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> What the hell happened to modern GUIs, man. We peaked in the 1990s.

People of this opinion will probably enjoy using the latest version of XFCE4 on a Linux or BSD environment.

It's "less terrible" than most other modern GUIs that waste space and are full of bubble shaped smooth looking jellybean UI elements.
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I'm also happy to answer any questions y'all might have. :)
The WindowShade control panel disappeared after MacOS 8. The feature became part of the Appearance control panel at that point. You can customize it on this MacOS 9 machine by going to Apple -> Control Panels -> Appearance and clicking on the Options tab. There you have access to the option "Double-click title bar to collapse windows", an option that lets you use the feature the way it originally worked (before the minimize widget was added to the far right end of the title bar).
The police gave you bad information.

California law does not have any sort of "prior use" exception to theft laws. Letting someone use a car in the past does not give them cart blanche to borrow it again without permission in the future.

You ex stole your car. If they police did not do anything, the proper response would be to take your complaint of inaction to Internal Affairs or your local elected representative. And then to take the car back yourself, or to hire a PI to retrieve the car or a lawyer to issue a demand letter for the return of the car.
Is the implication here that it was a bad engineering choice to not start with a full SOA?

It seems AWS made the right trade offs when it was starting, given its current position. The proof is in the pudding.
BBC Micro Elite in Teletext
Yes, everything is a lie and that's a fact. By the way, the sky is falling.
Nextcloud is the prevailing solution being adopted along with Collabora office suite integration. I have it running on a RPI here at home, and it is great. It is all free software, but companies and institutions pay subscription for support.
Circling back, what part of the lawsuit do you think is invalidated by the Hans Niemmann Report?
> But an SSD that's glued on to the motherboard has 0 benefits

It's because, since the T2 chip and going on with Apple Silicon, they're not SSDs in the NVMe sense. They're an Apple-specific technology derived from their Anobit acquisition, that only look like an NVMe device to the upper layers.
Plutonium pits can be stored and reused, but not forever. Eventually enough decay products build up to make them unreliable. It's a big problem for long-term maintenance.
1) By banning commingling and otherwise making sure that they are not shipping out fakes to begin with.

2) by checking returns before reselling them.

Easy-peasy.
I recall the low end of the IBM 360 line (the Model 30) used a similar arrangement, using an 8-bit ALU to execute a 32-bit ISA via microcode emulation. Yeah...it was slow.
Yes, this is the correct behavior. If Alice and Bob disagree about whether or not that row should be in the table you aren't going to fix it with math. More often than not, the expected outcome will be obvious (i.e. spelling correction in a deleted cell can be ignored) and if it isn't obvious, there will need to be human interaction to determine the best path forward.
They have a different viewpoint.

My understanding is that the factory where Karen Silkwood worked at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimarron_Fuel_Fabrication_Site

was unable to eliminate plutonium particles completely from the work spaces so that workers had to wear breathing protection 100% of the time at work. It may be the French are OK with this but the US is not.

Britain built a MOX facility that was unable to make quality fuel

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/minister-admi...

The Russians were concerned enough about the primary route to MOX failing that they developed an alternate "vibropacking" route that they didn't need in the end. Russia is now recycling MOX in the BN-800 reactor.
Here's something fun to do, exchange phones with your friends and scroll through each other's YouTube feeds. Quite the bonding experience.
Yeah, Windows 11 is like Ghostbusters (2016): not the disaster I'd been bracing for, but still a mess. And still not good.
That "Highway Rescue Boat (1981)" illustration... I'd watch a movie based on that.
I've used K9 in the past for its functionality but I switched back to the Gmail app because the UI wasn't very good. I got the feeling it was designed by and for programmers rather than for a good experience.

I'm sure most K9 users will lament the change and demand (the option) to undo the redesign, but I personally consider this to be a massive improvement, big enough to give switching back a go.

I just hope the users who prefer the old look will have the ability to use a fork/alternate version so that they won't be forced to adopt the new UI, perhaps one that only receives the bare minimum amount of maintenance to keep current features working for those that need them.
What Apple did in response to aging batteries was perfectly sensible technically

Yep, and what would be even more sensible is allowing users to 'cap' the charge level the way Samsung has started to with a "charge only to 85%" ability. Don't just respond to aging batteries, allow steps to reduce aging.

But, that goes against the upgrade sales process.
I tried the Prince of Persia but it just loops on the intro. Wasn't able to get to the game.
I prevented reuse for a lot of stuff by defining generic interfaces and made code reuse easier, for example: i have an python library for access of an server and someone wrote an ansible module with it. I packaged it for multiple distribution ways (internal pip, rpm package for multiple rhel versions, even a docker image on oir internal registry), so they can access and use it.
I power down everything including the inverter every night.

OS: Linux
I had to take the same course, sans the cheating, just as a pre-requisite to Auto CAD and whatever it's called now. I'm not sure how drawing by hand helped me, but it is what it is.
The obsession with thinner phones and undersized batteries to allow that was the real issue, in my opinion. Looking at a comparison list[1] the 6s has about half the battery capacity of the iPhone 13, and is the smallest battery of the entire iPhone lineup for its screen / face size.

[1] https://www.knowyourmobile.com/user-guides/iphone-battery-si...
Protected class is a meaningless distinction in this context. Hetzner is not checking your tax records to determine if you are a cryptoholder, they are denying a specific transaction based on its nature, not yours.
I remember that, it was a funny Catch-22- stop buying masks, the doctors need them- but masks don't protect you from covid. In retrospect, though, I think the narrative that they weren't effective only lasted about as long as the shortage, so probably was intended to relieve that situation.
GPT has provided me with such a marketing team for free (for now).
> Justice should focus first on making victims whole, then on rehabilitating the perpetrators to prevent victimization in the future. Imprisonment serves neither of those goals.

The perpetrators are the employees at Hertz that made the decision. Issuing a fine to the company does not rehabilitate or penalize the decision makers.
[Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/05/07/does-nicotine-protect...) - from 2020, but unbiased, at least

> The researchers have proposed nicotine attaches to the ACE2 receptors, thereby preventing the virus from attaching and potentially reducing the amount of virus that can get into a person’s lung cells.

As for potential bias:
> Further, around 60% of the hospitalised patients in the study were ex-smokers (similar to the national prevalence). Some may have given up smoking very recently in response to the WHO declaring smoking as a risk factor for COVID-19. But they were classified as non-daily smokers in the study.
> Second is what we call “social desirability bias”. COVID-19 patients may be more likely to deny smoking when asked about their smoking status in hospital, wanting to be seen by medical professionals as doing the right thing.

*Keep in mind this snopes article is referencing one study from mid-2020, and may not be accurate*
> How does imprisoning someone help the victims in any way? People have some really fucked up ideas of justice.

I see where you're coming from in general, but the standard for non corporate executives is imprisonment. Even if it's a "fucked up idea", it's the status quo.

Arguing against imprisonment in the context of corporate criminals doesn't do anything to change that status quo. Rather it just helps perpetuate the dual class justice system where the upper class gets respect and treated like humans while the faceless lower class gets draconian sentences to be "tough on crime".
Yes but that’s not really how people hedge.

It’s more: through various operation you end up with a large undesired $1M bet on head as a byproduct. To counter your exposure you put another $1M bet on tail. Now whatever happens, it shouldn’t impact you. Of course managing the two bets have a cost but that’s one you are ready to pay to escape being affected by the coin flip.

Hedge significantly reduces the exposure of companies to events they don’t want to be exposed to. Of course it could blow but that’s still better than having companies carrying random risks they don’t want.
It’s possible that (A) smokers are less likely to get Covid AND ALSO that (B) taking up smoking still has more downsides, making it not recommendable as an actual treatment.

Just because A is true doesn’t mean it follows smoking is a useful or recommended treatment. But it might lead to insights that drive future treatments.
> And then explain to me how this isn't a paraphrase of "I don't believe in science and studying things."

I think a more accurate description would be "I don't waste my time with bad science and sealioning" (of which I accuse the article, not you).

Take the "dropped precipitously" link from the article. Does it link to an article about the before-and-after effects of the helmet mandates in Sydney in Melbourne? No. Does it talk about a drop in bicycle usage, irrespective of any relation to the mandates? Also no. It's an uninstrumented observational article about the lack of adoption (specifically) of bike share programs in several Australian cities, with no meaningful analysis of policy-based or temporal factors (outside of the changing coverage areas of the bikeshare companies). That study has zero relation to the claim for which the posted article cites it. Trying to pass it off as if it does is entirely in bad faith.

Articles like the one linked in the OP are a dime a dozen, and disregarding them based on simple heuristics is a good use of everyone's time. If one has a bold scientific claim to make, they should either present the data alongside the article in which they make the statement, or accompany it with a peer-reviewed article that does.
Belgium Nearly Invented the Internet [video]
When I first tried making it in...1994, I believe, the instructions I had from cookbooks didn't say anything about refrigeration. Looking briefly on the internet right now, I see a mixture. What I know for sure is that I hung it from a fixture on my ceiling. I wish I could remember exactly what I thought of this at the time.

(It came out great BTW)
I feel like the "It is 2386, the government sends its annual delegation to Brussels to ask for a Brexit Extension. The people know not why, only that it is sacred tradition." meme applies here. The delay in implementation is ridiculous, bordering parody if we didn't know it was real life.
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In reality there is no well-informed, well-coordinated elite that creates conspiracies. That's not house information gets suppressed. It's some individuals feeling, often implicit, cultural pressure not to give too much attention to something.
Huh, TIL. I had always thought it was always just up-res'ing variations on Chicago, up thru and including the first iPod.

They look pretty similar but now that I look it them side by side I see it a bit.

As much as it is the style, it's also that kinda.. not-True-type still-a-bit-pixelated edges look that is the nostalgia factor, I guess.
The results probably won't be as good. Why would this affect human knowledge and history?
> Anecdotally my only family member who regularly smokes just got COVID.

Took nearly 3 years, that's pretty good ;)
Author compiled a lot of studies on his web log: https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2021/08/smoking-and...

The studies do appear to show that smoking cigarettes is correlated with a lower probability of getting the Covid, for a lot of different definitions of "getting the Covid."

They also appear to be, by eyeball aggregate, inconclusive as to whether the risk of dying from the Covid is higher or lower for smokers: it's certainly worse to be a smoker than not if you do catch the Covid.

Smoking also has some other bad health effects. I feel like that's pretty well-understood these days. I know these things; I was a smoker; I still am a smoker. I would not recommend taking up a cigarette habit just because of the Covid. Doesn't seem to cut down on the risk of dying from the Covid, still increases the risks of having bad health effects from everything else that's harmful about smoking.
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Smoking cover up? Goodness. Let’s assume you’re right and smoking prevents Covid. The answer would be to get everyone to start smoking??? Get everyone hooked on nicotine? If the goal is to prevent Covid, masks are better—they’re cheap, easy, and have no side effects. (Which drives people mad, but imagine telling them to start smoking instead. Actually I could see the anti-maskers firing up a box a day lol).
This was IMO one of the great blunders which seriously damaged trust in governments. Would we have had as many firmly anti-mask people if the story had always been "Masks probably work, but please don't don't buy them because healthcare workers need them"? Probably not.

Morally, I don't think it's acceptable to lie "for the greater good"; people who would otherwise have used masks they already owned might have died due to that lie. Strategically, I think undermining trust in medical institutions is the most dangerous thing you can do during a crisis like the covid pandemic.
Um, that's the point of it being THE issue.

If you are riding a bicycle in an area (like mine) where biking is just not at all that common in the majority of areas, then the drivers of motor vehicles are just out of practice of noticing bicycles. It is not in their muscle memory of needing to look out for them. Other cars, sure. Pedestrians, maybe (but that's probably pretty low as well).
At a certain point, one has to suspect that it just ain't gonna happen.
It's more like the British harkening back to Chaucer's England.

The problem with the Rome analogy is that China has had much greater continuity than Europe. China is what Europe would have been, if the Roman Empire had been reconstituted each time it collapsed.

Imagine if there were still one political entity ruling the entire Mediterranean basin and Western Europe, calling itself "Rome," speaking a Romance language, and in which every educated person was still capable of reading the Latin classics (with some difficulty).
Specifically, what does it mean exactly to decolonize math?
grrr, shows map uploaded in 2015? may explain so many missing items
Oh sorry I meant within chains. ie the sketchy Safeway near me is the same price as the Safeway in the more posh part of town. My thinking is this data would be useful at the store level, but at the city or region level there are much easier ways to get data on the economic condition.
It genuinely worries me. It feels like an acceleration.
That's not a useful perspective. It doesn't matter what the goal of the law is; it matters what effect the law has.
>No, obviously people who are sick should not be punished for withdrawing.

Then the rule is just pointless. Can anyone prove that you are not sick?

>where you withdraw specifically in relation to, and in a way that damages your opponent, then that should be punished.

Why should you be forced to play against a known cheater whom you suspect of having cheated against you?

You already get your punishment for withdrawing. Why should there be a rule that forces you to play against an opponent that makes you uncomfortable. What if your opponent were insulting you, withdrawing certainly would damage his reputation. Should you be forced there for 8 hours having him demean you, because doing anything else might damage his reputation? What if he is "just" trolling you while you try to think? Not okay to withdraw?

My point is where do you draw the line? Damaging your opponent certainly is not an acceptable standard.
I still play quite a few games from MacOS using SheepShaver. Still find it pretty fun.
Torsocks: Wrapper to Torify Applications
This is awesome. We don't need some malevolent SkyNet style AI to bring us down, there doesn't have to be any kind of 'mind' in the machine to devise humanity's undoing. All we need is the right kind of feedback and we'll do it to ourselves. The right kind of mirror, held up to the collective consciousness. Sort of like the plot of that old classic, Forbidden Planet
In negotiations, hoodwinking others has a cost, study finds
Replace "smoking" with "body odor" in that article, and it will still make as much sense:

"Having body odor to ward off a respiratory disease does seem counterintuitive, I will grant you, and alternative explanations have been put forward."
I can't renew my driver's license online anymore until I prove my citizenship.

Alright, fine, I have my birth certificate, and I took it to the DPS.

Well I can't just walk in... I have to make an appointment online. Alright, fine...

But appointments are booked solid for 2 months.

So I guess I'm driving with an expired license until then.
This isn’t really a problem. If Alice and Bob keep disagreeing, then it is appropriate that a conflict remains unresolved.
The majority of what you are talking about (read / unread, user tags and other such things) is handled by the IMAP server. eg; I routinely start drafts on mobile, save it, then continue to draft on a computer before sending. Also set flags on mobile for follow up later on desktop. Almost none of this depends on the client itself, it's all stored in IMAP.
Sure it’s not easy to say we act in complete isolation and clear thought - but these type of arguments have sooo many wrinkles to them (nature/nurture/opportunity) that it ends up coming down to free will, etc

At the core of a violent act an individual acts in a way that harms another individual - be it theft, rape or murder. Could be heat of the moment, or cold blooded action. Either way someone gets hurt

In addition to enforcing consequences we should identify the causes and work to continue civilizing individuals
A private contractor would not have sovereign immunity, so you can sue them without the government's assent. They would not receive special legal protections, like the signs the TSA put up threatening you with steep fines if you "verbally abuse" the TSA workers (even police in America don't receive such protection against verbal abuse, but apparently TSA workers do.) If they consistently understaff their security checkpoint, as the TSA routinely does during periods of anticipated heavy travel, the airport could fire them and hire another contractor who can do the job properly.

Airport security in America used to be done by private contractors. The TSA didn't exist before 2001. And before 2001, airport security checkpoints generally ran much smoother and faster than the TSA.

(I am not a libertarian, so spare me the jabs.)
This really is a hidden gem that has been continually built up by the community since forever. I've been playing for the past couple of years and it's absolutely lovely.

We all know that text can hold tremendous amount of knowledge/entertainment, but you wouldn't believe how much plain text has to offer in terms of gameplay. Deeper than most games I ever played.
That's the proper solution, but we may have problems implementing it in newer cities that were designed with cars in mind and don't have much in the way of public transportation outside of busses - in other words the U.S. South and the U.S. Midwest.
Roles are a function of the people you have and the primary responsibilities and functions they perform. They focus on some level of abstraction usually based on their training/background and the overall needs.

SREs are coders who know IT system. So they treat IT as code as much as possible. They solve problems by abstracting them into code.

Closely related are DevOps who are usually IT who know some coding. Maybe they run development operations, so the infrastructure and tasks needed to keep the developer infrastructure running. They solve problems by scaling known components and applications.

Quality Assurance Engineers are testers who can code or perhaps know some systems deeply vs being an application specialist.
You're not back to where you started. You've gone from a technical conflict to a direct disagreement about what is supposed to happen. There's no technical solution to an edit war. So maybe ask anew about the conflicting answers, or pick one arbitrarily at that point. Or make them play rock paper scissors. But it still helps to ask before it becomes a direct disagreement.
That’s an awesome next project! There goes 2023 :(
Don't they use all the out-of-copyright books in the training ?
Read/unread and tags are all supported by IMAP already so that should be possible for sure. Same with starring/flagging email, any willing mail client could implement those.

The big integration points I see are within special features such as some kind of cross device PGP support, the ability to sync customised "from" addresses, and other features that the more basic built-in email apps lack.

Perhaps the code could be further extended to also support calendar, task, and chat functionality, just like on desktop, but that would take more effort.
For gov funded universities social justice and EDI is good for leverage. You can get a grant for almost anything humanities, you will struggle for years to get anything for STEM.

Students are easier to get when you make them false promises in humanities studies. These 18 year olds don't realize they will never pay that money back until their 40's. More lies for profit.

The actual EDI ideas are never actually implemented, or are entirely focused upon western assumptions. Causing yet further discrimination. Admins are requiring further classes on EDI that do the topic a disservice, increasing credit counts, lying to accreditation, and collecting tax money. There is nobody holding them accountable.

This is politics. Politics is where people choose sides for personal gain. Politics is where individuals lie and believe in lies because their paycheck is tied to it.