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Usually I code in phases, figuring out the solution, which requires a lot of thinking and expermenting and trials and errors, but once I find what I think is a promising solution I might end up writing lots of code; in this phase I sort of feel that the code comes out of me without a clear conscious effort. This phase might last a few hours or a few days and I'm often limited by my typing speed and the responsiveness of my editor; in a away the code on the screen becomes part of my mental process (similarly sometimes I have to scribble on a piece of paper just to get my mental processes runnin). After that, I snap out and start compiling the code (I program in c++, so 10s of thousands of lines of errors are routine), clean it up and usually end up deleting large chunks of code. Note I'm fully aware of the code I have written but have little recollection of the actual act of writing. After this I might switch to write tests (which Is a much more conscious activity) or move back to phase one.

I'm fully aware that's not how most developers work, according to my boss, when I tell him I haven't compiled my code in a few days, I'm just strange.
The Crux of the problem is 24x7 availability. Some of this is crucial —emergency services, utilities, etc.

And, I don’t see this changing. That being said, having access to things 24x7x365, does have its consequences. The servers are on, your phone is on. Amazon is available, Video programming is available be it cable or streamed over the web or broadcast TV. Then social media and work. People keep responding to work email even when not at work. This seen as normal. That needs to change.

There is no pause. No forced downtime in modern life. You only get natural downtime in remote areas of developed countries or in poor areas of developing countries. But we are not adapted to this well.
You can remove Siri from the touch bar, though!
I love how the author shouts from the rooftops the following

>This argument is both incredibly entitled and terribly egocentric (...)

While this whole post reeks with entitlement and egocentrism - but from his perspective, so that is OK!

To me, it feels like the author is incapable of empathising with a larger user base than himself and only thinks about his benefit and how the changes affect him and how he uses the product.

>Let me be clear: when I buy a product I am paying for what the product can do for me now. It fulfils a need that I currently have. I am not paying money out of my own pocket for a faint hope that the product may do something in the vague and nebulous future.

This is simply not true. Depending on what you buy (a physical product like a bike) or a software subscription (like photoshop), you get those upgrades whether you want it or not. You don't want it? Then DONT BUY THE PRODUCT. Customers have the ultimate power: voting with their wallet. You don't like it? You go to the freaking competitor!

I understand the authors frustrations but customers have the ultimate final say in anything by voting with their wallet.
A large part of this is allowing their employees to cash out. When a company goes public, there is often a clause that prevents sales for a certain number of months, and who knows what the share price will do by then. This is actually a really good thing for Unity to do, trying to make the "stock compensation" perk into a meaningful cash-out. It also means employees don't have to deal with holding shares in a public company if they don't want to, as that's hassle.
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I can understand why they felt the need to change up how the function row worked.

From a UX perspective what they do is opaque and application dependent. To learn what they do in each context you do have to go out of your way.

Though I wonder if it'd have worked better if they were still tactile buttons individual panels on them, so the application can reprint them with their actual function name.
I've been denied tons of every day things because of no credit history. I can't even get a credit card.
But then your only control key is in an almost unusable location, which is even worse!
One look at that website and its immediately obvious that it is one of those social media photo staging expositions. What made you think otherwise?
"They" is a minority of the British population
This was the one I was thinking of:

https://youtu.be/ISAKc9gpGjw
libui is limited to the point of uselesness. You will very quickly reconsider once you try using it.

Javafx/tornadofx or maybe wxwidgets/qt is a better choice
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The real kick in the beans from MS is the new UI lacks anything beyond basic functionality in the new UI.
For example, Win10 (1803) Mouse settings you can modify:
Left/Right handed,
Scroll Wheel lines,
Scroll inactive windows when you hover.

For every other change you have to click "Additional mouse options" and are taken to the old UI.

MS Win10, and to a lesser extent Server 2016-19 has increased the number of clicks it takes me to get to the thing dramatically.

In 7 I relied heavily on the search feature - it was wonderful to type "Programs and" hit enter and get to the page I want. Today they have hidden (in win10) those old UI screens.

It is frustrating.

I would accept the new UI if it had feature parity, but it can't even perform the most basic tasks (mouse pointer speed for example).

Edit - Spelling.
This may be true, but it's out-of-band. We need frameworks which ensure a level playing field, not tricks and loopholes which only allow the most cunning or fortunate of those with little credit to succeed in life.
I agree with you in general, but I think you're missing a subset of users who can keep up with smaller incremental changes but specifically don't, which over time can eventually make them feel lost.

This describes my relationship with Facebook. I've always generally understood how Facebook works and used to be a power-user. Over time as the new little features didn't apply to me, I found that my own interest had been crowded out and the environment felt entirely different, which further pushed me away. At this point I have very little confidence in my ability and understanding of Facebook.
Oh yeah, absolutely all of the people who voted leave were completely rational. Like my father-in-law who voted leave so we can send all them Indians back home.
Highly targeted voice recognition is much simpler to train, which makes endpoints like inland revenue much more accurate than generic voice assistants. In many cases this is a problem of "did you say one of these 20 things" vs "let's try to transcribe every one of these words from a full dictionary".
How much do we know about insider trading in crypto?
What are your experience with Minoxidil?
I'm a vim user myself and I already maped ctrl to the caps lock key, since I think that the ctrl key is much more awkward than esc.
If any positive may come out of this debacle, it's to set a precedent that leaving the EU is a bad idea.
It's not the only trojan horse in EU

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/world/europe/germany-is-a...
Would he resign if Google took a position in a non political debate but a scientific debate?

http://linkaudit.co/blog/google-takes-side-in-controversial-...
I know, but maybe the author comes around :)
You do realise that power draw likely averages less than 350 watts. Your A/C running for an additional hour or two a few days a month would cost you a dollar or two, max.

Given that the load is likely removing peak daytime heat, then sustaining a less-challenging night-time temperature, the net impact is probably even less.
What I want to emphasize is that majority of articles represent western democratic, capitalistic, liberal culture. Reading these articles you won’t learn anything extra that you were tought in school. On one hand it is ammusig how english wikipedia became a western culture mirror. On the other hand it is sad that you can not get insights into other cultures without western culture filter.
You configure your router to not use NAT for IPv6, and get your ISP to provide you more than a /128, is how. This is why industry is adopting it and consumer devices aren’t.

(IPv6 space is big enough that there’s no reason that residential ISPs shouldn’t be assigning everyone larger prefix ranges by default, but that doesn’t mean they will. They probably think they can up-sell it. Thread is a great, simple protocol for the hypothetical world where the residential ISPs give up on this practice. It’s not so great for the world we’re in, unless you’re already using some separate VPN overlay network.)
Democracy is not designed to avoid radical changes. Plenty of examples (recent ones too) of elections leading to those.

Democracy is designed to avoid violent change.
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Regarding fingerprints, let's not forget that non-police system (eg. biometric passports) only register a subset of flat prints. On French passports, only two fingers are saved, and the prints are 'flat' - not rolled . Those are usable as a verification (is the holder of the document the actual owner?), but would prove very hard to use to identify someone out of a crowd (whose prints are on this gun/knife/glass?).
I did a lot of street photography, when I lived and worked in the downtown core of a major city. I still do whenever I can, making road trips to a nearby major city from my home in a minor one. I think it's the most difficult photographic genre to do well. On the one hand, a good street photographer is trying to document peoples' natural public lives - observing, but not interfering. On the other hand, it's rather invasive to single out a living subject in a photograph without their permission, even if the subject is in clear view in public.

Wildlife photographers don't need the animals' permission. Trees and mountains don't care about the people making landscapes. Buildings don't care about people capturing architecture. People sitting for a professional studio portrait sign model releases up front. Journalists generally only care about not getting in emergency services' way.

But us street folk? We're in that odd zone where we need our subjects to both give permission (either implicitly or explicitly) and act natural. Many can't manage that balance. They either start doing urban architecture with silhouetted people and pretend that it's street (which I am frequently guilty of), or they go full-scale Bruce-Asshole-Gilden and rampage their way into people's faces.
wait if they couldn't grow anything how'd they get bread
Hopefully Managers also get to have good Management.
What does this offer over stock Turris or OpenWRT builds?
I apologize for breaking up our communication across this thread but you've made several fair points I would like to address.

Even my last apartment required a cosigner because of my lack of credit history. I don't have any family to turn to so I had to rely on the family of someone else. Many people don't even have that good fortune.

Less directly, I was illegally evicted from my first apartment (3 days to move out over burst pipes in a multi-unit dwelling which caused our unit to flood) and due to not having the credit to get a loan to hire a lawyer to defend me against a clear cut case, I was blacklisted by my vengeful landlord and banned from renting anywhere in that city. Only lease I managed to get in that city after that was because I was friends with the leasing agent. I also lost hundreds of dollars in furniture including some vintage pieces due to getting only 3 days notice to vacate.

This set me back tremendously; as you can see it's a bit of a feedback loop between bad credit and bad rental experiences.
That's a shot in the dark, but I may ask it here: Do you have a simple documentation that would tell someone who knows how to route an IPV4 network and avoid the pitfalls, what is the correct way to do it in IPv6? I struggle to find a good summary of the things one needs to know
...with most big software products, you can't really "vote with your wallet", because they have a monopoly. They may even have "earned" that monopoly status because once a long time ago they were really good, and this was the reason they became successful.

But there's a certain type of mediocre-yet-charismatic people (call them bullshitters), which attach to such successful products like leeches, and the downward spiral begins.
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There should be an award of shame for this and I nominate Visio 2003.
Support for Scottish independence is greater in England than it is in Scotland. The U.K. isn’t Spain, the English are no more likely to keep the Scots in by force than the Canadians were going to keep Quebec in by force.
Keeping bean counters shouldn’t be the goal, but everyone does like to keep eating. What do you suggest for keeping the business healthy while not making things terrible?
> To me, it feels like the author is incapable of empathising with a larger user base than himself and only thinks about his benefit and how the changes affect him and how he uses the product.

I disagree. "Users hate change" is a meme that's generally accepted in the industry; the post applies empathy to dig into the reasons why it seems that "users hate change".

> Customers have the ultimate power: voting with their wallet. You don't like it? You go to the freaking competitor!

"Voting with your wallet" in a non-commodity market doesn't work. Doubly so if we're talking about complex products with complex feature sets, making each essentially an unique animal. Triply so if the "feature" of "not mindlessly messing with the UI/featureset" is impossible to predict ahead of time.
What does it have to do with the control key ?
I so forgot about tornadofx.. it's just what I was looking for. Thanks.
Get a USB sata drive caddy and mount before backing up, unmount afterwards.

Swap the drive.
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I spent a bit of time living in one of the post-Soviet central asian states, and after a while there this was a conclusion I came to, too.

Living in a dictatorship, but feeling more personal freedom than I ever had in the US.

On a day-to-day basis, there's significantly more curtailment of personal freedom in the US than there was in one of the stans.

The one thing I wouldn't feel safe doing there? Openly speaking against the government. Here, however, if I were part of a movement that was gaining any strength or public good will against the political and capitalist powers that run the US, I'd still be afraid for my life.

Like how nearly every leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, MO, has been killed over the last few years. That's not a coincidence, not a random series of killings.
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Scotland has Oil. England has gone through so much trouble over so many centuries with murders, wars, manipulation, lies, propaganda, provocacia, and other dark methods to ensure that England will rule over the UK/GB, so Scotland and Northern Ireland (to leave UK/GB and rejoin it's natural/geographical state - Irelad) will have to try very hard for independence from England and towards EU.

And it is a pity for this, especially after enjoying so many years of peace.
So how should the UK leave the EU? As the vote wasn't held on the basis of leaving without a deal, and you don't want a 2nd vote to ask an actionable question.
Yeah that makes sense, still it was a lot better than other systems I've used when I've phoned support lines for some commercial companies.
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> from the perspective of an east coaster

> And two story buildings,

Here on the West Coast we have these things called earthquakes. Tall, easily built, or safe: pick two, you can't have all three out here.
I reckon the five eyes were sharing these kinds of infos for years. After the Snowden revelations I tend to think that there ain‘t no info about us citizens that the three letter organizations don‘t have or cannot have. Phone call logs, personal infos, medical records, everything we can think of. If they are interested in something, they‘ll get it. Sucks big time. But it seems ain‘t nothing we can do about it.
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It still has iPhone slice, doesn't it? I'll wait with mine.
Therapist: So you're afraid that you're letting down people you've never met and who you've given something for free?

Me: Yeah, basically

-- Mathew Garrett
Something about this comment really unsettles me. I can’t tell if it’s thinking that what was a “statement”, if it’s the underlying attempt at some lame kind of power play on a new member of your team or if it’s something else entirely.
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My wife has handicaps (deaf and cerebral palsy). She gets nervous and mistrustful if something has changed. She hates updates and asked me why the companies can't let the software alone.

She has a point. Updates and nagging dialogs have a cost which is higher for non-IT people. Imagine your old neighbor being confused if he should allow that update or not and being stressed about because these update requests don't stop coming in.
Definitely not light and fluffy ...
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Isn't there a possibility of finding another job? Aren't we in a field where there's plenty of work and we shouldn't accept being exploited like this?
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Nor is there in the EU.

The only government that has my fingerprint is the US, despite being an Irishman.
For that use case, I just use `python3 -m http.server` (or the Python 2 equivalent), especially since Python is almost always already installed.
> Nature had a better solution all along.

No, not really. That these eat mosquitoes makes it clear that they don't wipe out mosquitoes, or they'd have died out for lack of food.

They may keep populations down to some extent, but any predator that wipes out its prey winds up dead quickly.
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The old mouse UI is due to third party software that adds their own interface on top of it. Microsoft do want to move away from it but they don't want to break backwards compatibility.
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TRT really is like buying a second youth
>"will aggregate"

This was an announced intention in April this year. The implementation of this decision probably needs further approvals and ratifications, and even after that, it takes time. The source material does not even exist, and I expect that in some EU countries collecting this data of all citizens will not be possible due to country legislation. Thus this is certainly far from complete, if even started at all.

It's safe to say that there is no database of 350 million EU citizens' fingerprints that anyone could copy.
Yes, it would be nice if the HN link went to the original article.

I suspect the author has decided to republish it for SEO as there is a follow link back to their site.

For intrigue:

petapixel.com domain authority is 90

www.paulreiffer.com domain authority is 48
The countries that run with with ESTA have already give these and much more info to USA's government a long time ago. Basically the countries volunteered all data beforehand to please the big boss (sorry I mean to say reduce bureaucracy and waiting times).
Old, well-known feature of one of the most popular languages. I must be missing something, because I have no idea how this became a hacker "news" :)
I didn't know I did it until I used a touchbar MBP, but it turns out a couple of my right hand fingers drift up to the tops of the number keys when making certain chording presses, which is close enough to barely brush the edge of the touchbar. Took me weeks to figure out what was up—I had no idea I was doing it. iTunes kept opening for no reason, or sometimes other things would happen (but usually it was iTunes). I'm not about to re-train my 25 years of touch typing muscle memory to fit a silly single-vendor feature that's probably not gonna survive in anything like its current form anyway—and besides, I can't make it part of my regular workflow if I use an external keyboard any significant amount of time—so instead I set it to always show the same set of stuff (no per-app changing) and then remove almost everything from it, using spacers to make about 2/3 of it permanently blank.

It's the only way to make a new MBP usable for me. I have to all but disable the damn touchbar.

I also have to disable force-touch on the trackpad to be able to execute all but the shortest of click-and-drag operations. Disabling two of the headliner "advanced" UI features of new MBPs are now very early initial setup steps for me. Machine's toss-it-out-the-window frustrating if I don't.
I don't see anything on that page referencing C++20. Am I missing something?

On a related note, I always find the official docs for GCC inline assembly are insufficient for figuring out what I am trying to do. I nearly always have to resort to dumb trial and error. I was just recently planning to write some docs of my own on the subject. Not tutorial docs, but reference docs.
Adobe should read this and understand it. Veteran users of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign get updates that change the default way of doing something and they don’t even provide a UI to change back. Don’t fix long-standing bugs, just change something that didn’t need changing.
That and the major performance downgrades to support unwanted features.
I have my control key mapped to caps lock and can't go back at this point.
I have to spend some more time on it but due to lack of getting started documentation or examples it was hard to get a Hello World project running.

On the GTK-rs side the documentation [1] is much better and I was up and running with a sample project in a few minutes.

[1]: https://gtk-rs.org/
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I remember when some software came with stickers or cutouts to put on/around function keys.

Keys-with-panels may be too difficult/expensive and the single row is also more flexible (allows for sliders, for example). But I’ve not really used these keyboards, I don’t know how well do they work.
I’d go further and say that in almost every domain, there is a startup to be built that can be described as “like X, but with a good UI”.

Never underestimate the power of good aesthetics and design.
Of course it is. You could note it from all the US-friendly legislation they've been pushing within the EU.

It's one of the reasons I was glad Brexit happened. The UK was usually the most important nation members pushing for surveillance laws in the EU and then have the EU share that data with the US.
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Thanks! I'm currently setting up a NAS and suspect that FreeNAS might not entirely serve my use case. Proxmox seems like it might work better for me.
Yes, I believe the spiders even eat their own webs and then produce new ones. But there always remain parts amd spiders die, change place etc. So old ones still remain.
> There are less than 2 dozen presidential candidates.

Not only are there actually 791 Presidential candidates, but there are 26 (27 if you count one who has only formed an exploratory committee)—that is, more than 2 dozen—that Ballotpedia calls “elected officials or notable public figures”.

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_registered_2020_presidential...
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FWIW the Binky Pointer videos are available on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i49_SNt4yfk
I think the TouchBar is here to stay. Non-programmers LOVE IT. Its crazy how many people come up and ask me about it at presentations. I was running a presentation the other day and had PowerPoint full screen and someone walked by and saw the mini slide previews and all the presenter controls on it and was absolutely blown away by it. They called over a few other people and they all left wanting a Mac.

For some its an irritation. For others its a revelation.