hyperdimension

What's FUP? 'Full Usage Plan?'

I've never heard that acronym before.

ESXi is VMware's 'bare-metal' hypervisor. I'm not sure what VirtualBox uses, but I doubt it's ESXi, unless Oracle wants lawsuits (oh, wait...nevermind; they love them.)

Sure, just don't call it "Autopilot" then.

I know about the comparisons to a plane's autopilot, but when driving you don't have the luxury of minutes to react. The name puts an image of confidence in drivers' minds while failing to deliver.

(I don't own a Tesla; I just find they terribly misnamed the feature.)

"Regulatory and warning signs should be used conservatively because these signs, if used to excess, tend to lose their effectiveness."

-- Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 2009 edition, section 2A.04, paragraph 01

Replace 'signs' with anything--no one's patience/attention will hold up in the face of a constant barrage of information.

> Those are some of the hardest-working chips in a device.

(Mis)quoting Randy Fromm, "the things that work the hardest fail the most."

I've always liked that quote, even though at the time he was referring to CRTs and the color output transistors (well, mostly). It generalizes to most anything electronic.

Thank you so much for all that research on just an idle question of mine! I just noticed the similarity, but you really dug into it.

It's interesting the creativity (like all art) that comes out when limitations and obstacles are met.

With that, I suppose we now can look forward to a Y10K problem. :)

Just curious: does that happen to have anything to do with lisps' -p for predicate suffix?

% git thank-profusely

"Deep Rectal Extraction"

That is such a fantastic metaphor for our limited 'supply' of care/empathy.

Sometimes it feels as though we have only so much for others' plights before we run out and only have enough to focus on our own. I'm not sure.

I personally can't really see any evidence of mocking or any psychologically-unsafe ideas in any of the comments in this thread, so I'm not sure what you're referring to. You can criticize a product (design) without disparaging the person who created it, and I hope we all can take constructive criticism without making it personal.

Good UI design shouldn't be strictly for design's sake, so it can be frustrating when something is difficult to use because 'looking good' was prioritized over usability.

There's a quote I've read here that I like and think is appropriate: "Accessibility is for everybody."

Doesn't sound like 'venting' to me.

Eye strain and inscrutable UI elements sound like concrete complaints. Whether they were phrased diplomatically, I'm not sure, and I'd concede it might be construed as venting depending on the delivery.

That being said, assuming it was brought up constructively, I see nothing wrong with the criticism except for the specific designers' refusal to consider it.

Yeah it always rang true to me as a company that did right by its employees, a mutual respectful relationship. Not to mention engineering was definitely seen as a priority. They even drew little doodles in the schematics.

But yes, an absolute gem and a nice little snapshot in time.

That's a shame about the lawsuits. I'm only bringing up (not blaming at all!) lawyers since it's the example you gave, but thinking about it, I think a sue-happy culture is just one of the symptoms or maybe foreshadowing our slow descent into not assuming good faith on the part of others or trying to lift everyone up rather than extract as much as you can from everyone else. It's as though we've moved from cooperation to being adversarial (in very general terms.)

I suppose that might be why that employee handbook attracts me so much--the contrast between their relationship with their employees is stark against what we seem to have today. Like before, it's a relationship of mutual benefit vs. the asymmetry between employers/employees we have now.

I'm awful with words and getting my ideas out, and I reiterate that I've nothing against law as a profession. It just serves as a nice exemplar.

You don't even have to go that far back!

RIP:

- Hewlett-Packard (err...Agilent, I mean Keysight)

- Tektronics

- IBM Thinkpads

- Screws and modular assemblies

and the declined quality that nearly brings a tear to my eye of:

- Craftsman (the real Craftsman)

- the manufacturer of my old clothes dryer with a schematic of the whole thing taped to the inside of the front panel (at least my new one has WiFi and NFC!)

You can certainly accuse me of rose-tinted glasses, and I probably shouldn't even have nostalgia for a company, but it does really just make me a little sad. Just look at Tek's old employee handbook: https://vintagetek.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/EmployeeHa...

Signed,

A life-long tinkerer

No, I was just being sarcastic because the double-standard mystifies me. I completely agree.

...But does it play ambient music while the virtual number is valid?

I'll be waiting for an AR app to overlay billboards with 'OBEY', 'CONSUME', etc. personally.

This argument sounds eerily familiar, but I can't quite place it...

Mine as well, which surprised me since I thought that glass (probably separated by colour) was one of, if not the only, material that was less costly to recycle than make from scratch.

I'm already skeptical of the overall impact of recycling in general; I feel as though it makes people feel like they're helping the environment while turning attention away from the mass polluters. I'm definitely cynical, but I'd really like to be proven wrong on that last point.

Well, GMail does read email, fulfilling jwz's law, so there's only one more law to go.

Maybe something like emacs, but AMP-based, and we'll have the worst of two worlds!

Hey, that is contrary to our entire newsroom's ethics and policies. It's called a native, uh, something-or-another, and we promise that we stand behind our journalistic integrity.

On an unrelated note, we thank our sponsors and benefactors for bringing us drafts and notes we occasionally might use to augment our impeccable news coverage.

'Solar Flares'?

I recognize a fellow BOFH...

Well, it's not all that relevant to the conversation at hand, anyway... :)

OT:

> hat-makers

Surely you mean haberdashers--they're ground floor! (Thank you, Coil, for Going Up.)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IcOcNF1S2hk

That's because Apple had the courage to remove the headphone jack from the 'iOS experience' though.

> As they say, "doveryay, no proveryay"

I'm sorry if this might be common knowledge, but I've honestly never heard this and can't understand it.

Is it saying that it's better to do something than to (formally) prove it, like the opposite of (I think) Knuth's famous quote?

> Java runtime installer

...is how a little-known Google employee named Sundar Pichai rose to fame in the company by bundling Chrome.

I don't know, that's a big ask.

I don't think there's any preference here; it looks to me like 'milkytron was just describing how it (unfortunately) is now.