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mtVessel
·mese scorso·discuss
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.
mtVessel
·mese scorso·discuss
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.
mtVessel
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I applaud their restraint. Me, I would've been compelled to title it, "Kniterate Knotes".
mtVessel
·6 mesi fa·discuss
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.
mtVessel
·6 mesi fa·discuss
| 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.
mtVessel
·7 mesi fa·discuss
What was the reason?
mtVessel
·8 mesi fa·discuss
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.
mtVessel
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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.
mtVessel
·10 mesi fa·discuss
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.
mtVessel
·10 mesi fa·discuss
| > 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.
mtVessel
·11 mesi fa·discuss
Sure, but don't forget to look for posted signs, like:

"In Upper Manhattan, downtown 1 skips 137 St-City College, 125 St, 116 St-Columbia University, Cathedral Pkwy (110 St) and 103 St

    Aug 1 - 4, Fri 9:45 PM to Mon 5:00 AM 
For service to these stations, take the 1 to 96 St and transfer to an uptown 1.

For service from these stations, take the 1 to 168 St and transfer to a downtown 1." [1]

There are often many simultaneous service changes.

[1] https://www.mta.info/
mtVessel
·12 mesi fa·discuss
It likely doesn't make any money by itself. It's a loss leader to entice companies into its enterprise offerings.
mtVessel
·anno scorso·discuss
On FF (similar on Edge):

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to reverse-pacman.staticrun.app. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR
mtVessel
·anno scorso·discuss
"Wanda, do you have any idea what it's like being English? Being so correct all the time, being so stifled by this dread of, of doing the wrong thing, of saying to someone 'Are you married?' and hearing 'My wife left me this morning,' or saying, uh, 'Do you have children?' and being told they all burned to death on Wednesday."

-A Fish Called Wanda
mtVessel
·anno scorso·discuss
| I don't know what the legal definition of Enemies is, but I would imagine it would involve a declaration of war.

These days, some vague tattoos will do it.
mtVessel
·anno scorso·discuss
Serious question: how did you envision "wide-scale deportations" playing out, prior to these events?
mtVessel
·anno scorso·discuss
I didn't realize they were still in print!