One thing you consider is concurrency, it’s always good to have headroom if you can.
It’s kinda nice to not have the internet speeds of every device on your network grind to a halt just because you’re downloading something on your computer, for example. Particularly if you live with anyone else using the connection too
Flat design may be less distracting to you but that also means it’s less clear, because there are fewer obvious demarcation.
I despise flat design, it’s downright awful design, and done for looks rather than functionality.
to you
Flat design dominates for a reason—the less visually busy something is, the easier it is for users to wrap their heads around it. This gets proven again and again in user studies, the more busy and dense you make things, the more users miss stuff and get lost.
People’s opinions on the ribbon specifically are obviously all subjective, but I would say the less distracting design would be the one done less for looks, rather it’s a pretty utilitarian design if you pick it apart. This is an interface for productivity tools, and as such the interface should get out of your way until you need it—the ribbon just does that better IMO.
Microsoft also did this to obfuscate features, which is pretty apparent when you consider new users used to “discover” features via the menu system. I supported Office for MS in the early days, and this was a huge thing at the time. It was discussed heavily when training on new versions.
Why on earth would Microsoft want to obfuscate features? There’s no way that motivation would ever make sense.
IIRC one of the main reasons Microsoft introduced the ribbon was that grouping functionality contextually helped users discover features, because people kept requesting features that already existed, but they just couldn’t find. I remember there being a blog on the Microsoft developer site about the making of it that went into this.
Kinda telling on himself given the “with actual malice” part of it
Weirdly as someone who has used both styles heavily, I’d say the ribbon is more practical than the old toolbars. There’s more contextual grouping and more functional given the tabs and search, plus the modern flat design is less distracting, which is what I’d want from a productivity application. Also for me two rows of toolbars & a menu is about the same height as the ribbon anyway, and you can collapse the ribbon if you want to use the space
Realistic looking game
He’s got his right arm up and everything
So
300×1024×1024= 314,572,800kb
Assuming something like 200 bytes per log line
x5 = 1,572,864,000 logs
Assuming this is your standard console port with a 60fps frame rate lock:
÷60fps ÷ 60 seconds ÷ 60 minutes ÷ 24h = 303.407… days
You would need to play for nearly a year solid to generate that many logs at a rate of one per frame.
Given that’s probably not what’s happened, this is a particularly impressive rate of erroring
This is all assuming it’s a spinning disk and not an SSD, so ignore me if that’s the case:
Given SAS drives are usually used in data centre storage array applications and 3TB disks have been kinda small for that use case for a fair while, there’s a fairly high chance it was in heavy use for a good number of years. I’d bet it’s probably well on its way to being a paperweight regardless of your connectivity situation.
If you do get it hooked up, don’t store anything on it you wouldn’t be okay losing.
What timezone is the rapture in?
Trying to decide if I should stay up and get some photos
Hmmmm… Dessert pasta…
There’s definitely something to this
If the meat is pork, that could potentially be banging
It’s a good point
But the accusation isn’t flippant. That’s exactly what this is.
Every 30 mins, last place has to down a beer
It’s a well documented phenomenon that mentally well people with half decent critical thinking skills typically don’t support right wing politics. It generally preys on the gullible.
Not sure you’ve fully thought this one through
The first one is pretty much down to, as Gabe Newell puts it, “piracy is a service problem”. Spotify came along and (initially) provided a much better service compared to pirating your music at the time. Once they created the market segment, competitors started their own streaming subscriptions. I’d also say the Google music “upload 50,000 tracks for free” got a lot of former pirates to jump.
Now the services are going through the same enshittification that most popular online services seem to be going through, we can see piracy increasing again. Someone will notice and fill the gap in providing a good service again at some point and the pendulum will swing once more
Surely they’re just gonna be left with visa slavery?
There’s already an ick associated with working for Amazon, when they start cutting the upsides* why would anyone stick around? I’d personally take a pay cut to go elsewhere if my current job forced me to go in 5 days a week
*Though IMO hybrid working is no longer remotely considered a perk and is the expected norm in this industry now. Even before the pandemic, my previous employer already let us work from home once a week if you wanted to.
Conman begins latest con
Feels almost irresponsible to even report on this tbh
Wow a reference to those Mac Vs PC ads from like 15 years ago
So the party that’s ostensibly supposed to be pro business, sides with shitty anti-business conmen?
It’s hard to see how their guiding ideology isn’t just “be shitty and make things worse” now