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SarahC_on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold

WinForms - It just works.

Any system that needs a straightforward UI for kicking things off, stopping them, logging them, and dragging data files into them..... WinForms.

Bugfree, hardened by the test of time, works on Windows X, Y and Z.

Everything else is just consumer silver sprinkles, and involves faffing around with multiple config files and obscure layout issues.

SarahC_on Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

I love how entire cohorts of students across a country are used in education experiments!

America dropped the "phoneme, sound it out" of decades past and taught students to recognise word "shapes" and learn what they said. It was a complete, and total failure. Children did not learn to read.

What never comes up in the news is the absolutely crazy approach to rolling this out..... "Amazing new education idea is here! We're all doing it!"...... 8 years later, school graduates fail at X, Y, Z BECAUSE of that amazing idea.

There's no accountability, no recompense. Just a news article saying "5% graduate this year! Oh no! Education is terrible!".. papering over the accountability.

SarahC_on Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

That's EXACTLY what the blanks for! It lets you see what to expect with "All things being the same - just not with the sample in place."

You sure you're a coder?

SarahC_on Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years

Shouldn't have bothered....

SarahC_on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control

Seeing people squish at a young age - and I am not being flippant here - helped reduce my teen "I'm immortal! I'm unstoppable!" phase.

I saw very quickly that what separates a live person from a very deceased flat person was a moment of sillyness/forgetfullness/stupidity. "I didn't SUSPECT that is even possible to happen to a person!" - "We're....fragile?!" - "Ah, bike helmet... I think they're REALLY GOOD idea...."

PSA's just aren't listened to by teenagers. But something that's real - that happened, with the security camera timestamp in the corner... kids learn safety.

SarahC_on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control

IMAGINE A WAR.

Now - wouldn't a government LOVE to know who's saying what? Rather than shutting down the entire $$$$$ international corporate internet.

Money concerns as usual.

SarahC_on Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control

Gullible to believe its about kids - especially when there's a million options to limit the internet on devices already.

IMAGINE A WAR.

Now - wouldn't a government LOVE to know who's saying what? Rather than shutting down the entire $$$$$ corporate internet.

Money concerns as usual.

SarahC_on Sergey Brin's Unretirement

I look forward to the sweet kiss of death to solve the retirement funding issue, and forever declining health while working struggle. Working for "The man" takes everything someone has.

SarahC_on What makes you senior

Isn't a comp-sci degree the barely relevant "license" in IT?

SarahC_on What makes you senior

Always been a "Dev"..... "Senior" is often a trap for longer hours, less pay, and more responsibility for nothing. I do like helping other people out with their code, and giving them ideas for alternative easier/better to maintain code. I love talking to our end users about their experience and needs. So often the Jira ticket isn't matching the users "Vison" (however rare users having vision is.... if you ask the right questions, they DO often know what they want, just not how they want it)

I've given lots of help in the past but my name never appeared on tickets. My green boxes were few and far between. Sadly when the redundancies came - my boxes were mostly white. Axed. So be careful!

I think "Senior" is a massive extent of skills - and most people aren't on the same page of its meaning.

Some would even say "Senior" is that grumpy old guy that over-engineers everything and shouts at the youngsters if they say he's making stuff 9/10 other dev's can't maintain even with the documentation.

SarahC_on Researchers seeking better measures of cognitive fatigue

Not in the UK. We get to email a problem. Wait all day for a reply. It works! Before a reply comes back - people self triage. It gets better - no problem! It gets worse - A & E.

SarahC_on Eternal Struggle

The coming of Satan is foretold!

SarahC_on Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome

They could always foster some gay kids.... obviously being gay they won't be having gay kids via sex.

SarahC_on Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome

With this new gene information, we may be able to make every Down's. The world would be a much nicer and happier place.

SarahC_on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update

PROXOMITRON!

Local proxy filter that is like a Pi-hole, but locally!

It's OLD, and became obsolete when browser plugins were invented, but now more relevant than ever!

Because it's between the server and the client - it can do what it wants!

SarahC_on The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine

"Bullshit jobs" are the rubbish required to keep the paperwork tidy, assessed and filed. No company pays someone to do -nothing-.

AI isn't going to generate those jobs, it's going to automate them.

ALL our bullshit jobs are going away, and those people will be unemployed.

SarahC_on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70

>something humans have done since before recorded history

Inuits would leave their old out in the snow, and walk away. Just saying.

SarahC_on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70

Far right talking points!

They'll be as Danish and any other Danes, just choosing to live life as they see fit.

>"And as a result, they won’t be nearly as economically productive as Danes, ", how does someone with a different religion, or choice for music make them less economically productive? Are you suggesting they don't know white collar skills? Or are less intelligent due to were they were born?

SarahC_on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70

https://web.archive.org/web/20250525195310/https://www.teleg...

SarahC_on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

I bet it streams the video like a protected HDMI movie... so the video stream isn't part of the WDDM's Team's Window - but placed on top of it.

Interestingly that can be overcome by moving the video just a little between two screens, which reverts it back to a WDDM surface. =D

Or TWO monitors, with "Duplicate" selected, and a camera recording the second monitor under the desk.

SarahC_on Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32 [video]

Dude on the left looks like my doppleganger...... I had to think back to remember what I'd being doing recently - nope, no holes in my memory!

SarahC_on 25 years of video clips gone as Paramount axes Comedy Central wesbite

It is clear now that paper archives are far superior to digital ones.

Digital archives don't degrade over time - but they are so easy to destroy. Unplug the disks, or hit "Erase", or take the site down - and history has been erased.

We'll know more about the 19th century than we ever will of the 21st century.

SarahC_on Show HN: Render audio waveforms to HTML canvas using WebGPU

No appropriate GPUAdapter found.

I've turned on in chrome://flags

>WebGPU Developer Features Enables web applications to access WebGPU features intended only for use during development. – Mac, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, Fuchsia, Lacros #enable-webgpu-developer-features

Chrome is up to date Version 123.0.6312.123 (Official Build) (64-bit)

RTX2060

SarahC_on World of Spectrum 404 Page

It's BROKEN!

Updates to the browsers have broken the audio of it.

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE think of the children, and fix the audio for us please?

SarahC_on How to center a div in CSS

That doesn't work on Codepen.io, in the latest Chrome.

Back to the drawing board.