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As a fellow European, preventing the value of your house dropping because your neighbors didn’t clean up their front yard.

That does not have to be the responsibility of HOAs. I have had a period where my previous gardener quit and I was looking for a new one; some weeds in the front yard grew too tall. The city sent me an official reminder. This was in a neighborhood without HOAs.

but why would you need an HOA for that? If your neighbor drops their junk on the street you can just call the cops on them yourself

Because in many places, having things in your front yard is not a crime? It could be car parts, could be children's toys, could be trash. If you don't have a city that enforces that, HOA or a management company which the owner/renter goes into contract with is the best way to manage that.

You care about unmowed frontyards? No wonder your country is going to shit if this is what you’re worried about.

They say it’s because they create a game around good gameplay and write the story around it later.

Which is the correct way to design a game, I am not going to go full Carmack and say the story does not matter at all, but at their heart a computer game is a simulation, a complex machine full of intricate moving parts. Getting thees parts to mesh well is the most critical part. and the story however well or poorly written sort of sits unconnected on top of it, for the most part ornithological to the machine underneath. The bit you actually interact with.

It is why I consider excessive use of cutscenes a tell of poor game design, They stop the machine and pull the player out of the environment. They have their place, but generally should be avoided.

book: tell a story

movie: show, don't tell (big sin opening lore dump)

game: do, don't show (big sin cutscene)


I like "do, don't show" but I don't think that precludes a thin layer of gameplay over a story. Walking simulators are a prime example. The entire point of a walking simulator is the story, but the game doesn't progress without input from the player, unlike in a cutscene/movie. What Remains of Edith Finch is one of my favorite games, but the gameplay is pretty barebones.

iPads used to be able to function as home hubs but they explicitly removed that feature a few years ago and made it Apple TV exclusive .


You can also use a HomePod/mini.


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I mean, one of the last big things Jobs did was buy Siri and he reportedly saw it as the next big interaction model. Apple just messed it up by letting it get progressively worse ever since.


Which was pointed out by a HN user in the comments of that post. This article claims they suddenly found out the same thing through research. Sure.


I hate to be the Apple fanboy but an anecdote is far from “patently incorrect”. Never had any issues with my AirPods with third-party devices.


I’m pretty much the definition of an Apple fanboy - every device in my house is Apple (because the hardware works, is reliable and it works together). That said, I have one windows machine for work and my AirPods just don’t work with it.


You are mistaken. Merchants are allowed to round to the nearest 5 cents and you can’t do anything about it (except pay by card). Of course, budget stores like Lidl and Aldi still use them but any other corporation is not going to care.

http://www.nederlandsemunten.nl/Artikelen_over_munten/De_cen...


Thanks for the correction. So only the part about legal tender was correct, which is probably what I was confused with. The relevant part:

> The one and two cent coins will remain legal tender, and retailers can choose whether or not to participate. The Netherlands cannot declare the smallest coins worthless on its own in Europe; this must be arranged in Brussels.

The government page about this: https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/betalingsverkeer/vr...

> Of course, budget stores like Lidl and Aldi still use them but any other corporation is not going to care.

What do you mean with this? Surely the Lidl and Aldi don’t give exact change by default in the Netherlands in 2025?


There is nothing “industry way” about letting CI automatically deploy your production environment.


CI/CD are used for deploying to all kind of environments. For production, the triggers are different. Instead of deploy on PR merge, you would define the trigger as tag creation. Now when you make a release mauanlly on github, it will create a tag which in turn would trigger deployment.


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