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The article is vague, but another downside to the proliferation of "smart" home appliances?

That is disingenuous.

It is a downside to the proliferation of poorly secured devices. Your nebulous statement could be applied to anything.


In the etymology section, I presume. And I can't find it either, if it is there.

What an awful professor! When I first tried to learn pointers, I didn't get it. I tried again 6 months later and suddenly it clicked. The same thing happened for another guy I was learning with.

So the professor just gaslit years of students into thinking they were too dumb to get programming, and also left them with the developmental disability of "if you can't figure something out in a few days, you'll never get it".


Indeed. Never let any idiot like this put you off. Back yourself and persist, persist, persist.

Is it not? You link the "library os" and you no longer need an os (when running in a supervisor) IIUC.

I think parent poster was referring to an actual library, i.e. where you would borrow books.

That's also what I thought this was, and came to the comments expecting to see something neat about why libraries might need bespoke operating systems.


Ah right! Yeah, I did think that too..., like locked down so random patrons couldn't do this or that. I was thinking that was quite a pivot for MS though too...

What's wrong with the ribbon? It's basically a tabbed toolbar. Unlike a menu bar it doesn't cover up content or require extra actions to hide, and it doesn't require precise mouse movement in order to avoid accidentally hiding.

Ribbon vs. classic toolbars is the comparison to be made. (Sorry for saying menubar when I meant toolbar up above; that was probably confusing.)

I'll try to explain the gist of it, since that seems to be the question:

As you say, one facet of ribbons is they are essentially tabs. So, ribbons obscure whatever is on "those other tabs". Often, with additional annoyance of taking more space than needed to show what they do show (which often is not want is needed). And any section within a given tab can have its own peculiar (varied) layouts. (Continuing the "find it in the hierarchy - customized for the purpose to make your life easier the way a designer thought would help!" paradigm.)

Contrast with toolbars. Show the ones you need, customize them if wanted. Icons and locations are quite effective for selecting actions. They can all be seen at once. They do what they say. No constantly interpreting the interface flow to find stuff.


Isn't this agreeing with the parent? If Django were the B2B SaaS product, you didn't vibe-code Django, you just used Django. You aren't responsible for maintaining Django itself.

Django wasn’t the product here, though. I used it as part of the toolkit to “slap something together in one weekend”, and that something was the (actual real life) B2B SaaS product, or at least the user facing interface to it.

So I'm curious, if you give them a really detailed specification, will they actually follow it all? If they don't, do you have any recourse? Are these small shops/fronts that are constantly coming/going like Amazon sellers, or do they have reputations?

> Are these small shops/fronts that are constantly coming/going like Amazon sellers, or do they have reputations?

Depends on the shop. The one I use for prototyping has been around for at least 15 years with a good reputation.


Do you mind sharing your contact / shop? Email in profile if you don't want to share publicly.


I wrote up some issues with service reliability here https://github.com/andrewbaxter/puteron/?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Design-wise, I think having users modify service on/off state *and* systemd itself modify those states is a terrible design, which leads to stuff turning back on when you turn it off, or things turning off despite you wanting them on, etc. (also mentioned higher up)

FWIW after making puteron I found dinit https://github.com/davmac314/dinit which has a very similar design, so presumably they hit similar issues.


Systemd usually only modifies the state if is somehow configured to do so. Socket activations, timers, depwndencies. They all tell systemd what to do and can usually be modified if needed.

IANAL but I think you'd be fine as long as you placed your NUC on a Mac Mini or maybe a closed Macbook if your hardware has a larger footprint.

> use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at any one time.

Note that you do have to be careful not to stack multiple Macbooks when you do this.


That was a good dry joke at the end. Nice one

Regardless of the contents,

> For each of my emails, I got a reply, saying that they "sincerely apologize" and "@Dalibor Topic Can you please review...", with no actual progress being made.

then

> Sorry to hear this. .... @Dalibor Topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com>, can we get this prioritized?

This is pretty morbidly funny.


Anyone who has been a freelancer negotiating a contract with a big company feels this sort of thing in their bones.

Never had this issue. Its just as simple as start to work without contract and the promise of department head to get a contract and after two weeks mention to the contracting that you work since two weeks and have still not signed a NDA.

Next sentence is: I don't fear to not get my money, but currently I don't know if you pay or someone else...


compiler error: `since(time_point_t)` cannot be called with `time_duration_t`

were you trying to use `for(time_duration_t)` ?


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