“Has our strategy of being openly hostile to anyone asking questions finally resulted in the increase in questions we always dreamed of? Did our long term bet on alienating the community finally pay off?”
> In my experience, people who buy touchscreen-enabled laptops quickly loose the habit of using the touchscreen for exactly that reason. I have not experienced that at all. I see people touch their touch-capable laptop…
They have had asking them for touchscreen laptops for years. They legitimately lose sales to people who want a Mac but refuse to buy a laptop without a touch screen. I think this is the wrong device to start with,…
That was a pretty asinine example. That’s a perfect example of where touchscreen laptops do not work.
Yeah. It’s appealing in theory. On windows devices I made that choice a few times. I wouldn’t anymore. If nothing else, the more complex hinges create significantly higher failure risk.
> No idea why anyone would want a laptop form factor with a touch screen; seems like an RSI nightmare. I have no idea how this keeps getting repeated. No one with a touchscreen laptop is just hovering their arms in…
Writing on a laptop screen with a pen is kind of a crappy experience. The screen position is not rigid enough for that to be comfortable. It “bounces” as you write.
I use it constantly. No one actually holds their hands up to the screen for extended periods of time. But touching the screen to click a button can be more efficient than tabbing or mousing to it. Especially if the…
The set of people who use convertible laptops in tablet mode seems tiny. It’s one of those things that looks like a great idea but doesn’t pan out in real life. Everyone uses it once, says “cool” and never uses it…
> This is the security engineering. It’s not just checking boxes. It’s evaluating risks. This is absolutely not security engineering. This is nit picking a specific attack factor and trying to argue that it’s…
You said the same thing twice. “The site” == archive.today The claim is that archive.today is injecting malware into archived pages. Given some of the past behavior, this is not hard to believe.
But then why not just write “Latine”?
> convicting people without proof They literally videotaped it and shared the video in a group chat. There was no question of whether the assault happened, only whether it met the bar for the more severe crime.
I have never seen Latin@ at all (but I also do not speak Spanish). Is that a common a/o replacement? I find it interesting that the Hispanic LGBTQ+ community would use LatinX. How is this even pronounced in Spanish?…
Should have said ‘The German word for “Maiden” is neutral.’ My phrasing was ambiguous and my German is rusty, hence the archaic translation.
Correct. I was referring to Mädchen and my German is extremely rusty.
Old English for “wife” was masculine. “Maiden” in German is neutral. In Italian, the formal “you” is the same as “she” (written capitalized). Grammatical gender is not intrinsically sexist and doesn’t really make a lot…
> The patriarchy - along with religion - wanted this gender line and specification in every context Did they? English used to be gendered but lost it ~1000 years ago. Languages evolve in odd ways and don’t think the…
This depends entirely on what you’re shooting and the available light. I have a very nice tripod that has been in the closet for a decade because I do not have a use for it with what I shoot.
Interesting. Google trends shows that Latine is more common in Spain (and everywhere that isn’t the US). Nonetheless I appreciate a perspective from someone who has an affiliation with the culture term refers to.
I’m not saying no one who identifies as Latino/Latina/Latinx has ever used the word, or even advocated for it. But the only people I’ve ever heard use this term are, bluntly, very white. To the extent that the term has…
My favorite is 3:2 for laptops. 4:3 is a bit tall (screen is fine, but it makes the base much deeper as well). 16:9 is kind of crappy, especially if it’s a smaller screen.
It’s a tradeoff. I spend most of my time on a laptop screen (even when using an external monitor, the external is my secondary screen) and appreciate the reduction in screen waste. I don’t need or want a huge click area…
That works out to $31k. That’s not a lot for a software engineer at Microsoft. Levels.fyi pegs entry level at $170k. So that’s like 2 months of pay. The buyout offer certainly will exceed the unemployment payout for…
“Latinx” is weird because it seems to have arisen from a set of privileged English speakers deciding that poor downtrodden Latinas were being hurt by a word they never complained about and pushing this as the…
“Has our strategy of being openly hostile to anyone asking questions finally resulted in the increase in questions we always dreamed of? Did our long term bet on alienating the community finally pay off?”
> In my experience, people who buy touchscreen-enabled laptops quickly loose the habit of using the touchscreen for exactly that reason. I have not experienced that at all. I see people touch their touch-capable laptop…
They have had asking them for touchscreen laptops for years. They legitimately lose sales to people who want a Mac but refuse to buy a laptop without a touch screen. I think this is the wrong device to start with,…
That was a pretty asinine example. That’s a perfect example of where touchscreen laptops do not work.
Yeah. It’s appealing in theory. On windows devices I made that choice a few times. I wouldn’t anymore. If nothing else, the more complex hinges create significantly higher failure risk.
> No idea why anyone would want a laptop form factor with a touch screen; seems like an RSI nightmare. I have no idea how this keeps getting repeated. No one with a touchscreen laptop is just hovering their arms in…
Writing on a laptop screen with a pen is kind of a crappy experience. The screen position is not rigid enough for that to be comfortable. It “bounces” as you write.
I use it constantly. No one actually holds their hands up to the screen for extended periods of time. But touching the screen to click a button can be more efficient than tabbing or mousing to it. Especially if the…
The set of people who use convertible laptops in tablet mode seems tiny. It’s one of those things that looks like a great idea but doesn’t pan out in real life. Everyone uses it once, says “cool” and never uses it…
> This is the security engineering. It’s not just checking boxes. It’s evaluating risks. This is absolutely not security engineering. This is nit picking a specific attack factor and trying to argue that it’s…
You said the same thing twice. “The site” == archive.today The claim is that archive.today is injecting malware into archived pages. Given some of the past behavior, this is not hard to believe.
But then why not just write “Latine”?
> convicting people without proof They literally videotaped it and shared the video in a group chat. There was no question of whether the assault happened, only whether it met the bar for the more severe crime.
I have never seen Latin@ at all (but I also do not speak Spanish). Is that a common a/o replacement? I find it interesting that the Hispanic LGBTQ+ community would use LatinX. How is this even pronounced in Spanish?…
Should have said ‘The German word for “Maiden” is neutral.’ My phrasing was ambiguous and my German is rusty, hence the archaic translation.
Correct. I was referring to Mädchen and my German is extremely rusty.
Old English for “wife” was masculine. “Maiden” in German is neutral. In Italian, the formal “you” is the same as “she” (written capitalized). Grammatical gender is not intrinsically sexist and doesn’t really make a lot…
> The patriarchy - along with religion - wanted this gender line and specification in every context Did they? English used to be gendered but lost it ~1000 years ago. Languages evolve in odd ways and don’t think the…
This depends entirely on what you’re shooting and the available light. I have a very nice tripod that has been in the closet for a decade because I do not have a use for it with what I shoot.
Interesting. Google trends shows that Latine is more common in Spain (and everywhere that isn’t the US). Nonetheless I appreciate a perspective from someone who has an affiliation with the culture term refers to.
I’m not saying no one who identifies as Latino/Latina/Latinx has ever used the word, or even advocated for it. But the only people I’ve ever heard use this term are, bluntly, very white. To the extent that the term has…
My favorite is 3:2 for laptops. 4:3 is a bit tall (screen is fine, but it makes the base much deeper as well). 16:9 is kind of crappy, especially if it’s a smaller screen.
It’s a tradeoff. I spend most of my time on a laptop screen (even when using an external monitor, the external is my secondary screen) and appreciate the reduction in screen waste. I don’t need or want a huge click area…
That works out to $31k. That’s not a lot for a software engineer at Microsoft. Levels.fyi pegs entry level at $170k. So that’s like 2 months of pay. The buyout offer certainly will exceed the unemployment payout for…
“Latinx” is weird because it seems to have arisen from a set of privileged English speakers deciding that poor downtrodden Latinas were being hurt by a word they never complained about and pushing this as the…