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I resorted to telling people "Click/touch the funny little group of three horizontal lines.", and if they still hesitated, "…Looks like an air vent.".

On occasions where I told them it's really called a hamburger menu, they all either looked like they thought the idea was nonsesical, or said as much.

…Don't get me started on apps that have multiple air vent (or elipsis) menus visible simultaneously.

Or apps that abuse the symbol further by changing the meaning from "menu" to "toggle a sidebar that may or may not have portions that act like a menu."

./table-flip

The first 10 years are 1 through 10. That is the first decade. Consequently, the next decade is years 11 through 20.

The first century is years 1 through 100. Therefore, the second century is years 201 through 300.

The first millenium is years 1 through 1000. Therefore, the second millenium is years 2001 through 3000.

There is no year zero.

The walls are getting below dew point when they cool and/or the humidity is too high for extended periods. And the walls have dust or other surface accumulations conducive to mold. Insulating the exterior and keeping the interior humidity low will help. Thoroughly clean and dry the interior walls, removing all mold and all other surface accumulations. Keep the interior above dew point.

Aging or damaged batteries can have dramatic'ly different output curves than the system expects. What looks like x% to the system can be at the edge of a cliff on the curve, causing sudden shutdowns or power loss.

Quite often when I use a 1990s system, I encounter several things that are instantaneous, while modern machines take several seconds.

Like, sending an empty folder to the bin:

Win 10 this afternoon took seconds to display a dialog box with no content, the a couple seconds to add a progressbar, then a second to add the cancel button, then multiple seconds to finish showing progress.

But at home a 1991s system with System 7 completes the same task instantly without needing a progressbar.

I do not hold with the detractors. I've personally known people who write like this since before LLMs were a thing. I rarely use LLMs, and come from the days of "expert systems" and the tail end of when universities had hundreds of typewriters in a room.

So perhaps, that's my bias: towards a former reality.

I often find myself wondering at a random HN commenter's flaming of a post for being full of AI slop, when the accused reads like normalspeak to my half-old eyes.

Last I read, Kagi is using data from 3rd-party scraping of Google results, because buying directly from Google comes with onerous limitations:

- Must not alter the order of Google's search results - Must not alter the appearance or placement of Google-inserted ads

> Moore law did its thing, now you can do it with a lot less computer power.

s/power/time/ maybe? Or on second thought: so energy-efficicient that it actually uses less power in the same-or-shorter time… which brings me back to "less compute power".

Although…my gran's coasters were made of Waterford crystal, and could definitey do some damage. (-:

Some countries chose different physical sizes and/or embosed bumps in the corners.

You can, but then "The cake is a lie.", because linecount and bug rate, when concieved as proxies for productivity[1] or quality rarely match up with reality in a way that allows you to make predictions or reason about past outcomes.

You can reason about frequency of particular types bugs, such as null pointers or overflow, or whether those bugs can occur at all.

[1] https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

There is long-standing tradition that if a company's "core competency" is retained, it remains the same company. And also of adults being adopted into a family (including when done as a means of producing a successor when there is no suitable heir).

So, a family of weavers going back hundreds of years, now switching to carbon fibre production under the direction of an unrelated (adopted) heir can said in Japan to still be the same company if that carbon fiber is woven.

But also, sometimes "core competency" is re-interpreted. Perhaps the original core competency was as dyers, which morphed into weaving at some point, and might eventuall change to "anything involving carbon fibre"…

Perhaps they take issue with "_any_ other source". I agree that U.S. govt data is now suspect, but there are far sources. Maybe an s/any other/more reputable/ would be accepted?

But…you're correlating previous climate changes (which had much slower rates) with "Even though this one measures daramatic'ly different, it's the same.".

As some others have asked you, would you be so kind as to please suggest other sources for either the required energy inputs, or the required reduction in heat losses, so as to provide other plausable explanations for the available data?

We agree that corelation is not causation. I suppose we should also agree that ignoring a correlation when choosing what to investigate would not be science.

Colour me confused.

Dark mode on an oled reduces brightness (and power consumption).

Dark mode on my work laptop (not oled) reduces backlight brightness. This is auto-tragical, because it seems to only respond to changes in the display buffer's average requested luminance, instead of using an ambient light sensor. Dropping backlight toward minimum when the room is bright makes the screen mostly unreadable. And there's no control for this. Dell should be ashamed!

More importantly, if you place any darkening filter, including a darkened set of pixels, in front of a light source, it reduces the brightness. But perhaps the main concern you intended is "power consumption", not "emitted lux"? If, I'd say "Depends on your application.".

Man, I forgot NeoPlanet. Thanks for the reminder! It was one of a bazillion IE-based browsers. I vaguely recall it had some nice features that seemed they should be in every browser…but I can't remember any of them now.

Now returns Null for me, but looks like it was https://fiverr-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/f_pdf,q_auto/...

Also, a version of this appears to be currently sold on Amazon for $15 USD.

As has been said before, sites that don't use unnecessary cookies don't need to have a cookie banner. Having the banner is often just malicious compliance (or for a non-compliant one banner, maliciously non-compliant).

> Maybe using an unnatural placement of )parentheses( could have worked

O, c'mon! That is clearly a giant heading in a display font, squeezed in the middle and wider at the top and bottom. (-;

The first one I remember is RealPlayer. I think the official story was that they were having more and more trouble convincing people to install upgrades (at a time when 56k and slower modems were still common, dowloading an app could take minutes, ugrade nags seemed to be ever present), so they decide to name the new major version RealOne Player "because it's the One, the only One you need, the One that does everything for you".

Of course, this meant that the next time they tried to get anybody to install a patch, some of us felt annoyed because. RealOne Player wasn't "the One" after all. Why should we get back on the treadmill of waiting for downloads that rarely seem necessary?

Ahem. I think this event sensitised me against all attempts at using "one" like that. I mentally flip a table every time.

Engineers & architects leave a lot of detail out of their designs, relying on the plumbers and other trades to figure out the Right Thing. (-:

"one data structure" doesn not have to mean "all data it one instance". Each of 100 functions could take a slice of data, or use a separate datastore which has the same structure. Separate instances of one structure can be passed by reference or value, and the receiver, because all 100 functions use the same data structure, understands what to do with what it received.

>> There are many unenforceable laws, with drastic consequences if they were enforced, which are not being fixed > > Irrelevant.

While I don't see why "unenforceable laws" is being mentioned so many times, given the plethora of other laws, I possit that since one of the prior comments was that enforcing them would be damageous, perhaps the intended wording is "unenforced laws" (as distinct from laws which cannot be enforced). If so, then I suggest their relevance.

>> A just system would not perpetuate unjust laws indefinitely > > Can you point to laws that the majority of the population agrees are unjust that have existed since the beginning of the United States? If not, then there's zero unjust laws being perpetuated indefinitely, and so your conclusion is invalid by your own argument.

This the flaw that a law being perpetuated "indefinitely" (that is, without defined end) need not have existed since the beginning of the United States. Such law could have begun at any after, or indeed prior.

>> In fact, there's no such binary. > > That's true, you can "just ignore those laws" - and you'll be a hypocrite. The binary that I'm describing is clearly moral. I'm not saying that you physically must take one position or the other (as you're implying) - just that if you pick a value in the middle, you're a hypocrite, and your opinions are worthless, because you don't really believe them - you're just saying whatever is most convenient/advantageous for you at the moment.

This formulation is not constructive of enlightened debate. Kindly sheath your daggers and reply without invectives. As written, that might easily be read both as personal attack and casual dismisal of entire person. For what is a person who has no opinions?

Now, if I understand your position correctly, you believe that all laws must be obeyed, and that disobeying any law is immoral. Do we each believe that some laws are, whether past or present, immoral? In the case that a law can be immoral, I must hold that the resultant moral obligations are to disobey that law to the fullest and to endeavour to best ability for its most expedient and most moral removal.

Also sources: the Myst making-of video included on the Myst CD-ROM, and the Cyan team members who made it!

I was going to recommend the Gadgetbridge app, but it seems to have little or no support for Fitbit. I does support hundreds of devices, though. I used it extensively with a Mi Band 3, but have yet to try it with my Garmin.

Yes, occasionally using old systems from decades ago can drive this home.

Copying a tiny file at 1.1 MB/s should feel instantaneous. But on Win 10 and Win 11 with an SSD, you can get a multisecond progressbar. And if you dare to cancel this tiny operation (because you chose the wrong destînation or wrong file), you get another progressbar.

Opening a folder window for a local directory with only a few items in it should never trigger a "Working on it…" message. It should be instantaneous.

Searching for filenames with a substring "foo", when an item "foobar" was already visible on the screen, should never result in failing to find "foobar", nor in a long delays before showing any items. VoidTools Everything displays live results as you type. Windows 10/11 often fails on both counts even when searching "indexed" locations; Outook also seems to also suffer from this inability to reliably include in search results items that were already on display. Something is deeply wrong with search.

Devs should be required test against machines hobbled to run at most 10% of rated speed, and to make it buttery smooth.

Would also be nice to have all my screenspace back by being able to turn off what appears to be Simply Enormous Margins & Padding mode…

But…LAMBDA()! And LET() and friends.

Also, the Excel Labs formula editor. But it needs a way to tell it "I know I have too many cells! Just let me trace over the 100 nearest rows."

The old scripting language can still be handy if you can keep people from opening the online version of Excel. Especially if you have a certain debugger addin[1]. Excel's JavaScript features are of limited use, if you're offline.

I keep wishing for a spreadsheet to implement all its scripting and formulas in something like Forth behind the scenes, so that every time a competitor announces n-more functions, we can just be like "Oh, really?" and add it.

[1] Related to waterfowl of the plasticised yellow variety. I'm not sure I can mention the name in a post anymore, since ages ago when I tried multiple times to post a properly-referenced (overly-hyperlinked?) message while my connection was very flaky. Note to self: should probably mail dang about this, some day.

Haiku (OS) caches the vector icons rendered from HVIF[1][2] files which are used extensively for UI.

I didn't find details of the caching design. Possibly it was mentioned to me by waddlesplash on IRC[3].

[1] 500 Byte Images: The Haiku Vector Icon Format (2016) http://blog.leahhanson.us/post/recursecenter2016/haiku_icons...

[2] Why Haiku Vector Icons are So Small | Haiku Project (2006) https://www.haiku-os.org/articles/2006-11-13_why_haiku_vecto...

[3] irc://irc.oftc.net/haiku

At work, when we send stuff From USA to Canada for repair, we just need to put the correct Canadian customs code and "For warranty repair" on the packing slip.

I believe the Jargon File has a couple of lyrics about IBM and JCL, to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club theme.