Innovation, oh my, sometimes it feels like the fat ones (and, by proxy, everyone else) are living in some alternate fantasy world where the mantra "you're not gonna need it" is taken to the extreme, so they're not even trying.
The pendulum should swing back to complex and more complicated interfaces sometime — but right now these are the dark times where, for example, Netflix, this huge, popular movie and show library, doesn't even have a way to find out exactly what movies with some actor or director it has available. It's hard for me to wrap my head around that.
Your project does look useful and on point though!
The rumor/theory I have heard about Netflix is that increasing discoverability too much would allow people to see two negative traits of Netflix: How often things come and go from the platform (which other apps like Criterion Collection embrace), and just how limited their library actually is at a given time.
Scroll through recommendations. It looks like they have hundreds of great movies for you to watch! And yes, technically they do. But look how many times they try suggesting the same movies in different categories, inflating the view in a way to make the library seem bigger. One movie might show up "Because you liked comedy..." then "Because you watched <comedy movie>" then "Light-hearted movies".
TLDR money and masking their poor library quality.
I wonder if AppleTV's atrocious single-line onscreen keyboard fits into this picture of making things less discoverable, or if it's just an extreme of form over function.
Definitely not, because Apple gives users the ability to type search in on an iPhone or iPad instead of using the apple TV remote. They also let you do voice-to-text, which is nice.
I’m about to enable the new Facetime Live Transcription feature in iOS 16 so my wife can have conversations with her father, who is rapidly losing his hearing. For this reason (and I can think of many) I strongly disagree.
Fair enough, but that’s also a cool new feature that drives sales.
I meant it more like, why wouldn’t they fix this objectively bad input mechanism? It would take tiny effort but it wouldn’t improve their sales or they might even calculate that it drives usage of iPhones and therefore good for them even though it’s bad for the users.
For the record I own both an Apple TV and an iPhone, inasmuch one can pretend to own these devices.
What does one do if they wish to see the actual contents of this crate? The web interface I'm looking at contains no hints at peeking inside, not even direct archive download links, nothing.
I can't believe that a good way to see what's inside is to make a rust project, add the crate and then go searching around the local filesystem.
From programming perspective, there's nothing sufficiently preposterous in the idea of dividing by zero that would require bringing the whole world to a low-level halt just for attempting that by default. You tried to calculate the average value of what turned out to be an empty list? Go suffer the most severe exception, like the ones reserved for those reading from nonexistant memory.
Another common case is adjusting some value according to a spatial vector's magnitude, like normalizing a vector or scaling gravitational attraction according to the distance between two points.
In the majority of these cases the most reasonable answer is 0.
For me, it was a book on stoicism ("A Guide to the Good Life — The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by William B Irvine) that showed me that, while it's not possible to avoid the inevitable pains and losses — just semi-regular thoughts about it, imagining the world where the losses have already happened, allows immense enjoyment and appreciation of the current moments.
Also, as an unexpected bonus, the book showed that philosophy shouldn't neccesarily be only theoretical high-brow word games, it can be a pleasant and highly practical experience as well.
At a guess, you're using Windows and the author is using Mac? [1] (I'm also using Windows -- it's my gaming PC, don't judge! -- and having an equally difficult time.)
Definitely don't let anyone ever judge you for that. The vast majority of desktop/laptop users are on Windows, including a slightly-less-vast majority of developers.
For this little project, I just grabbed a template used by a very popular Github page. Looks like the font does not play well with Windows. I just switched it to good ol’ reliable Helvetica.
Yes, and that font looks much better. I've used Lato on projects in the past and it was legible, but you have to stick to 400 weight and above (IIRC, that template you used was only loading 300 and 700).
Their culture sure is a bit alien. The authors are boasting about the dosbox they've broken, yet (it looks to me that) not a single bug/crash has been reported.
Edit: happily I'm wrong. Quoting ajenner below, "there are emulators (for other targets) which do emulate NTSC decoding properly, but until I did the research for this demo nobody understood how the CGA card generates composite signals well enough to be emulate it properly. I have some code which I hope to be adding to DOSBox (and any other emulators that want it) soon."
For [0, 1), would the naive approach of generating a string of, say, 16 digits, sticking a "0." in front of it and calling strod / atof yield similarly uniform results?
For a good screenshot utility with a gui, there's xfce4-screenshooter from the xfce desktop suite. It's the bees knees, has the possibility to capture the system cursor (a feature the maim readme was complaining about) and a fine region capturing.
Yeah, the xfce4-screenshooter tool is fantastic. The only thing that would make it more useful would be if the panel plugin had an option to show a drop-down when clicked, allowing you to select screen, region or window. I always forget my keybindings for screenshots (is it alt? alt-shift?).
It might already have that option but I'm running Debian Stable (Wheezy) on the desktop so am quite far behind the current XFCE release.
Edit:
My solution to my suggestion (panel plugin with dropdown) has just been to add a launcher to the panel, starting xfce4-screenshooter. I'll just choose what I want to capture from the window - it's pretty minimal anyway. What a useful application.
Well, you can still jump in on the very fun and competetive Al Zimmerman's challenge (which ends in about a week, though), the current task is exactly about solving the given Scrabble sets in the best possible way: http://www.azspcs.net/Contest/AlphabetCity
