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0 pointsMaysonL7y ago0 comments

And heck, it would be very easy to make this a setting: yes or no, this user wants as many street names as possible.

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Member when software had lots of options how to configure it to show you the information you wanted? Peppridge Farms remembers.

Also VLC and a few other weird fringe holdouts...

jacobolus7y ago

Ah yes, wouldn’t it be nice if every piece of software had as buggy and unusable an interface as VLC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219757

thrower1237y ago

I would agree that the VLC interface is kinda terrible. They do hide most of the settings that exist behind basic, intermediate, advanced filters though. I know first hand that it is a lot of frigging work to expose more knobs to twiddle on software, so I really appreciate when somebody does let me change things to my liking, even if I'm kind of stumbling into "here be dragons" territory.

astrange7y ago

Less than 1% of the configurations you can make in VLC are actually tested. i.e. you can't actually configure it because it will break.

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thrower1237y ago

Member when software had lots of options how to configure it to show you the information you wanted? Peppridge Farms remembers.

Also VLC and a few other weird fringe holdouts...

jacobolus7y ago

Ah yes, wouldn’t it be nice if every piece of software had as buggy and unusable an interface as VLC https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219757

thrower1237y ago

astrange7y ago

Less than 1% of the configurations you can make in VLC are actually tested. i.e. you can't actually configure it because it will break.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse