skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the hard time I am having installing Linux on a Gigabyte NUC that was given to me, due to UEFI issues, I am quite close to either get rid of it, or install Windows 11, make use of WSL if needed, and call it a day.
We had the same discussion internally, and we decided to solve the problem of readability by introducing a concept called modules, where a piece of the workflow can be refactored as a module and represented as a single node in the editor. Users can dive deeper into the module by double-clicking on it. Do you think even with that there is a serious issue of readability?
I just want some basic functions that were present in all previous Windows versions. Classic start bar in a vertical position on the second screen only. hear my prayers Microsoft
I had a boss once who was hoarding projects to manage - he wanted to have fingers in all possible pies.

As a result, he basically spent most of his time in transit between meetings (not even in the meetings themselves...).

If it sounds great, it wasn't. He was notionally in charge of ~50 projects or so and a blocker on each one. Nothing definitive could be done without his approval, which was hard, as he wasn't even au fait with the project's status. So to get anything done you had to (a) physically find him and pin him down, (b) explain what approval he needs to give and why, (c) let him go to think about it, and (d) repeat every few days until he makes a decision (or lets you make it instead).

His desk was flanked by two piles of "in-tray" papers about a foot tall, from earlier years when people thought leaving reports and forms on his desk was a way to get them in his job queue. Alas, he basically never sat at his desk, and when he did, he just peeked at the flanked screen with no sense of irony.
Apple now allows retro game emulators on its App Store
I expect this will be resolved with an update quickly, but ExplorerPatcher is wonderful and absolutely key to my enjoyment of Windows 11.
There are quite a lot of fundamental things mentioned in it which are still valid today
Objective C is a system for that; Objective C++ is at least three systems for dispatching calls in ways that don't involve linear search. Not sure why they'd try to make another one.
Legal is what we collectively decide. Ethical is what we personally decide.

Clearly something is either legal or not, and we have mechanisms setup to clarify where there is dispute.

Some professions have ethical standards. Some even have enforcement of them, making them pseudo-legalities.

But personal ethics, are, well, personal. You may find it ethical to eat meat, I might not. You may consider it unethical to eat cheese, or coffee, or honey. You might consider it ethical to pay minimum wage, or require employees to answer emails after hours. Or rent out an apartment, or wear white in October.

Ethics are personal and vary enormously. Declaring things to be ethical or not is therefore somewhat unhelpful. Clearly some will agree, some will not.

Whole college courses exist to try and define ethics and to encourage students to at least think about what their own ethical boundaries might be.
As others have pointed out, the energy consumed would literally be “too cheap to meter.”

More realistic would be that, If fully realized, this becomes a great secondary income stream for the power line owners.

Not only do they get to monitor their own lines with self-powering drones, but they rent out access to delivery drones, traffic monitoring drones, and (yes) whatever nefarious and helpful uses people dream up. Monitoring would not have to be perfect in order for them to still make huge profits.

Seems more akin to how the railroad companies realized that could make a fortune by using their right-of-ways for communications cables.

And for monitoring: seems like an obvious solution would be to have monitoring drones that watch for usage by other drones. :)
I used to work for a Stephen Covey fan that had us think according to this quadrant. The main tension was between working ahead on important projects (doing quad 2 before it hits quad 1) without accidentally doing irrelevant quadrant 4 work instead. Staying in true quad 2 for most of the week was brain-burning.

It was fun to poke her about her quad 3 work becoming my quad 1. :) We were encouraged to help our managers prevent that from happening to us by building better systems (quad 2.) Low tolerance for recurring busywork.

Good lessons for this young employee from this framework being seriously applied in a team environment.
Depends on how powerful your machine is
You can use Visual Studio on Linux, I would assume you can configure it to use the same hotkeys as on Windows but I'm not sure.
There are plenty of reasons to skewer Microsoft, but this isn't one of them.

Microsoft isn't blocking all customization apps here, of course. They're blocking known [1][2] unreliable, poorly written, high crash rate software that is extremely sensitive to OS changes, hotfixes, and/or upgrades due to the nature of the software (e.g. hooking functions, patching memory, etc).

The block is geared towards a specific revision of the software. The authors will just need to fix the bugs, rev the executable version, and they're good to go. Again.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/res...

[2] https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/issues
This week in KDE: real modifier-only shortcuts and cropping in Spectacle
> With patch applied, thy scratch prepared to itch which I bemoan,

> Help link replied, its ink ensnared, with "lambda, type Unknown."[1]

> Apostrophized: "Be tossed, repaired, my user-error thrown!"

> With paren pride, I then declared a test which I have shown.[2]

> Test now revised as thou compared. Composure hath no throne

> when teary-eyed, in fear I blared, "My closure! Type Unknown?"

(Karma is meaningless

you should have just said it

if you want poem_for_your_sprog

then go back to reddit)
I not so obvious but similar example of this would be with Nintendo and the Switch. They had always hand their handheld and consoles as separate things but eventually decided to just combine them into a single thing. So instead of double dipping on the hardware and potentially the software sales, it just become a single entity. And to say that has worked out well for them is an understatement. Sold 139 million units and are still taking their time of getting to a successor. They are probably going to take the #1 highest selling games machine of all time and they did it by going against their old business practices.
The Jellyfin Android TV app had a lot of improvements over the last year or so. But they're still working on a new playback approach that works better with transcoding of audio and HDR/4k for compatibility with devices. Because it works now maybe 95%, but that really annoys users when they try to watch some of that 5%...
I’m not on windows 11 but I wonder if you could rename a different executable and get it blocked in the same way?
Steam/Valve made a point of running Windows games under Linux as good or better as under.Windows. that is, Wine and Proton are really good these days.

Running genuine MS Windows® in a VM is very possible but much less necessary than, say, 10 years ago, if you want to run some non-esoteric Windows software. It also technically requires a license.
This is a deal breaker for me too. I updated to Windows 11 only once I found ExplorerPatcher.

Were it not for sizeable investments in Windows-specific apps, I would have moved away.

I am currently using:

* ExplorerPatcher (replace taskbar)

* OpenShell (replace start menu)

* ProcessExplorer (replace task manager)

* XYPlorer (replace file manager)

* Utilities like Notepad++, Paint.net

* Winsplit Revolution (Window management)

* BatteryCare (Power management)

* USBSafelyRemove (USB device management)

* Etc.
And the mercury emitted from all that coal we still burn:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09080-6

And in our chemical processes
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/chinese-companies-slated-f...

I imagine we’d be talking about going carbon neutral by 2100 instead of 2050 if we hadn’t burned so much coal

We should reach peak coal sometime in this decade:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-15/coal-s-pe...
Implementing the Eisenhower Matrix for the Org Mode agenda:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66567445/how-to-use-a-or...
As mentioned in another comment, these cables are designed to handle orders of magnitude more stress than a drone. (Think wind storms, entire flocks of birds, blown debris, etc)

For example, See this video of how wires are inspected by humans crawling along them: https://youtu.be/oBJyyEAw-6g?si=QVqBgjqwlM4XCGKl
A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS
Eh? Why would you downvote a personal experience in a thread asking for personal experience?
And AI-enable it.
Design software, games and lazyness.

I have a linux running as my home server, so I have tried out various distros, currently using Mint Xfce.
Okay, then maybe they could stop messing things up instead of blaming their users? I would love to not have to run a third-party patcher to put my taskbar at the top of the screen where I've had it for a decade and a half.
Yeah, I would guess Iowa is quieter. LAPD is one of those archetypal failing police organizations, with so much on their plate even their own officers form organized criminal gangs. No wonder they don't have time for some poor mental hospital hobo's insistence that his identity was stolen 30+ years ago and that people are pretending to be him, especially after he was already convicted for identity theft. But that's also a systematic failure, and it shouldn't be happening. No police organisation anywhere in the world in that bad of a shape shouldn't undergo basically complete restructuring and reconsideration of duties. No court should have ever let that first ruling pass. Such a simple thing as a paternity test to discover who is clearly in the right should have been the obvious thing to do right away, instead of brushing people away. Even in the first court case, honestly.
It's really annoying to see microsoft spend 100s of billions on AI and not have side aligned task bar.
It's a pity Microsoft is taking this direction, it's almost like they are completely abandoning their old user base. I feel that they should be doing the opposite of what Apple is doing - remove telemetry and ads, perhaps charge for a "developer" version of the OS, encourage independent software development and help with discovery (i.e. give away free code-signing keys)...

I moved away from Windows as my desktop in 2002 and opted for Apple, and if MS changed their direction - at least for me as a developer - I would embrace "switching back". I'm completely sick of what Apple is doing, and yet aside from open source - where is the large-scale commercial competition that's screaming "we are the opposite of Apple."? I can only speak for myself, however I would be the hugest fanboy for Microsoft if they showed some leadership and actually gave me what I wanted...

Microsoft built its business on developers - some people want to customise their UI - what is the compelling argument to marginalise this minority?
Really, my disposition has no bearing on the facts. They are designed to handle wind but I doubt those design parameters included random weights attached at random points between spans. The lines also change shape based on temperature.

If the clamp abrades the line under high wind conditions then you are weakening and possibly breaking the line. If the hardware that mounts the line to the tower can't handle the additional loading then you risk breaking it and dropping a live line on the ground.

No good alternatives? That's exceptionally unimaginative. The lines are strung up with towers. You could just put a station, on the ground, right at the base of the tower, where it would be much easier to directly connect it to the power lines in a safe and permanent way.
Even the main picture in the article shows the error message that clearly states:

"A new version might be available"
Microsoft still haven't implemented a native vertical taskbar after all the years of it being in the top voted[1] request (part of the request to move to any side of the screen) and the fact it's been part of Windows for like 15 years. It's a dealbreaker tbh.

Third-party tools that restored the W10 taskbar in W11 allowed users to continue having a taskbar that's usable for them yet the latest W11 betas show they're removing that legacy code. It'd be fine if they were replacing it with an equivalent but they're not.

[1] https://www.neowin.net/news/ability-to-move-the-windows-11-t...
I’m one of these people who, until reading your comment, thought shaken baby syndrome really was a thing… Thanks for spreading the info!
I actually thought for the longest time that the cyber truck was an over the top meme/joke. I was astounded to find out it was real.
Don't debug -O3, or -O2 for that matter. Debug a separate debug build without optimizations, or don't heavily optimize your release build if you want to debug that (you know that obviously).

Even with optimizations disabled, debugging C++ can be quite painful. Only add a little template stuff to the source code, and a few "zero-cost" methods like indexing operators or cast operators, and it quickly becomes painful to step through code.

There should be a way to avoid stepping through boilerplate methods, but apart from specifying string patterns to exclude methods by name -- not inline with the method but in a separate debugging configuration (which is very very annoying).

The only solution I know is to use C++ features very lightly. Any other practical options?

Check this link and the twitter posts linked there, other well known developers have this issue: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/std::move-and-...
You can still buy these Geo-metro like vehicles in Europe.

I was shocked to see electric Renault Zoe has manual windows in the back.

But plenty of other low-end cars, especially French ones, are like the more modern Geo Metro experience.
I think the GP was telling their story in the context of that time. It's a technique to help the reader more fully understand the context. I'm almost sure there is a term for this literary technique.
People die all the time. Grow up.
I am not sure if the apps mentioned here really target power users. It seems that they are actually blocking apps by name (!) that reached some popularity in bringing back the old windows style interface. Those apps are bypassing Microsofts efforts to place ads all over the place and monetize the start menu. Those new featured content and AI stuff seems all very hacked into the interface and breaks easily. My taskbar even gets stuck from time to time (missed meetings because of the stuck clock). So this seems all just collateral damage in using windows to sell cloud stuff.
AI is the DaVinci enabler in a complex world
For taskbar.

Many other utilities are there. Most are normal apps. Some tweak registry. Taskbar replacement uses deeper tweaks, hence the claim that they are creating security issues.
Pragmatic is very impressive because they're a startup that (a) is building their own chip fab and (b) said fab is much faster and cheaper than existing fabs.

They claim [1] to be able to make chips from a new design in only ~4 weeks compared to the usual 3-6 months required by anyone else, which is huge for R&D. They manage this by using an unusual relatively low-performance process (which is also what allows them to use plastic substrates), but it's arguably a worthwhile tradeoff (in return for slower larger transistors, you get significantly lower equipment cost and lead times). That the chips are flexible is almost an afterthought, I think, albeit a nifty one.

They've also announced efforts [2] toward open-sourcing their PDK, joining the growing movement toward open source chip design.

[1] https://www.pragmaticsemi.com/foundry
[2] https://www.pragmaticsemi.com/newsroom/blogs/democratising-i...
Congratulations! You baited the rage in the headline.
It's surprisingly reminiscent of Comlink[0], the Google Chrome team's library for orchestrating and messaging web workers.

[0]: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/comlink
If you work for someone else and carry out your tasks as instructed, and have tried to bring up the absurdity of it all as specced but they insist you do it anyway then I don’t see what would be unethical about it? Only talking about brain dead/useless endeavors, not bad/evil projects.
I don’t know what microsoft is thinking, there is no real reason to use windows 11, it is a downgrade in a lot of ways. At least windows 10 held directx12 hostage as an incentive to upgrade. Its funny, everytime I boot up one of my systems that still has windows 7 installed it feels so nice, even better than 10 much less 11.

I think microsoft is playing a dangerous game with messing around with windows like this, it could lead to a domino effect causing a mass exodus of users.

Google is going through the same thing now, it was the king of search but now search sucks and I and my friends are using other search engines more and moving away from google tools. I don’t even remember the last time I used gmail.
Isn't that just vscode, that ugly abomination that I've given up trying to configure in a reasonable fashion after like 5 minutes every time I tried it out again?

Anyways, I'm on jetbrains these days and never looked back.
I think this is for webcomics, not syndicated newspaper comics. Also I think it's not being updated anymore. At least, it couldn't find a recent Dinosaur Comics strip which is strange as that's Ryan North's webcomic.

As an aside, I can't believe Dinosaur Comics is still active. I looked it up and it started over 20 years ago in 2003. 4176 comic strips using the exact same artwork almost without exception.

What webcomics really need is not a search engine but an index of "most viewed" strips for each one. For longrunning webcomics the latest strips are often not really interesting for new readers, but there are a few (or more than a few) standout strips from the past that are really funny and could draw people in, only you can't easily find them just from the webcomic's home page.
Are you maybe thinking of VS Code? I'm talking about its parent: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
I still have a few SCCS directories hanging around, back from the 90s-ish I think. RCS and CVS haven't left any trace in my system (they were work only, as was SourceSafe). And my live projects are SVN and git...

Yep, here's the first delta in one of the SCCS dirs...

^As 00031/00000/00000
^Ad D 1.1 98/04/27 21:02:41 dhd 1 0
^Ac date and time created 98/04/27 21:02:41 by dhd

That's from the file served then and now as:

http://www.exnet.com/About_Us.html

And I have found some there from 1995, which is about when we will have taken the HTTP server live...
This is a great tip. There are definitely a lot of times I've had to look this up in the middle of the night after getting paged.
If you see a career as some kind of progression within a single company, then sure. I always saw it as my own progression, and I've rarely stayed at a single company longer than 2 years. I have no loyalty to companies, and I don't expect it from them either. Doesn't mean I don't have a career!
I really tried to use msi back when it appeared but it wouldn't work in certain versions of Windows without installing something else before. I can't remember the details but it was self defeating.
Microsoft gonna Microsoft. It's to be expected that they try to shape user behavior to what they want with scary messages about "security and performance". Wait till they do the same with e.g. non-Edge browsers.
It's not always you who picks the platform. In an enterprise usually choices are limited or it's not worth your time invested.
Yes, you're right, it's VS Code they're referring to and it's not the same thing.

I tried JetBrains Rider and stopped using it after the console window didn't auto scroll as I logged stuff into it - I don't know how something so basic doesn't work properly.

I should probably try again, as so many people recommend it that I can only assume I did something wrong to mess up the console.

(Edited, I originally misunderstood your comment)
It was possible for literal decades, what are you going on about?
They did not take them away. They decided not to add them. Windows 11 is a result of taking Windows 10, adding arbitrary cpu limitation to it, and bolting on a bunch of crap from the cancelled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10X
> even apps with a JIT compiler

No you can't. Altstore does this with a hack, it enables remote debugging, which requires you to be on the same wifi network as the server.
The "solution" is so stupid, this might actually work.

Don't have it though too.
This is both incredibly historic and clumsily sidesteps the fact that were you in that time, according to your statement, you would have found it ethical.
In the late 90s I had a short stint doing freelance work for a "stupid money" investor who funded the work of this weirdo post-modernist programmer/philosopher claiming to be developing something akin, I guess, to what we would now call a deep learning system.

The claim was that the system this person was developing, when introduced to a lot of information, would emerge with "interesting" behaviour and insight. The problem was that nobody except for the author knew how to interface with that system, which was just a dense and highly idiosyncratic codebase in C manipulating data structures. And so my role was to learn about that system and build a UI that will allow mere mortals to use it.

After a few frustrating and very confusing weeks not really managing to understand what that system actually does (and therefore what an appropriate user interface would be) I finally got to read through the code (taking advantage of the main author, who normally guarded his creation and didn't allow anyone to look at it too closely, being absent for a few days). It quickly became clear to me that this system doesn't really do anything useful at all. It was more post-modern poetry than code.

When I tried to talk to the investor about the situation I was made to understand that this is not something we're going to be discussing openly. I guess he sort of knew but for whatever reasons liked keeping things ambiguous. In order to be able to deliver _something_ for my fees, I prepared a cute little Windows UI that technically connected to that system but really only used it as a random number generator, had some buttons and sliders, and presented all kinds of cool graphics. They were very happy with the result and I soon moved on to other works.
It's because the Windows 11 UI was designed by people who've never used anything other that an Apple Mac.

Yes, Microsoft hires employees with zero Windows experience to design their operating system.

That's why the Windows 11 taskbar has the icons centred -- because Apple OSX does too.

That's why there's no way to drag the taskbar around -- because Apple OSX doesn't allow this either.

Etc...
C'mon, you didn't even read to the end of the paragraph you quoted.
If they offered decent in house customisability then people wouldn’t need to resort to unreliable 3rd party solutions.

Why can’t I have a vertical taskbar? Is that really beyond the combined technical ability of a three trillion corp? Obviously not so it’s a conscious choice to not give users options and control
> Legal is what we collectively decide.

It's not even that. The collective didn't ask for sodomy laws. The collective didn't repeal Roe v Wade.
Use modern IDEs with features like Just My Code, which already help a lot.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/just...

Also, there are scenarios where debugging without optimizations isn't an option.

The issue with std::move has been solved for a while and was a VC++ bug, not C++.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/a-year-of-cpp-im...
What I think about when I edit (2019)