. For me, it isn’t that something like Portable Text doesn’t have a place, it’s that I don’t think it is best compared to something like Markdown.

I agree we should do a better job of showing what options are best for certain scenarios, but I feel like someone making a decision to adopt a really customized version of Markdown needs a different sort of intervention/push to a more desirable format (maybe Portable Text) than the people that actively choose Markdown BECAUSE it is a readable syntax for crafting HTML and their goal is to write HTML in a readable way.
I've had similar experience with a few manufacturers before including Apple, Dell and Samsung. The repair technicians are trained to spot even the tiniest scratch on your phone and then void your warranty (in Dell's case the technician himself probably forgot to screw one of the screws back in probably as it was missing a screw the second time I sent it back for repair...
Its ironic that scratches can void the warranty of a product even if the damage has no relation to said scratch. I guess its just big corps milking every dollar out.
But make sure you have your 2fa backup codes! I replaced two phones in a short period of time, and overlooked the 2fa backups the second time. It’s easy to do if you’re not expecting a replacement.
Sounds like it's out of the one-year warranty period. I think warranty periods for electronics should be longer, but I would also not expect replacement or repair for out of warranty devices, unless defective.
I remember when I had my first-generation iPhone and it started to feel kind of hot during usage. I took it in to the Apple Store and the genius was a bit wobbly about it and he asked another genius and he said, "just replace it" and that was it.
Very similar to me, I went nexus 5 > 5x > pixel > pixel 2 after the 5/5x/p1 broke in different ways, but the Pixel 2 I used until it ran out of support and I was annoyed at having to replace a phone so quickly because it was fine for me, so I switched to a second hand iphone XS and it still works fine even though it's only 1 year older.

I doubt I'll ever buy an iPhone brand new (I go out of my way not to support the CCP) but until Pinephone and linux becomes a usable mobile OS I'll stick with the XS until it either dies or Apple stop supporting it in:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_iOS_and_iPadOS_devices

4 years or so? The iphone 6s was released in 2015 and it's still getting support, that's incredible.
Very interesting point. I think the difference is apparent, but how to define it?

First, while he was very confident, I don't know that I'd call him a megalomaniac. Second, he didn't encourage a cult of personality or manipulate it - he didn't spend his time inflaming it, encouraging it, toying with it; and he didn't use his power to troll and disrupt society.
>There you go. Never buy the first edition of a new product innovation or technology.

But the model number mentioned in the post resolves to "Samsung Galaxy Z Flip3 5G" which sounds not "first edition"? According to wikipedia samsung's first foldable phone came out in 2019.
It might be worth trying a different Apple store or employee, but if it's out of warranty, it's a bit much to hope for.
I got the iPhone 13 mini at launch. Literally has no scratches even after several drops of 3-4 feet with no case. Has the best build quality of any device I've ever owned.
I posted my full rant about my terrible experience with Samsung at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424010 if you want the full story, but in a nutshell, we had two Samsung Dishwashers and a Samsung Stove and a Galaxy Note9 all go out at an unrepairable level within a two-year period. And as for the Refrigerator and Microwave, they are still standing after two years but have major design flaws.

They can't design a dishwasher that doesn't die within a year. At least Best Buy honored the warranties on them - twice.
Beam forming comms, guess which people carry the new beam forming devices it's trying to optimise signal path to. (this was part of the OG 5G spec, to do agile tunable antenna stuff so you got diverse high bandwidth paths to specific devices in a "cell")
Try making an apples to apples comparison.

You neglected to write the SELECT, which would typically not be as simple as "SELECT * from post".

You neglected to write the code to iterate over the results, which is trivial in the ORM version. In the SQL version it requires cursors and the error-prone manual mapping of positional data to named data.
Russia formally gave up of Minsk II agreement (which no one implemented in the first place but at least was something that could be discussed about). So it's basically this is just another step in the escalation, maybe the last one (making it clear that he is not bluffing), before full invasion starts.
Walk into an Apple Store for just repairing is a privilege. Though it's great that it's available for many people compared to other brands.
> As is, really, the rest of your response.

> So, you've learned CodeMod scripts . How much timeyou will then have to spend to replicate 5% of IntelliJ's refactoring capabilities?

I was assuming you'd get >50% of the IntelliJ's refactoring you might potentially use in those two afternoons.

And you can invent new ones whenever you feel like in a couple hours.

Your attitude is balls dude, personal & not informational. Chill out, step off, desist from being personally insulting in your rplies. You have no idea how easy it is to replace this precious valued thing you so adore. That's not a problem. But you're getting wrapped up about it & becoming uncivil. You simply don't know. Stop getting worse.
Latest pixel phones are even worse. Every update is a nightmare. With one update, Bluetooth wont work, next update I wont get signal etc. I don't want to be in the Apple ecosystem but I am forced to. At least it works all the time.
You said caches should be battery backed, implying that it's wrong for them not to be. I'm saying FLUSH is what you use to maintain data integrity when caches are not battery backed, which is a perfectly valid use case. Modern drives are not expected to have battery backed caches; instead the software knows how to ask them to flush to preserve integrity. We've traded off performance to make up the integrity.

The problem is these drives don't provide integrity even when you explicitly ask them to.
This site and its author are right up there with every other inflammatory and sensationalist rag that routinely gets flagged to oblivion here. Come on folks, examine the source like we're supposed to before jumping in to comment.

On the content of the article; why are we debating the validity of an argument over an advertisement posted on twitter? Surely we'd all agree we'd like content here to be better than that.
Yeah, that's how the conversation goes. 'It only has a one year warranty, but I feel like it shouldn't just die after that.'
When the conductor is grounded, the charge on the conductor is no longer constant. It can change until the total enclosed charge in any sphere surrounding the conductor is zero.
You can't quantify customer loyalty like you can quantify warranty claims so you can burn the former to improve the latter, maybe even get a promotion for doing so, then move on and let someone else deal with the long term consequences.

It's sad but I've accepted that this is how most companies are today.

One way to avoid getting burned is to only buy what you actually need when you actually need it.
> I would also not expect replacement or repair for out of warranty devices, unless defective.

It sounds like it is defective.
one of the jarring things about using a TV as a monitor is that some TV models don't have the option of disabling the image processing that blurs the text so you end up with blurry text that gives headaches. I remember encountering this problem in the past with a specific samsung TV model where the processing was only disabled for the VGA port but not the rest of the ports (it was hard coded and couldn't be disabled).
Few years ago I stopped trying to buy most advanced bleeding edge top to the line phones and go instead with more basic, cheaper model. Makes my life much less stressful. I know if it broke I can quickly replace it for few hundred bucks.
YouTube's Robots.txt
Who remembers Macbook's 'Staingate'[1]. I had that and was refused service multiple times. I managed to get it repaired only after it became a big issue - there were many (thousands or more) affected customers who started making noise online - then Apple grudgingly announced free repairs of the screen. I was living with damaged screen for many months.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9223197

The top comment in above is "Apple customer service is hell" :-)
I have a Samsung galaxy S4 mini from 2014. I am going to need to replace it only because 1) 3G is disappearing, 2) youtube decided my phone was too old. There's nothing actually wrong with the phone.
I save links as PDFs using DevonThink. I've yet to find a compelling reason to replace it.
With Python and SqlAlchemy, I was surprised how intuitive some rather complex queries were to write and read, and by the quality of the generated SQL.
> Sat in a room for 30 minutes while he fed me bullshit. Walked away convinced Google culture is dead.

I bet you a dollar his bonus is directly, or indirectly tied to Play store revenue. Companies destroy themselves from the inside due to misaligned personal vs. organizational incentives.
I will buy another device from them, like a phone or a watch, if they guarantee in writing that it will leak all over my floor daily like their damned fridge.
Here’s a list of some of their model numbers

Model numbers for white goods tend to be "encoded", almost like a VIN; this isn't a Samsung-specific thing.
The Liking Gap in Conversations: Do People Like Us More Than We Think? [pdf]
Had a 12.5 month old iPhone 12 mini die recently and used Apple's mail in repair service ($400.) Getting technician's notes out of them (needed for a credit card extended warranty claim) has been nigh impossible after spending hours trying to get that artifact. About 2 months in at this point and they've sent plenty of stuff; none of what I've asked for. It's equivalent to dealing with the USPS on a lost package claim.
Abstract:

> Having conversations with new people is an important and rewarding part of social life. Yet conversations can also be intimidating and anxiety provoking, and this makes people wonder and worry about what their conversation partners really think of them. Are people accurate in their estimates? We found that following interactions, people systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company, an illusion we call the liking gap. We observed the liking gap as strangers got acquainted in the laboratory, as first-year college students got to know their dorm mates, and as formerly unacquainted members of the general public got to know each other during a personal development workshop. The liking gap persisted in conversations of varying lengths and even lasted for several months, as college dorm mates developed new relationships. Our studies suggest that after people have conversations, they are liked more than they know.

Quick summary of sub-studies:

> We call this mistaken belief the liking gap, and we explored it across five studies. In Study 1a, we tested the hypothesis that after a short conversation, people will underestimate how much others like them. Studies 1b and 2 provided evidence that the liking gap exists not because people fail to signal that they like each other—in fact, the signals are right there for people to see—but, rather, people are too focused on their own self-critical thoughts to notice. Studies 3 and 4 showed that the liking gap exists after short, medium, and long conversations, as well as among the general public in a United Kingdom (UK) sample. Finally, in Study 5, we tracked college dorm mates over the course of an academic year, finding that they too showed sustained evidence of the liking gap. Together, these studies suggest that after people have conversations, they chronically underestimate how much their conversation partners like them and enjoy their company.
this is the 3rd generation... hardly early adopter
It’s so commonly asked because people don’t seem to get it’s not happening in the US.

> What actually is happening next? As far as I've seen, not a whole lot?

You’re effectively asking for the future of an ongoing case. Have you ever had a real answer on what _actually_ happened next in a court case ?

If so could you also give me what’s the actual final outcome of the Epic vs Apple trial ? I’d love to know.
> I used to abuse new iPhones, and before the warranty ran out claim that the battery life was not up to scratch.

Oh, so, fraud.
You don’t need to miss Google’s keyboard:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1...
I agree, but one has to know the fundamentals to begin to evaluate their tools.

It's easy to just assume your tool works for you & it's the right pick, but precious few developers a) actually know computing well enough to assess the field of options, b) have any idea what they're buying.

It's heavyhanded bias that you've disregarded other options, and called whatever you think of as "best" and left everything else as "works ok all the time."

I see the small suite of built-ins as the "works ok", and not even "all of the time," just, for a couple small specific use cases. Learning about metaprogramming, ASTs, code-rewriting is a lifelong opportunity to get better, to understand what we really do when we write code at whole new levels, and those tools we truly, that truly fit the problems we actually have are the best tools.
I will never buy from Samsung again either.

I bought a 49" monitor from them in January. A week later, I had two lines of dead pixels. I'm still trying to get them to repair it and customer service has been the worst. Moreover, the warranty online was incorrect. They said they would fix it but they haven't yet. It's been weeks. A nice $1k spent on a very frustrating experience.
Unfortunately Userbenchmark is totally useless for comparing components. They don’t even attempt to benchmark one change at a time while keeping all other parts of the testbench identical.

Worse yet every time I benchmark one of my machines, I score significantly higher than the average user results for the same hardware. Perhaps the average submitter has crapware/antivirus installed or their machines are misconfigured (e.g. XMP disabled) which makes all their data suspect.
It's really incredible how much technology and marketing has gone into removing a tiny seam (which is actually not even fully removed anyway).
I drove a few rented cars in Norway. All automatic windshield wipers sucked. They did not active in a light rain and in heavier rain drove wipers unnecessary frequently. The least bad was Kia. At least they got frequency right.
I remember it - but Apple did, thankfully, turn around and say it was an issue, and refunded anyone who paid for repairs before the announcement.

My Samsung Galaxy Note9 literally had a firmware update go out that, looking on Samsung's forums, caused calls to drop like flies completely at random. Once you updated to that firmware, there's no going back and no hardware replacement will fix the issue. There is absolutely no fix months later, no acknowledgement there is an issue, and no fix of any kind. We had to get an iPhone because you can't run a business when you are apologizing over email daily for a missed call.

Not saying Apple is great - but Samsung has objectively worse problems.

Edit: And it's not just their phones. My experience with their appliances is unbelievably cursed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30424010
That makes me wonder if the Koreans living in Korea itself have the same experience with Samsung, or if its "KDM" products are built to a different standard than export ones.
You've not been to my house.

Contractor: "Hi, we need to kill the power to the house now."

Me: "Oh, ok, let me shut down my computer."

And, everything I've been reading lately is simply that there's nothing safe about this. How is shutting down a computer ever safe now? How long do we have to wait to ensure our data is flushed correctly, by everything?
I have not heard that before, but that seems like a very strong statement to know! How does interact with sample size though? Seems hard to formulate precisely…
Why do we care so much about petty drama here on HN all of a sudden?
Until Apple mass produces a foldable phone I will put my chips on "it is crap".
They gotta have something to do ... else how will they justify their salary :)
That’s the plan! In order to do that though, there has to be some team which requires its members to show up (those who were remote during the pandemic, those who may wish to join later), which the parent feels is unfair.

I think both our preferences are legitimate and people should be able to sort themselves into teams that suit their preferences.

I understand people are distressed about commuting and the office. I’m also distressed about the prospect of spending the majority of my waking hours over the next 30 years on Zoom. If that’s the way things are shaping up I need to go be a farmer or something.
Is this because the guy refused to take sides on some political controversy a while back (forgot details)?

He said his team was inspired by a reddit ad, the outside agency could have also been inspired by that. We don't know who was inspired first and how closley the outside agency's concept is to the ad compared to the original concept.

ESH! Lol
FWIW my Pixel 4 is still going strong, haven't even thought of getting a replacement. My partner is on the previous Pixel 3 (released October 2018) and no complaints there either.
If you're going to make this critique, you should grapple with this passage from the article:

> As with any new technology it takes time to iron out early problems. Things break, need to be fixed, improved etc. That’s all fine! I wasn’t angry when the phone broke, I was angry when it wasn’t repaired.
>I was in need of replacing my aging Pixel 4

What? aging? It's from late 2019...That's hardly aging at all. I still use a 4a that is smooth as butter and battery lasts 2 days.