Diets have improved out of sight since my grandparents were young. Science can and does get things hilariously wrong, but on average, the correct ideas outlast the incorrect ones, if only on account of them being stronger memes. Scientific method should be seen as an accelerator for natural selection of beneficial memes; we're still nowehere clever enough to do this stuff without 95% of it being empirical study / trial and error.
If you use your right hand for the mouse and don't really use the keypad much, consider getting a tenkeyless keyboard. It allows you to have the mouse so much closer to the centre of your body, which saves your right shoulder muscles from tensing while you use the mouse.
I have a ducky shine (w/ mx browns) from years ago and it's okay-ish. Something that nobody ever mentions because they're all Philistines is that the Cherry MX browns & blues' "click" that's supposed to correspond to the keypress being registered is bullshit. The click feel is way off from when the key registers. AFAIK the only way to get a key that gives you feedback on when it registers is to get a buckling spring keyboard, like from Unicomp. WHY no other manufacturer has capitalised on this gross gap in the market is a mystery to me. Surely there's another way of achieving this besides the buckling spring? Hasn't that patent expired anyway?
Couldn't agree more, this is the folly of people being labeled as "biased" - everyone is biased, it's the human condition. Anyone who claims to be objective merely lacks self awareness.
Does cisco hardware not run on open source software? If not, this would be a great time for open source pundits to start jumping up and down and waving their hands around. Intel seems to have the same critical mental disability when it comes to *not* putting gaping, obvious security holes in the closed source of its firmware, so from here it's pretty obvious that even the biggest, most reputable hardware companies cannot be trusted with this task. If I was a Cisco customer I'd be calling up my "account manager" and asking them if they got any of them open source based routers and if not, we'll get our routers somewhere else.
On Slashdot not too long ago, there was some question about whether everyone should be taught programming in school, and I commented that statistics would be far more useful. Well, here we are, assuming "data science" is just a wanky name for statistics.
I know what you mean, but what I'm saying is that the UI is never actually finished properly from a programming standpoint, and that makes the software far harder to use than any poor design decisions.
Say for example, you use the menu, click on some toggle in one of the submenus, and when you come back to the main screen, the hotkey for search doesn't work until you click on one of the controls in the main screen. This is really basic stuff, so what is going on inside these projects that it's left like this for so long?
Also, like I said earlier, programmers do have two eyes, and can look at commercially written software and get parity with it, so they really don't need any design chops whatsoever to do a good job: UX problems have already been solved by someone else.
It isn't hard for the programmers who write this stuff to eat their own dogfood (use their own software just once) and notice how fucking obtuse, buggy and clunky the UI is. Gnome's System Monitor, which so many Linux desktop distros use as their process monitor, is god-awful, even with so many eyes on it every day. It doesn't take a UX designer to fix it, it just takes a programmer who is familiar enough with the source code. Another example: Gnome Maps has bugs all over the UI (not bugs at lower layers, because it doesn't crash) but you can left click / right click / menu selection your way into trouble very quickly and easily. People who write open source software are doing so out of their free time, and I bet they get to a certain point where the functionality is all there, and they get bored with testing and bugfixing the useability aspects.
Writing a good UI is more about really caring than design problems. It takes a lot of time that nobody is paying for and it's not fun. That is why the UX with open source is mediocre. Any programmer can look at a commercial product's UI and try to get parity with what they're writing, but they don't, and that's perfectly understandable.
So in conclusion, I'd say in my professional opinion, that we just need a company with deep pockets to sponsor extant open source programmers to put the finishing touches on their work. It's something they're far better suited to get done than a UX designer.
Looks like we're going to have to start washing our hands after we've been to the toilet. The number of people who don't do this is frightening. It's not just that your hand has touched your dick or your vag or whatever, it's that you're not washing your hands at all during the day, then preparing food or eating with your hands, or touching door handles that others have touched, or coughed into your hand, or let the dog lick your hand etc. People who don't wash their hands after going to the toilet should be treated the same as anti-vaxxers.
IP is not blocked in australia (well, not my ISP anyway), the ISPs' DNS servers redirect the domain name to bogus IP. If you use non-australian DNS servers for that specific domain, you get around it.
I really, really hate this shit but I don't know what to do against this tracking.
Privacy Badger for starters. And if you can live with it, noscript. Noscript is much easier to use than the pre-quantum version and it seems to have much better performance.
But the colony sent to those places will not survive very long, if they successfully reach their destinations at all.
We currently have the tech to lauch a rocket of some one or two dozen hapless humans at Mars, but that is a far cry from saying we have the tech to set up a self-sustaining colony on mars that could potentially grow to millions of people and last thousands of years.
We don't even have anyone living permanently in Antarctica, where the magnetosphere protects them from harsh radiation, the air is breathable and the gravity is what they're evolved to tolerate.
If we can get 10,000 people living in Antarctica for 50 years without any contact with the rest of the world, that would be far more meaningful than being able to launch a rocket with people in it at some distant rock.
Wow screenshot ability! If only they could work out how to add the "delete" context menu item to the candy crush ad in the start menu, then we'd really have a useable version of windows 10!
And why oh why hasn't someone already invented a laptop computer with an integrated bar fridge? Sometimes, I'm hanggliding over the sahara desert, and it gets real hot. I have to stop working on my CRM bugfixes, close my laptop, get out my entire, separate bar fridge, and open it up to get a refreshing cold beverage. Why can't I just get a laptop that has the bar fridge integrated? It makes hanggliding in hot parts of the world such a hassle, especially when I've got deadlines to meet!
What democratic countries really need to teach their kids is a bit of statistics and probability. Armed with a basic understanding of both, people will make better choices at the polling booth, be less prone to gambling, and less susceptible to marketing fluff. Humans do not have an instinctive understanding of these topics, especially where orders of magnitude are involved, making it very easy to deceive and mislead them.
I bought a razer deathadder chroma about 3 years ago. Within 12 months, the middle mouse button stopped working reliably. I got it replaced under warranty, and within 6 months the replacement mouse did the exact same thing - middle click stops working. There are guides online as to how to fix it, but they're temporary fixes (your hand pubes get into the button clicker inside or somesuch). I'm now using an old microsoft wheel mouse optical which is - what? 10 years old? - and still works perfectly. There's a lot of open source support for these razer devices under linux (eg. Polychromatic, openrazer-daemon), but I think that what the linux community should be doing instead is just steering people away from what is ultimately just overpriced shit.
Whoah! Got to step 10 and stopped dead. Admittedly, windows 10 runs visual studio and *games*, but what slashdotter doesn't automatically disqualify operating systems that force ads in the start menu?
PS: Rogue One is by far the best star wars movie of all.
You may laugh, but their preview of MS SQL server for linux actually includes a telemetry service which automatically starts (a dependency I'm guessing) when you start the sql service. When you stop the sql service, of course, that doesn't stop the telemetry. I suppose it's fair that a preview would include telemetry, but there you go, they already have telemetry for linux systems.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Windows 10 is designed with SSD performance in mind. I doubt they have any spinning platters in their pool of testing machines (if they have any testing machines). Windows 10 is useable 50% of the time on a spinning disk, the rest of the time, it's preparing updates, scanning for viruses, or collating telemetry. It may and/or may not be doing other things under the "Windows host proxy surrogate" service.
I don't particularly like what Google's become, but I think you're being a bit too cynical here. You probably never used the internet before google existed, or you'd appreciate just how damn good their search results are. Try forcing yourself to use Bing(tm) exclusively for a week, that'll give you an idea of what using the internet was like circa 1995. You could even use an android phone's google voice search, and then switch to Cortardna(tm) or Siri. In any case there are options, but as you already know they suck way more than google and at best barely compete.
Maybe read something about Firefox, ever, at all, at some time in your life. If anyone could be accused of actually fixing bugs, improving the browser, and getting to the root cause of memory leaks and security issues, it's Mozilla.
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Diets have improved out of sight since my grandparents were young. Science can and does get things hilariously wrong, but on average, the correct ideas outlast the incorrect ones, if only on account of them being stronger memes. Scientific method should be seen as an accelerator for natural selection of beneficial memes; we're still nowehere clever enough to do this stuff without 95% of it being empirical study / trial and error.
They've somehow got the word "Shit" confused with "Popular".
If you use your right hand for the mouse and don't really use the keypad much, consider getting a tenkeyless keyboard. It allows you to have the mouse so much closer to the centre of your body, which saves your right shoulder muscles from tensing while you use the mouse.
I have a ducky shine (w/ mx browns) from years ago and it's okay-ish. Something that nobody ever mentions because they're all Philistines is that the Cherry MX browns & blues' "click" that's supposed to correspond to the keypress being registered is bullshit. The click feel is way off from when the key registers. AFAIK the only way to get a key that gives you feedback on when it registers is to get a buckling spring keyboard, like from Unicomp. WHY no other manufacturer has capitalised on this gross gap in the market is a mystery to me. Surely there's another way of achieving this besides the buckling spring? Hasn't that patent expired anyway?
Couldn't agree more, this is the folly of people being labeled as "biased" - everyone is biased, it's the human condition.
Anyone who claims to be objective merely lacks self awareness.
Does cisco hardware not run on open source software? If not, this would be a great time for open source pundits to start jumping up and down and waving their hands around.
Intel seems to have the same critical mental disability when it comes to *not* putting gaping, obvious security holes in the closed source of its firmware, so from here it's pretty obvious that even the biggest, most reputable hardware companies cannot be trusted with this task.
If I was a Cisco customer I'd be calling up my "account manager" and asking them if they got any of them open source based routers and if not, we'll get our routers somewhere else.
On Slashdot not too long ago, there was some question about whether everyone should be taught programming in school, and I commented that statistics would be far more useful.
Well, here we are, assuming "data science" is just a wanky name for statistics.
I know what you mean, but what I'm saying is that the UI is never actually finished properly from a programming standpoint, and that makes the software far harder to use than any poor design decisions.
Say for example, you use the menu, click on some toggle in one of the submenus, and when you come back to the main screen, the hotkey for search doesn't work until you click on one of the controls in the main screen. This is really basic stuff, so what is going on inside these projects that it's left like this for so long?
Also, like I said earlier, programmers do have two eyes, and can look at commercially written software and get parity with it, so they really don't need any design chops whatsoever to do a good job: UX problems have already been solved by someone else.
It isn't hard for the programmers who write this stuff to eat their own dogfood (use their own software just once) and notice how fucking obtuse, buggy and clunky the UI is. Gnome's System Monitor, which so many Linux desktop distros use as their process monitor, is god-awful, even with so many eyes on it every day. It doesn't take a UX designer to fix it, it just takes a programmer who is familiar enough with the source code.
Another example: Gnome Maps has bugs all over the UI (not bugs at lower layers, because it doesn't crash) but you can left click / right click / menu selection your way into trouble very quickly and easily.
People who write open source software are doing so out of their free time, and I bet they get to a certain point where the functionality is all there, and they get bored with testing and bugfixing the useability aspects.
Writing a good UI is more about really caring than design problems. It takes a lot of time that nobody is paying for and it's not fun. That is why the UX with open source is mediocre. Any programmer can look at a commercial product's UI and try to get parity with what they're writing, but they don't, and that's perfectly understandable.
So in conclusion, I'd say in my professional opinion, that we just need a company with deep pockets to sponsor extant open source programmers to put the finishing touches on their work. It's something they're far better suited to get done than a UX designer.
Went to the website - there's a link for a chrome browser extension but no firefox exntension.
"Researchers".
Seemed a bit harsh that they subjected these noble creatures to an ecstasy overdose. Reminded me of this skit from The Onion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Looks like we're going to have to start washing our hands after we've been to the toilet. The number of people who don't do this is frightening. It's not just that your hand has touched your dick or your vag or whatever, it's that you're not washing your hands at all during the day, then preparing food or eating with your hands, or touching door handles that others have touched, or coughed into your hand, or let the dog lick your hand etc. People who don't wash their hands after going to the toilet should be treated the same as anti-vaxxers.
IP is not blocked in australia (well, not my ISP anyway), the ISPs' DNS servers redirect the domain name to bogus IP. If you use non-australian DNS servers for that specific domain, you get around it.
I really, really hate this shit but I don't know what to do against this tracking.
Privacy Badger for starters. And if you can live with it, noscript. Noscript is much easier to use than the pre-quantum version and it seems to have much better performance.
But the colony sent to those places will not survive very long, if they successfully reach their destinations at all.
We currently have the tech to lauch a rocket of some one or two dozen hapless humans at Mars, but that is a far cry from saying we have the tech to set up a self-sustaining colony on mars that could potentially grow to millions of people and last thousands of years.
We don't even have anyone living permanently in Antarctica, where the magnetosphere protects them from harsh radiation, the air is breathable and the gravity is what they're evolved to tolerate.
If we can get 10,000 people living in Antarctica for 50 years without any contact with the rest of the world, that would be far more meaningful than being able to launch a rocket with people in it at some distant rock.
Wow screenshot ability! If only they could work out how to add the "delete" context menu item to the candy crush ad in the start menu, then we'd really have a useable version of windows 10!
And why oh why hasn't someone already invented a laptop computer with an integrated bar fridge? Sometimes, I'm hanggliding over the sahara desert, and it gets real hot. I have to stop working on my CRM bugfixes, close my laptop, get out my entire, separate bar fridge, and open it up to get a refreshing cold beverage. Why can't I just get a laptop that has the bar fridge integrated? It makes hanggliding in hot parts of the world such a hassle, especially when I've got deadlines to meet!
What democratic countries really need to teach their kids is a bit of statistics and probability. Armed with a basic understanding of both, people will make better choices at the polling booth, be less prone to gambling, and less susceptible to marketing fluff. Humans do not have an instinctive understanding of these topics, especially where orders of magnitude are involved, making it very easy to deceive and mislead them.
I bought a razer deathadder chroma about 3 years ago. Within 12 months, the middle mouse button stopped working reliably. I got it replaced under warranty, and within 6 months the replacement mouse did the exact same thing - middle click stops working. There are guides online as to how to fix it, but they're temporary fixes (your hand pubes get into the button clicker inside or somesuch). I'm now using an old microsoft wheel mouse optical which is - what? 10 years old? - and still works perfectly.
There's a lot of open source support for these razer devices under linux (eg. Polychromatic, openrazer-daemon), but I think that what the linux community should be doing instead is just steering people away from what is ultimately just overpriced shit.
Whoah! Got to step 10 and stopped dead. Admittedly, windows 10 runs visual studio and *games*, but what slashdotter doesn't automatically disqualify operating systems that force ads in the start menu?
PS: Rogue One is by far the best star wars movie of all.
Lol.
"I've read the bible cover to cover".
"Even Numbers?"
You may laugh, but their preview of MS SQL server for linux actually includes a telemetry service which automatically starts (a dependency I'm guessing) when you start the sql service. When you stop the sql service, of course, that doesn't stop the telemetry.
I suppose it's fair that a preview would include telemetry, but there you go, they already have telemetry for linux systems.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Windows 10 is designed with SSD performance in mind. I doubt they have any spinning platters in their pool of testing machines (if they have any testing machines). Windows 10 is useable 50% of the time on a spinning disk, the rest of the time, it's preparing updates, scanning for viruses, or collating telemetry. It may and/or may not be doing other things under the "Windows host proxy surrogate" service.
I don't particularly like what Google's become, but I think you're being a bit too cynical here.
You probably never used the internet before google existed, or you'd appreciate just how damn good their search results are.
Try forcing yourself to use Bing(tm) exclusively for a week, that'll give you an idea of what using the internet was like circa 1995.
You could even use an android phone's google voice search, and then switch to Cortardna(tm) or Siri.
In any case there are options, but as you already know they suck way more than google and at best barely compete.
That Obama affects your mental health when he isn't even President any longer is worrying.
Agreed, and now he's even causing you to worry. Will his reign of chaos ever cease? Worst. President. Evaaar.
Maybe read something about Firefox, ever, at all, at some time in your life. If anyone could be accused of actually fixing bugs, improving the browser, and getting to the root cause of memory leaks and security issues, it's Mozilla.