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I think the Microsoft Store actually did not require the account, which is quite a unique feature across app stores. Whether that is actually relevant on an OS that now forces online accounts in other ways is questionable.

It is an article that doesn't care about facts, just feelings. It should have no place in any serious discussion.

Yes, quite a bit. Not so much as a replacement for trackpad/keyboard/mouse, but mostly to write down notes with a stylus, or do some quick sketches. I don't do that often enough to justify carrying another device like a tablet, but regularly enough to feel limited by the absence of touchscreens.

I actually quite like the UI of MS Office, but nevertheless I don't understand why so many competitors try to make clones. Say what you want, but MS has a huge head start here and everyone else is just making worse looking copies of the way MS Office looked years ago.

And of course, is this really the final form of office applications? Is it maybe time to just go back to the drawing board, think about workflows, the current state of technology, future trends, and build a UI that works maybe even better, looks cleaner, fits on more screens?

Somehow, .NET jobs seem be tied to waterfall processes ("but we are still agile, because we release two times a year"), requirements in OneNote, and a 5 kg Windows laptop.

His text contains hardly any new insights about Germany, and I suspect that this was the real reason for the rejection.

I am also out of the loop here, how would namespaces have helped?

Newer Coworking places generally seem to have some Starbucks-vibes, but AFAIK they are not doing to well.

Maybe the price of a coffee is exactly what people are willing to pay for a seat, a small table, and wifi for some hours.

The article implies that tabs, bookmarks, passwords can only be synchronised between Firefox installations and not with Zen or Libre (I assume this refers to LibreWolf?), but at least Zen can be connected to the Mozilla account and synchronises everything with the other connected Firefox, Firefox for Android, ... installations.

I much prefer installing it myself, with the required version for my project and at a known and common location.

Is this even true? I am strongly opposed to ads and tracking in my OS for other reasons, but surely the performance impact is barely measurable.

HN is social media. Messenger apps are almost certainly social media. GitHub or similar platforms might be social media. There might be some people out there without any social media accounts, but they wouldn't be able to post about it on the internet.

Other than that, your example of using temporary accounts for some secondary platform functionality is yet another reason why this policy is terrible.

> Omitting social media information could lead to “visa denial and ineligibility” for future visas, the embassy added.

Honest question, how would they detect missing info? If they already knew all my social media profiles, they wouldn't need to ask for it. If I wrote some credible threads on any platform, I assume those would have been detected by someone anyway. Also, I surely wouldn't voluntarily disclose the account I used to publish those.

Internally. I feel like this word does belong into the headline. Other than that, I will never understand how employees don't move all of their communication far outside of their employers infrastructure in cases like that.

Every article that criticizes some general UI thing, like the general state of current user interfaces, how everything was better 10/20/100 years ago, how the start menu or settings in some operating systems are bad, ... really should be forced to provide some actual examples and analyze them in some detail. All we get in this article is a screenshot of Gmail, resized to a small size so that we don't even have a chance to decipher anything on it, and the repeated assurance of the author that this does in fact represent an unusable UI.

But even I, as someone who doesn't use Gmail, can quickly understand that interface on the screenshot after zooming in a bit. Maybe it looks a bit chaotic, but there seem to be some menus opened just for the sake of argument. Maybe this UI is incredibly powerful? Maybe they didn't dumb down the interface, which is something that is also criticized here a lot. It's hard to tell from a screenshot alone.

> Through a series of Executive Orders, President Trump has called on administrative agencies to unleash prosperity through deregulation and ensure that they are efficiently delivering great results for the American people.

It's hard not to read this in Borat's voice.

This just reads like the usual anti-intellectualism.

Base 32 does that for them, it excludes the lower case letters and I L O U.

Lego specifically lasts pretty long, I've got some of them at home that survived three generations of kids. But apart from that I do feel like there's way to much plastic in toys, so I'm curios - do you have any good recommendations for alternatives? There seems to be plenty of wooden toys for toddlers, but not so much for kids older than 4.

In fairness, the article comes to the same conclusion.

At least enough grip on the market to get designated as a gatekeeper under the DMA by the EU [0].

[0] https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/05/13/bookingcom-gatekeep...

These things are already in development, with BeyondATC [0] using some combination of AI and classical "scripting", and SayIntentions [1] using LLMs (?) for everything. Also, both development teams clearly didn't focus on creating nice websites.

[0] https://www.beyondatc.net/

[1] https://www.sayintentions.ai/

> And this is not just traditional industries, even 1 in 10 startups risk bankruptcy. [1]

That seems incredibly low though, even 10 years ago (and not specific to Germany) only 1 in 10 startups succeeded. [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilpatel/2015/01/16/90-of-star...

On the other hand, Recall doesn't even have a server side, right? Ignoring the SQLite access issue for a moment, I'll always prefer a local solution.

While it's true that the accusations were out there, the whole thing was quickly proven wrong. The document in question is accessible [0] (in German, and even hosted at the website of Cicero, which invented the story) and clearly comes to the conclusion that nuclear reactors in Germany should not continue to run. It's even written in bold letters.

[0] https://assets.cicero.de/2024-04/2022-03-03_Atomaufsicht_Ver...

Seems like you are describing suburbs, but they suck at almost everything. Maybe we should actually think about living in denser but smaller cities, which can provide all necessities, including nature, in walking or cycling distance. This is most likely the key to allow for healthy lifestyles.

https://github.com/typst/typst looks promising, both the language and the tooling. I wonder where it will find its place in a world that is dominated by either Word or LaTex.

Maybe those articles should be framed differently. The claim that modern software is worse seems wrong (especially reliability and security are surely far better now than ever before), but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't critically analyze the status quo and find ways to improve. For once, I would like to see a more positive outlook for the future, and maybe we can learn something from software development practices in the 90ies, but fully going back to that time seems impossible. The world has moved on, and a lot of software dev practices are a result of those changing conditions.

If the captain of this LATAM flight didn't report that all systems went down for a short while, I'd bet some money on a malfunctioning ADIRU [0]. The Wikipedia page even includes a nice list of incidents caused by it, mostly with similar results.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_data_inertial_reference_un...

Historically though, Airbus exists despite the Concorde, not because of it. The A300 project ran in parallel and there where fights over funding between Airbus and Concorde. The French government also financed the Dassault Mercure at that time.

The initial success of the A300 was also unrelated to the Concorde, so Europe would probably have gotten their successful aviation industry today either way.