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Drag 'n drop has been in MS Windows and different flavour of Linux distros for the last 10-15 years at least regardless whether the application windows have been maximised or not. Or are you referring to something completely different?
I am with your position, the way IT has evolved simply appales me. What was once a creative field is now filled with layers upon layers of needless overcomplex garbage, commercialised beyond recognition and used to enslave the user instead of empower him.

I am just waiting for an opportunity to leave my current position to transfer into an non-tech sector as soon as possible... as for my personal use i have found my haven of sanity in the RiscOS community, there, things seemingly move in a very different direction (thanks to the stubborn brits!).
Much of the low-hanging fruit has been picked already, and only more difficult problems remain. This will be true until another major scientific breakthrough creates a new domain of technology with new low-hanging fruit.

> Programming languages and frameworks seem to be running in circles

I wouldn’t say this exactly, though advancements may have slowed due to less or no low-hanging fruit. The trend now is programming languages and frameworks that better control or eliminate effects (and with them attack surface, security vulnerabilities, and undefined behavior).

Rust is probably the poster child for this with its growing popularity and frameworks, though progenitors like Ada, Haskell and others in the ML and functional families count as well.

Then there’s the whole emerging field of quantum computing and quantum computing programming languages. That isn’t practical for garage hacking yet, but imagine when a future Steve Jobs or Bill Gates makes and markets the first desktop quantum computer. We’ll have a whole new field with low-hanging fruit.

This is why it’s critical for societies to continue large-scale investment in high-risk, high-return scientific research, to maintain a pipeline of new fields and their attendant low-hanging fruit for commercialization and innovation-driven economic growth.
Getting stuff done – practical solutions for pulling off large projects (2020)
Yes because if you need a 16 digit number and the user entered 15 - it's very likely they just missed a number in the middle instead of the system attempting to correct it with a prepended zero.
I did not mention anything about "truth". Truth is a myth, especially in this era.

What I did talk about, was how the average people in China think about all these. Note that all "genocide" evidence present here, is available in China (not as raw material maybe, but referenced and discussed). It's very different from tank man, which is hidden in public discussion.

And since you mentioned, tank man (89 incident as we call it), is actually a well-known fact (I might be biased, but since high school, my peer occasionally talked about it). It's just forbidden to talk about it in public.
I remember being in a computer store in 1993 and we were lamenting that CD based multimedia was kind of unexciting and burning out as a trend and wondering what would be next. Tech seemed to be getting boring at that point. This was right before Linux and the Internet came in the scene of course. Before that software development sucked. Most algorithm libraries cost money or even had royalties and a lot of devs implemented them from scratch because of that.

Things were awesome in the 90s though. Computers really doubled in speed every two years or so. It was incredible. The internet was new and totally anarchic. Linux kept winning and winning. Little sites could get to the top of search engines. Google and Facebook advertising were super cheap and effective. Things got better every year.

After 2016, probably because Trump won and tech got all the blame, things started to go downhill. Trump winning was like the tech version of 9/11 to the people who like to take the fun out of tech. That's when all the tech censorship and heavy political scrutiny started. Things had already been deteriorating for some time, but all the Stallman hacker ethos free speech energy started quickly draining away and getting replaced with fear of saying the wrong thing. That's when code of conducts started showing up and you had the woke invasion of all the big open source projects. Tech, which had previously been an independent island above politics, now had an influx of gatekeepers and paranoid "ethics" enforcers. People were scared that tech was too powerful and could do too much.

There's still crypto at least. Anything that has a heavy top down control element in crypto just falls flat on its face because the community rejects it. That's where the next Linux and internet will probably emerge from. That's the only thing these days that feels like the early BBS and online days in the early 90s currently. The people making things suck are always watching though. For example, consumer 3D printing is likely about to get killed in its infancy because of ghost guns.
That's not the best picture of it. There are better pictures here: https://www.archdaily.com/940878/le-corbusiers-cite-fruges-l...

And this was built more than 100 years ago.
I want one, b/c UNIX and USB-C charging fits my personal needs very well. But the devices are either so cheap or badly equipped storage wise (Pixelbooks) that my 8 y/o Thinkpads outperform them. So I guess a MacBook will be my next buy in a few years to again have an ultra portable 10-year-proof device.
I am absolutely sick of this attitude.

People disagreeing with you does not make them a Russian bot or a Chinese shill.

Making that accusation baselessly degrades the conversation while contributing nothing.
The wealth divide is a different issue and has always been the regardless of “tech” - a new way to sew isn’t tech as we see it but innovation in looms cost many a seamstress their jobs - ditto with mine improvements, manufacturing improvements and so much more - but at the same time it has improved our lives no longer as we locked in a factory 80 hours a week..

To me, tech has been a great equalizer - and while it’s currently used for manipulation we do finally have to agree that everyone has internet, phone and computers at home when 5 to 10 years ago that wasn’t as true.. hell, we even get homeless people a phone because of how critical and pervasive they have become in society. That’s a good thing they can call for help, refill meds, check on social security, network with peers and friends and such.
"a modest 3.3%" after the strongest years ever in PC sales. The journalist is an idiot.
Occupy failed because it didn't have any clear asks or metrics to track. They were against the bailouts. Did they vote anyone out of office? Did the re-election rate of 90% budge? Are there "Occupy Democrats" like there were "Tea Party Republicans"?

But most importantly, did they stop future bailouts? The original uproar about the 2008 bailouts (TARP) was originally authorized to spend $700 billion, of which they spent $431 billion and they were all paid back.

What about with Covid relief? This time the politicians learned not to go through legislature and just use the Federal Reserve directly. This time they were able to disburse 4 trillion in asset purchases, most of which was held by large institutions (banks). $1.3 trillion in mortgage backed securities! Another $3 trillion was spent on liquidity measures, other load purchases, lending facilities, etc. So in total a 10x spend from the proposed 2008 bailout which caused all the uproar. Note this doesn't include any money for income support, stimulus, etc. It was just giving money to banks.

Occupy just taught the politicians how to do things under the radar.

https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/
That's a long winded way of saying the future doesn't matter to you.
Same. I use hide (Cmd-H) most of the time because I want to hide the whole application, not a single window of the application. I also use Hide Others (Cmd-Option-H) to focus on a single app. And I use Cmd-` to switch between windows of the app I'm in.

There is a rare case that I minimize a window, but it's generally because I don't want to work with that window any time soon, but I don't want to close it either, and I have multiple windows open in the app. Since I'm not frequently switching to the window in this situation, its fine if the easiest way to get back to it is to use my mouse.
I probably should have saved the few minutes I spent reading that article.

I do wonder, though: what’s behind Asus’ huge gains? I didn’t realize they were doing something big, but they must be.
> 1 in 350 Americans died of COVID in the past two years

Putting 1/700 a year death from covid into context of our overall mortality rate: 1,027.0 deaths per 100,000 population [0]

I know more under 40 that have died from overdose in the past two years than I know that have died from covid (which is 0)

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm
They haven't. USA simply has rampant crime unheard of in the EU short of the jungles refugee centres are (non-ukrainian).
Some credit card issuers don't use 16 digits (American Express uses 15). And the first digits indicate the card issuer, so if you haven't stored those correctly you don't know how many zeroes to pad with.

In practice, the Wikipedia list of issuer prefixes doesn't show anyone using leading zeroes, so as long as you don't use separate inputs for each number cluster this specific issue probably won't bite you, though others might. IMO it's better to preserve verbatim user input than to capture malformed data and fix it after the fact.
The crisis is the mentality of people clinging to the belief that they are about to die if others don't (pick your poison):

- mask, lock down, hide from others etc
Little bit annoyed that your phrasing attempts to speak for the world on the "coolness of tech". I still find it cool. Neural networks that generate art? Quantum computing making meaningful gains? Apple M1 chips are absolutely bonkers... Try to get a little less grumpy and appreciate the amazing things that are happening around you.
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homebrew side by side

what about a review website about homebrews

and qrcode links with url shorteners will be good, the shorter the link the best to have an image together with de black white squares I think
It's absurd how the author (and presumably their editorial board) are so willing to paint a picture that absolves them of guilt for the inequality in their country.

News flash. If you say that you are wealthy/powerful and "politically liberal", but don't support policies that would give away that wealth or power to those with less of it in society, then you are not "politically liberal", you are conservative. I don't hate the Boomers, but their ideas have been around for far too long. Society in the United States is far too conservative.

It's time for a liberal ideal that isn't about race or gender but about economics and equity. And I mean equity in a color-blind sense, can we please work together here; I know the world is not fair and race does play a role in that equation.

Living in Europe opened my eyes. None of the liberals in the US are liberal. I want CHANGE. Not Barack Obama's "change". I want unions. I want free healthcare. I want to house the homeless. The Dutch can do it, but somehow in the discourse here, it's "impossible". Oh, our country is "too big". Oh my god, stop. Can we please move past the legacy of the boomers and their anti-big government stances. That was just a cynical jab at their parent's generation; it's not real. The government CAN do things. We can do so much if we work together.
You are mixing a few things here, flat roofs have nothing to do with brutalism in particular or Le Corbusier - they existed long before both. Maybe you meant modernism in general?

Anyway, for anyone wondering about all these flat roofs in modern architecture I recommend watching this video:

Why Do Architects Insist on Using Flat Roofs? - Stewart Hicks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW0ydAMVQ2w
Stopped being cool after the 2016 US election when it's downsides became clear.

It will become cool again when it produces something that teens find cool.
Did you refer to [Patterns, Principles, and Practices of Domain-Driven Design](https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Patterns%2C+Principles%2C+and+Pr...) by Scott Millet and Nick Tune?

It's the only similarly titled Wiley book. Thanks for sharing.
Taking the night train is a common way to travel within Finland. By train, it takes around 10 hours and 1000-1100km north to Lapland (taking Helsinki-Levi as example). It's possible to take a local flight at vastly higher prices and no room for the equipment people tend to take along for such trips, such as skis and hiking gear.

In central Europe, commuting by train is also pretty common. You might get packed pretty tightly at the most busy commuting times, but you avoid the huge traffic jams in and out of major cities which can waste hours of your day.
Yes the official format includes a space. But since the postcode is unambiguous whether the space is there or not, from an UX point of view just accept either and add the space correctly in the parsing code.

Sometimes you can feel that the code has been written by an engineer who is following the 'spec' to the letter instead of thinking of UX.
If you have to use more than one a day a month managing the server, you are doing something wrong.

I used to manage multiple racks worth of servers on top of managing the 1k containers running on them, maintaining the (pre-kubernetes) orchestration software I had written to deploy containers to our servers, and still had time left over to spend the majority of my time on the architecture and project management of new projects for clients.
I like pithy quotes like this, but I can’t help feeling we over rely on them/take stuff like this too seriously.

There is no rule that everything has to get boring after 35. If you think like that it’s kind of a self fulfilling prophecy.
Chinese government (propaganda) is usually deploying this logic to suppress the discussion about their actions. It is a wide spread tactic that we see everyday. It is not like china is ever interested in helping people in Iraq, Afghanistan.. they could just stop doing the same (if not worse) as a good well gesture.
Resolving Merge Conflicts in VSCode with Kaleidoscope’s 3-Way Merge
This site gives me a headache.
But seriously, if you get a headache, change something.
I changed shampoo and don't get headaches anymore.
I agree with you to a point, but it's not my experience that speakers gain credibility and respect by giving good advice / showing good judgement / making accurate predictions. This would be true in traditional discourse, but not online. Online it feels as if speakers gain an audience by demonstrating their world view as loudly and as viciously as possible. It's like a group of children where one has learned that the way to get attention is to scream louder and longer than the others. I also have this feeling that social media is ruled by those who are willing to spend their time and effort to elevate a particular point of view no matter how unpopular it is.
> what do you have to lose?"

The problem with this is there are unknowns. Maybe nothing, but if there is something none of us have even thought of that can be a big loss. It is really hard to get past this fear.
Very cheap "laptops" running chrome os, mostly targeted towards schools. They can be centrally managed which is an attraction in addition to the price.

They may be using arm processors and tiny flash memory like a phone with a large display. Although there are higher end ones with specs similar to low/medium end windows notebooks.

I don't think they are exclusive to America, but hackernews isn't the target for low capability machines.
That's only in the case of you bricking the firmware though. I'm sure they'd help you get back on the road over at the Apple store if you didn't have another Mac handy.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/apple-configurator-mac...
For the first question, most of us choose to believe our fellow citizens (who can easily travel to the regions highlighted in those satellite images) over western reporters. Plus the criminal acts described in western media sound more like US's doing rather than what we could picture our public officials.

The second one is more complicated. Our public consensus is, we *need* to apply some policies in Xinjing that can seem more "restraining" than the rest of China. It's because the west has chosen Xinjiang as one of its handles of infiltration. Historically, several major armed riots have happened in this area. Hundreds if not more Han (the majority ethnic group) civilians were killed.

Also there is this sanction on Xinjiang cotton. We all know how small Xinjiang's economy is within China. The sanction only does harm to Xinjiang's people than it influenced those policies. And yes, it is such a typical western propaganda tool that is drenched with consumerism.
"We also make darn sure that this doesn't occur beyond what we deem viability even though a beings ability to survive outside the womb is an artifact of present tech and doesn't measure any reasonable objective benchmark under pain of prison."

This is an interesting topic. The two questions I have, seem to be difficult for people to answer and have them be consistent in other areas of our law and culture.

1) What defines a human life from a logical perspective?

This one seems difficult. For example, you seem to think that if one cannot survive without medical treatment that they don't count as a life or are not worth protecting, yet this is inconsistent with our laws on things like duty of care to special needs individuals, children, or incapacitated people.

2) When is it acceptable to take, or not save, a life?

This is definitely and interesting topic.
For sure, there is boatloads of cool tech out there and the barrier to entry is lower than ever. Btw, I think an overlooked part of the OP was:

> Nowadays I'm a software dev and tech entrepreneur.

Doing anything as a job is an excellent way to kill your enjoyment of it as a hobby. Subconsciously, you start looking at projects in a business light ("can I turn this into a side gig", "will this advance my career", etc) and that kills off a lot of the excitement that comes with doing things just because you want to.
Any hobby that becomes ones 9-5 would suffer from that effect I’d imagine
Do you have a blog or anywhere you share your story on this? I’d be curious to learn more about your experiences.
Can someone translate it and distribute it on github in English?
Here are the pictures, before and after.

http://arts-plastiques.ac-besancon.fr/2018/03/03/la-cite-fru...

Having those pictures included in the article would make a mockery of its content and intended points (whatever it was). Would any sane person object to the renovation from that squalid state to a bright and inviting building? Were those "modifications" sound or was poor Corbu overestimating the occupants (his actual error as an architect).
you will become pariah until you leave or change your mind?
It's not a refutation. You aren't replying to an attempt to refute something.

You're replying to an expression of shock at the behavior on display (specifically, people claiming - in a thread about Chinese torture camps - that we should not talk about them, because we weren't talking about American torture camps, so it would be hypocritical to talk about the Chinese ones).

I'm generally in agreement that this isn't great behavior.

Complaining that a word sounds childish while displaying your ignorance of its meaning is not the slam dunk you think it is.
Look. It is a very simple question. The township has a 1 promile property tax. I never pay it and refuse to leave my property. What happens next?

You guys wrote 5 walls of text just dodging the easiest question on Earth.
> ...Cuba has denounced the US military occupation of Guantanamo Bay for decades, and requested the US to leave. So this is happening against the wishes of the country it is happening in.

It's not a military occupation in the sense you imply. It is a perpetual lease made between the US and Cuba. [1]

[1] https://www.cnic.navy.mil/regions/cnrse/installations/ns_gua...
Yeah this works because of indexed access. The tradeoff is you get a limited number of spaces, and you require a much larger key binding surface area. Like how indexes take memory.

If your state is A1/B2 (two monitors A and B displaying spaces 1 and 2 respectively), and you're working in A1 and want to switch B2 to B3, how do you "focus" on display B before moving spaces to B3? If you just press mod-3 I assume you'd get A3/B2. Do you have to alt-tab until you focus a window that is currently in B and then mod-3?
> There are far more than 1000 Islamists in the US. Not sure where you're pulling that statement from.

I am responding to this statement: "You are put there for your ethnicity and religion, (no suspected crimes are needed for detainment), despite being a Chinese citizen.".

I am sure you are aware that there were no suspected crimes needed for detainment in Gitmo and the US government said: "It Can Indefinitely Detain Anyone — Even U.S. Citizens".

> Is it hypocritical to point out bad comparisons?

No, not as an individual and I will concede that to you. But as a government, MOST certainly yes. The US always berates and sanctions other nations for policies that itself regularly carries out without any blowback. Most of the bad stuff never makes it to the US media if the media favours the party in power and it doesn't serve US interests.

One set of standards for the US (& its close allies) and another set of standards for the rest of the world
Agreed on the Cite Radieuse, the hallways are what I wish all apartment building halls looked like. Essentially interior streets, two stories high with apartment windows facing onto them, large windows to the exterior, benches or places for people to sit and enjoy the sunlight and meet their neighbors. The highrise as the modern incarnation of a village with all of the communal charm would be a delight. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/84/79/92/84799263a8dfa6fef6bf...

Completely impractical since every developer will choose the standard closed in, windowless and unadorned hallway because it is the cheaper option.
> You know, life is always right; it is the architect who is wrong.

I find this quote very interesting and resonates with UX engineering as well.
I think this would be helped a lot if the maker community immersed itself more in industrial engineering.

Like you mentioned, its hard to go from "hah, I can make a cool thing" to "Let me make this super useful mechatronic contraption" but this is the bread and butter of industry.

You see production lines and they're just a long string of such contraptions working in unison.

Makers nowadays have amazing resources that were previously reserved only for industry so heck yeah, maybe go make a fish fillet machine or something just for kicks but also maybe a brand new small business
No, GCP has had arguably a superior TLS story for years.

For example they do managed TLS for their workloads like AWS but they operate their own CA rather than outsourcing to Digicert for certificate issuance which gives them a better SLA.

They have a global load balancer offering that enables TLS to terminate everywhere GCP is without having to manage a bunch of discrete load balancers, this also supports managed TLS.

They now support a very large number of certificates in the global load balancer product which allows SaaS products like hosting services to leverage the global load balancer rather than deploying a load balancer per 25 certificates (the limit per AWS LB).

And now let you enroll for certificates from the same CA they use even if you terminate TLS rather than having them do it for you. They do this via a standard API (ACME) which lets you have uniform and agile device compatibility regardless of how you deploy TLS. AWS doesn't let you do this at all.

(I should note I was the PM for most of these releases and am still the PM for Google Trust Services the CA used for this ACME release)