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Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by preseinger »

pipeline_peak wrote: post #178

> JSON is the worst form of encoding — except for all the others that have been tried. Edgy pessimism is tiring, we get it everything sucks but this is the best we got, even though you still hate it. > It’s not easily read by humans, but it can be read by humans. What does this even mean, why, how? It’s so easy to complain about something without admitting you don’t have a better solution. Maybe I’m bitter from my ER…

I don't see this as edgy pessimism, I see it as pragmatic optimism. The author isn't complaining about JSON, they're acknowledging JSON as the best choice despite its warts.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by echelon »

JohnFen wrote: post #95
echelon wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every statistic I've found shows not only a 50+% share of the existing market, it also shows new phones from Apple are selling to over 50% of the market. It makes the email signature even more bizarre. https://gs.statcounter.com/vendor-market-share/mobile/united... https://hypebeast.com/2022/9/apple-iphone-overtakes-androids...

Correct, which means that neither are "most common". But the distribution is not even. In my part of the country, you don't see iPhones very often at all. In other parts of the country, you see them everywhere.

Common does not mean > 51%.

  Term     Numerical rate   Percentage
  Common   1 in 10          10%
iPhone is by definition most common.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by hollandheese »

aljgz wrote: post #243
andrei_says_ wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate on the difference between Windows and MacOS in the context of multitasking?

I should say a lot of that is because of the fundamental assumption that multiple instances of an app are related to each other in multitasking. If I have vscode in my external monitor, plus two Firefox instances one in internal and one in the external, than in many ways of switching to the browser, both windows come up. That covers my IDE, and I need an extra click/keystroke to bring it back. One example of many. I'…

Use Expose or Cmd-` rather than Cmd-Tab or the Dock if you want the Windows behavior.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by mmsimanga »

ajkjk wrote: post #14
legrande wrote: post #3

This reminds me of Steve Jobs' email to himself. In 2010 he wrote: I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate. I am moved by music I…

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I can't speak for iPhone but I was always bemused by the line. Until someone responded to one of my messages and I realised my message also ended with sent from my ** phone. I hadn't added the line. I realised on some Android phones the phone adds the line to the bottom of your message. You can turn it off but I suspect most people don't..

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by Andrex »

Dalewyn wrote: post #213
wing-_-nuts wrote: post #165

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>GNOME is nigh unusable other than as an expensive piece of wall decor. Examples you can expand on?

Lack of customization for one, either I do things the GNOME way or the highway. Screw that, if I wanted that I would be using MacOS and/or iOS instead since Apple does that far better. Form factor dissonance for another. GNOME clearly targets the mobile form factor, and it fails me for all the reasons Metro in Windows 8 failed me because guess what: I'm using a desktop/laptop, not a tablet/phone.

> GNOME clearly targets the mobile form factor

I think it's more fair to say all form factors are treated equally, to the possible detriment of focusing exclusively on desktop. I think Gnome does well and is really versatile no matter which form factor you use, and I didn't have much issue moving from Gnome 2 to 3, or Windows to Gnome, or OSX (at the time) to Gnome (I've gone back and forth a lot over the years).

For me, workspaces (which Windows lacked natively until very recently) and Alt+Tab/` are how I get around.

The customizability argument is a solid reason to dislike Gnome, but not for all time. Things do get better each release. Well, except for extensions, which always break.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by wan_ala »

Suprised no one mentioned SHA256. I know there's not a official SHA256 implementation but i guess any implementation (except OpenSSL) is good.

Left out OpenSSL because of poor docs and a small amount of developers. Last I had seen it was like 2 or so.

Re: Software I’m thankful for (2021)

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Post by hollandheese »

selfhoster69 wrote: post #110
andrei_says_ wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate on the difference between Windows and MacOS in the context of multitasking?

One thing that has stood out to me is that when I have two Edge windows open, for example and I switch to the last used window from Safari, both windows overlap instead of just the one window I was working with.

If you want to just have the one window come forward use Expose to do it, rather than Cmd-Tab or the Dock.
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