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People wrote tools for themselves before AI, too. Were you confused about it back then, too?

It's ridiculous isn't it. I remember being incredulous at how bad browsers were at downloading files back in like 2004 too, when download managers were almost an essential everyday tool. You would think it would be one of their primary competencies, but they are worse than almost any other tool at it.

Luckily the reliability of the internet has improved since then and it's less of a problem, until you encounter a bad connection or server.

Telegram Desktop is also on the app store though.

You don't have to do the exercise _at work_

You weren't prevented from doing exercise as part of your desk job. I think the analogy is pretty apt.

Would 192khz audio result in less sizzle and distortion? Or more audible band IMD from the sound >22khz

What types of social interaction should be permitted in society?

Not really because the latency of, say, clicking a web link and the website showing on screen depends on throughput, not just ping latency.

Tabs and breadcrumbs are both useful features though, that almost every other OS/DE file manager has supported since forever

You could use Mos, which also has the advantage that smooth scrolling works the same in every app (speed, acceleration etc)

https://mos.caldis.me/

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What artificial sweetener is in regular Coke?

Apart from just running Linux apps, you can use this to run graphical applications remotely on a Linux server, like X11 forwarding.

Maybe try this: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#pc_shortcuts

See also https://github.com/Sportinger/MasterSelects

The "Email Image..." one is infuriating. Who right clicks an image to email it to someone in 2026? And if it's you, could you help me understand why??

Or the manual, which describes the features for automatically handling it.

>Sure, if you think calculators or bicycles are "superhuman technology".

Uh, yes they are? That's why they were revolutionary technologies!

It's hard to see why a bike that isn't superhuman would even make sense? Being superhuman in at least some aspect really seems like the bare minimum for a technology to be worth adopting.

Those icons were incredibly visually distinct, despite being meaningless. I still know exactly what they are for instantly, in my peripheral vision, years after using many of them.

Modern icons are not only not comprehensible but not visually distinct (Tahoe making everything the same shape, many apps removing all colour from toolbar icons, various distinct if anachronistic symbolic icons like Save being replaced with slighly different orientations and arrangements of arrows and rounded rectangles...).

This severely impacts the efficiency of user interaction, especially after the first time you use something, at least for me. It's not a knee jerk reaction, it's a reaction to actually feeling it becoming harder to use my computer.

It seems like just such a weird and rigid way to evaluate it? I am a somewhat reasonable human coder, but I can't copy and paste a bunch of code without alterations from memory either. Can someone still find a use for me?

>feature that was essentially text manipulation

That seems like the kind of feature where the LLM would already have the domain knowledge needed to write reasonable tests, though. Similar to how it can vibe code a surprisingly complicated website or video game without much help, but probably not create a single component of a complex distributed system that will fit into an existing architecture, with exactly the correct behaviour based on some obscure domain knowledge that pretty much exists only in your company.

Sure if you just leave all the code there. But if it's churning out iterations, incrementally improving stuff, it seems ok? That's pretty much what we do as humans, at least IME.

Also the resize cursor is completely unreliable, the cursor often doesn't change to the resize one when the mouse is over the correct resize areg. So it's even harder to tell if your cursor is in the right place before clicking. If you click in the wrong place it can have frustrating consequences, like activating another window or even clicking something inside it.

This talk is by The Usual Suspects, and it's about one of those 'others' that they targeted.

True but there was specific criticism about how the framerate made it far too easy to see the parts of the effects, sets and costumes that made it clear things were props and spoiled the illusion. Maybe we just require a new level of quality in set design to enable higher frame rates but it clearly has some tradeoff.

>It was always just a compromise between film cost and smoothness.

I think the criticisms of The Hobbit when it came out in 48fps showed that it's not just that.

It's not just the framerate mismatch, OLED's un-pulsed presentation with almost instant response time greatly reduces the perceived motion smoothness of lower framerate content compared to eg, CRTs or plasma displays

I don't really see how that would be precise enough, the mouse wheel has a DPI of like 10 vs 400-800 for a mouse. A mouse wheel has like 25 notches in a full rotation and even MIDI CC values go from 0-127, that's 5 full rotations, that doesn't sound practical as it would be far too slow. And many parameters require much more precise control than 127 steps.

I don't play flight sims but I imagine most flight surfaces require small adjustments and the effect of those adjustments on the aircraft is naturally smoothed out by the dynamics of the plane (you're adjusting an acceleration).

I imagine the scroll wheel is not suitable for dogfighting.

Some audio software lets you do this but mouse wheels are incredibly imprecise compared to the mouse sensor itself so this isn't really useful for many types of control which require precise adjustment.

It works great though, what's the alternative? It's visually small, so you can fit a lot of controls in a small space. You can glance at it and know the current setting and where it falls within the range of possible values. By making the mouse control modal when you click on a knob (so you start dragging and can drag over a much larger area than you could for say a slider, which isn't modal) you have immensely precise control over the value in realtime, while still being able to quickly make big changes. This is essential for performance. Combining this with some gentle mouse acceleration for the rate of change of the control when dragging gives you even more precise control. This isn't possible with a slider either.

I would say the opposite, it's basically the perfect interface for a very specific scenario with requirements that don't really occur in much other computer software.