mikro2nd

Why do all the jobs on the first page start with "javascript"? Is the site suffering from a Scunthorpe problem? Because right now it's pretty useless.

That's "ruthless, psychopathic, cyborg Gandhi clones" if you've been playing Civ long enough.

I think that (one of the) point(s) of the article is that it's not "the masses" that want all this noise, but the attention-craving product managers in appliance companies that want it. (And an Apple or Windows computer is an appliance, hardly at all a General Purpose Turing-Machine Equivalent.)

The Microwave Conundrum baffles me. I have in my head a picture/video of how it must have gone...

Monday-morning Team Standup at Microwave Corp. Debate has been raging for 20 minutes on what to do when the timer runs to zero on the new Model F. Finally the Product Manager calls it: "OK, let's make it beep four times. That feels about right. Oh, and let's make the beeping really high pitched so that older people and the hard-of-hearing can't actually hear it unless they're right next to the machine."

"And four times again every 30 seconds if the door doesn't get opened."

"Oh, and make sure the light inside stays ON while the door is open, because otherwise it won't rust quite as quickly..."

Somebody -- some team of somebodies -- actually spent time and mental energy deciding to make their product more obnoxious.

I don't get it.

I've said it before. I'll say it again (and get downvoted heavily again, because fanbois...) but

BMW is an Intelligence Test.

If you bought one, you failed.

Me neither, but I signed up back in the Dark Ages. Pretty sure that if you sign up today there's no way to avoid giving them a phone no. For me that would be reason enough to just say no, but most people give more fucks about these things than I do.

Have to agree with "just reaching for an article"! No mention of the genetic line (species) this particular yeast might belong to, so almost devoid of information. "This guy isolated some old yeast and cultured it up and he's making beer with it." Reads more like a soft ad to me.

Yes. Exactly. Telling people what they've done wrong enables them to behave better in future. Isn't that what we want... rehabilitation?

It's worse than that. You omitted

* User has no idea what they did wrong, and nor does anybody else.

And the trouble with that is, nobody can learn what the offensive behaviour was. (Perhaps that's intentional?)

Yes, of course you're right, and I was in error thinking only of the people who use steroids for non-medical purposes, and forgetting that there are many legitimate applications. My bad, and I apologise for that oversight.

Yep! The only people I've ever known who were (literally) "on steroids" were uniformly and without exception psychopathic jerks. It's a stupid epithet, frequently used to describe the exact opposite of the sentiment it tries so pathetically to convey. Phrase ought to be retired.

More on topic: I'd love to see a mission or more focussed on exploring interstellar regions. I'll bet there's a whole lot more we'll learn there, even though I'll be long dead by the time it rolls around.

This matched my guess: it's about MS extracting a $x per machine tax on all non-MS OSs to stay on their certificate list. Same playbook they've used on Android.

Personally I really, really like Sourcehut's UI/UX -- far easier to navigate for a casual user than those other Big Name alternatives. As well, I like the minimalism of the UI.

Gosh, how very odd: not one of the cities mentioned lies outside the USA. In reality you could probably do very much better by finding a place outside the US that offer much better quality of life, and where currency arbitrage makes that quality cheap.

Naah... it was a peerless-to-peerless network.

Hell, I had one client still using CVS a few years ago, and they couldn't see any reason why I was suggesting they might want to change.

Granted their business was manufacturing electronics for passenger aircraft, so any change in their tooling might trigger an expensive, multi-year recertification across their product line, so maybe they were right...

Sourcehut (sr.ht) has Mercurial support in their forge (in addition to Git). Was one of the main reasons for me moving projects over there in the first place, but I really enjoy the simplicity of the UI and general minimalist approach. I don't know whether it does CI/CD pipelines or anything, since I've little call for any of that, so ymmv.

I've long thought this[*]. We'd not be talking about going back to Clippers (beautiful as they were), rather we'd apply all that we've learned of hydrodynamics since, and we'd certainly hook the ships' guidance computers into the global weathersat/weather forecasting services, so there's no chance they'd ever lack for wind (they'd just navigate by where the wind is/is going to be when they get there.) I see no reason why a sailing ship shouldn't be almost fully autonomous (modulo docking/harbour operations) and capable of hitting highly-predictable schedules. We might need more of them if we have to make them much smaller than today's container vessels, but I guess we might be able to live with that if they cost much less to run.

[*] about 45 years... ;)

Either one is correct. Meaning is subtly different, but not much.

Why does the site need Capcha before it even displays anything at all?

Or there's sourcehut so you can use Hg. https://sr.ht

You omitted the most likely scenario (3):

    * all of the above

In South Africa Cannabis has been legal for personal use in "places where you have an expectation of privacy" (but selling is still illegal) for several years now. So far the world has not ended, the country doesn't sit around stoned all day and we're not all hooked on Heroin.

There's talk of introducing legislation to restrict quantities (government has plenty of securicrat control freaks), but since that violates the very principles which underpinned the Constitutional Court's overturning the legislation that made weed illegal in the first place, I can't see it going very far.

Just wondering how this might be an attack vector for fucking with Bing... I can think of a couple of avenues; the most elegant would be if the URL itself triggered something within the scanner/URL processor; next up would be the content of the target page attacking the Bing infrastructure. I'd guess the backend processing is sandboxed, but it seems like an interesting avenue that a malicious actor might explore.

Don't try this at home, kids. :)

This is pretty much precisely what Parkinson's Law predicts.

Kudos to the AppFlowy team for choosing AGPL licensing!

"Piss off! I'm only resting."

"Bot" and "curated" in the same sentence? I think not. "Curate" does not simply mean "select" or "filter". From Wiktionary: "To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection..." It implies judgement and discrimination in the selection. I don't think AI is that I just yet.

There are, by default, no drop shadows either.

Krunner is my friend! ;) Between Krunner and a few custom hot-keys I seldom use a conventional app launcher any more...