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When Office 2007 was released, they made a lot of noise about how the ribbon was easy to use. One of the key functionality was Preview - that when the mouse cursor moves inside a button, the change is immediately applied to the content and when the cursor moves outside a button, the change was undone.

They never bothered to implement this Preview functionality on the Web version of office, and I bet only a few ever noticed this inconsistency.

> It made functions easier to find

I actually find it difficult to scan for a specific function since the most of the text in the ribbon is centered and may have multiple lines. With the current design, I am expected to look up top to check what tab I am on, then look down bottom to find the container that might have my desired functionality, and then finally scan the middle text (which may be one or two lines) for the button.

I am amazed at how UI design continuously come up with new reasons for additional margins and paddings. What used to be mere navigational links that were stacked vertically now have white space around the label, icons in front of the label, pill shape container around the clickable area, extra space between each link to give the container space to breath and a place to show the shadow effect.

That will then create incentives for companies that consume AI tokens to counter lobby against those regulations.

I was quite surprised that this phrase, which papers over nuances in how operating systems classify and manage memory, was posted by someone who studied CS.

The HN crowd understands that, depending on bottleneck, adding a fifth network connection (lane) between 2 nodes may not necessary decrease the latency (travel time).

Is Delta using older Wifi equipment? I was under the impression that the current Wifi standard now prevents deauth attacks.

I have always felt that the button in the last couple version of Windows was a bit off. This page confirms it: Old school buttons used to stay in a "selected" state after being pressed, but that was not implemented in Windows 8's new UI.

There is no coherent reasoning here for banning open weights. The billion of dollars to train a model was supposed to be a moat so they can sell tokens. AI labs can't make money by capturing values from intelligence if any company could get the weights to build their own AI token factory.

If a person were to receive data from someone subjected to such restriction, is the receiver bounded by the same restriction?

Honest question: what is the ultimate end game if at some point a court in another country orders a domain be reinstated? Do we end up with a domain registration system per country?