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Windows: Sorry, Dave, we can't shut your system down right now, you have 3 apps keeping it from shutting down and we have 37 updates to Edge Browser to install... Have a nice day.

> Because said article is not transmitted with a dollop of html to structure it, and a sprinkle of CSS and JS to make it look nice. It's delivered to me buried in a mountain of extraneous garbage, pulled in from god-knows-where, mostly to spy on me or trying to sell me crap I don't need.

But that is how 75% of the people reading this make their living...

> I feel sorry for them.

Oh good grief. There are 32,768 programming languages. People are free to pick the ones they want to use and nobody wants your pity.

> Having random cables cut doesn't help the situation, but the issue was not knowing how to manually release the latch and not having an emergency window breaker.

Is it, is that really the issue?

I think the only real way to get their attention is to convince someone sufficiently tech famous to tweet that you're getting a shit deal from YouTube. Only then will a real person step in.

I think this depends on if people want to govern or simply win elections. If one's goal is the latter, maybe smartening up your base is not a good thing.

Fair, but let's say they sent everyone home and 3 of the people died in their homes from the tornado. Would we be outraged that the company sent them home in such foul weather?

Oh come on. How much maintenance could it actually be to keep it?

Honestly, I would not be surprised if some "I want everything to be modern" web dev convinced the powers that be that it was obsolete because he couldn't be bothered with it.

Dr Christopher (Tools of Computing) wrote some docs on parsing that were interesting to me (first time I saw matrix multiplication used in computing first/follow, etc sets). I am pretty sure he used Icon, because it was my first exposure to that as well. I thought it was an interesting language at the time, but never did anything with it. Good grief that was closing in on 20 years ago... sigh.

edit: found his docs on the Icon language:

https://www.tools-of-computing.com/tc/CS/iconprog.pdf

> The weird thing was that I'd use my computer at home and definitely absolutely could not see a word without them. I'd get to work and, same monitor, distance, resolution, could still read just fine. I chalked it up to dehydration or just being tired in the morning. But then I go home and couldn't read my home computer again, which was weird.

Blood sugar, diet, stress, exercise, etc. also can all have a noticeable effect on vision. When my vision goes to shit, I think back over the past couple days of how my diet has also gone to shit (it's the holidays!).

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Niklaus Wirth.

This is really nice. Great job. It would be interesting to see how something like concurrency could be added.

Alternate perspective: After you've briefly immersed yourself in context, you no longer need the longer names, the shorter ones make sense. In fact, it would be fatiguing the have to constantly read the longer names after you're familiar with them.

Not a deal, per se, but Apple is allowing this.

Apple is allowing this.

Related: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/apple-reaches-quiet-...

> Lockdown Privacy, an app that blocks ad trackers, has called Apple’s policy “functionally useless in stopping third-party tracking.” It performed a variety of tests on top apps and observed that personal data and device information is still “being sent to trackers in almost all cases.”

I use an Edgerouter-x with an eap225 AP located centrally. I have not noticed any spying.

Another place to ask these types of questions is on /r/datahoarder.

Right. I don't see why this is so far fetched. It gets MS/Windows branding/features on the machines, not some "other" Linux distro. Once people are using Windows only features, they can discontinue or raise prices or etc on the "other" linux distros.

Should they? I really don't know.

Will they? I believe they will - kind of. I think they'll make a Windows for cloud that is based on Linux. I think they'll still have the current Windows on the desktop stick around (at least for the now).

You're welcome. And just to clarify, I don't have anything against your process (I've used Zenni myself), I just wanted to make the point about being careful with the PD.

Could be working in your favor. Most off the rack glasses are made with a 60mm PD because that's a good average. So if you have, say, a 62 mm PD and you're wearing them to use a laptop, your eyes will be converging a bit anyway.

It is much worse if you have a narrow PD, say 56. Before convergence, you already have over 2 diopters of prism wanting to spread your eyes outward.

> Pro tip: you can get very cheap (as little as $3) myopia glasses from aliexpress or a bit more expensive zenni optical. So there's really no big barrier to entry.

Pro tip: with 6 diopters, make damn sure you get your PD correct. Otherwise the headaches you get from the induced prism just won't make it worth it.

I'm sure some lawyer someplace would tell you that by visiting the site you are consenting.

I'm in Florida. We get storms, tropical or otherwise, that will take out the power anywhere from hours to days during the summer. Our (my neighborhood) lines our buried, but the feed is still above ground. A lot of people here have generators for running essentials.

Definitely agree. Multiple monitors distract.

I think they could have done a better job with the aluminum foil. It looks rather not well done. He could have made a pouch and folded the sides over a few times.

I made a pouch for my car's key fob with aluminum foil and metal tape. It isn't as pretty as the ones you can buy, but it wasn't $25 either and It has worked really well.

I wonder if their lawyers are type type typing away at this moment...

Is it a verb?

Could be a carrier setting. Log into your carrier account and see if there some sort of data saver that blocks higher bitrate videos.