VortexDream

I feel like the 80s movie does this far better. For all its flaws. It makes an effort to show the emperor and the spacing guild and impress upon the viewer how involved and how powerful (or in the case of the spacing guild, how alien) they are.

Might be interesting to see how they respond to the old movie by comparison.

Sort of nuts that it is solely reliant on Microsoft to approve this change. Calls the whole .NET Foundation into question, imo. What good is open source if the sole steward has interests that conflict with the overall well-being of everything under the NET umbrella.

They even locked the PR for the change to prevent it being discussed. This is disgusting behavior.

This article speaks to my soul. All my life I've been told how intelligent I am. It's been such a massive driver for my own insecurities and fear around anything I do, since my identity is tied up so much in being right and not being wrong, in continuing to present this image of infallible intelligence. It's likely also fed into my issues with depression I've had all my life. I can consistently get people to see how intelligent I might be, but it's always such a struggle. It's like walking a tightrope. I hate it.

You're not wrong. I guess I'm more annoyed by how widespread it has become to waste whitespace. The new Reddit design is unusable for me because of how much space it wastes. I try it sometimes for a few days, then go back to the old design and feel so much happier to be able to see so much at once without distractions.

Interestingly, Apple is moving back towards the old console model. You now have a bespoke CPU/GPU platform from Apple running their own OS. I'd say we're already seeing the performance benefits of owning/designing/developing the whole stack.

The fact that this beats AMDs top laptop CPU is actually a huge deal. And that's before considering battery life and thermals.

I'll never buy an Apple computer, but I can't help but be impressed with what they've achieved here.

This is pretty awesome. Thanks for answering my questions, it's been insightful. I've been messing around with Freemind for the past hour and I'm liking this. This has definitely inspired me to experiment with it further.

Can you give examples of what your nodes look like, say in mysqldump? Or maybe a screenshot? It sounds like something I'd like to try.

Also, what motivated or inspired you to use Freemind in this fashion?

That's not the point. It's just not sensible to blame this one developer for a horrible environment in which this was the only option aside from getting fired, which is quite onerous a responsibility to put on a single person. This falls squarely on management.

Can you maybe go into a bit more detail about how you use Freemind? It's not something I've heard somebody do before and it sounds interesting.

It implies present tense with "People in present-day". At least that's what confused me.

Honestly, I don't care what you think. It confused me. What more do you want from me?

I'm getting these sites with Google too, so I don't think it's just a Brave Search issue.

Weird that their solution was to get rid of the names instead of just using more desserts from other cultures. If they want inclusivity and to bring awareness to other cultures, seems like the best option, no? Now nobody gets to see their favorite dessert as an Android OS name.

How about more tweets? The information density on modern everything is utter garbage.

It is interesting, yeah. I had to laugh when I finally "got" it. Sort of makes you think about how our experiences, expectations, etc shape how we interpret even simple things like this.

I know, but your sentence has additional context

1) ruled is in past tense

2) "over territory in" establishing geographical context

The title starts with "People in present-day Austria" (implies the people there now) then switches to past tense and adds 2700 years ago.

It is a confusing title. It took me a good 30 seconds to recognize what was actually meant. I'm not sure how else it could've been expressed though. I think it just took a while to connect "people in present day Austria" with "this person lived in the area that is now known as Austria, but wasn't back then".

Beautiful? No, fucking awful. How can you consider this a good thing when there's no way to teach the service what you want to listen to and when?

I've been enjoying the "All Songs Considered" podcast from NPR. Discovered a lot of great music through them.

I'd say the most frustrating thing to me is that they have legit made some decent UI improvements. I did like 11 when I started using it. Overall, the settings app is better. Overall, the bottom right menu for quick access buttons is awesome. There actually is potential here for something great. But there are these "minor" issues around common tasks involving both that I do regularly that ruin the whole experience and I just feel so disappointed and frustrated.

I hated giving up and going back to 10. While it is worse in some ways, it's better in the ways that matter to me.

I'm wondering why you're being so judgmental of this woman. What offends you so much about her legitimate decision to do this? You might not agree with her reasons, but are you really in a place to decide that her feelings, frustrations and her decision are invalid and inconsequential? It's not like she's antivaxx. This doesn't hurt anybody. How about seeking to understand instead being so argumentative over nothing?

> I was standing there on the stage for the announcement, with BillG, and there they were right there, front row, looking so sad. I’ll never forget it. They had helped so much with the prototypes. Prototypes that were literally running the launch announcement demos ON AMD HARDWARE.

Wow, that's brutal and sort of heart-breaking.

They could, but if Microsoft provides a native sandbox that publishers can default into without extra effort that effectively protects "their" property from meddling by nosy end-users, they absolutely will. It'll become a standard instead of some fringe practice. Right now the only real options are Denuvo and server-side processing. Microsoft is in a position now with W11 to change that in a fundamental way.

By the time it becomes a problem, it'll be too late to reverse. You think publishers will willingly give up the ability lock down their games on PCs? It's been their dream for decades. I'd rather not give up what we can do with the software we've paid for (and I don't care what some piece of crap ToS says I can or cannot do with the software), just so you get less cheaters in online games.

How about no? This will just lead these companies to implement anti-cheat to protect the "integrity" of their single player games (and their MTX) as well. Say goodbye to mods and other forms of benign game hacking (particularly hacks that fix games like Dark Souls).

I want to put everybody involved in the UI changes inside a cannon and shoot them into a sun. Seriously. Top left back button isn't flush with the edge and isn't an infinite button. Pure idiocy. Interacting with sound anything has become 10x worse and I want to strangle whoever removed the old volume mixer and made it impossible to cleanly switch audio devices over the icon. I want to waterboard whoever decided to remove the Task manager shortcut from the right-click menu of the Taskbar. It's near impossible to find the wifi security settings with how they're trying desperately to hide the classic interface without providing any way to do the same things I was able to before. after months of dealing with this shit and seeing none of it addressed, I've given up and I'm back on 10. Microsoft. What in the fuck. I was ready to give 11 a fair shot. I gave it more of a chance than it deserved. It made so many of my daily tasks harder and more tedious to do and I can't stand it. Interacting with 11 legit makes me angry.

I'm baffled that anybody ever thought they weren't helpful. As if we haven't been using masks against airborne diseases for the past hundred years. But suddenly they would be useless against Covid. Then they point to one or two studies as if they support their argument, when there were at least as many at the same time showing the opposite. Also ignoring decades of evidence of the efficacy of masks. I thought I was taking crazy pills. The default for all airborne disease in the absence of significant evidence (particularly in the case of a novel one) is to use masks. Anything else is pure idiocy.

By the time officials admitted they were "helpful" (because of course they were, there's nothing particularly special about Covid in that respect), it was already way too late to get masks. Because anybody with any basic knowledge of disease and medicine had already bought up all the supply long before.

Another way of looking at it is in a betting scenario. I want to make money. The two options I can bet on are

a) Based on decades of scientific evidence, buy fuck loads of masks on the likelihood of them being anywhere from moderately to highly effective.

b) Masks are useless based on two early studies in a highly unstable situation with little accurate information and low confidence, counter to established medical practice with no other basis in reliable evidence.

Guess what I'm betting on. Further, the risks associated with being wrong are far lower with option A than with option B.

And good riddance? Why would anybody want to play a game with somebody toxic like you? Why is it so fun for you to make people feel bad? That doesn't seem downright sociopathic to you?

If one has used a computer before, Teams feels like a sad joke. It's like none of the developers grew up in the 90s or even the 00s with a computer. I can't think of a single piece of software I used in that time frame which behaved as terribly as Teams.