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Do you have a visual? I always hated the thick bags because they are stiff and hard to work with. Thin bags were much easier to re-use for purposes like bin liners. And the shape was just awful. I’m referring to something like this. https
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Is it though? Just because a password leaked doesn’t mean it will actually be abused. A homeless person without a credit card in their Google account is naturally limited in the amount of damage that can be done. Security questions are prob
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Depends on the podcast but Hidden Brain has always been more on the easy listening/infotainment side of things, rather than something more serious. You might like The Economist, which has the entire publication professionally read each
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Probably that China subsidizes the West’s efforts to green their economies while simultaneously handling our negative externalities, AND continuing to lift their population out of poverty. The parent claim is that the developing world isn’t
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This assumes that it is in the government’s interest to dictate the kind of cable used to charge phones, and that making the “wrong” choice is such a bad outcome that industry needs to “self-regulate”. Perhaps the EU should step in to force
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It’s not just Google, but the cause for embarrassment at other formerly prestigious places is different and not relevant. I used to dream of working on the Windows experience, but I can’t imagine how awful those roles must be. And having to
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At what point does working for Google (on anything released after 2008) go from being prestigious to embarrassing?
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This is what I was thinking of. Kind of a telling statement of Microsoft’s perception of WPF when they turn to WebView2 to render newer parts of the UI in their WPF app (which was never ported to WinRT, UWP, or WinUI). They didn’t even use
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This one looks pretty solid. There are loads of them. The demos I’ve seen all showcase live feedback. https://superguigui.github.io/simple-color-picker/ Compare to the best I can find for WPF: https://github
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> Traditional Windows apps all use system provided common controls, because they are good, and therefore they have a consistent look and feel, even through OS updates. This hasn’t been consistent since at least Vista and the release of W
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Put it on a Friday, let them stay the weekend, and pay all the expenses. My company does that for a less glamorous location than LA and I loved it. It is essentially a vacation, and if you are deciding to relocate, a good opportunity to exp
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It’s a whole separate instance of chromium running to support the one app vs one instance of your browser running all of your websites and apps. I run Outlook, Slack (multiple instances), Teams, and Todoist as tabs in my browser rather than
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At least it doesn’t totally change the UI and hide all important elements when you start a screen share (Zoom). My experience has been pretty positive overall, at least for calling. Channels don’t work as well as slack, but it’s decent. The
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It really depends on your weight. If you are overweight and not used to walking, comfortable shoes and socks make a big difference. Nike makes some good walking shoes that skew wider, but definitely read the reviews first to confirm, since
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At least according to podcasts, that is done for kids that appear on track to be short. It seems like the people in my SES/field of work trend substantially taller, especially the younger cohort. I’m 1/4” shy of 6’ so it seems str
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I’m thinking about the use case for normies who don’t picture anything when you say “bike computer”. There’d need to be solid ecosystem support - the device would need to be vibration hardened (I’m sure they could make $$$$ on that alone),
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Coming from a still enthusiastic tech person who loves iPhone, I don’t think it’s a you problem. This is clearly another S revision in all but name, for the second year in a row. I want to be excited but there’s nothing particularly compell
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It doesn’t randomly decide to hide email from me, that puts it leagues above Gmail by default. I like that it has critical features like a sane approach to contact lists and “sweep”. I also like that I can send a message with priority - a f
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Outlook Web App has been pretty great IMO. Way better than desktop and way better than Gmail. Just my opinion.
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Fair enough on the mouse, but in-display fingerprint sensors are notoriously bad and noticeable on the display with screen protectors. Android devices haven’t managed secure Face ID without IR. And the under screen cameras have poor image q
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I encourage you to read the rest of the comment, where I lay out alternatives to arbitrary day-based systems that allow _more_ rest for people who want that and _more_ flexibility for everyone.
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There’s a lot of background thinking that happens with knowledge work. Spending 3 hours at a desk and 5 hours milling about in the office isn’t necessarily “not being productive”. It’s pretty often that I’ll get stuck on a problem, distract
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Why not a one day weekend? How is three days any less absurd and arbitrary than two? Frankly, given where we are at as a society in terms of labor and productivity relative to demand, it seems like now isn’t the time to be pumping the brake
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Why does it matter? The money has already been spent and frankly the Senate Launch System is a jobs program, so the value has already been delivered. The real risk is it works and leaders are tempted to throw more money at it until it has a
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I read it and assumed Portland. Courts have been letting people walk for things like race-based hate crime (think assaulting a young girl on her bike for being Japanese American). Another example, police arrest a guy for assault, jail/
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You can turn off focus mode in settings. Nothing will be hidden. I personally find Gmail is much worse at hiding things. I try to be responsive but for whatever reason the way they handle threading tends to cause me not just to neglect to r
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WinForms is fine but there are issues with support for things like high DPI. Maybe that’s fixed now. I wouldn’t use it except for a very small utility, but nowadays I just use python scripts for small utilities. Based on the .NET Rocks podc
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None of those products, as apps, predate Xamarin. Outlook for Mobile was an acquisition; Xamarin existed at the time. Teams Mobile apps are native and built while Xamarin existed; not using Xamarin.
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Microsoft stopped development (more or less) around May 2020 to focus on MAUI, which was released in November 2020. Actually it wasn’t - MAUI wasn’t released until May 2022, tooling was just released July 2022 for Windows, and VS for Mac wi
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How is the performance? I was tempted to do some blazor work after trying some blazor demos on my M1 Mac. Then I tried it on my not-that-old Xeon windows desktop and it was unusably slow. It can run Google Earth and Visual Studio (and a who

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