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I'm really happy about the new functionality for window management in Windows 11, particularly the grouped applications that you can maximize or minimize together. I also like that they're emphasizing different workspaces for different tasks, as this is much how I work with MacOS' spaces. Similarly I'd think that people used to automatic tiling window managers in linux would be familiar and appreciate the advantages of this workflow. The added tiling features that go beyond what is already a pretty competent window manager is welcome. I'm assuming they are drawing a lot of that from their powertoys fancy zones [1] application. Hopefully the added docking features and how they treat windows really is as good as they are demoing.

I hope that there is some way to navigate to the individual workspaces by a keybind built into Windows, though. As it is in Windows 10, you can't (as far as I know) bind an arbitrary hotkey to focus a specific workspace, you have to navigate them directionally which makes it much harder for me to use for what I use them for.

I also got the impression that changing themes like from light to dark mode is going to be a much better experience (one that's intended to happen often) with smooth animations between them. Windows 10 currently does allow you to change from light to dark mode but there's no way to automatically switch them by sunrise/sunset like it exists in MacOS. Mojave also featured bad animations when it added dark mode to MacOS but today does it much more gracefully.

I'm extremely skeptical of any sort of improvement on their search/launcher, which is hilariously bad when compared against spotlight's index (which powers spotlight and many third party applications like alfred and launchbar) or even kde's krunner or applications like rofi. If there is a meaningful change here it'd be the most exciting for me, though.

Overall I don't know that it needs a numbered update or not, but one advantage of having big numbered releases is that it gives you an opportunity to highlight a lot of new features at once, rather than only hearing about them through enthusiast blogs who are carefully watching the rolling releases of Windows 10. Hopefully the features work as well as advertised.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone...
WSL is a nice to have gnu inside of windows, but one of the reasons I switched to linux was because I enjoyed setting up a window manager and configuring my status bar, writing custom scripts for keybindings, general fiddling. There are distros that compete with windows in the UI space, and maybe those don't make much sense anymore.

I'm sort of answering my own question here too - people that don't love tinkering for its own sake may not ever be driven away from windows.
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it".

- John Gilmore
But if you work for a company owned mostly by your Roth IRA, that's easily abused.

Suppose you're a consultant and your one-person consulting company is owned by your Roth IRA. You could deliberately draw a very small taxable salary, so that most of your work goes towards increasing the company's untaxed value in your IRA.

You're basically making your earnings tax free.

Obviously, your Roth IRA's company employing you at below market rate isn't a fair, arms length transaction.
Nice history lesson, but for all intents and purposes the Dock _is_ equivalent to the Start Menu, as both are the main ways to start or switch applications for most users.

The Apple menu has nothing to do with running applications in modern macOS versions.
1.7m shares of Paypal at .001 is worth 5B at the current share price of 295.

Obviously debatable whether you can mark shares of your own company / PE firm sponsor equity / etc at near zero in a tax sheltered vehicle. But if Thiel held shares in a personal account and borrowed against them he wouldn't have owed tax either, as unrealized capital gains are not taxed.

Buffett, Musk, Bloomberg, etc. all have the vast majority of their wealth in businesses they founded, and have subsequently paid de minimuis taxes relative to their net worth.

All have arguably made significant contributions to society and world at large, magnitudes higher than their net worth and taxes paid.
Personally, I found Vista's UI to be horrible - the only saving grace was that one could use a "Classic Windows" theme to get back to something useful (as you also could in Win 7). UAC was just awful icing on the horrible cake.
>"How is Thiel investing in his own company not considered a prohibited investment?"

It should be, but the IRS doesn't catch every cheat, and as with most other white collar crime, the responsibility can be laundered through a number of accountants and other professional staff, resulting in fines rather than jail time.

So a lot of rich people make a lot of questionable calls regarding how their assets are categorized and if they get caught out they generally just pay what they're supposed to have paid, or sometimes slightly less (some countries have legislation prohibition tax authorities from accepting settlement offer at under-assessed amounts, but there are ways around that too). If they're particularly risk-averse and ballsy, they'll ask for an advance ruling certificate or another pre-emptive ruling on their filings to confirm they're correct beforehand. You can bake those too, if needed.
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I expect the enterprise version to not have this requirement. Massive enterprises would refuse to upgrade if it did.
> if you really care about backlash

At 1200 mm equivalent a picture is only about 1.15° high, so accuracy is important :)

> just measure it and then add a correction in your motor controller.

I think your first idea doesn't really work for tilting because there is little friction and the camera isn't going to be perfectly balanced (the center of gravity also changes with the focal length and even the focus). When gravity pulls the camera towards one direction backlash is less of a problem, but when it's near the tipping point it becomes really shaky and sensitive to disturbances. Past the tipping point it is biased towards the other direction.

Preloading might be an easy fix but at the cost of acceleration.

> Another way to do this is to always move back to endstop zero, and only move forward. THis is very limiting.

At least for panning in panoramas this isn't a bad solution at all. I think both your ideas are good for panning with planned paths.

> The biggest problem I had was all my PLA prints melted in the direct sun!

Was it white PLA? So far I've only had stuff bend out of shape in the car.
Software developers around the world don't have to build software compatible with your old car, and get blamed for any incompatibility.

There have already been posts showing that there's an option to put the start menu back on the left if you want that. Hopefully there will be options to deal with other inconveniences. As it stands, this already looks like it fixes many of the complaints people had about Windows 10; in that regard, parts of it are exactly what many people asked for.

I don't want people to deal with a UI they dislike. I also don't want developers having to deal with a no-longer-evergreen OS. Windows was the last OS to move to the evergreen model; when Windows 10 came out, it was a great relief to many developers, who saw a point on the horizon where there was only one version of Windows they would have to support, and it would always be up to date.

Remember, the alternative isn't just "oh well, I guess we'll support Windows 10 and Windows 11". One alternative is "guess we'll build a web app instead", or "guess we'll drop support for Windows 10" (in which case people still need to upgrade, but they blame app developers instead of Windows).

I'm sure the option will exist to not upgrade, at least for a while. But if the default is to upgrade, app developers get much less of the blame if they expect and depend on that upgrade.
This is just more evidence of price fixing[1] by the mobile app distribution and app payments cartel[2] consisting of Apple and Google.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel
If its anything like windows 10 was you could just never activate the license and nothing practically would be different, unless you wanted desktop backgrounds I believe. I barely notice the watermark anyhow telling me to activate windows for the last few years.
It's one of the core gun safety bullet points, so any class covering gun safety certainly should have. . . .
Good point, the fines are by HHS and not dollar amounts to victims. I gave the amounts to signify the importance and IANAL would be part of a basis for establishing harm done.

I specifically linked to an injury lawyer to show the types of current HIPAA violation civil suits that have succeeded. My reasoning is that it’s lucrative enough for lawyers to solicit business.
I’m not familiar enough with communist theory to understand the empirical underpinnings of its historical or modern use as a form of government.

Do you have any reference material on the successes and failures of communism that would be worth bookmarking?
OK, so, as a native English speaker (and maybe specifically one in America), I generally try to capitalize "proper nouns", whether you have standing for a trademark or not... I thereby will happily talk about how "the App Store is an example of an app store" (though I also tend to disambiguate at least one instance with "Apple App Store", which, I think, certainly should be capitalized).

> Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse" and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse", amirite?
Yeah, the bachelor's degree requirement used to be really common, but I believe a lot of departments dropped the requirement to increase the number of eligible people. Just checked our local department and it looks like they've dropped the education requirement to an associates degree (and they provide for some equivalents, like military service, to get around that).
I mean you're just describing social media. Facebook the company makes plenty of user-hostile decisions but "the majority of content that people on Facebook share are memes and political garbage" isn't really something Facebook did except by being a platform where people who post that stuff can find an audience.

I mean I guess Facebook could mod memes and political content out of existence but the backlash against such an action would probably be worse.
Indeed. I'm surprised this is not a main part of the HN conversation. It concerns me that the IRS leaking personal financial information is not the main story.
What control is taken away from power users? Most things can be toggled in the registry, and won't go away due to compatibility reasons. And patchguard can be disabled extremely easily. Same with DSE. I can't think of a single thing a power user can't do on Win 10 that they can on Win 7.
Which facts is it he's left out? You don't get to just lie and say he's doing it without stating which is being left out.

So given that you are baselessly attacking him, and the only thing that drew you to him was the facts he stated; clearly you don't want him stating them. So again. I ask, why do you want those facts suppressed? And why are you being evasive about answering the question?
Stop being so intentionally obtuse, you know what I mean
No sarcasm : Just because you're most likely suicidal (and loudly claiming you're not), mentally unstable, cold-turkeyed and deprived of your liberty, doesn't mean that they're not out there to suicide you.

In fact, that would be the perfect cover-up. I'm not saying this is what happened, but I do believe if you're enough of a perceived threat in any shape or form you will be liquidated.

And I absolutely hate Occam's razor being applied to these circumstances.

So did he know/do or say a few things that lit up the radar? Maybe, such as for instance claming to know which person allegedly in his mind killed Epstein. Or simply because he wouldn't shut up or creating a radicalising following.
Police Arrest Three for Posting 10 Minute Movie Summaries on YouTube
I agree with this, I made a list of things I wanted and held off on buying them until Monday, I don't think any of it was on sale.

The most special thing that happened in the runup was a I bought a different item and got a 10 dollar credit for shopping small, or local, or something. Given that the item I bought was only 15 or 20 bucks, that was a nice surprise, but that was like a week before the day itself.
This concern over ruining someone’s career itself seems like a symptom of a broken process? Making it safe to openly discuss failures is important.

In at least some big companies in the private sector we have “blameless postmortems” where we describe what went wrong in an operational failure without blaming the participating employees.
If developers designed it, it wouldn't have all these rounded corners, superfluous animations, and useless padding everywhere.
The update will come automatically as you can read here. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11
This is basically Windows 10 21H2. Just naming it differently because... New UI i guess?
Well if emergent properties of a society is by definition evil for you, then yes, I like discussing evil very much. I also love to participate in evil and promote evil to everybody around me. I think it’s especially important to teach evil to little kids too. Evil is amazing!
That old joke ... But i have a solution for you: You could use that fancy thing called a "power button" - no joke, it will actually help you in turing of the computer - or do you want to only start it with this button?

Jokes aside: cmon, its not a big deal to open the windows menu to power of the machine. The Word "Start" is now missing since Windows Vista which released 2007 - nearly 15 Years ago!
Quite a lot of stuff in that new UI looks directly pilfered from apple. And "you can run android apps" sounds like a direct copy of macOS running iPad apps.

Even the (in windows' case, completely nonsensical) decision to center the taskbar feels like a ripoff of apple ui.
I am in the same boat, still using OP3. Unfortunately the latest OP9 has crappy 5G (does not even work on AT&T in US), so I have significant doubts about buying it.
The advertising industry has done a terrible job explaining its role in the open internet and how personal the data collected actually gets.

"Surveillance" implies that someone is actually watching you, knows and cares who you are as an individual. This can't be further from the truth- no one cares about "you" as an individual, that kind of identifying data is absolutely useless because you by yourself aren't worth anything from a data perspective. You as an anonymous member of a data segment containing tens of thousands (or more) anonymous individuals is what's worth something. So the data collected can't be used to identify you.

For those of you saying "ban all ads" are living in a fantasy land. Most popular content and services online are supported by advertising. Email, search, maps, entertainment, news, etc. The vast majority of global internet users can't afford to pay for these services and content. "They don't need to waste time on X" you may say, but why do you get to decide?
How does this compare to Apache Shiro?
You buy 2000 shares with your Roth IRA for $1 per share.

They appreciate in value to $1,000 per share.

You sell the shares, now there is $2,000,000 cash value in your Roth IRA, which you can use to make other investments.

Repeat ad infinitum without those transactions incurring any sort of tax burden, as long as you don't withdraw any of that money until you're 60.
Why does it matter? Just don't connect it to the internet and there should be no issue. Why would you want to update software that could potentially break your super expensive machine if it already works?
I can't really blame Peter for taking advantage of the law.

We should mostly blame our lawmakers for allowing our pro-oligarchy legal/financial system to exist.
> A landowner in the United States owns the air space above their land up to the height that the FAA has classified as Navigable Airspace in that area, generally either 500ft or 1000ft.

> the landowner is entitled to destroy the drone (for example with buckshot) or report the trespassing to the police for investigation.

Citation?

> But today the FAA in response to my questioning confirmed that shooting down a drone is a federal crime and cited 18 USC 32. That statute makes it a felony to damage or destroy an aircraft.[1]

> the statute also prohibits interfering with anyone "engaged in the authorized operation of such aircraft" and carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. Since drones are considered aircraft, threatening a drone or a drone operator, according to Ms. Alkalay, would also be a federal crime subject to five years in prison under this same statute.[1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoglia/2016/04/13/faa-confi...
They cited a wide body of studies, including studies which included only trans kids. All studies produced consistent results. For those who didn't read the full article, here's the preamble to the 80% figure quoted above:

>There have, however, been almost a dozen studies of looking at the rate of "desistance," among trans-identified kids—which, in this context, refers to cases in which trans kids eventually identify as their sex at birth. Canadian sex researcher James Cantor summarized those studies' findings in a blog post: "Despite the differences in country, culture, decade, and follow-up length and method, all the studies have come to a remarkably similar conclusion: Only very few trans-kids still want to transition by the time they are adults. Instead, they generally turn out to be regular gay or lesbian folks." The exact rate of desistance varied by study, but overall, they concluded that about 80 percent trans kids eventually identified as their sex at birth.
I first encountered the term in Peter Druckers "Managing Oneself" and a cursory Google search indicated he coined it. Similar term "Knowledge economy".

https://medium.com/@leenasn/managing-oneself-book-summary-4e...
I’ve done it, you have to have executive authority over the issuing company to do it, as other directors and their legal counsel are too uninspired to do anything outside of the norm.

Your IRA is a legal entity and you can grant an option to it. It needs the cash to exercise it. Options can have shares at any price in them, such as discounted to nothing but it comes down to which consequences you care about. Making a potentially screwy 409a valuation isn't a big deal, but also avoided if done before other investors come in. Either way it can be a tolerable level of consequence.
I like whiteboarding too. I’ve worked fully remote a lot and have found the other benefits far out weigh the cost of losing it as a tool (temporarily while tech catches up?).

Half the time I don’t need to ask for help because in the comfort and focus of my home office I can figure out much more difficult problems then I could when a sales dude was closing a deal next to my desk, or having half the devs at my table coughing and sick.
I'll have to check. I know that my Asus Prime X470 Pro lists TPM as "sold separately"; there's a connector on the motherboard, but the module itself is likely not present.

(For example: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1237446-REG/asus_tpm_... )
I thought Samsung had their own OS[0] that they were using for watches/smart TVs, and also keeping in their back pocket as a hedge against Google's influence? Are they giving that up?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen
Preparing for Insider Preview Builds of Windows 11
I concur with your observations. I know several people who changed jobs when their old employer went remote. Their new job may be equally as remote, but pay increases and increased learning opportunities speak far louder when you haven’t seen your co-workers in-person for a year.
You don't have a donations link anymore.. I guess since it only added up to like $2000 over many years? And then I am also guessing that sometimes people might donate $100 and then kind of expect you to code a new feature for them?

Anyway, it's your business but I just wanted to encourage you to research that stuff again. Patreon, and a bunch of startups and other projects (I think there is something in GitHub and maybe even one or more cryptocurrency ones) could possibly change the donations situation somewhat. Possibly.

But thank you for making it free and coming in here. Personally I find it inspiring to see such an interesting and useful project made by an individual.

By the way, I see the scripting is in a language you created called Lobster http://strlen.com/lobster/

How do you use a script in TreeSheets? Is that documented somewhere?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27565002

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27603849
Detention centres seems too benign as well at first thought. Cultural genocide and child murder centres feels more appropriate - destroying not only culture but families and communities - which clearly has caused continued multi-generational dis-ease progression.
Yea as a developer if I did it, it’d still look like windows NT.
Related ongoing thread:

Microsoft announces Windows 11 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27618805
I'd say that that's more a reflection of the overall political alignment of that community you've seen rather than anything else.

Just as how reddit swings left, and thus comes with massive aoc/whatever figure the right likes to hate support, that community on Facebook swung right and thus has a higher rate of "left hates this guy" Support.

AoC was selected as the example due to her "dunking on the right" reddit popularity thats analogous to the "destroyed with facts and logic" Shapiro crowd.
meh, sounds like more of the same atrocities since Windows8

no fundamental changes other than cosmetics

no tabs on file explorer, why the heck they kept ribbon interface... wasn't windows 11 supposed to be about having an uniform and consistent design?

no changes on filesystem? still have to wait 88486468468 minutes when deleting a folder with lot of files?

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the only positive surprise was android apps, BUT quickly became uninterested the minute they mentioned amazon store.. yeah no thanks
I mean you can't really do that on Wikipedia anymore. Sure the edit button is there but there's the spiritual equivalent of a PR process now.
It used to be exciting, because it didn't used to feel so half assed. Nowadays, you watch these videos and it's the same drivel... more cloud connected, more apps, more online accounts... share your photos, make a video call, sit in the woods with your Surface and work while on vacation... that kinda garbage.
> There's never any guarantee that JS that optimizes perfectly today won't hit a performance cliff in a new JIT implementation tomorrow.

Yep. As someone who played this game a few years ago, JIT implementations do change (e.g. function inlining based on function size was removed from V8, delete performance changed, number of allowed slots in hidden classes changed, etc).

Also worth noting that just because an optimization works in V8, there's no guarantee that it will also work in another JS engine.
Given the events of the last year and the historical opposition of groups like the NRA to minorities having gun access I feel the greatest threat to continuing free democracy in the US (for everyone) is not the government but the same group that owns the majority of guns.
If Quad9 complies, I would stay away from Quad9 services as they are not fighting for the right thing.
Related ongoing thread:

Introducing Windows 11 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27619354
I'm going to chicken me in here to tell you to go duck yourself.
Maybe this is a step toward a new Windows Phone that is compatible with Android apps.
But you just wrote you did it on purpose, not by accident.
Pay more to remove features?
Is science supposed to have an Orthodoxy?

This field needs an Enrico Dandolo.