ConceptJunkie

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by ConceptJunkie 1mo ago
Since when has a government projection of costs ever been in any way realistic? The estimates for the costs of Medicare when it was established were low by a factor of 10.
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by ConceptJunkie 1mo ago
There's going to be a huge realignment in white collar work in the next decade or two, and then there's the fact that college degrees themselves (except for maybe STEM), are becoming less and less valuable because higher education
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by ConceptJunkie 1mo ago
I'll look at math papers on Arxiv, etc., and browsing the titles will find maybe one in a hundred where I even know what it's talking about. I've been a math enthusiast since I was a kid, but the field is so immense I can&#x
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by ConceptJunkie 1mo ago
And when you break the rules, you get absolutely no feedback. You don't even know if you break the rules, or you were just beat by a candidate the interviewers preferred. I had to go through the process last year and hated almost eve
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by ConceptJunkie 2mo ago
I also have really fond memories of Cinemaware's Three Stooges game. That's one I'd love to play again. It even had some digitized voices, sound effects and photos of the Stooges. It consisted of several mini-games you had
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by ConceptJunkie 2mo ago
Roger Dean did some great artwork for computer games, etc., in the 1980s. I still have the poster of the cover of the game Barbarian that came with the game. Dean later recycled that painting for the cover of Steve Howe's excellent &
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by ConceptJunkie 2mo ago
Seeing the juggler, and lots of other gee-whiz stuff in 1986 inspired me to buy an Amiga 500 as my first computer in 1988. I got a lot of mileage out of that system, with its whopping 1.5MB of RAM, and two floppy drives (after shelling out
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by ConceptJunkie 2mo ago
The point of IPv6 was to make the addresses so long that we don't run out of them in 20 years or so. There fixed that for you.
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by ConceptJunkie 2mo ago
I'm sorry, I can't do that, but here is the design for a stable quantum computing platform that should allow you to generate those keys yourself...
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
I feel like it's a rite of passage for a beginner programmer to have a recursive function generate a stack overflow.
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
DVD menus is another place where this confusion happens. Of course, any DVDs I buy these days are ripped, converted to H.265 and put on the NAS.
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
If you were to quiz people who preferred the Windows 2000 look, you would more likely get detailed answers regarding the design language and functionality. If you were to quiz people who preferred the XP look, you would more likely get ans
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
Yeah, it was butt-ugly. The default Windows UI didn't actually look better until Windows 7, but I used the "Classic" look as long as it was supported. I skipped Windows 8/8.1 entirely, and while Windows 10 was reasonab
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
I don't understand why they couldn't have kept that option. The Windows UI is currently the least customizable I've ever seen and I started using Windows with 2.1.
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
That era ended 20+ years ago. Sorry, pal. Microsoft has been flailing since Windows 2000 to "improve" the UI, often with one bad idea after another: let's make Windows apps look like webpages, let's make Windows apps
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
Application developers often had a lot of crazy (and bad) ideas, but at least Windows itself was consistent. But then those crazy, bad ideas started affecting Microsoft, and then you could make the Windows Media Player look like eyeballs.
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
In the 90s and early 2000s, Microsoft had a lot of good UI, but their defaults were always really poorly chosen.
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
I've been saying for many years that it seems most UI "designers" are just art school dropouts. Art school graduates would have a better sense of style, even if they weren't HCI experts. Windows 2000 was peak Windows UI
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
Yeah, but I would still usually see Explorer crash within an hour of a fresh Win2k installation. Windows 2000 was peak UI, but it wasn't peak Windows. That was Windows 7. And Windows 7 was advanced enough that you could still go bac
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
> Obvious borders and some padding between elements were a necessity to click what you intended to click. That never changed.
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
For people complaining that "Start" isn't a great choice, perhaps there's something better, but I can't think of anything. You need a small word that implies, "Click here to do something or find something.&quo
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
> And more and more over time, Microsoft has thought more about what they want in the menu than what the user wants. This pretty much describes _everything_ in Windows in the last 15 years.
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
That reminds me of that notorious story of the adventure game from the 90s where you had to make a fake mustache out of cat hairs to solve a puzzle.
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
I've witnessed this so much over the years. Much of the time when someone would ask me for help with something on the computer, I would have no idea, but I could discover the answer with a little bit of exploration and a good understa
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
Windows 2000 was the peak of Windows UI. While features and functionality has improved in many ways, everything UI change since then has been a step backward. Microsoft (and IBM and others) did a ton of good HCI research in the 70s and 80s
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by ConceptJunkie 3mo ago
> how to make it sound as loud as possible without sounding compressed. .. which is ironic, because the end result usually sounded terrible. You know, overly compressed.
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by ConceptJunkie 4mo ago
Terrence Tao disagrees with what you're saying. I think he's in a slightly better position to speak on the subject.
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by ConceptJunkie 4mo ago
> earn a reputation for being a good home for acquisitions. It's way too late for that to be possible any more.
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by ConceptJunkie 4mo ago
26 years. You'd think they could update and unify the UI in 26 years. But they would have to care first.
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by ConceptJunkie 4mo ago
In 2012, I was working for a company that did all the development for its Windows clients on an ancient version of Visual Studio running in a Windows 2003 VM, and I discovered that the Windows 2003 running in a VM could transfer files over

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