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Backstory is that ~15 years ago when upload ratio was important some person decided to generate a list and upload a torrent with such click bait name just to increase his/her ratio. It worked well.
Tracking, advertising, user cohorts does not fit into the "browsing" part. That might be enough to feel why "Google's FLoC is a Terrible Idea".
The main thing which I was afraid of was the same as you've said - that I won't be able to change my muscle memory. Another thing - I won't be able to switch back the old keyboard (I expected to use it at the office) or even won't be able to use laptop keyboard anymore.
Surprisingly even after getting comfortable with Ergodox with totally different layout (different firmware is being used between keebs) I'm still able to jump between those easily. Maybe the first 5 mins are a bit harder but that is it. This surprises me what human brain is capable to do. Of course I still need to switch between keyboards regularly to not forget the layouts.
Not the same thing but we often are afraid of unknown.
Probably he meant that Microsoft was not the same Microsoft as it is now. In the same way as having @gmail.com account let us feel "special" 15 years ago and Google was operating under "Don't be evil" flag. Things are changing.
The same situation can be spotted on services. E.g. people already forgot that running email service costs money and they take the free GMail account as given. But around the corner they blame Google for poor support then free GMail account is randomly closed.
It is not only email. But if you want (support|control|freedom|insert-yourself) - pay for it.
I've purchased personal domain with my country code and picked Fastmail as provided for now (since many folks here gave good feedback).
2) That was the reason why I've picked UHK - it is open source. Parts can be easily replaced. Though it does not seem it is going to break soon.
It really depends on a keyboard - if it is similar to regular one or not. The UHK is pretty similar to regular keyboard - keys are staggered (not ortholinear), there are no additional thumb keys which are also not available on a regular laptop keyboard. After a year with UHK I'm still able to jump between laptop and UHK when needed. Somehow muscle memory "detects" when my hands are on UHK and I start using additional shortcuts which are not available on laptop.
Meanwhile if you'd pick something like Dactyl https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard, I believe it would be more difficult to jump arround.
P.S. After a year my typing speed on split keyboard is higher compared to laptop.
People also tend to forget human and business impact. The code might look different if there is 1 week or 4 weeks given for implementation. Timelines, pressure from management/stakeholders to deliver faster has impact to made solutions and implementations.
That is when respect is needed - having empathy to understand why this part of software looks like it is now.
More often options are changed on the shell (ZSH in my case) Then even more often on tmux.
H=http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2016/h264-hd/; curl $H | sed -rn 's/.*href="([^"]+)".*/\1.torrent/p' | xargs -i wget "$H{}I've worked with multiple ORM frameworks during my career. And I always reached the point where developer needs focus to framework internals instead of delivering new features.
Yes, usually most situation which developer didn't expected can be solved by configuring ORM framework, changing some configuration, providing additional parameters or calling some methods, but what that means? You need fully understand your framework if you want to be sure you application does exactly what you want and not misbehave.
So next time when you'll be thinking grab ORM to make things simpler, ask yourself if you really have enough time to fully learn the framework?