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"We properly read the manual"

> badges.push(["mute", "Mute", "Less than 10 comments."]);

If I understand this correctly, all new users will get this badge, and then lose it as soon as they post their 10th comment. Seems to me a badge should be something you earn and then can never lose.

Then again, all of the "Has a _____ in their about page" badges can be lost by removing the relevant items from the user's about page. But that seems OK to me, because the user is at least choosing to remove the item.

> badges.push(["og", "OG", "An original user of HN, by my arbitrary definition: someone who joined before 2008. " + joinSentence]);

> badges.push(["early-adopter", "Early Adopter", "An early adopter of HN, by my arbitrary definition: someone who joined before 2010. " + joinSentence]);

And these are badges no one can ever earn, who doesn't already have them.

Ah, I didn't realize that the modifier "Google" also applied to the phrase "tracking code" in the post title. Also, my understanding is that the GDPR notification is only required for tracking cookies, not all cookies.

If the site has no tracking, how come it shows a GDPR-compliant cookie warning?

Generate an image which is itself a fully functional program writen in the Piet esolang[1].

[1] https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html

I used to like the Angband screensaver; it would be great to have an updated version that runs on recent macOS releases.

...I see what you did there

Sigh. Another UI overhaul, another reduction in information density. I just updated on Windows, and all menus (context and otherwise) have their items spaced remarkably far apart. How come they switched to native context menus on Mac, but away from native menus on Windows?

> Do you actually ever need to open a new editor? Why not just start whatever editor you want when you boot up, and then open files in it?

Speaking only for myself and not the GP: due to a lifelong habit of putting things away when I'm finished with them, I always close windows and quit applications when I'm done using them for my current task.

> You probably don't shut down and start up your web browser every time you want to open a new site

Not literally every time I visit a new site, but yes, I quit my browser every time I'm finished with my current browsing session, even if I might end up launching it again in 10 minutes for a different reason.

Two years after general release; they need time to develop a dedicated user base to upset by its cancellation.

> An Apple spokesperson said the company has now addressed the issue in macOS 11.3 and updated XProtect, its malware detection, to block the malware using this technique. That XProtect update will happen automatically and retroactively apply to older versions of macOS.

So... does that mean there's no rush to update the OS, because XProtect will protect you?

Long time readers of The Daily WTF know that the canonical tri-state boolean is { True, False, FileNotFound } [1]

[1] https://thedailywtf.com/articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_

Docx was Microsoft's answer to the Open Document Format used by OpenOffice, which is also just zipped XML files.

Ok, but if you have a coworker who's going to maliciously overload operators to behave differently than expected, then all bets are off and you have much bigger problems than how to check for null.

"Is Facebook still safe to use?"

Has Facebook ever been safe to use?

Does libel magically turn into slander if a blind person uses a screen reader? Asking for a friend. ;-)

I miss this behavior all the time when using Windows. I recently discovered that Windows actually has a setting to enable this behavior, but it's up to each individual application to check for the setting and implement the behavior. And as far as I can tell, literally no one does.

Not disagreeing with you, but just to be pedantic:

In .NET Core 3, you can build and distribute a single-file executable which, when run, will actually unpack an executable and a ton of DLLs into a temp directory, and run it from there.

In .NET 5 they changed it, so that when you build a "single-file" executable, you actually get an executable plus a few DLLs, which must be distributed together.

The simplest answer is that these newer languages were created specifically to address problems with existing languages. If a new language has no compelling reason for anyone to switch to it, why bother to create it in the first place?

You do select a folder. I'm saying that Cmd-down means "go down into this selected folder", but it also works if the selected item is a file.

BTW, I didn't even know about Cmd-Enter until aidos mentioned it; so that makes 3 different shortcuts to open a file. Convenient! :-)

The traditional interaction model of the Mac is that you select a file, and then choose a menu command to operate on it. Cmd-O is the keyboard shortcut for "Open".

Note that you can also use Cmd-down_arrow, because Cmd-up_arrow and Cmd-down_arrow can be used to navigate up and down the folder hierarchy, and the latter also works if you have a file selected rather than a folder.

Edit: Cmd-Delete will delete a file. I think the philosophy is that Cmd is used for commands, and Delete by itself is meant for text editing. One thing I like is that Cmd-Shift-Delete will empty the trash. I'm unaware of a keyboard shortcut for emptying the Recycle Bin on Windows, or any way to avoid the confirmation dialog when doing so.

The term "window snapping" must have some precise definition that I'm unaware of, because the Mac does have behaviors that I would call "window snapping":

- On the Mac, when you drag a window to a side or bottom edge of the screen, it will "catch" on the edge, making it easy to avoid dragging it partially off of the screen. In Windows, when I want to move a window to the edge of a screen, I have to be very slow and careful to get it just up to the edge without going over.

- Likewise on the Mac, windows will "catch" on the edges of other windows, making it easy to put windows up against each other with no overlap or intervening space

- If you click and hold the Maximize button, you get a menu that gives you the option to tile the window to the left or right half of the screen

So, what exactly is this "window snapping" feature that Windows has that the Mac doesn't? I'm genuinely clueless and curious.

Well... the list is alphabetical.

I constantly see at least parts of my desktop wallpaper peeking out from around and in between whatever windows I have open. (I personally have never felt any need or desire to use apps in full-screen mode.)

To which they should cleverly reply, "Aha! You said 'first' centimeter, not 'zeroth' centimeter, thus defeating your own argument."

Actually it was _why the lucky stiff who originally brought the world shoes [1]. :-)

[1] http://shoesrb.com/

I suppose that's technically true, but in the same sense you could say that YouTube pimps its content creators, Hollywood pimps its actors, record labels pimp their artists, etc. Do you honestly think every entertainer and content creator should build and run their own company? Most people don't have the skills and ambition to be entrepeneurs, and content creators need to spend their time focussing on, you know, creating content.

> I mean, you can disable it/enable it selectively, maybe I should try it with some Firefox extension.

The one I use is called, appropriately enough, Disable JavaScript [0]. It puts a simple toggle button in the toolbar, and remembers the setting on a per-domain basis. If a website has annoying behavior, it's little effort to switch JavaScript off to see if the site is still usable that way, or to re-enable it briefly to glance at some missing content. I recommend it; it's surprising how many sites I've disabled JS on, and left that way because there's no major breakage.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-javas...

If you think of them as being just over half the price of a monitor stand [0], they're actually quite a bargain! ;-)

[0] https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MWUG2LL/A/pro-stand

You're assuming that it's art. Maybe it's a critical piece of the machinery inside the earth, the one small probe that needs to be exposed to the atmosphere. I wouldn't want to break it and send the whole planet hurtling into the sun.