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One of my biggest bugbears is losing the OK/Apply/Cancel concept with dialog boxes or settings windows. If I have a window with lots of settings that I want to experiment with then I've no problem with that setting taking effect immediately, but please give me the ability to back out all the changes I've tentatively made via a Cancel button.

Beads?

Got through to The Times newspaper!

Nope - you've got me on that one. I can't.

How do I switch to the timeline where emojis, crypto, NFTs and generative AI weren't invented?

Just adding another alternative that I've been using for years for people to consider - 1Blocker.

https://1blocker.com/

Hadn't seen this before - thanks! I'll take a look before it comes round to resubscribing next year. :-)

I (well, my company) pays for https://onlinetools.com/ (USD 6 per month if you pay for a year upfront), which a found super-handy for (de-)prettifying and (de-)stringifying JSON. (It does a lot of other things too.)

Thanks!

Is it possible to reset progress somehow?

And on top of all that is the terrible (IMHO) UX design pattern of getting rid of Apply/Cancel buttons, particularly in settings panes.

This might also be of interest to anybody who enjoyed these articles: https://www.scratchapixel.com/.

I use an app called 'Alarmed' on my iPhone for this. It's got everything I need, in particular you can repeat items on a fixed period or 'x days from the time you actually manage to tick it off', which is great. It's free with a one-off IAP to unlock extra features (can't remember what they are - I paid it years ago).

http://yoctoville.com/

54 year old finding this useful here! :-)

Several years ago the company I work for offered a 'compressed working fortnight' option, where for nine days out of ten you work an extra 45 minutes a day and then get every other Friday off.

For me, this was an absolute game-changer in terms of quality of life. The majority of the company took it up and there's really been no issue in terms of overall productivity that I can see. If I ever change jobs, whether or not my new employer offers this will be a huge consideration for me.

I love some of the ideas here! Particularly the neat string 'class' and hand-defining Windows API functions instead of dragging in Windows.h.

There's clearly life in the old dog yet!

I thought I'd look up something I knew and spotted 'Thérèse Raquin', which gets butchered into 'Rackwin'... some way to go yet, I think!

https://ia804709.us.archive.org/35/items/synapseml_gutenberg...

(Hats off for the effort, though.)

Many thanks!

I guess the unwritten part of that press release is the fact that Red Hat are taking RHEL in some sort of proprietary direction? Is anybody able to TL;DR me an explanation of what's going on?

TIL that curl is installed in Windows 10 and 11 - useful article for that alone!

Thanks, seri4l!

I've never come across the term 'heavy VF' before - can somebody clue me in?

The comment came across very positively - thanks!

It's something that I know I need to do, but - and I know this is pathetic - always gets put off ('I'll start next week; after Christmas; after my birthday...').

I know! I clearly wasn't thinking straight...

Sorry for disappointing you!

It's weird, but I always use metric for 'small' measurements (a number of metres, for example), but for distances on the road it'll be miles. And I've used miles per hour for so long that I just can't get my head around how fast something's moving if it's quoted in km/h. (Of course, the fact that road signs are miles and MPH over here kind of drums that in somewhat...)

Likewise, when I'm cooking I'll work in grams and litres, but for body weight it's always been stones.

(Was born in 1970, by the way.)

Fair enough - I should have thought of that myself. :-(

I'm around 310 lbs (a smidge over 22 stone for UK people). Like yourself, I always thought when I was younger 'how do people let themselves get that way?'.

It just kind of happened for me. I know I eat unhealthy food; I know I drink too much; I know I don't do enough (as in, any) exercise... I look at my face in the mirror and think 'that's not too bad!' but then catch my side profile at some point and think 'eek!'.

It's all a bit miserable, really. :-(

You should be so proud of yourself for your weight loss!!! I really hope things continue on the right path for you.

I've only heard people say it as 'triple-A' in this context.

'Communication and Concurrency' by Milner?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/534666