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by signal11 6y ago
> I think the key thing here is that MS Word had the features most people need back in Win3 days (possibly earlier?). That's a very narrow view of what people need. Children at home these days "type" essays into Word by di
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by signal11 6y ago
Excel kept the old Alt based keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Alt D F F for Data > Filter > AutoFilter still works. If there was an alt-keyboard shortcut for paste removing duplicates, that should still work.
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by signal11 6y ago
> Consistency is worth so much more than fad-chasing. Learning something is more worthwhile if you are able to trust that it won't change underneath you. Almost anything could be described as a fad. Interactive computers were seen a
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by signal11 6y ago
This seems to increase the amount of work a user has to do in practice. I suspect most users will end up sharing the entire library. From the link above: > There's also the entirely new option Select Photos..., which leads the user
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by signal11 6y ago
Microsoft Support can be quite good depending upon the product you need help with. I’ve called them for help with a Office 365 issue and they were very helpful. I’ve called them once for an Xbox issue (I wanted to buy an Xbox 360 game and i
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by signal11 6y ago
This is the strangest critique of writing more secure code I've seen. Yes, more secure code does reduce the chance of jailbreaks, but insecure code is overwhelmingly used more by criminals and state actors to try and break into your co
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by signal11 6y ago
From memory, this was added in Windows Vista. On XP and 2000, you needed the registry entry. Another popular similar entry was "Command Prompt here".
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by signal11 6y ago
This article would be even better if it showed the evolution of Mac OS's Finder through the years. The two undoubtedly influenced each other (possibly with one side being influenced more than the other). For instance, I believe the &#x
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by signal11 6y ago
Assassins Creed have done this for Egypt and Greece — a “no fighting” educational sandbox you can explore or get guided tours[1]. It can be bought independently on PC and is quite cheap[2] — it was being given away for free recently. [1] h
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by signal11 6y ago
I should clarify that by beginner-level I meant "alphabet book level". A for apple, B for balai, C for conejo, etc. At beginner level language teaching, beyond the first few lessons, you run into words that are difficult to trans
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by signal11 6y ago
I have a first.last@gmail.com too with a reasonably uncommon South Asian name (+ unusual spelling). I’ve received bank account registration emails, Income Tax registration details, and someone has even registered an Indian government biomet
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by signal11 6y ago
> And this before we get to all the diminutives/suffixes that can be added to any word that is part of a swear expression (and not only) in a language like Romanian, a feature that is absent from most of the English language English
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by signal11 6y ago
> the author's personal dislike of how other people use "untranslatable" as a word Language Log isn't a personal blog, it's a group blog run by some fairly distinguished linguists, and their[1] point about biject
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by signal11 6y ago
You can create a personal account with Azure or Microsoft more generically with your work email address, eg you@work.com. Because this was set up by you, you could conceivably change it to you@freemail.com. However your organization may the
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by signal11 6y ago
Many large buildings in the past had mail chutes[1]. I’ve worked in a building with one; it also had a pigeon-hole messagebox per floor so people could get their mail. It wasn’t used that much, though, except for the odd journal subscriptio
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by signal11 6y ago
I suspect it’s also to do with Python’s history as a scripting language. Because of Perl’s obvious strengths in this area, any scripting language pretty much has to make it very easy to work with text files. Ruby does something similar fo
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by signal11 6y ago
Beyond Compare from Scooter Software is a really good diff/merge tool. It doesn't used 'Modern UI' though, it's just a very polished, fast Classic Windows app.
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by signal11 6y ago
According to this comment[1] by the author, he used cross-platform C++. See also [2] from Sublime’s other author. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2822114 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=233
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by signal11 6y ago
I'm not sure where the changelog for Sublime Text 4 lives officially , however searching the web turned up this gist[1]. [1] https://gist.github.com/jfcherng/7bf4103ea486d1f67b7970e846b...
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by signal11 6y ago
Yes, if you disable animations in Settings, the menu doesn't animate[1]. [1] https://gfycat.com/bowedleftarctichare
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by signal11 6y ago
> but the previous UK Prime Minister had exactly the demeanor you could ask of a public servant. Who, Theresa May? She was a big user of 'spin' and chicanery too, only -- she wasn't very good at it. She had her own "m
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by signal11 6y ago
It's annoying that Firefox has the same feature (profiles) since basically forever, but no UI for quick access. I assume it's coming as they now show the signed-in user in the toolbar.
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by signal11 6y ago
Many (all?) Indian banks have to offer a no-frills zero-balance bank account by law. Since many banks are government owned, it’s quite easy for such banks to offer these accounts. A lot of welfare schemes directly transfer the money to the
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by signal11 6y ago
I agree with you and the commenter who replied with the market share stats that the numbers are worrisome, but literally no one laid a gun to the commenters’ heads and asked them to leave a YouTube comment. They could embed the video (or li
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by signal11 6y ago
> The problem is that the internet is nowhere near as "safe" as it was a few decades ago. It wasn't very safe a few decades ago either. In 2000, I had naively set up a Linux box under my desk with a public IP, thinking may
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by signal11 6y ago
That’s the AR (augmented reality) interface. I’ve tried their AR walking directions[1] and it’s very good. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20776247/google-maps-live-...
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by signal11 6y ago
While this is useful for people with out of date browsers, a slightly more sophisticated use-case is where you render the entire web page remotely in a sandbox for certain classes of links, eg email links. This prevents a whole class of phi
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by signal11 6y ago
> you're obviously not worried about traffic routed through China might cause IP theft? Newer versions of Zoom allow you to specify which countries’ data centres are allowed to host your meeting, and also shows which data centres ar
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by signal11 7y ago
Worth noting (from the article): > Zoom already uses Amazon and Microsoft’s cloud services, but went with Oracle for its latest expansion. Remember that Oracle’s Capex spending on cloud is very small compared to AWS, Azure and GCP. Given
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by signal11 7y ago
It's very stupid, but a (very) few people see them as potential spreaders of the disease. Public health workers going into the community to find infected people have also been attacked. Also, until recently, suspected COVID patients ha

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