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Wow, Windows just keeps getting worse. Anyone know who’s responsible for the Mac OS inspired start menu?

Presumably it’s an easy to change default, but why exactly copy such a user hostile layout.
If someone wants to intentionally fly a drone into restricted airspace, this will not stop them.

Furthermore, your claims about the FAA being created to restrict airspace is revisonist at best.

https://www.faa.gov/about/history/brief_history/
Looks like Windows Monterey, with the "Start menu" now being a Spotlight clone!

I am unsure if the removal of the titlebar is a good thing - there is still an alt-space menu to the left of windows that do not have an icon top left, and double-clicking on a titlebar is a convenient place to double-click; this isn't possible with no titlebar (eg. in Chrome/Firefox at the moment).

Looks a nice modern UI refresh though.
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They won’t lose their license. They’ll just be out of currency. Which means they can’t fly passengers until they get current which is as single as three takeoffs and landings.
> “We must redefine our way of life and consumption.”

Judging by our failures so far, there is absolutely no chance of this happening on the time frame needed to have the desired impact. It would take a mobilization similar to the WW2 effort on a global scale and I don't see anything like that happening.

In fact, from the people I talk to, they don't even consider this a high priority. The fate of society is not a high priority in the lives of the average person. When the inevitable tsunami of refugees crashes on the shores of the rich countries they will blame the poor guys for being poor, not even contemplating the idea that our way of live was one of the main contributors to their fate.

Voting for political parties that have this issue as a priority has almost no effect currently. Individual lifestyle changes have negligible impact. The super powerful people seem to think they will be fine in New Zealand. Any ideas on what we can do?
Most parts of the US aren't like that. Even California wasn't like that not too long ago.
3) get a tiny-whoop style micro. They are generally under the weight requirement around a 100 bucks but are super great platform to learn on.

They don't have all the fancy stabilization and idiot proofing that you might get with a dji style drone, these drone types came more from the RC/Racing community.
That's an argument for transparency, not for unlimited free speech. It is, in fact, somewhat the opposite of what's been pushed for recently, with people like Zuckerberg wanting "privacy for me, but not for thee".

Transparency allows us to see what's going on inside companies, and make sure that they're not making decisions that are to the detriment of our society as a whole.

Unlimited free speech allows bigots and fascists to spread their poison unobstructed, which demonstrably helps them to recruit more people into their white supremacist, genocidal, and anti-democratic movements. Meanwhile, as a cost to maintain this "principle", thousands (and more) of real people are being hurt or killed, or having their livelihoods destroyed, simply because of the way they were born.
Grinding metal makes noise and attracts attention. It's not a solution rather a deterrent to make it harder for the thieves to get to the cat without special tools.
I'm actually in the UK and it appears until relatively recently, the CAA did assert control over indoor airspace. But recently they've relaxed the rules and said if there's no possiblity of escape, you can do what you want.

That does mean technically that if you're flying a drone indoors, the legality depends on how wide you open the windows.
UI Designers don't give a rip about Fitt's Law or any of these self-proclaimed design "laws". Unless it's a useful authority to appeal to for beating opposing UI Designers.
You'd fail 14 CFR § 103.1.a:

"Is used or intended to be used for manned operation in the air by a single occupant;"
225k is already an extremely generous salary.

I don't care who you are, or what power you think you have, I don't see why society should tolerate your greed if you think you need or deserve more than that. That buys an extremely comfortable life anywhere you look.

I don't see why we should tolerate people seeking extravagant lives over comfortable ones. It's disgusting.

Seriously you're arguing a multi-millionaire needs a higher salary give your head a shake.
Right, but that is the same as a loss being expected. They want to wait for someone that they think they can make a winning case against. Right?
I've been talking about this a lot lately, so maybe I'm repeating myself, but Ellen Ullman's (very good) book Life in Code she writes about Whitfield Diffie's (of Diffie-Hellman fame) speech at the 2000 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in Toronto.

> "We were slaves to the mainframe! he said. Dumb terminals! That's all we had. We were powerless under the big machine's unyielding central control. Then we escaped to the personal computer, autonomous, powerful. Then networks. The PC was soon rendered to be nothing but a "thin client," just a browser with very little software residing on our personal machines, the code being on network servers, which are under the control of administrators. Now to the web, nothing but a thin, thin browser for us. All the intelligence out there, on the net, our machines having become dumb terminals again."

I think yielding control back to remote administrators is ultimately a mistake if you care about freedom and privacy. It's why I've come to believe the web, as a platform, is in some ways a giant step backwards (and I do realize that's not a popular opinion here).

I like that Apple is slowing things down. Users are better served by well written native apps IMHO. It makes life more difficult for those of us who write software but also for those who want to sell to, spy on, or control users.
I think an interesting thing mentioned at the end about the Microsoft Store is that if developers use their own "commerce engine" they keep 100% of the profits.
No you don't. You were required to register once as an operator, but the same ID number can be placed on any number of drones.

I have been building & flying for about 6 years now, personally I don't bother with any of this stuff. Instead I just follow what should be common sense rules and have yet to have any issues.
Nice! Just need to run some more...
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I think it's a good thing to study it scientifically, but also to be extremely conservative in the application of results. Some very thorny problems just off the top of my head:

1. Monitoring/counting "spontaneous interactions" is extremely difficult.

2. Simple "counting" of spontaneous interactions seems like exactly the wrong approach, because one would probably expect that 99% of interactions would be mundane but then 1% would be important.

3. How do you define "innovation"?

4. One might suspect that the benefits of in-person interaction would show up on longer timescales rather than shorter timescales. For example, this article is long on pointing out that how in-person interactions can be detrimental to minorities and women, but my opinion (not fact, just opinion) is that basically all of my closest business connections were formed in person. Now that I'm late in my career remote vs. in-person is not as critical to me because I have a strong network, but right out of college it was critical, and my career would have suffered greatly had I not forged those relationships early. I got every single one of my jobs after my first through my network that started in my first job (not necessarily directly, but often times through the "hey, I heard from someone they are looking for XYZ, and I heard you might be looking" channel).
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Indeed! The shared office building we're renting offices in was visited by the furniture police not too long ago.

Fortunately, they didn't enter the offices, if they did, we'd have thrown them out, but they did put up gigantic signs in the hallways with slogans like "together we achieve more" and "coworking can be contagious". First we laughed in disgust, then we simply became banner blind. Then covid hit.
Marketing noise and kicks off a sales frenzy for enterprise customers :)
W7 was the only MS product I ever paid money for (as a student), and feel like it was a great deal.

Would gladly keep paying for security enhancements for it and don't really see anything that W10 (or W11 for that matter) offers over it for work or gaming.

It's a real shame that taking away controls from power users seem to be more important than providing a great product. But I guess when you're a monopoly you can do whatever you want.
The role of government isn't to support whichever industry is currently employing a lot of people and ignore everything else. I know it sounds a little insane, but I think the rule of law and our moral center is more on the ticket.
In case you haven't seen it: https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/
That isn't the same as dropped, to me. So, maybe?
Absolutely. Microsoft doesn't have a large existing Windows Store business to protect, so why not make Apple's life harder?

I think it's also the solution that best meets the reality of apps in 2021. Big third-party devs like Netflix and Amazon will opt out of in-app purchase entirely before giving a cut to the platform owner. May as well let them use their own payment system so users get a better experience than signing up on the web.
In person meetings boost opportunities for corporate butt sniffing by managers and aspiring ladder climbers.
Anecdata, but I've witnessed re-melanizing of formerly gray follicles.

My wife tried intermittent fasting after reading some health claims about it. (i.e. autophagy). In the beginning I was skeptical.

After a month or so of intermittent fasts, her hairdresser noticed an obvious line of salt and pepper hair that was growing in brown at the roots.

I now believe the health claims of fasting have merit, and I hope future research can quantify the degree of benefits.
Absolutely necessary: drink water.

Also, if you have any medical conditions or plan to fast longer than 2 weeks -- seek medical observation.

I would also suggest eating a tiny bit of vitamins, electrolytes and proteins, just for safety. Your organism cannot synthesize all proteins that are needed and can't produce vitamins (by very definition) even if it gets good at conserving them.

For example tryptophan is precursor for serotonin and melatonin and cannot be synthesized by human body. You are risking depression and sleep problems without any intake of it.

Also I am not medical professional. You should probably not base your health and safety on word of a layman dropping his opinion on HN:)
I'm sure they will gladly accept a billion dollar fine for their video chat service to be dominant.
I do. It was Microsoft.
I'm not sure how this changes that. The fact is that pilot was already flying in an area where it was not allowed and already in violation of current law. You can't really legislate your way out of this.
"a Holly Grail of every aspiring software developer" You have to be kidding me.

Speaking as a Software Developer, there's no inducement on Earth you could offer me to work for the shitfactory that is Facebook. The company is evil through and through, and that starts at the top.
> Regulating emissions is so unpopular because it goes against financial interests of large companies.

You do not think the general public would be pissed off if they could no longer expect to live in detached single family homes on quarter acre lots and drive large personal vehicles?

It is enormously politically unpopular to let gas prices go up, and I do not see how one can blame large companies for that.
> No, you're lying. The state is an artificial construction, and I'm advocating the lack of thereof. I'm not promoting the construction of an institution that is supported by enslaving men and women. If you're, finding a way to defend this sick vision of the world is on you.

You only think this because you were brainwashed by your preferred flavor of anarchism ever since you started reading those propaganda web sites on the internet.

See how easy it is to debate using your style?

On a serious note - government and state are self-emergent phenomenons in any society. The problem you really have is how much control that society has over it’s governance and how much accountability people in government have.

But instead of discussing actually interesting things you choose to regurgitate slogans and propaganda from anarchist websites, firmly entrenching yourself into confirmation, sunk cost and other biases, without actually trying to understand the subject.
Current law already has penalties.
I would argue that the difference is that there isn't a one most important button in the dock like the Start button. Even if the dock was corner aligned it would only make it easier to select either the Finder or Trash icon depending on which corner it was in.
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Not a fan of the Android apps installable and discoverable onto Windows...but through the Amazon appstore. Weird, and I'd much more prefer installing to PC from Google Play itself.
I have my taskbar vertical on the left of my screen - so that will be interesting in Windows 11
We are 12 (and hiring). All engineers. Each of our client projects only need 2-3 engineers.

We specialize in software only medical devices. Engineers handle the design controls with input from product owners. We even got a product implemented and a 510(k) cleared using RDM and a team of just 3 engineers.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPMN/pmn...

It adds a little bit of overhead but we think it results in a better product in the end because engineers are thinking more about building the right thing as opposed to just building the thing right. It also results in a safer product since engineers are thinking about risk as they design and implement the product. Automated documentation generation also cuts down on manual process that required non-technical folks in the first place.
Ok...What are you talking about? Don't they already? How does changing that help anything? It would certainly still be a massive slowdown for half the population and certainly not "trivial" to change them all
> a “fix” for the victims or descendants of victims would require massive wealth transfers

My take on this, as a child of white immigrants, is that the Native Indian population would prefer something other than money. I think this kind of easy solution, just give them some money, is the type of solution that has been tried over and over without success. Even worse, we'll carve out some land and tell a tribe "this is yours" only to steal it back as soon as some commercial opportunity makes it valuable.

In the medium sized town I live nearby, large tracts of native land sit unused as undeveloped trash pits surrounded by condo and townhouse developments. How are natives expected to live a traditional life off the land when on one side there are supermarkets and strip malls and on the other side suburbs? Eventually many bands cave in and throw up their own gated communities which they lease to rich white retirees. One corner of the remaining land gets to stand for a local band community centre and maybe a small section of housing for a few lucky band members. My own perception is that corruption within the bands is rife, with chiefs and their family/friends benefiting from the rent-seeking and pretty much everyone else in the band losing out.

I think the harsh reality is that the kind of society and life that Native Indians dream of cannot be lived alongside modern industrial capitalism. It isn't just forestry, mining, oil and gas pipelines ruining their habitat. It is the very root of capitalist consumerist culture that is incompatible with the very conception of life they wish to maintain. You can't make that go away with money or by temporarily relocating them. It would require a cultural shift that would alter every aspect of Canadian life.

The funny thing is, we're all just jumping on to the global warming bandwagon. But the only communities I see taking environmental stewardship seriously are the Native Indians. They've been literally screaming at the top of their lungs about the destruction we are wreaking to this planet for decades. And instead of listening to them we just pressure them until they give in and accept whatever bribe we muster alongside a weak apology for past transgressions. And then they retreat into depression and alcoholism. It's a heart-breaking cycle and more money (or "wealth transfer") isn't the solution.
Did something change?

(Windows users/developers have always been able to use various distribution systems... likewise for macOS.
> We are still in very early stages.

Bitcoin is 12 years old. Comparing cryptocurrencies to the early days of internet and the web is beyond ridiculous. There's still zero evidence of what will most likely happen, except for more of what we've seen so far: speculation, extortion, money laundering.
Most platinum group metals come from Africa. Not that the transparency is any better there.
>Is there any doubt that their reckless drive towards anything that increases user engagement has directly resulted in the polarized societies we see everywhere today?

Yes. I doubt it. I think traditional media deserves a lot (most?) of the blame. It is easy for us to blame the internet because we are on the internet. As a generation we've practically forgotten that TV and radio exists and as a result massively undervalue its influence. In our head we all know the stereotype of the fox news addicted older person, yet for some reason we assign more blame to whatever the FB algorithm shows on accident than to the things that network shows on purpose.
Also, if my example seemed too abstract, let's imagine a real-world presidential election using IRV in a red state like West Virginia. In 2020, Trump got about 70% of the vote. Now suppose Mitt Romney ran as well in a three-way race against Trump and Biden. Since Romney is also a Republican, then it's likely some of the Trump voters would've ranked him first, but most of the Democrats would've still preferred Biden. But since Romney is more moderate than Trump, the Democratic voters would probably still prefer him over Trump. Now the results might look like this:

45% of voters rank Trump 1st, Romney 2nd, Biden 3rd

25% of voters rank Romney 1st, Trump 2nd, Biden 3rd

30% of voters rank Biden 1st, Romney 2nd, Trump 3rd

This seems like a fairly plausible real-world situation, and it also seems pretty easy to imagine how Democrats could look at the polling numbers and realize that Biden is never going to win in their state, and that ranking Romney 1st is their only chance to stop Trump.
I'm not sure "cherry-picking while removing context has been crowd-sourced" is a great argument for the victory of truth (of the idea of media bias, presumably) over propaganda, but I take your point that the initial drive over a few relatively-centralized media to promote and categorize a "left-wing media" is no longer the main source from which people are receiving that message.

(FWIW, I actually agree with you that many outlets have a consistently left-wing slant, for certain values of "left-wing", on a variety of issues, and I think most of what passes for news media generally is absolute garbage—but I also think that perceptions of that, on the right, tend to be only loosely related to reality, and that media coverage of media bias, to include social media, is itself ground zero for bias)
Can’t wait to have gigabit speed on the moon while my home broadband still dies when I open a Netflix stream
I dunno. Staying in an Airbnb in Seoul, I woke at ~1am to someone banging on my door and yelling for about five minutes. Pretty sure if it weren't locked, I'd be in some sort of trouble.
That's five billion reasons for the IRS to comb through the transactions looking for prohibited self-dealing.
This is a really awfully broad generalization. Crime in SF, NY, Chicago, Boston, LA or Houston are all vastly different situations. Even with shootings up a ton this past year, NYC is still safer per capita than places like Savannah. SF seems to have gotten very out of control, though. Fwiw, I would never leave my car unlocked anywhere, but I also wouldn't feel weird about leaving a bag out. And there is a ton of pick pocketing and petty theft in places like Barcelona, Lisbon, Rome and Paris. Big cities require some attentiveness.
I did a 60 day water only fast, minor electrolyte supplementation, and a handful of vitamins & other supplements later in the fast.

Lost 80 lbs in 60 days, kept off around 60 of it for 3+ years. Here's my spreadsheet log.[1] Note this is NOT how I would do things now.

I'll be around for the next hour or so and do my best to answer any questions, if I don't catch you, my e-mail is my username here at gmail.

[1]https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VjOINqshBNPpiUuxHgn2...
Certain suburbs like Irvine CA are for safety but not for diversity and culture of a city. Choose one.
It's less "legalese" than Eric's open contempt for academic insiders, and tongue-in-cheek rebel spirit (he literally released it on April Fool's Day, on the premise of repurposing the holiday for outsider/heterodox proposals [0]).

[0] https://twitter.com/ericrweinstein/status/979379894978150400
I'm a 6th generation Canadian on my father's side, my mother immigrated from Scotland. I'm about as colonialist as they come. I agree with everything you said. I just wanted to add one thing... I don't hold my views out of some misplaced or misguided post-colonial white guilt. I hold my views because of the reality of the situation. I cannot stand the "I will not pay for what happened generations before me" stance, I just cannot tolerate it. Even if one was to feel that, it so illogical with regards to the reality on the floor in Canada that I just cannot entertain it. If we do not do the best we can to back ourselves out of forced entry into an existing "Canadian" society, and then try to reintegrate with the guidance and permission of the natives, the future of Canada, in my opinion, is not at all bright. I realize some reading this may find my perspective extreme, nevertheless, I hold this belief deeply.
Exactly, just more lipstick on a pig. They never seem to fully commit to anything.
The more I've watched Apple bungle the app store over the past decade, without really improving things either the more I swing from the "it's their platform, they should be able to do what they want" to "they should at least be forced to provide an alternative path".
So the first tweak would be something like:

.bar_icons {
float: left;
padding: 10px;
}
> Isn't it known that Facebook is aware the more enraged you are, the more engaged you are.

It is. With how much Facebook makes and spends on "consultants" and lobbyists, do you think the company cares?
Not in Georgia if it is your land or your wife/brother/sister/dependent of you and you all live in the same house hold. You’re still required to get a free deer harvest record or free Turkey stamp etc…. No hunter ED required. [1]

[1] https://georgiawildlife.com/licenses-permits-passes/choose