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by romwell 4y ago
>The users who don’t need these features don’t have to know about them, don’t have to click through tutorials, or be pestered by hints. Welcome to the new iCalculator! To simplify your experience, the only operator button is "+&quot
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by romwell 4y ago
>Then again, perhaps they don’t need to be Yeah, who'd need a delete button on calculator? Simpler is better! Long press the "+" button to access advanced features, like "*".
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by romwell 4y ago
>One of the best (imo) features was the ability to move the cursor in any direction by dragging firmly anywhere on the keyboard. Must be tons of fun to use with Swipe-type input (aka Flow, etc)
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by romwell 4y ago
Great, add that to the list of undiscoverable and incoherent design choices in the OP's comment.
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by romwell 4y ago
Thank you for the bonus! This is the best kind of humor :)
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by romwell 4y ago
What's the point of a <spoiler> tag when it's impossible to not read the spoiler at the same time. Rot13 it or something at least (unicode upside-down, etc).
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by romwell 4y ago
I didn't Google it, but when it hit me, so did your comment! It's like the realization arrived at the same time from two different directions. Thank you! (One of the FAQ questions in the guide helped)
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by romwell 4y ago
>I'm not sure I understand how this is self-evident. The closest equivalent I can see would be a human who looks at many pieces of art ...and then gets told "Hey, go and paint me a copy of that Andy Warhol piece from memory&quo
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by romwell 4y ago
It's the Norton Commander of calculators
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by romwell 4y ago
That's some circular logic right here, mate.
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by romwell 4y ago
>Well, I'd say that Microsoft has been making Windows harder to use since then. Sadly, yes. I hope the trend to make everything look shiny (and hard to use) reverses one day. Agreeing on the rest - lack of features is a feature in t
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by romwell 4y ago
And who is the arbiter of language that decides which usage is silly and clunky ? Usage is usage. What is clunky and silly is complaining against language that is perfectly clear and understandable, whatever words it uses.
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by romwell 4y ago
>It's not foolproof, but these are good candidate devices for the terminally computer illiterate. Point taken, but you really got to have no faither in those users. Even my 80+ year old grandparents learned Windows well enough to us
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by romwell 4y ago
So, Chromebook can run any app... as long as you also have a computer on which to run the apps . Makes sense. Similarly, a car seat is a vehicle: it can get a person to another place (as long as it's installed in a car).
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by romwell 4y ago
I am specifically referring to this part: >run almost any app on the planet with Chrome Remote Desktop Sure, any device that can run RealVNC is capable of running "almost any app on the planet" then.
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by romwell 4y ago
When I started working at Google in 2018, I got a shiny new beefed-up Chromebook to work on. See, the idea was that I'll do Google work on Google equipment, using Google software (NIH was the religion there). Google's IDE, Cider,
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by romwell 4y ago
> run almost any app on the planet with Chrome Remote Desktop You must be kidding, right? By that standard, my monitor can run any app in the world... as long as I plug it into a computer that runs it! Thin clients have been a thing fo
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by romwell 4y ago
>“Last person standing” is not. Was not. I had no problem reading the title, and didn't even notice anything unusual about it until reading this comment. Language changes. Complaining about it won't change it back.
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by romwell 4y ago
> hearing that disk drive kurchunking That's the best onomatopoeia I've seen in a while, and it brings the feeling of instant dread
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by romwell 4y ago
Work phone, personal phone, work laptop, personal laptop, tablet, desktop. Good luck pressing that button five dozen times to take the call on your work phone after using them with your desktop, only to find out that your glorious BT device
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by romwell 4y ago
>That’s not a problem with AirPods. You pair them with one device and they are automatically paired with all of your devices and auto switch And how do AirPods know whether I want to use them to take a conference call on my work laptop,
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by romwell 4y ago
My Samsung Galaxy A22 has headphone jack (which gets used all the time), dual SIM, dedicated SD card slot, NFC, all day battery, and 5G support. It came out this year — there are plenty of sane manufacturers releasing phones with features t
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by romwell 4y ago
I'm still using floppy disks with my Yamaha PSR-630 workstation keyboard — you can arrange an entire song on that machine in no time. Plenty of highly acclaimed vintage music equipment — notably, Ensonique samplers — still use them too
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by romwell 4y ago
Clippy lives on... as GitHub Copilot. I hope they bring back the paperclip avatar too one day.
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by romwell 4y ago
It's not useless for the user who has accidentally closed the page or clicked the "back" button. Or wants to send a link right now to be opened right now ("Hey honey, which one of these things should I get?"). L
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by romwell 4y ago
If you are interested, as a Russian native speaker who lived in Ukraine until 2003 (and has been there as recently as July of this year), I can tell you how the "fight for survival" you speak of is a load of propaganda bollocks, g
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by romwell 4y ago
Sure, but 8 years of turmoil without a "major" civil war (but two Chechen wars with massive destruction and causlties) is a very, very low bar.
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by romwell 4y ago
Terms of work are outlined in the job offer. In any case, we don't seem to be talking about a workplace with official uniforms. That was a red herring by the OP.
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by romwell 4y ago
I'm not saying that Gorbachev's ideals were flawed. It's the approach he took to putting them in place. In a way, he was putting "the human face" on socialism in the same hamfisted manner that the "should be do
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by romwell 4y ago
Hindsight is 20/20, sure, but the 90s were a time where a lot of people didn't have anything to eat, a time where everyone's life savings turned to dust overnight, a time where many people ended up homeless, a time where high

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