justsomehnguy

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Sysadmin in the former life. Adopted PowerShell since Monad.
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Comment · 4 hours ago
NB: WASD won because most (like 99%) of the keyboards did had (and I can bet cheap shit still have) some dead keys aka 'key ghosting' on ESDF.
Comment · 4 hours ago
> What you are actually saying

You would be quite astonished by the fact what I do not actually saying that. More so, I don't even imply it. But thanks for thinking and speaking instead of me.

Comment · 13 hours ago
> Meet the world's brainiest people - The Independent

> The Brainiest Club in the World - Yale University Press

No.

Comment · 15 hours ago
"Students" played a big role in what happened in 2013-2014 in the Ukraine.
Comment · 1 day ago
> Population (2025)

> • Total

> 6,973,333[3]

Works for Indiana, good. But I doubt it scales.

Comment · 1 day ago
Comment · 1 day ago
> and I never noticed that it's got a bad interface

That's because you are just accustomed to it [0]. If you would have a fresh look on it, especially on a small screen - it would find it atrocious.

There is still a separate SMTP configuration and it's a separate separate SMTP configuration for the each account.

There is absolutely useless left vertical bar which... does nothing what can't be shoved unto the useless, empty top bar. There is useless empty top bar which holds a search box and a hamburger menu.

For the unknown reason[1] this top bar is twice the tall of the regular menu. Oh. There is TWO search boxes[2]. Enabling Quick Filter adds another toolbar instead of using the bar where the button 'Quick Filter' resides.

And if you have multiple accounts and for some reason you can't auth for a moment (eg server problem, not with a connection) you would be spammed with the auth boxes and even if you successfully auth in one - you would still need to cancel or auth in all other what was spammed on you.

There is a lot, a lot of things where TB sucks. You just familiar with it.

[0] and probably configured it years ago and never touched the config too.

[1] actually it to be tall enough to hold hamburger button - because there is an option to add buttons to it. But you can't move buttons from the left useless vertical bar to the top bar. So you can have 'Mail', 'Calendar' etc duplicated on the top bar... for what?

NB yes you can hide the left vertical bar. Hide, not remove. Still it was thought on, implemented and shoved on our asses for absolutely no reason..

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521073

Comment · 1 day ago
> some installed it just for the game, I think.

For the games. Some games and 'media' programs like encyclopedias did require it run.

Comment · 3 days ago
Let's try to imagine a situation when Win10+ UI has "the same display-real-estate efficiency of Windows 7".

Would it change anyhthing? No. Because developers of the programs what are not part of Windows aren't keen on keeping "the same efficiency". Audacity 4, Thunderbird are good examples of a bad interface - and they did it disregarding the OS UI.

Comment · 4 days ago
Quite amusing to see your comment.

Now, considering you don't even know me: go in the bathroom, look atvthe mirror and repeat your comment.

Come back when the enlightment hit you.

Comment · 4 days ago
> low-friction

is the key here

the same reason WhatsApp and Telegram won on their markets

Comment · 7 days ago
> Capitalism, done right, actually can have good outcomes

Elon Musk and the whole capital serving US government is not a good outcome.

There was a fun take on it on r/comics recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1x4toay/the_day_all...

> business owners benefit because the people they can hire from are healthier, so more productive.

As we can see now - capitalism would prefer "stupid", way productive robots running 24/7 in a dark warehouses to a healthier, more productive population. Lighting savings are already cover most of difference (/s but only so slightly).

Comment · 8 days ago
I'm only responding in kind to GP - no less but not more.

I think you are the one who built an alternate layering system? On mobile, don't like to search rn.

If yes the basics are in the first comment- just not limited to the one RUN statement ofc. And if I do remember how the layers are made then making it transaction-like would be a great dedup saver eg for adding a static rarely changed artifacts - there could be essentially a ~one layer for how many you want images.

Implementation wouldn't be so difficult - you just stop committing until TRAN END; but the main is too provide a mental model for a not very experiencied dev how this supports his work and makes it more efficient on the storage and execution.

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