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Cut and Paste isn't broken, Copy is broken (in windows). My muscle memory for copying and pasting text is now: ctrl-c, ctrl-c, ctrl-c, ctrl-v.

uh, the webring idea is OLD. Not quite "And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge" old but close.

I'm sure it just my personal preference but I hate animations. Most often they do little other than slow an application down i.e. the code of the application could finish the task almost instantaneously but for the sake of appearance, they make it take longer to finish. I would much prefer no animations in applications. If the animation is there to disguise some actual slow response, just let me wait, give me jarring screen changes. please. Maybe app designers could still include all the animations for "smoothness", "premium look" or "sizzle" but please include an "expert" mode that just turns everything off.

Don't conflate hiit with crossfit. Crossfit is just one (although well known) type of hiit. There are many other type of hiit activities without the training style of crossfit.

Question about merging: How do you handle merging multiple pdf that have forms? Are the form fields renamed to prevent form field name clashes?

And what pdf toolkit do you use?

You've got to be able to deploy. Simple as that.

No, you site sources for your response or retract your response. see how that works?

Yep. When I was in Kuwait, admittedly 20 years ago, there were a LOT of non-kuwaitis there as most manual labor jobs were done by foreign workers. I wouldn't be surprised if it's still the same today.

not harmful. why should women in action films need to be held to a higher standard the men?

Hollywood's depiction of action movies in general is unrealistic. Stereotypical Good Guy gets in a fist fight with a Random Thug, and after trading blows for a while the Good Guy knocks out Random Thug and carries on with the rest of the movie without a problem. No bruising, no eye swelling shut, no broken ribs restricting movement or breathing, no loose teeth, no broken fingers, no sore wrists from mis-angled punches.

Make it look weak to draw fire away from higher value targets?

Exactly this. The telemetry stats will bubble up to some level of management and it will show, "after making the play key launch the music app more people are using it". That's it. Explanations won't fit on the slide deck. In fact it probably isn't even that much, it would just be a graph with "line goes up" after the making play launch the music app.

Bit of a storm in a teacup. The article indicts that they knew it was likely to be a target and removed all personnel from it as it wasn't needed.

Just doing random evil things for no benefit? At this point it's just wanton vandalism. Punks in suits smashing windows and setting fire to cars.

Can anyone here, hand of heart, say "I agree with this decision"?

Too many keystrokes, people won't use it.

I am actually curious in knowing an answer to this: Does anybody think this is a good thing? A benefit to the world?

Not if anyone is cheating or scheming or being a rules lawyer, but is it good?

I think deep cynicism is the correct mindset to have in the current financial/political climate.

This is going to burn through karma faster than a blowtorch but it seems to me that just because something is a tradition doesn't mean it should be respected. The world changes, traditions should change to. And before anybody says "what right do I have to tell other people how to live", why not? why shouldn't I tell other people how to live? I'm sure those people would tell me how to live so I feel totally ok with thinking some people's traditions are reprehensible and I feel like those traditions should change.

I think I made a HN comment a few months/years ago about driverless cars having problems with floods across roads after watching a downpour in Kuala Lumpur flood half a street in minutes. The road was down to one lane and drivers in both directions took it in turns to use that one lane. That would be a difficult situation for a driverless car to handle.

Painful. A lot of the Microsoft interfaces these days are asynchronous and are built around the dev experience of c#/c++ with libraries/runtimes that do a lot of the heavy lifting. So you end up calling functions with ridiculously long names and they aren't like good old win32 calls where you pass in some parameters and you get a result back. Instead you create objects to pass function pointers and data around and who knows when you'll get your result values back.

Yep, it's 2026 and I'm still 8 hours a day in win32.

Yes! Thank you. That’s a blast from the past

With a TV there was no easy way to block ads. Sure you could change the channel or get up and do something else but people didn't bother.

Now with news websites most people are running ad blockers. What are the news sites meant to do? Their employees are working, and they expect to be paid for that work. just like I expect to be paid for my job. Where is the money going to come from?

People still have to be paid. or they won't be paid and you just get different flavors of slop.

Every newspaper had a price. People were happy with this.

The world has been given hay making machines. Now people of all walks of life can make their own hay at a greater rate and with much less effort. They can also proudly display them along with other examples in centralized locations that conceptually take the form of haystacks. Also, I should add, the machines tend to make the hay with the color of a needle and with a needle shape.

I choose option 3, in favor of downvoting and at the same time not advocating for the old way.

But sir, how do we stop an old guy on the bow of a rusty fishing boat firing a $50 rpg at the oil tanker?

It is not by design! PDFs that are made from scanned documents or collections of images would require OCRing but that is true of any format that the scans/images are put into. These days the vast majority of PDFs do not need to be OCRed as the pages are just made up of text, line drawings and images. And although it can get tricky you can edit those text, line and image commands as much as you want.

For example: add this is in the contents stream for a pdf page and it'll put hello world on the page

  BT
    /myfont 50 Tf
    100 200 Td
    (Hello World) Tj
  ET

That's not really what I would call reverse engineering. If you read a pdf, and type it into word is that reverse engineering? Either way whatever you get is in no way going to convince anybody that it is the original.

The New Zealand Chief Digital Officer allowed Australian cloud providers to be used as there weren't suitable NZ data centers and this was many years ago.