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by brimble 5y ago
> She would tell me stories about how impressed her peers were with seeing her do something as basic as copy and paste, and navigating files + folders. > There is a generation of kids that have only ever grown up on tablets + the web,
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by brimble 5y ago
> The biggest country in NATO does not want to enforce no-fly zone and does not want to give planes to Ukraine. You can replace "enforce a no-fly zone" with "declare actual war on Russia". A no-fly zone either invol
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by brimble 5y ago
Oh, there's definitely room to analyze and criticize the broader moves and policies that've been made by the "West" here. No doubt. And I doubt anyone imagined this particular outcome.
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by brimble 5y ago
> I am sure Russia has its own problems but the idea that Washington/London is the eternal capital of a world empire and that China and India and the Gulf Arabs and the former European colonies in Africa will just roll over to go ag
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by brimble 5y ago
Dude you outed yourself when you referred to Ukraine as Russia's "home turf". I guess I shouldn't point this out so I don't help, but, you're being way too obvious to be effective, unless this is actually some
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by brimble 5y ago
> Serious question? Which intelligent people think this war is a good thing? Not a lot. Unfortunately, Russia's doing it anyway.
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by brimble 5y ago
> Honestly, do you think you'd ever be happy with anything Mozilla produces? I used to be happy with their output, many years ago. So yes, of course. I haven't liked FF in a very long time. But I used to love it. > I'll
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by brimble 5y ago
Rather, it's a 10-year-long war.
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by brimble 5y ago
It's more than "sometimes", these days. They've long moved on from a quick "this program made possible by..." to straight up reading ads on air, frequently. Between that and all the time they spend promoting th
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by brimble 5y ago
> Tobacco and junk food are big targets for the "protect us from ourselves" crowd who think they should dictate values to other people. Just because they aren't good for you, government shouldn't be telling people wha
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by brimble 5y ago
Public Radio wouldn't bother me so much if they didn't also constantly run ads.
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by brimble 5y ago
That's a variant of a diddley bow guitar (there are other names, too). There's a larger variety that goes by a bunch of names that you lean against a wall to play. Traditionally, you'd source the wire from a worn-out broom. I
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by brimble 5y ago
I think the late-90s/early-00s Sun keyboards were membrane, and they felt great IMO.
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by brimble 5y ago
An Ubuntu dist upgrade on a machine of mine once forgot how to read an encrypted root disk. That its own installer had set up originally, and the config of which I'd never touched (the machine as a whole had approximately no customizat
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by brimble 5y ago
Snap seems so obviously the wrong approach that I struggle to understand how it got this far. Really, of the three big new-fangled Linux software distribution formats, AppImage is the only I've tried that didn't immediately turn
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by brimble 5y ago
Imagine you could stick a camera over your users' shoulders, mostly without them knowing you're doing it, instead of doing actual user research. That's what the stuff's for. Some of the tools for these things record enti
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by brimble 5y ago
Considering that ~everyone was tracking device or installation IDs before Apple cracked down on it, on iOS, I think it's a safe bet that ~everyone is still doing it on desktop, and yeah, generating at install time is probably enough fo
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by brimble 5y ago
How... does that play nicely with signing and notarization on Windows and Mac? Asking for a friend :-)
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by brimble 5y ago
About 30 years using computers, a little over 20 being paid to do it. I've had two fail outright (one internal, one external) and a couple others develop errors that I noticed (one because I finally started using ZFS on my bulk-storage
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by brimble 5y ago
I'm naturally cool as hell when something goes wrong. Dunno why, just am (I'm definitely not especially cold-blooded in general). Weird thing happens in traffic? I act, get out the other side, and only in retrospect go "oh,
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by brimble 5y ago
I've noticed it's really nice if you like quarter- and half-screen layouts (or anything else that's sorta tiling-like). Four different programs on the screen, only one "file, edit, ..." menubar eating space.
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by brimble 5y ago
It'd occurred to me there was probably a setting to fix it, but I've forgotten to check the last couple times I've been over, because I'm a bad son :-( Thanks for confirming my suspicion, will try to remember to change t
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by brimble 5y ago
I knew that from long long ago adventures in mouseless Windows-using, for focusing it, but not for causing it to appear if there isn't one. Thanks.
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by brimble 5y ago
Trade associations do this, too [EDIT: directly, that is, not just via lobbying]. I once saw someone on this very site (weakly, to be fair to the poster) defend Google's poor labeling of their ads on the search screen with something al
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by brimble 5y ago
I spent years thinking they [EDIT: Apple's always-top-of-screen application menus, that is] were dumb for that reason. It never occurred to me that major software vendors would be stupid and/or user-hating enough to ditch the stan
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by brimble 5y ago
The thing about modern software that infuriates me the most, watching my parents struggle with it, are the damned screen-takeover or focus-stealing on-launch notices, usually about some update they don't care about. They opened the thi
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by brimble 5y ago
Firefox and Chrome have proven Apple right, in forcing a top-of-screen menu bar to appear whether the application wants it to or not. This was demonstrated to me recently when my parents couldn't figure out how to print on Windows in F
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by brimble 5y ago
> While these are experience values and not strict rules: Astonishingly older users are performing better with TUIs than GUIs, and the worst are usually websites and web-applications. By "better" I mean fast in usage and less p
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by brimble 5y ago
The key concept is that taxation is unrelated to the government's ability to spend (with fiat currency). They can tax $1T and spend $1T. Or they can tax $0 and spend $1T. Government is not constrained from spending whatever amount it
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by brimble 5y ago
It's less that it's simple (it doesn't really seem simpler to me than any other fundamental approaches to macro, no?) than that at least real-world behavior of governments, and changes in the world as a result of that behavio

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