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The Neo is probably the best laptop for typical people.
I don't think traditional desktop operating systems are best for most people. I believe a Chromebook, or an iPad with a keyboard, is best.
It's all part of the war on general computing. This dystopian nightmare is coming to desktop operating systems too. See the age verification stuff that's all of a sudden being pushed hard by countries all over the world.
As someone that was going to switch from iPhone to Android/Pixel later this year, at least now I know not to bother anymore, as the locking down of Android won't stop here.
When I created an account on LinkedIn, a long time ago, I used the web. When it asked if I wanted to invite other people from my list of contacts, I clicked yes. I thought it would let me manually enter some contacts, or at worst, give me a list to choose from, with some kind of permissions prompt. Somehow, it accessed my entire Gmail contact list, and invited them all. My goodness, that was terrifying (I didn't even know it was possible) and embarrassing. Companies are not to be trusted, ever. Especially now, as they've proven for decades they have zero moral compass, and no qualms about abusing people for profit.
The music was so loud from my monitor's speakers that I nearly jumped out of my skin and rushed to close it, and my volume isn't even turned up much!
My experience is the opposite: Bose hardware and sound quality seems excellent to me.
This may be subjective. Bose might sound good to some people's ears and less good to other people's ears.
I wish I was sufficiently dexterous to use your razor thin scrollbars. :(
ZZ will save the file (if there are changes) and quit. Try it as an alternative to :wq.
But because they had an existing body of code that was not class based, it would be more of a re-write (C#) versus a refactor (Go).
I don't understand this reasoning at all, and I'm hoping you can shed some light on it.
As far as I know, C# supports static methods. Thus, using OO in C# would not have been required, would it?
I feel like I'm missing something here.
Speaking as both a D&D DM and player, the "sub-optimal game play" makes the campaign more fun, more diverse, and offers more thoroughly enjoyable role-playing and problem solving opportunities. It doesn't make it less fun.
Not to mention that D&D rules aren't carved in stone. I've never encountered a DM or D&D group that wouldn't allow players the leeway to create a barbarian gnome or half-orc wizard with their desired stats, if that was important to them.
The changes WoTC made are bad, and make everything less fun and more generic. Their intentions were good, but what they've done really isn't helpful or good at all.
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After opening this web page, I pressed down arrow a few times to scroll the page. At first, I didn't understand why it only scrolled a few pixels.
It looks like there's a scrollable area within a scrollable area. The outermost scrollable area only scrolls a few pixels.
This is a badly designed web page.
Thanks to Crostini, Chromebooks are also excellent local computing devices.
After over 30 years using Windows, I finally gave up on it last year. It was a difficult choice, but clearly, it's just going to keep getting worse.
These days most people should be using Chromebooks and iPads, which are far and away more secure.
The solution to these issues isn't to simply not have those features, but to make it possible to toggle those features on/off.
Being able to search in the past for a half-remembered conversation sounds great until you have idiotic, asinine corporate data retention policies that require anything beyond 90 days to be deleted anyway, for some bullshit reason like being open to litigation or whatever and that being subject to discovery.
The company I work for has the same chat retention policy, but despite that, even being able to go back just 90 days has proven very useful!
The last time I looked at The Lounge, the installation and configuration seemed pretty involved, not to mention ongoing maintenance.
Has this improved recently?
All those abstractions are necessary in order to do software engineering of real-world systems at scale.
No, they're not.
Most of Apple's Weather app works OK for me, except the precipitation map/animation takes ages to load, if it loads at all (it's about 50/50).
I usually hop over to AccuWeather instead, which doesn't seem to have this issue.
At $WORK we use Mozilla Rhino for some JavaScript processing.
We tested the normal loop vs. the clever loop. Performance-wise, the normal loop blew the doors off the clever loop.
How can this phenomenon be reigned in and sorted in the medium to long-term?
Far more aggressive progressive taxation.
Depending on how the machine is being used, the Pi could be cheaper through lower electricity costs, right?
This may not work for everyone, but it works for me:
Use good old paper and pen to keep track of stuff (where reasonable).
For me, it had a strong positive psychological impact.
Most likely telemetry in iOS itself. iOS knows when users pin web pages to the home screen, and iOS knows each time a user taps on and opens those pinned web pages.
It works. I play Bedrock Minecraft on my Chromebook frequently. No issues.
8GB/128GB goes a lot further on a Chromebook than it does on creaky, old, slow, bloated Windows. And Chromebook prices are very good.
I recently got a Chromebook and I'm amazed at how snappy and fast it is. And its built in Linux is amazing.
Nothing like that is happening here. RTO is not inherently immoral
Commuting to/from an office (releasing a lot of CO2 and pollution) when remote work is an option can easily be considered immoral these days.
It's not really a 100% replacement for all of VS Code's features, but there is a pretty big overlap in functionality that may meet most people's requirements: Notepad++
(It would be cool if dormant tabs can just hold the URL, and kill all memory requirements when dormant after N period of time..)
The problem with this is that a lot of web pages don't handle this gracefully. You don't end up back where you left off!
It would be nice if all the details of the inactive web page were saved to storage, and then retrieved from storage when the tab is reactivated, without having to make any network calls at all.
All survey participants are professional software developers (or a related field), employed at Google.
This is not even remotely a good representational sample of software engineers.
I've seen people admonish developers to do this for over 30 years now. I've never seen a developer or group of developers be successfully able to deftly navigate the complicated politics around actually doing so.
There's a big difference between 30 years ago and now, and that difference is that hardware performance increases has slowed to a crawl.
It's possible that in the near future software might start competing on performance again. (I hope.)
In my opinion, the Principle of Least Surprise applies here.
Go is defaulting to surprising (unexpected) behavior.