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iOS is the only remotely-mainstream GUI OS I know of that feels similar to BeOS, in terms of responsiveness to user interaction, though I'd say that's less true now than it was several versions ago, even on very new devices. 3-6, and the hardware those versions ran on at release, seemed like the sweet spot for magically-instant responsiveness to input.

Agreed that M1s with macOS have temporarily given something kinda resembling that back to the desktop, though I'm sure developers are toiling even now to make sure it feels slow a year or two from now (mostly not developers at Apple, to be clear).
You can’t shoot the shit over zoom. Ever tried? It is super awkward.

Slack is good for easy questions where you already know how to convert your thoughts into words. If you don’t because your thoughts are currently encoded visually… slack (or any online medium) doesn’t work. In the real world I would almost always abandon the slack conversation and go visit the person / people.

Email is crap for communication, at least for my working style.

The rest are okay when you’ve got a lot of clarity already but not so hot when you are very early in the ideation phases.

All of your substitutes are significantly lower bandwidth, much more latent mediums.

You can’t replace face time with online. You just can’t.
This is great. Finally a non hacky way to run mobile apps on a desktop. This is less about competing with Apple’s universal binaries, and more about increasing Windows’s versatility.

You can already run Linux on Windows. Now you can run Android. No need to mess around with Archon, Nox, Genymotion anymore. Got a weather app you like? An audiobook player? Done.

Hopefully this means more interoperability with Microsoft’s own Android apps, so buying a phone like the Surface Duo and using the Your Phone feature actually does something.
Face to face conversation doesn’t scale. It’s also still possible with zoom…

A hallway conversation is a random happenstance between a couple of people. Any decisions made are going to have to be communicated more broadly as a next step anyway, which will require written communication.
Windows already had a vendor maintained App Store, though. It will just actually be useful now.
I appreciate the new system. When the first set of rules requiring certification went through, I called all 3 of the training locations the FAA had listed in my state and none of them had any idea what I was asking about. I ended up not flying my drone for over a year, until I brought it to Mexico.
This is one of the big reasons I've chosen to use Android where I can install apks on my device. Though I may not have the "blue bubble" of iMessage so many in the USA seem to associate with higher status
Removing the major source of non-verbal social cues, and an essential element of infant and child development, for an extended period, seems like it will be a huge sacrifice for a healthy society.

Also - I find it incredible that the effectiveness against viral infection of putting a piece of cloth over your face is favourably compared to the effectiveness of a vaccine.
I love Facebook. It makes me feel good. It's the best way to publicly share my nature photography, and keep up with distant friends and family. The key is to "hide all from" pages for news, politics, memes, etc so they don't show up when your friends share posts. If I wanted to read biased garbage from the likes of Breitbart or the New York Times I would follow those pages myself.
> lacking the ability to position on any other screen edge?

I didn’t watch the video, and your question mark gives me hope: Was this actually said? A horizontal taskbar would be horrible.
I hate blanket statements like this. Maybe some people can work this way over slack / meets / whatever. I personally cannot. I'd rather be in an office. No amount of expert opinion is going to change that, for me.
You're... dragging an empty div around. You know what else doesn't choke? Me dragging absolutely any window on my PC. It will happily do so at 120Hz without chugging. It even does crazy things, such as playing games with complex event loops at 120FPS.

The fact that you're excited at how dragging a single div around actually works as expected is a testament to how horrifyingly low your expectations are.
This is the inevitable result of Capitalism.

Journalism adapted to being disrupted by the Internet, by serving one sided audience with one sided outrage articles. The market selects for those. If FOX news admitted liberals weren’t that bad, they would lose much of their audience.

And social network algorithms select for “engagement” which once again prioritizes ones sided outrage clickbait.
You don't. You do need to create an app in the Google API console to obtain the key to send GCM notifications, but that's completely independent from the Play Store.
This is true. There are rumours the key has leaked swirling.
I closed my Facebook account years ago, but is not Facebook alone, Youtube keeps recommending me far right extremist channels, I'm a POC immigrant, is that just bad luck? I'm the only one?. Is f*cking cruel at this point.
This is probably just going to be used so corporations can deploy software onto your device without worrying about you tampering with it (stuff like DRM.)
> Intensive specialized training is provided to offic- ers in departments using a police-based specialized police response. This strategy involves having sworn officers with specialized mental health training pro- vide crisis intervention services and act as liaisons to the formal mental health system. Deane et al.2 found that only three percent of departments use this ap- proach—among them, the Memphis Crisis Inter- vention Team (CIT). CIT officers make up about 15 to 20 percent of patrol officers and receive 40 hours of training that focuses on scenarios derived from actual incidents. Officers receive extensive training in de-escalation techniques.9
The second approach, a police-based specialized mental health response, was used by 12 percent of the departments. Mental health consultants, who were not sworn officers, were hired by the police depart- ment to provide on-site and telephone consultation to officers in the field. The third approach, a mental- health-based specialized mental health response, was used by 30 percent of the departments. This strategy involved reliance on mobile crisis teams. The teams were part of the local community mental health ser- vice system. The teams had developed a relationship with the local police departments to provide assis- tance on the scene.

http://jaapl.org/content/jaapl/33/1/50.full.pdf

Of note, the remaining 55% of the departments in that study did not have a formal policy at the time (2005).

edit: additionally, in that paper they discuss the notably high proportion of police officers expressing interest in mental health training - almost all of them
The "random encounters" thing is always funny to hear from executives, because they are rarely anywhere but in back-to-back meetings.
I think it’s simpler than that.

I suspect most people using a mouse also have their keyboard and so they just hit the Windows key instead.

The centered start menu is extremely useful for touch users on the other hand.
I don’t know about most. Value based pricing is common concept in SaaS and it explicitly doesn’t price based on the cost of delivering the service.

That said, a lot of higher tier offerings in SaaS differentiate themselves by SLAs, Support, assigned CSM, consulting time, etc. Those are cheap-iah to deliver when everything goes well but can cost a lot when there are problems.
Ultrawide (21:9) and super ultrawide (32:9) are becoming more common. If you put the menu in the middle, it's more consistent no matter the aspect ratio.
crappy phone apps on the my desktop PC?

just what I've always wanted

well at least now I'll be able to play Diablo Immortal....
Yes I agree. As someone who works with programmatic advertising technologies, I struggle to convince friends that 80% of what they see in a screen has been decided by a third party and it is not them “looking for it”.
We’re talking about hallway conversations as a source for innovation. Not all real-time communication in general. Yes, you can always hop on a zoom and chat through a problem.
I'm pretty sure they don't work. Citizens don't care why you are making their lives worse, they just know that you are making it worse. The authoritarian leader just needs to make some concessions and he has secured his voter base (assuming he pretends such a thing exists).
I’ve never heard of those and don’t know why I’d want them. Which gets to one of the main purposes of the official store, which is getting your app in front of people who haven’t heard of it.
TreeSheets is written with wxWidgets, which sadly has very disfunctional or even missing mobile ports. Likely you'd want to redo the whole UI anyway for this to function on a phone screen.

Then there's the matter of file storage.. it would need to hook up to some kind of cloud account etc.

In all, the amount of effort to bring this to mobile might possibly be the same as writing it from scratch.

Though.. PRs welcome! :)
Because corporations have too much control over what goes onto people's devices.
I mean, the other alternative is just keep your prompt simple. ;-)
Pop-up file previews with spacebar in Explorer please...?

That's my #1 pain point when moving between Mac and Windows. It's so annoying that the spacebar does nothing.
The blade brake on a walk behind was mandated in 1982 at a federal level by the CPSC. Riding mowers were mandated by ansi 2003 standard, including everyone's favourite 'operator presence control's aka the seat safety switch.

Most everything safety can be disabled if you really want, but anyone pontificating about CA compliant emissions on small power equipment can go sit with the coal-rollers as far as im concerned.

Edit: to stay on topic, if people start getting frequently maimed by drones then I'd expect to see some crazy CPSC action like an altitude safety switch or something...
How would you do things now?
> the bean counters at Microsoft freaked out at not having a launch

I assumed this was because Big Sur is macOS 11, so they can't be left behind!
If America Re-Enters Libya, It Must First Build Trust
Omitting and spinning facts indeed. You're simply pushing your own narrative here so aren't you making yourself part of the problem?
If anything, Amazon knows this will really incentivize updating your Android app on the Amazon App Store, or bringing it there if you haven't.

And that's good for us because, should the Amazon App Store become more viable for manufacturers, Google might find themselves increasingly losing control of Android, and increasingly forced to make the Play Store more competitive.
The problem is that no warrant is needed if the phone company complies without asking for one.
Basically the government says "hey can we see this users data? (And if you say no, we'll get a warrant that requires you to do extra work)", and then the phone company turns over your data without requiring the warrant because they don't care about you.
How about they just re-release Windows 7 instead?
It's a result of capitalism, but only because capitalism is a "greedy optimization algorithm" that opportunistically hones in on whatever works consequences (and sometimes ethics) be damned.

The root cause is that humans have a powerful negativity bias. I once heard someone who'd been an editor at a major paper say that negative articles get as many as thousands of times more clicks than positive articles. It would be very hard for any media business not to prioritize negativity and conflict. They would not survive.

I've seen it myself. I once penned a very combative blog post about the usability flaws in IPv6. It got hundreds of times more hits than anything else I have ever written combined. The big difference seemed to be the negative, combative, snarky tone. If you write like a snarky narcissistic asshole, you get 10-100X the attention. (I ended up taking it down because I didn't like the tone after thinking about it for a while.)

This bias likely has an evolutionary root. "If you mistake a bush for a lion, you're fine. If you mistake a lion for a bush, you're dead." We came of age in an environment of scarcity, predation, and conflict, and are hard-wired to pay close attention to anything that even remotely smells like a threat or induces negative emotions.
American breakfasts are easily second place in the World Breakfast Cup though. Except for the bacon, you guys need to work on your bacon.
Economic Depression
Fortunately, we have the scientific method, which demands testability and reproducibility, and which shields us from faulty assumptions caused by "common sense".
I would expect Android apps that are written in Java would also run, but they wouldn't use "Intel Bridge" to do it.
Xbox Custom Controllers Have a Messed Up Banned Word List
I'm not comparing the effectiveness between the two. I'm saying I do both.
... and yet gun laws never seem to get any harsher...
I found a link to a tool[0] that checks your PC compatibility with Windows 11, but it seems that many many people with powerful devices are getting a "No" answer.

[0] https://twitter.com/_h0x0d_/status/1408075658350108674
Could have been a release video for KDE.
It doesn’t? Because I think it’s easier to throw the cursor at the absolute corner of the screen and click rather than have to carefully select a button somewhere along the X axis. Just a thought, I’m a macOS user myself.
Probably best to just search for a chill non-FANG full-time job. You should be able to find a job with good work life balance where getting 4 hours of work done in a day is the norm.
Totally.

I recently had a crazy notion for losslessly scrambling the sequence as well. Mostly for protecting voter privacy (order in which ballots are cast). One of the major blockers to fully digital voting.

I haven't found any hits using terms like "cryptographic timestamps." Surely I can't be the first.
Writing is a skill that can be learned. You don't need to write deathless prose, just be clear.
You do know you don't own the airspace over your house, right? The drone operator is operating within the law and you do not have a right to talk to them.

I'd stop flying over your place, but I have friends who would laugh and tell you to pound sand - then they'd fly over your place a few more times for fun.

Remote ID won't solve this either, it doesn't apply to drones <250g. You're going to have to just deal with it.
Is there a use case for third party cookies outside of ad tracking? I’ve had it disabled for years and don’t recall it breaking any website I actually care to use.
I think you might want to look at the actions of your party. You may not have meant both, but you should understand why somebody who is not on your team would think you did.
Henry S F Cooper Jr.'s book The Evening Star describes some of the remote debugging and other problem solving that was necessary when the Magellan probe experienced computer problems while orbiting Venus. It's been a few decades since I read it, but it was pretty detailed and rather exciting.
This is neat but I'm struggling to think of a case where this would be useful.
>> What happens if the URL changes?

> Cool urls don't change. Use configs.

I also kinda think that for many webapps, the risk of this is somewhat overstated. I've got tons of apps with a few hard-coded URL paths that point at other internal apps that I own. They don't break because I don't randomly remove URL paths from services. When I do need to change something, find-and-replace + an integration test keep me safe 99.99% of the time (and the blast radius from a failure like this is usually very small - obvious 404 error bubbles up immediately the first time someone hits something broken).

That said, I agree that keeping constants like URL paths in configs is a fine idea. I also feel that common sense is required - a tiny webservice which makes a single request to one URL path probably is fine to just hard-code it (and in fact putting all constants into config might be overly obfuscating), but a big app which makes dozens or hundreds of calls obviously benefits from a config-oriented approach
If I remember correctly Econet was only clocked at 200kbps and sharing that between 30 machines in a classroom doesn't give much for each of them!
I actually wrote TreeSheets after I became a heavy user of mindmaps, and found the information density and organizational abilities to be very lacking. As well as rendering/editing speed for larger maps (in freemind).

Mindmaps look very 2D, but essentially its just a left and a right tree, with no other horizontal organizational methods. TreeSheets truely lets you create any 2D hierarchy you can dream of.
Its not normal. Its not natural. Its not good for you. When you check facebook its activating the same brain areas as someone who is addicted to gambling having a pull on a slot machine. These addictive aspects are well documented and intentional.
I’d take zoom over a hallway conversation any day. I’m at home and comfortable with Zoom. I’ve had to dress up and commute to have that hallway conversation. In an office you’ll also be pressured for your reserved room or you’re literally in a hallway next to the bathrooms while you’re talking. Not good environments for communication.
I mean it makes sense. The main stream media found they their viewership increased with explosive, inflammatory, polarizing, world-ending stories, so news reports are nothing but that. Twitter/Facebook learned that too, so they promote outrage culture so that people use their product. I remember back in the late 2000s, Twitter had a hard time keeping people engaged and getting new users. Who cares about what someone ate for lunch or what new latte they ordered? Then the Obama election happened and the Kony2012 meme. They got their dopamine hit and have kept it going.
Me too is that no longer an option?
Well, I've never heard of listing "achievements" on your resume, and all the articles I see on Google related to this are from Winter and Spring 2021, so at least that verbage is a current fad.

I'd consider someone with a pretty trendy CV to be a net negative, it means they endlessly focus on whatever is the latest thing, and not focusing on core principles, but many companies just want to hire people who spend hours optimizing minutiae and ignoring substantial fundamental issues; so this is actually rock solid advice!
What do you mean by that? By culture and diversity I meant the hubbub of the city, with a ton going on and all types of stores, bars, and restaurants but the way it's phrased in your comment sounds a lot more pointed and not at all what I meant.
Da, it's the ALIENS.
>>n the United States the National Bureau of Economic Research determines contractions and expansions in the business cycle, but does not declare depressions.[1] Generally, periods labeled depressions are marked by a substantial and sustained shortfall of the ability to purchase goods relative to the amount that could be produced using current resources and technology (potential output).[2] Another proposed definition of depression includes two general rules:[3][4]

a decline in real GDP exceeding 10%, or
a recession lasting 2 or more years.<<

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_depression#cite_note-... [wiki ref]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_depression#cite_note-... [wiki ref]
Apologies, I should have asked if you have evidence that they licensed it? If so, that would require Amazon to note it in their site, no? I see no reason to think that is the case.
Tentris: GW-BASIC 10 line x 72 chars Tetris game
Fitt's Law says that is exactly backwards. It is when your monitors are largest that you need the largest click targets. It's when things were 640x480 that small targets were easiest to hit.
Is there actually an Apollo 14 movie? I can find Apollo 18 but not a Apollo 14 feature movie.

I saw this but it's a short documentary and may not be what you meant:
https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-14-Complete-Downlink-Edition/d...
> The endpoint URL should probably be stored in the environmental variable file.

As I mentioned, if the endpoint changes, you change it in one place. Storing your endpoint URLs in an env file is your personal preference, but that's all. Should has no place here.

It doesn't matter whether it's an environmental variable file, a YAML configuration, a JSON file, or a secure remote KV-store. Barring low water marks, it doesn't really matter where you store your configuration—just make sure to store it in one place.
I don't think they added a complete emulation of arm64, so it probably only runs apps with support for x86 (I have no idea of how many apps dont have support, but they exist) like BlueStack and most of emulators - So apple still has the advantage of using the same architecture for everything and running the apps natively.
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The Dock isn't the equivalent to the Start Menu, the closest Mac equivalent is the Apple menu. That dates back to I think the very beginning of the Macintosh, and particularly in the classic era (Mac OS 1 through 9) shared a lot more in common with the Start menu. When Apple was just first barely dipping a toe in the waters of multitasking applications with the 1987 MultiFinder, the Apple menu let you switch between running applications. Also was where desk accessories went, though there were limits (which 3rd parties quickly created offerings working around :)). System 7 expanded it a lot, with a dedicated way to put aliases of docs/software in the menu. Mac OS X and the dock actually kind of split out some of that functionality for better or worse.

But through it all the Apple has stayed glued in the top left corner of the screen, the furthest left thing on the menu bar. The one time they briefly contemplated eliminating it/moving it to the center was IIRC in the Mac OS X public beta (which I think I still have lying around here somewhere, would be a hoot to try to get it running again under QEMU maybe?). But there was harsh feedback from a lot of us in the PB on that one and it was restored from 10.0, so there was never a public release of a "Mac OS" without it. And even though it's visually offset a bit from the edge of the menu and when you click the highlight box also seems offset from the side, that doesn't actually affect the clickable area one bit. You can jam your mouse to the upper corner pixel blind and it'll still open right up. They've stuck with Fitt's Law on that one at least even amongst all their other GUI "innovations" in the last few decades.
Some years later everyone will realize that desktops are not phones and are meant to utilize more available screen space. Then everyone will come up with "revolutionary" desktop interface ideas and we here at HN will call it out that we already had these back in 90s.

I am waiting for that time. Windows 10 is "phony" already and becoming more like it's built for people with low vision. I hate it's UI. I hope bringing android in windows don't turn into another Electron.