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sh.itjust.works
They were sure about Cortana too. That flopped hard. Honestly we won’t have to worry about this in a few years. Every time Microsoft launches something new, they create the most impressive thing nobody uses or wants. Every single goddamn time they do anything different, they fuck it up or give up on it way too soon, all because they cannot shake the idea that the last time people liked their core product was windows XP and everyone compares using a computer then to whatever they do now. Microsoft won’t win that game. And they don’t care to even try. Windows 8? Fucking brilliant response to the iPad, even if it was late and the surface was big and heavy. The OS made perfect sense there and was pretty and clean and simple. So they PUT IT ON EVERYTHING when it only made sense in the one thing it was designed for. Completely ruined it. They arrogantly thought they could convert the entire industry over to this way of doing things and letting OEMs use the surface as a template for their own version of what Microsoft predicted a computer would be. Flopped hard. And Apple? They copied some of the better ideas and put it on the iPad and since it was managed better at the time it succeeded. Windows phone? Very late to the game, Google went out of their way to fuck Microsoft however they could, and Microsoft alienated every developer interested in giving them a chance. they did create a good product with interesting ideas and execution. But every step Microsoft took worked against them. They did literally everything wrong in carrying this out. Windows vista wasn’t entirely their fault. They were promised by hardware vendors that things powerful enough to run vista comfortably will be flooding the market by the time it releases. The problem? Microsoft believed them. So the first experience people had with vista was the last one they wanted to ever have. It got better by the end of that cycle but the damage was done. What about a simple fitness tracker and notification widget? Microsoft made a wearable called the Microsoft band. It was a clunky, bulky thing but the core idea was sound. It was a simple, clean, stripped back interface on the wearable that didn’t cater to the adhd of what an Apple Watch could do. It just did what people wanted to use it for at the time and nothing else. It was poorly promoted and it didn’t become a blowout success in the 5 minutes it was on the market so they killed the entire thing rather than fix what was actually wrong. Outlook is used by damn near everyone and its ancient codebase is making it crazy hard to keep stable. IT people have lots of tricks to keep that broken shitbox going and they do so because Microsoft accidentally made a product people love. So they release a new version of outlook. Let’s do it experimentally, adding features as we go, so that out of the gate, people will get the experience of vista all over again. Also, it’s nothing like the old version people actually liked. But it doesn’t crash all the damn time now, so we think you’ll love it. The mismanagement of every single fucking thing Microsoft ever released guarantees the AI bubble will burst. Microsoft will throw everything into it because the the US economy has nothing but AI going for it anymore and when they fail to make it dance and sing the way they promised investors it would, it will poison the well and the money for all AI projects will disappear. Investors will pull their money out and tank it. And Microsoft? They are big. They are connected. They have shittons of unethical traps they have forced industries and governments into. But it’s still going to hurt like hell. They don’t have any part of the business left that isn’t dependent on this AI shit in some way so when it blows up, it’s taking everything down with it. PCs have viable options outside windows. Just throw KDE in front of a boomer and they won’t know the difference. Want something you have to pay for? Mac is still stumbling along. It’s pretty, modern, has a more classical customer experience people like and many are willing to pay for. But this last release cycle was rough and everyone hates the new UI. It doesn’t matter how great apple silicon if nobody wants to interact with it. And their customer service, once a stinging star in the industry, is all phone trees and outsourced call centers now and despised you are paying more for the same shitty experience you fled from before.
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pawb.social
It’s also not realistically achievable without somehow convincing Israel to willingly dismantle itself, given that a) a significant disparity of military power exists between it and Palestine, which isn’t likely to reverse any time soon given that it is nigh impossible for Palestine to build an economic base sufficient to rival Israel while under effective occupation and b) that it is an open secret that Isreal possess nuclear weapons, making some kind of foreign invasion suicidally untenable. Actually launching those weapons would be an extremely dangerous move of course, but a state facing a clear and imminent outside threat to it’s existence is exactly the kind of situation where someone might contemplate it. The most likely thing to work out that I can envision would be if foreign support can at least shore up what remains of Palestine enough to give it sovereignty and at a stretch some means of deterrence against further attack. All that really achieves admittedly is a two state solution, which doesn’t result in a Palestine with particularly favorable geography, but if it results in peace there’s the hope that the hatred involved can cool with time and new generations until some kind of union can be proposed without the resultant state being at risk of collapsing into a genocidal state again.
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hexbear.net
Completely agree with this. Anki isn’t perfect, but if you ever find anything better, I want to know what it is. Getting started with “Basic” or “Basic (and reversed card)” notes is almost as easy as writing on each side of a physical card, but if you find yourself repeating information—either exactly or with the same kind of variations—it’s well worth looking at making your own note types. For example, following each Arabic lesson, I was adding each letter into Anki. I wanted to recognise the different forms so, at first, I had 4 notes for each letter:— ن ⇄ t تـ ⇄ t (initial) ـتـ ⇄ t (medial) ـت ⇄ t (final) With cards generated for both directions, that’s 8 cards, but also eight bits of typing. Once I recognised the pattern, I made a new note type with “Letter” and “Transliteration” fields. Now I only need to add two things, but I still get eight cards automatically generated by Anki for each letter. Okay, I needed to create some card templates too, but the modifications weren’t more complicated than adding “ـ” before/after the Arabic letter (to produce each of the different forms) and " (medial)" etc. after the transliteration. This was about two minutes’ work, and it only had to be spent once, but now all the remaining letters can make use of it, saving much more time over all. And if I’d been really lazy, I could have just downloaded any of the published decks. The other thing I’d say is: it’s very easy to overdo things at the start before the gaps between reviews have been filled in. So start slow and keep your learning queue under control. If it starts growing and growing, stop the new cards completely, reduce the queue, and then restart the new cards with a reduced daily limit.
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lemmy.nz
Ours is pretty intense - large bank, 60 or so iOS engineers actively contributing to a mono-repo: We have about 15 CI steps that pick up on anything from basic linting to security concerns (SonarQube). Unit tests, UI tests, etc. We have a template that PR authors follow to add descriptions, test plans, devices tested on. Reviewers are automatically assigned using a round robin system Reviewers obviously review the code, but also execute the test plan, which includes accessibility testing. All PRs require 2 approvals. A bunch of other stuff (uploading artefacts, generating gRPC protos) that probably isn’t worth going into detail. It’s intense, and PRs on average take a week or so to get merged. In saying that, it is the highest quality and most well-architected codebase I have ever worked on. If I were in your situation I’d push for the following: all PRs have one approval, preferably two depending on team size code is tested by someone else before being merged to main use linters, Danger, etc to pick up on trivial shit a few manual checks like ensuring code is unit tested a Github PR Reviewer guide describing common issues to look for, tone of messaging when leaving comments (“be nice”, “make it clear when you are adding optional nit-picks”, etc) encourage authors to add review comments to their own PRs for any bit of code that isn’t immediately obvious stretch goal: look into generating code coverage reports on your PRs, add quality gates
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lemmy.today
Does the New Zealand system have a restricted 3 month official campaign period the way the UK does? A lot of Kiwi government shares similar structure with the British system. The US doesn’t, and normally campaigning spans a substantially longer period of time. kagis Yeah, this sounds like they do. Three months. https://elections.nz/democracy-in-nz/historical-events/2023-general-election/key-dates/ Friday 14 July Regulated period for election advertising expenses begins Friday 13 October Regulated period ends. All election advertising must end. Signs must be taken down by midnight. Saturday 14 October Election day. https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/09/04/how-did-the-us-presidential-campaign-get-to-be-so-long/ Four hundred and forty-four days prior to the 2024 presidential election, millions of Americans tuned into the first Republican primary debate. If this seems like a long time to contemplate the candidates, it is. By comparison, Canadian election campaigns average just 50 days. In France, candidates have just two weeks to campaign, while Japanese law restricts campaigns to a meager 12 days. You can argue whether the US should or shouldn’t restrict the campaigning period (though I’m almost certain that doing so would violate the First Amendment and thus require a new constitutional amendment permitting it to put into force). But the thing is, Trump doesn’t have that restriction, the American system doesn’t normally expect it, and Harris is going to be trying to run a British-length campaign with no lead time for prep in the American system when her opponent has no such restrictions. She is gonna have to hit the ground running. Also, American presidential campaign spending and fundraising is very large compared to the European levels I’ve seen. Dunno what things are like in New Zealand, but I remember that when Hillary ran against Trump in 2016, each campaign spent about a billion dollars. EDIT: I don’t know if this is directly comparable, because it sounds like Kiwi rules don’t have parties declare donations under $1,500 (and I don’t know if these aggregate figures include individual contributions that don’t have to be reported individually). I think so, because this is measuring spending, not donations. The Kiwi system is parliamentary rather than presidential and so the race for the executive is the same as the race for the legislature, whereas the spending above is only for the executive race in the US, excludes all legislative campaign spending. And I’m not clear on whether this includes donations to individuals, which apparently can differ from party donations, though the Westminster system is more party-centric than the American one, where candidates need to do a lot more of their fundraising and spending thenselves. But without my digging much more, some Kiwi numbers: https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/350220141/labour-spent-1m-more-national-lose-2023-election Labour spent $1m more than National to lose the 2023 election The ACT Party spent more than National, declaring $2.77m in expenses. NZ First spent $1.51m on a campaign which returned them to Government alongside National and ACT, whereas the Green Party spent $1.33m on a campaign that achieved wins in key electorate seats. Also, those are Kiwibucks, not American dollars, so the USD numbers are only something like 60% of that. Accounting for that, if the numbers are comparable, that’d be the largest-spending Kiwi party doing $1.6 million USD across all of their seats compared to the US presidential campaigns alone doing about $1 billion. Harris has got to raise some – or all, not sure whether she can get funds from the Biden-Harris campaign warchest – of that in the time remaining, which means that she’s gotta convince people that she is who they want to be president enough to pitch into the war chest so that she can spend that to sell herself to the public. She has to build a campaign, plan to spend the money, and do so to target voters. Not much time to iterate doing that. And keep in mind that the first Republican presidential debate mentioned above, 444 days before the election, isn’t when those people started campaigning, and certainly isn’t when they started planning their campaign. It’s just an early milestone in the campaign. Harris is gonna have to pull all of this off in about three and a half months. The US presidential election is an awfully large and expensive marketing fight for voter minds. EDIT2: One positive sign for her: this person says that she believes that Harris most likely can get access to the funds that the Biden-Harris campaign has, so that’ll help get her some of the way there: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/21/kamala-harris-fundraising-surge.html Harris can likely get immediate access to the Biden campaign’s roughly $96 million donation pot, according to Anna Massoglia, an investigations manager at the campaign finance research center, OpenSecrets. “The general consensus among most people that I’ve spoken with is that she can use the funding,” Massoglia told CNBC in an interview. And she picked up a little more after announcing: But it wasn’t just the big donors who responded to Biden’s announcement: The progressive donation platform ActBlue initially said it raised $27.5 million from small-dollar donors in the five hours after Biden endorsed Harris. Later, the company announced it raised over $45 million.
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fedia.io
Man, you should give Prince of Persia the Lost Crown a look if you like metroidvanias, it’s really good. And if you prefer roguelikes The Rogue Prince of Persia is also really good. FC3 was a long time ago, too. Much as I find their template for open world games has been tired for a while, they have done more than that. Rayman Legends is an all time great, came out after that. The Trials games had good entires after FC3. Trackmania is quirky, but I do like it quite a bit. Child of Light is newer. Grow Home is newer. Definitely worth checking out. The Mario and Rabbids games were solid tactical games. The Anno games are a very specific flavor of strategy with few alternatives, and as conservative as the Division games are, they were a guilty pleasure for me. I don’t know how anybody can hate all of that at once, frankly. That’s a lot of of very competent entries in a whole lot of genres to be mad about.
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crazypeople.online
Red Bull instead signs Fernando Alonso and (for reasons even they can’t explain) Daniel Ricciardo. The car is undrivable. Alonso contemplates his life decisions with every miserable lap. Red Bull shitcan Danny Ric 6 races in. Having no junior drivers left to string along they are forced to sign Pastor Maldonado, who causes so many crashes we end up with Lance Stroll as WDC.
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slrpnk.net
I think the point was to occupy places where powerful people were, to show them that they’re not untouchable. One thing I’ve heard Anark talk about is that communes that separate themselves from society don’t tend to have much revolutionary potential. They’re just kind of checking out. Also, David Graeber said something very interesting about Occupy, that although the narrative was that they failed, the main thing they were trying to draw attention to was the IMF and the World Bank, and how their structural adjustment policies were laying waste to whole societies. He said that despite the fact that Occupy ended and was driven out by cops with bulldozers, the IMF and the World Bank don’t have anything like the power they used to, and that has a lot to do with the visibility that Occupy brought to them. Who knows how much death and suffering was averted globally thanks to their actions? If they had focussed only on making a place to live within the US they wouldn’t have been able to achieve that. I think that’s a pretty good legacy. Also with the coops, Anark has covered a different federation of coops in Venezuela called Cecosesola: https://youtu.be/xfE6Nsuaf50?si=MbXZ3kpTNI2-mTUm It might be a better template than Mondragon, who seem to have reduced membership considerably, with non-member workers making up a huge percentage of their ranks.
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sh.itjust.works
Yup. Meme template is the silence crab. Long-legged thing is called a japan spider crab.
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lemmy.world
You should be able to use COM interoperability , specifically the OpenAsDocument() and Save() methods. You can also use COM interoperability to read from Excel, but using ImprtFrom-CSV would be much easier. Then you just iterate over the file names, and for each one open the template as a document, then save it as the filename.