mtVessel

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Comment · 15 hours ago
Seconded! (please)
Comment · 27 days ago
I don't understand what outcome you're expecting. Your prompt specifically excludes pushback. Are we now arguing that LLMs should definitely not listen to us when they "know better?"
Comment · 1 month ago
I would replace Teams in a heartbeat. It's not about availability, it's about license structure and bundling.
Comment · 3 months ago
| Now you can do something with your time besides writing pointless one-off doo-dads.

...thus eliminating all the tedious chatting, relaxing and making friends that people were previously forced to do while waiting for elevators.

Comment · 4 months ago
I dunno. I'm in the US and I feel that those saying they wouldn't expect to be liable for services they consume beyond free tier limits sound awfully entitled.

I mean, it's a sleazy practice, especially considering how they word their emails, but I wouldn't expect something for nothing just because I hadn't set up a billing mechanism yet.

Comment · 4 months ago
All mice supported scrolling. In the before times, you use the mouse to drag the scroll thumb, which was located on the scrollbar. And you'd drag it down to see information further "down" in the document.
Comment · 7 months ago
I applaud their restraint. Me, I would've been compelled to title it, "Kniterate Knotes".
Comment · 10 months ago
When I saw the article (which, for some reason, I had no trouble finding) I felt the same way, but then remembered I could adjust the font size myself with a few keystrokes.
Comment · 10 months ago
| I assume nowadays it's much better...

It's not, but the Linux weenies won't hear of it. Maybe it's a great choice on Linux, but on Windows, it often renders things much worse than stock WMP (both legacy and modern). Videos with a lot of motion play especially poorly.

But, yeah, it opens everything.

Comment · 10 months ago
What was the reason?
Comment · 1 year ago
Please always explain what things are. All day long I'm following deep links, and nothing bothers me more than people assuming I have perfect context.
Comment · 1 year ago
At least there's a way out of scrollbar madness (at least, for now):

Settings -> Accessibility -> Visual effects -> Always show scrollbars

No such luck for title bars, though, or the general Fisher-Price-ification of Windows overall.

Comment · 1 year ago
I feel vaguely vindicated that the agent can't figure out how to use the modern Save as workflow, either, and reverts to the traditional dialog.
Comment · 1 year ago
| > What actually prevents bugs at scale is boring stuff: type systems...

| Nonsense. The most widely-deployed software with the lowest bug-count is written in C. Type systems could not have done anything to improve that.

C is statically and fairly strongly typed. Hard to tell if you're arguing for or against the statement you're responding to.

Comment · 1 year ago

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