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savingGrace··on User Interface Design: Rules of Thumb
While pair programming I will say something like "just click on it with your mmb" and I always hear "what's that do?" I have yet to work with a single developer that uses the mmb. I live and die by mine. This doesn't include the "I don't have a MMB" Mac club.
savingGrace··on JetBrains invites developers to join the Fleet Public Preview Program
I have used JetBrains products for a decade (IntelliJ, Android Studio, WebStorm, PHPStorm). Does this mean that those products are having resources shifted away from them to work on Fleet? I am not a developer who enjoys the 'plugin' mindset and tend to install very few. I prefer Visual Studios over VSCode as well...
savingGrace··on JetBrains Ring UI
"You could build a very complex UI with Ext.JS back in 2010 with a lot less code and very little time" I have not encountered a more complex and verbose library than ExtJS. I would never in a million years say "very little time" with ExtJS. I did not enjoy my time with it at all. And that was a whole lot of time, since it took forever to do the simplest of things.
savingGrace··on Learn to sew your own outdoor gear
I've always wanted to get into sewing my own clothes, but the fact that fabric is very expensive has always kept me out of it. It is a lot cheaper to buy pre-made clothing than to make your own. Even if you buy existing fabric from 2nd hand stores and turn it into your own project, it still can be cheaper to just buy pre-made clothing.
savingGrace··on Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
Oh how I love this collection. I have had it on my phone for many years.. I struggle with vasovagal syncope when I go to anyplace related to medical. Mixing my syncope with cancer/chemo was rough and this puzzle collection helped me in some of the hardest times of my life. I love Tents, Undead, Unequal, and Map.
savingGrace··on Pens and Tablets for Linux
I have an XP-Pen 22 from 5+ years ago. It is still going strong. It was ~$500 back then and I opted to get the one that had buttons on the side. My primary OS was Ubuntu, and the XP-Pen 22 did not have drivers for the buttons in Linux. The tablet and drawing was spectacular, but I paid extra for the buttons. So I ended up dual booting with Windows, to get the buttons to work. The exact model after mine had Linux support for buttons. I was just a year too early. The only other complaint I have is that even in Windows, I cannot get it to dual screen no matter what. The tablet and my other monitors will split the view, but I cannot get the inputs to recognize just the screen my tablet is on. If I put my pen to the tablet, the cursor will shoot way over as if all the monitors are 'one giant screen'. I have to think they have improved on this and for the money saved, I will buy another XP-Pen someday. I am an amateur artist and a strong software developer(not designer). So, you have to take my review with a grain of engineering salt. To me, Wacom is a solid brand for professionals. However, they make me think of macs with their pricing..
savingGrace··on How to build a bike generator with control panel
I had no clue what you were referencing. I'm using Brave, and I have it automatically turn on the 'Speedreader' mode. When I disabled it, I then saw what you are referencing. I know the other browsers also have a mode that gets rid of all the junk and lets you just read the articles. Maybe you should give that a try?
savingGrace··on Star Citizen will limit its roadmap, as players are getting upset over delays
I refunded after I lost hours of gameplay due to game-crashing bugs. I look forward to playing this as a 90 year old man someday.
savingGrace··on Show HN: I built a no-BS recipe search engine
Please excuse my ignorance, can you explain how I'm supposed to read those? Top-to bottom first? I studied the pizza one and onion rings and while I could create the items from the format, I feel as though I don't fully understand it.
savingGrace··on Google de-indexes 3k articles over bogus DMCA notice
Is this a common thing? I initially feel outraged against Google for their practices, but then I see a comment about how this is just regurgitated news. Now I don't know whether to feel annoyed at a site that just regurgitates other site content or what. Then I start thinking about how the majority of news sites regurgitate AP/other journalists. Bad Google. Bad Wheelsjoint. Who am I supposed to feel sorry for at this point? Us, the consumers? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/toyota-cu...
savingGrace··on IBM Logo Manual (1983)
This post made me think of Hymie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odDO4cGh2RQ

savingGrace··on If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
What is lobsters?
savingGrace··on 1980: MUD
I couldn't focus on the article after I read about Tom showing up. How did Tom help him move the bookcase?
savingGrace··on Open-source RGB lighting control for keyboards, fans, etc
- My takeaway was the fact that I got to see someone using git lab instead of github. Maybe I tend to look at the completely wrong articles on HN... - I don't care for the RGB craze. However, I love the documentation on this project's README. Look at those finely tuned bullets and lists! It makes me want to dive into the code! Nice and tidy!
savingGrace··on The use of `class` for things that should be simple free functions
I felt as though I should know the moral of the story, yet I did not.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11421598 Moral of the story is that closures and objects are ideas that are expressible in terms of each other, and none is more fundamental than the other. That's all there is to the statement under consideration.

savingGrace··on I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next
What are the reasons the creator could not just re-upload the video as a new video?

I don't use Youtube as a creator, so I can only guess.

Links to it from outside of Youtube? 'Millions of views' type of stuff? Ad revenue? Getting their account perma-banned?

savingGrace··on Paddled: Playing Ping Pong in China (2012)
I have a hard time making it through long posts, but for whatever reason I made it all the way to the end on this one. I wonder if the guy is still in China right now?
savingGrace··on “We found PayPal vulnerabilities and PayPal punished us for it”
This is what I was thinking. The only stories I ever see about HackerOne are how horrible they are. As a non-sec dev, I only ever get the feeling that bounty hunting for profitability is the same as trying to sell something on eBay. You're eventually going to get scammed and you have to eat the loss.
savingGrace··on Bloomberg bankrolls a social-media army
What are you going to do with your $2500? ;)
savingGrace··on Free Illustrations of the Natural World
Are they all public domain? If I follow individual images, the ones I've clicked on in flickr say 'public domain'.
savingGrace··on I miss Inbox, so I hacked Gmail with a little CSS magic (2019)
My first thought was, here is someone technically skilled enough to modify the css of a page they do not own, yet they aren't blocking ads with an adblocker? I hope they did not waste the time on hiding the ads manually..
savingGrace··on I miss Inbox, so I hacked Gmail with a little CSS magic (2019)
+2 for Thunderbird I prefer my legacy desktop client that everyone else at my company bemoans.
savingGrace··on For tech-weary Midwest farmers, 40-year-old tractors now a hot commodity
What happens when we are so far away from the past, that there are no older tractors? Will our current 'new' tractors still work without dialing home or requiring computers when they're old?

I keep wondering that about our automotives as well. I want vehicles that are safe for my family, but ones that I can work on with a general understanding of automotive repair and physics. Will there come a point where you can no longer work on any new automotives?

savingGrace··on BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop
Another solution would be to just remove the battery and plug the laptop in. While this removes the portability, it is still an alternative solution.
savingGrace··on Why Child Care Is So Expensive
Exactly. This offends so many people to even bring it up, but I agree 100%. Our children are the most precious people in our lives, but we're willing to give them the worst of our time. If both parents are working, they come home at the end of the day too exhausted to invest in their children. Why are the kids getting the left-overs? Does that seem fair to them?
savingGrace··on O(n^2), again, now in Windows Management Instrumentation
I often see O(n^2) algorithms that can be reduced to O(2n) at the very least. One of the best things I gained from school was the red flag that fires off in my mind any time I see a loop nested in a loop.
savingGrace··on Craigslist releases new mobile app for iOS and Android
I've had people do this to me. It irritates me so much that I tell them 'your loss'. Someone offered to go get the rest and I called them out on this scummy practice and moved on with my life.
savingGrace··on Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible
After reading this post, I don't really know what this new feature is. I'm part of the 'enterprise' crowd and we tend to lag behind in 'features'. I do know about Slack's 'deal with it' attitude, though.

When the new 'draft' feature came out I desperately wanted to turn it off(I really hate it). I opened a support ticket and spoke with one of their team members. I basically got an "It's what our customers want" kind of reply. I am the customer. Why can I not disable/enable it in an options menu somewhere?

This post says it all: 'If you prefer the old interface… well, screw you, says Slack. ... I wish Slack would provide a way to disable the WYSIWYG rich-text-input box. I don’t think it’s useful, and it’s extremely annoying...'

I miss IRC.

savingGrace··on PeerTube v2
This was my first thought. With all of these YT alternatives I always end up asking who determines what content is saved/available? What if it doesn't go along with their beliefs or political stance? There's a fine line between going too far in each direction. e.g. China vs Pirate Bay

Edit: "a system where videos require manual approval by administrators before posting them" If you're seeing a ton of porn, then clearly the sysadmin's beliefs/views don't align with mine.

savingGrace··on We Need to Map the Ocean Floor
Doesn't the ocean floor change often due to currents? Sediment consistently is moved from point A to point B similar to sand dunes? Even if this is related to just 'bedrock' or whatever more solid mass is down there, doesn't that get impacted by the faults a lot? Or is that around just the fault lines?
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