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Comment on the Reddit thread from where this screenshot was taken -

https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/o1x183/the_famou...

The ODBC Driver interface for configuration is tied to the old dialog.

The interface for the drivers was designed around GetOpenFileName() as it was at the time.

One of the features of GetOpenFileName/GetSaveFileName is that the structure passed in can include two special options- a function pointer to a hook routine, as well as a custom dialog template which windows will insert.

The functions were improved in Windows 95 with the "Explorer style". Even old programs get this style at the very least, because windows will imply the flag.

unless a template or hook routine is specified. See if a hook routine or template is specified and the OFN_EXPLORER flag is not, then the hook routine or template was designed for the old-style dialog. Windows uses the old-style dialog in this instance so that the program can run and doesn't crash.

The ODBC Driver configuration uses a dialog template to add the "read Only" and "Exclusive" checkboxes. That is why it shows the old style dialog.

People might say, "They should update it"

Update what?

If GetOpenFileName()'s ability to fallback to the old-style dialog is removed, than you won't see this dialog. Instead, it will crash. Cool. great experience.

the driver interface? OK great. so now there is a new version of the ODBC Driver interface. Now all the ODBC Drivers need to be updated. Some of the drivers were written by companies that are either out of business or rather different. I have this sneaking suspicion that Paradox software isn't going to be writing a new ODBC Driver for the MS-DOS Database.

Just drop everything? OK Cool.... so now companies get forcibly upgraded to Windows 11 and literally cannot do business because they rely on them in some manner. "They should upgrade". I won't get into that except to say it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard, but companies in that position are far more likely to find ways to not upgrade the software that caused the problem so, you know, they can keep doing business. And not upgrading the OS is certainly cheaper than countless thousands of man-hours in upgrading their Business software.

And a big thing people don't understand about backwards compatibility is it's not just about old programs working. It's about new ones working to.

If Microsoft removed all "backwards compatibility", than practically nothing would actually work. Software would be constantly crashing, sending error reports, etc. Now, call me crazy, but somehow that doesn't seem like it's a great experience. And if upgrading to Windows X+1 suddenly caused programs to crash left & right, nobody is going to blame the programs.
What are you using on mobile for:
- search
- note editing

I'm on Android and have found nothing good.
I went to one of these places when I was 13. Same thing, picked up in the middle of the night, and sent to a wilderness program that turned into 18 months of boarding school.

The school was burnt down by the students a few years after I left and I got a couple thousand dollars in a class action lawsuit when it came out that they were hiring unlicensed therapists and admitting students who should have been in intensive psychiatric care and were an immediate danger to others around them.

I look back on it as one of the most valuable experiences in my life, not because there was any validity to the program but because it just confronted me with a lot of intense challenges at a young age that really developed my critical thinking and mindset at a young age.
Blergh, was trying to decide between "two decades" and "quarter of a century" and my brain went with both!
what if they used a fan and didn't sleep under the covers?
I'm afraid you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what the "burden of proof" means in this context. Let's clarify a few things:

1) there is adequate and persuasive evidence that adding a barrier across the nose and mouth will impede particulate spray during speech and normal bodily functions like coughing or sneezing. It will not act as a micron level filter. To say that cloth masks "haven't been shown to help do anything" is demonstrably false, but trying to treat masks as a full respirator is equally misleading.

2) Using a mask when you have or suspect you have a cold shouldn't be stigmatized, as you are literally helping to make sure that you are minimizing other people's exposure to whatever is making you ill

3) Social distancing is not the same as quarantine. Asking you to stay home as much as possible during a pandemic is a measure to help slow transmission rates. Stopping all travel into our out of a designated area is quarantine. If you're staying home after travel and unable to leave your home, that's quarantine. If you're avoiding restaurants, that's social distancing.

4) the burden of proof test is a legal test in determining who is responsible for providing evidence to back their claim, and the innocent until proven guilty standard is limited to criminal trials. To conflate that with assuming someone is healthy during a pandemic until they show symptoms shows a gross misunderstanding of how communicable disease transmission works. In many viruses, this included, the incubation period comes without symptoms and is fully communicable. You can be actively infecting other people without symptoms. Surely you can understand the reasonable difference between the two.

5) your claim that the standard in the last century has been "survive infection, you should be good until proven otherwise" is also false. This is true for some diseases but not others. Again, flu comes to mind as an example.

I want to address your last point separately. It is well acknowledged and understood that resource, income, healthcare, and access disparity have played a large role in how this pandemic was handled and mis-handled. We have much to learn from our experience here. That said, you cannot simply hand-wave "funny paper" and say that public health doesn't matter. Sure, the society that we live in is heavily reliant on exploitation. Yes, that's a problem, and not a simple one. Yes, because of that people have to work, and people have to take those risks when it shouldn't be necessary. That's all the more reason to place caution over pride and comfort. They are forced to bear undue risk, why should anyone have the privilege to add to that burden of risk when much of it is easily mitigated by limiting how much time we spend in public spaces and by wearing a face covering?
>> The internet is the illusion.

> I mean, you're a real person that wrote this, and I'm a real person replying to you. No one of this is not real.

I agree that it's all real, but I do say: there is so much less basis of experience gained from interacting with one another on the internet today are much smaller. I would say our experiences gained are very much "less real" because of that. We're not going to recognize one another the next time we cross paths, in all chance, we're not going to have anywhere near the visual or auditory recognition or pattern matching an in-the-world encounter would have brought. The internet is real, people on it are real, but our experiences here are extremely glancing, only the most bare, stripped down contacts, and most of us interact with each other on a near-effectively-anonymous basis, as though everyone were wearing masks & using text-to-speech systems, wearing the same plain clothes. The bandwidth of experience we have with one another in these interactions is extremely tiny.

The internet & online communications is real, it is not an illusion. But nearly everything that happens here comes almost entirely out of context. It relies on us to access our pre-established bits of context to understand & discern meaning. The receiver here has far far far more power than the sender, and the sender has very few signals or images at their disposal to establish themselves, comparatively.

The internet today really feels like a forest in which the inhabitants, almost universally, remain in the dark.
There are probably no simple answers when it comes to how a person's character forms. I just wanted to point out that "the parents are at fault" is not the whole truth either.
Another issue with these "just asking questions" posts (some call them JAQing off) is that they often aren't in good faith and even when they are they create the false impression of an even debate on things that really are mostly settled.

I think these subjects that require a lot of care and can have a lot of impact based solely on rhetoric are really not what blogs and rapid response commentary excels at.

I'm happy at least there is enough detachment here for it to be realized, in most other places this would be drowned out in the echo of bickering.
Now let’s see how fast it gets hacked. People are already creating fake vaccination records, when this gets hacked, it’s going to create a mess.
18 years a slave
It’s insane these are a thing. I didn’t know about them until the recent Paris Hilton documentary. She was sent to something similar and if I recall correctly was taken in the middle of the night, as though being kidnapped.
If you had a child like you were, what would you do? What do you think the best solution is for such a “troubled teen”?
+55-56C is about is the hottest AIR temp you'll get globally. Pretty common to see telecomm gear that falls in line with this max temp. The +55C does not include heat from direct sunlight/insolation. Unless rated for much higher temps, you'll need a sun shade for your gear out in the field. Problem with Starlink is that with a sun shade you'd most likely lose line of sight to the sats or attenuate the signal badly.
In that case is AC still needed or would a dehumidifier be better to "cool down" a very humid house? I'm actually curious about the energetic efficiency of running a dehumidifier vs just turning on AC. AC has the advantage of outright lowering temperature while also dumping some of the humidity, but id guess not nearly as much as a dehumidifier. And if you are sweating at 78° it is probably so humid inside that just lowering temperatures ends up gets you very diminishing returns
> something even newer

;) Sadly I think this is the group Microsoft is least likely to attempt to cater towards.
Is it though?

http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2015/021...

Even if it cures some cancers, it may cause others (skin and lymphoma according to the study above). And the inventor's story is an anecdote, not a study.

I'm not saying with any confidence that Rapamycin is a bad thing. I'm just asking a question, which I think is fair, considering the long list of strong adverse effects in higher dosages:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirolimus#Adverse_effects

Perhaps these side effects don't show in low doses. But I don't know that, and the linked article doesn't discuss it, so I'm asking.
That could work but you’d probably feel too cold, haha. The eco solution would be to get a whole house dehumidifier and a ceiling fan. But for those who already have central air that seems superfluous
I was stuck using Android honeycomb way past its prime for a few years as a kid. Granted that was years ago so it's /really/ past its prime now, but I was definitely grateful for the developers who still supported my device since I didn't have the choice to get a newer one.

Tangentially, there are parts of Honeycomb I miss, like a coherent task manager that actually killed app processes when I asked it to, being able to easily root my device with no real downsides, etc.
The idea was that because in his mind, climate change is only caused by changes in Earth's orbit, the BLM can't do anything to help. Asking if they could change orbits was sarcastic.
Does anyone have a non-paywall version of this story ?
Most dehumidifiers generate heat. It would need to be a whole house dehumidifier which usually exhausts the hot air outside . A dehumidifier that keeps things cool is basically just air conditioning.
My laptop is an AMD Ryzen 5 2500U.

Plenty of issues starting from the installation.

I had to stop the installer from booting, add this hard to find line:
ivrs_ioapic[4]=00:14.0 ivrs_ioapic[5]=00:00.2
to the kernel load line, just to be able to install it.

And then, after finally managing to install it, the stability issues. Even with the latest Liquorix kernel, after some hours, the system just kept randomly freezing. It was a total infuriating experience.

And I was not the only one with these issues:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/can%...

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=250297

I nuked Linux, and now the machine runs only Windows. And it works fine. No more randomly freezing.

That's what I get for being an AMD fanboy and an early adopter. I'm glad you have the latest Zen processors, I am not so lucky.
Cynthia remembers her daughter as a bright, thoughtful and athletic young girl who had always done well academically until she began suffering from mental health problems aged 14. Her struggles led her to become suicidal and begin experimenting with illegal drugs. When Erica was admitted to hospital and excluded from school, the family felt frightened and out of their depth.

I am reminded of this piece from a few days back:

A boy, his brain, and a decades-long medical controversy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27509586

I first began blogging about twenty years ago to write about parenting. That never really gelled and I keep trying and failing.

We seem to have gone wrong somewhere really badly. It seems like you can't talk about the connections between physical health, social stuff and mental health anymore. It's verboten or someone decries it as "practicing medicine without a license" or (insert some other objection) or maybe people just no longer understand the connections.

"A sound mind in a sound body" is a very old saying, yet we seem to now think mental health is some distinct issue from physical health.

I am appalled that the parents thought they could help their child by deceiving her so terribly. I cannot fathom where people get such ideas.

It's crazy making when you can't trust the people close to you, doubly so when they have as much power over you as parents have.

I keep wanting to write about such things but my only real qualification is "I was a full-time mom for a lot of years and I'm a great mom" and how do you prove that? That was a private activity.

My sons think I'm a great mom and say so regularly, but you can't build an audience on that and ...there have been a lot of issues I have been trying to sort out, from how to write well to how to deal with privacy issues while writing about family life.

I don't know how to make the connections I need to make with people in order to get meaningful traction on what to write about, where to promote it, etc. And it just really upsets me to see articles like this and feel like good information on the topic of parenting is desperately needed and not know how to make that happen.
I work on the core OS.

This is the answer. Now it could be done to maintain backwards compat and have everything completely up to date, but the juice is not worth the squeeze and there are more important things to focus on (such as making the OS work/build in such a way that there won’t be inconsistencies in the future).
Humidity is definitely a huge factor. A/C acts as a dehumidifier. Another factor is the amount of IR being emitted by interior surfaces. If it's really hot outside (and the building isn't insulated to the latest top-tier building standards), the ceiling and walls can be radiating enough IR heat that a 78F air temperature feels quite uncomfortable.
I take it you're not a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright then?
I understand the backwards compatibility case for APIs, but not for OS dialogs. Is there a compatibility reason why the folder properties dialog is crufty (unresizable, etc)? I always just assumed there was no engineering appetite or business case to work on it.
Sure.

First off, individual rankings often do not measure actual performance, but rather statistical noise. Awarding Alex with a bonus because Alex happened to be the luckiest in what was essentially a lottery (that's what the maximum of statistical noise is) tends to breed frustration, first in everyone else for not getting the bonus despite doing almost everything the same as Alex. But the next year, some people will start doing things like Alex did them, and they'll still not get the bonus because they didn't also have the luck of the draw. Alex will also get frustrated because Alex might have continued to do things exactly the same as before, except now ranked much worse!

When you're rewarding statistical noise, you're effectively holding a lottery. That's weird, but probably not so bad. When you tell your employees that it's based on performance, you're flinging your company into a cycle of despair and confusion -- or, at best, indifference.

But wait, there's more!

Let's pretend that you work for a company that is careful to ensure that performance is statistically significant before awarding any bonuses or ranking people. Companies don't do this, but we're free to imagine them to.

Even in this case, Kim's outperformance is often possible only because Kim's team propped them up and assisted them. Rewarding only Kim and not their team breeds discontent in their team. You might argue that "if Kim wants to continue outperforming, obviously it is Kim who should share the bonus with the team." Sure, but do you ever think that happens? What happens is that the team will start hiding information from Kim.

And then people start to game the system. They go for the easy sells to customers who are bad fits. They ship things that shouldn't be shipped. They cherry-pick metrics to support their performance. When you make a ranking or a bonus a goal, that's what you're telling people to aim for, not quality of work.

There are more arguments here like how bonuses are not as motivating as you think -- unless you pay people too little to begin with in the first place, but I think Deming's arguments end with the above.

I can see how having the team rewarded for "your" performance can suck. In a healthy team, "your" performance wouldn't be possible without your team anyway, so it's not so odd as it may sound. In an unhealthy team, the work of improvement maybe has to start somewhere else.

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TBH I don't really see how the Settings app is an embarrassment at this point in time. This was definitely true in Windows 8 and early Windows 10 versions, but with the leaps and bounds it's made since, I feel like 'settings app suxx' is a meme that has overstayed its welcome.
>mainframe systems

Yep, a whole new Y2K when people live 2000 years. And then many years later, "sorry boss it's gonna crash in a few months. The was written in ancient times and only supports 32bit ages."
And you are forcing me to use Twitter!

Oh! The irony.
There is quite a lot parents can do to stack the odds, though of course nothing is ever certain. Signing their kids up for extracurricular activities to keep them busy after school is something my parents did. And not all teenagers are disobedient all the time; twice my parents forbade me from hanging out with somebody. Maybe it's a coincidence, but one of those people is now in prison for domestic violence, and the other is dead from drug abuse. In retrospect I think my parents were right to put their foot down in the case of those two.
78 at my thermostat can easily mean 85+ on the upper floor. (No it's not a very efficient house)
Terence Tao wrote that mathematical maturity is developed in three stages: the pre-rigor stage, the rigor stage, and the post-rigor stage.

The rigor stage usually begins during the second or third year of university, and ends about half way through one's PhD. Although in reality it's more of a very gradual tapering off, and is something one likely never fully exits.

By my estimation, you need to do between 1000-2000 proofs to complete the rigorous stage of your math education. Doing these proofs forces you to slowly "ablate away" your bad mathematical intuition, replacing it with correct intuition, informed by the rigor super-structure within which you're required to operate.

Assuming one does on average 50 proofs per course, that's, at a minimum, twenty proof-based math courses you need to take.

The hard part about learning advanced mathematics on your own is that you need an expert to read your proofs and provide feedback. There is no compiler for pure mathematics which can take the place of a human. I would advise anyone who is serious about learning advanced mathematics to enroll in courses at a university. There's no need to matriculate, most universities offer open university on a pay-per-course basis.

One only needs to visit the viXra to see what happens when people try to skip the hard work and go directly from the pre to the post-rigor stage.
Hmm, I disagree. Vietnam was able to lock down. They're below average in GDP per capita. Their lockdowns were more effective than in any rich country and as a result they had a smaller economic impact.

Ultimately wether lockdowns can or can't be done is a question of governmental efficiency. In general, either the population is mostly rural in which case very little social contact is necessary for economic activity to continue, or the have a very urban population which means that they only need a smaller part of the population to work to make the country tick for a month or so.
I don't know if Apple deserves to be in that list, UI-wise at least.

Yes, they do break backwards compatibility in many many other ways, but you could put a technical layperson who is used to Mac OS 9 and put them on macOS 11.4 (for those unfamiliar, Apple's OS has been at 10.x for about 20 years) and they would still reasonably be able to find their way around.

One element especially (the global menu bar) is why I got my parents to switch to macOS. They had to learn where 'print' or 'edit' or 'save' was once, and now they can find it for any program, and it'll probably still be in that place in 20 years time.

Its also why I think it's sad that Gnome abandoned the global menu bar. It's an amazing concept that if stuck with makes computers so much easier to use for a large contingent of people.
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Today's entitlement is tomorrow's baseline expectation
Counter anecdotal view point, I've been using BTRFS over the last 4 years now on multiple drives and multiple systems. No data loss has occurred.
You don't know that. It's highly likely that they know it will do damage above those temps and are doing this to prevent damage. We will see in a year or so.
I’ve heard so many conflicting conclusions on jury nullification, with mini saying it’s illegal. Is that true? Is it illegal for a juror to stand up and say we should vote not guilty because the law is wrong, or the cause is just?
GraphHopper is anazing. Thank you! I also prefer the routes it creates and use it for bicycle routing.
To note, extremely sucessful lockdowns were executed by Vietnam, which has a GDP per capita of 2700$, a seventh of the global average. That is to say, if they have a competent government, even poor countries did lockdown successfully.
Yes it is, and Erlang isn't a counterexample. As you noted, it's not a "pure" FP, and it is exactly the messaging elements that let it handle these things.

Q: Erlang "object-oriented" after all?

A: Yes.

http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2009-November/0...