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lg's had a good run of being a monitor, their software was a bit shit but the hardware supported e-arc etc.

i've got 2 expensive lg tvs and i bought them because you don't need to use their remote, it just turns on and shows the picture.

Another one not mentioned is trying to book a trip for e.g. 3 people, but only one item of hold luggage. You just can't do it, you have to add it later in an amend-booking. Jet2's not quite as bad, its possible but difficult.

i've only ever owned a 'Surface Laptop 2' and for the time it was excellent, the keyboard and trackpad were both superior to my macbook pro of the time, the screen was great in both brightness and the 3:2 ratio. it was great value.

from all the comments on here it seems like that model was an anomaly and the rest of the product lineup is often pretty lacking.

the 'silent merging' you're talking about is the c in css

if you're writing class="flex-inline width-30 font-large" it's even worse than inline css because it has an abstraction layer and dependencies.

just write css, tailwind has always been total junk.

I hired a peugeot something (MPV) to drive in the french alps and it was insanely dangerous.

Driving mountainous switchbacks with very tight corners it was so strict about not wanting to cross the central line that it frequently tried to dump me into either the mountain or over the cliff.

Similarly on straight 2 lane roads where only really the centre was clear of snow and ice it was adamant that I should be driving with 2 wheels in deep snow instead of daring to drive in the middle.

not sure if i'm retarded, but there's not a single mention of xbmc

I've also never seen an ad in windows 11.

I did uninstall all of the weird apps like "News" "Weather" etc.

who's upvoting this, it doesn't say anything at all

i think i just misunderstood the writing, it does explicitly say 4bits for castling. the prose around is just describing what castling is - i thought it was implying that you could determine whether castling is possible from the position of the pieces.

I don't understand the castling part of this - you can move a rook from its starting square and back and castling isn't available - it says that you can determine whether castling is available from the location of the pieces?

yeah i just heard, i'm changing my prediction to Microsoft 365 Copilot Xbox Edition

i think it's telling that Nullsoft created their own installer for WinAmp and its still 20 years later one of the most sane and popular ways of distributing apps.

rumour has it the next version of windows will be called Microsoft 365 Azure for Desktop XBOX Edition so that each of the executives in the money making sections gets their piece.

the installation story for devs writing windows apps has been dreadful for 3 decades.

vs used to help you build setup.exe, which was always a huge chore to use.

clickonce was launched to replace all this with hosted manifests and auto-updates and modern features like that, and immediately forgotten about because it was so broken. nobody ever used it.

then they brought out WinUI and the windows store, which was so overly sandboxed that it didn't fit most use cases and the permissions system of the store never seemed to line up with the APIs themselves.

then they tried their best to destroy myget by launching winget, which got forgotten about again. now even MS doesnt use their own store.

If you're trying to pack hundreds of microservices into a cluster, having containers using 80MB of ram minimum instead of 500KB can become a big deal.

They're self contained and native, but they're still massive.

There's been some work on CoreRT and a general thrust to remove all dependencies on any reflection (so that all metadata can be stripped) and to get tree-shaking working (e.g. in Blazor WASM).

It seems like in general they're going in this direction.

i went through border control twice at an airport after going to the wrong gate and when i returned to the uk the e-gates immediately declined to process it (the camera etc. didn't move and e.g. reject the facial recognition, it just immediately said go to the desks). i've always wondered what that was about, how do they know i didn't just go to a third country?

i think his point was that the actual LINQ (language integrated query) is already superior to transposing it back to the functional fluent version. i largely agree, especially when you're doing joins and group by.

i've worked with people in the past who refused to allow any actual LINQ in the codebase (use resharper to convert it to fluent!) even though it essentially became obfuscated.

tldr; the wifi's access restrictions still allowed DNS so they set up a vpn on the dns port

The reason starlink are so low in the first place is its cheaper to launch to that altitude, you need way less signal strength for devices to connect to them and the round-trip latency is vastly improved. They're intended to be essentially disposable, they're going for shorter lifetime and iterating on hardware improvements faster.

The further out you get, there's less atmospheric drag and each satellite is in view of the ground stations for longer but the cost of launch is higher and latency becomes a big issue. People expect 50ms latency for internet access not 500ms.

i'm not paying a lot of attention to this AI global economics war bs tbh, but the intel arc gpus seemed to be a sensible way of me getting back into pc gaming. good drivers, ok performance, great value and great energy efficiency.

then all of a sudden nvidia decides to "invest" in intel... and all of a sudden it sounds like arc will be probably be getting cancelled.

thank you for your service, it was a very long comment but i read it all and found it insightful!

i used to make 'leaflet websites' in the 90s, then shopping carts. it was an era where everybody wanted an online presence to make themselves seem legitimiate. i expect this is the normal progression of anybody born in the 80s who could do software dev.

it got to a point where people would say they needed a website and i'd say to them that a facebook page would meet their needs better or eventually that a shopify site met their needs better. my business obviously folded.

any idea what the caddy did?

some sort of feedback for rotation angle maybe?

This is trying to ban a city from publishing historic crash data on public roads, nothing to do with advanced strategy or plans.

* we'll drag you into basic modern security hygiene if it kills us

i think they're saying it shouldn't be counted as a fail, rather than it should be accepted as an answer at that point.

if not i agree with you. it'd be nice if it flashed green or something around the entire set of brackets but made you still answer all the sub-clues though.

You're living the dream, great work.

Looks like an impressive bit of software and not some flash in the plan disruption nonsense.