> This is already included in the "almost anything" expression and you are the 4th person deliberately (or accidentally?) not noticing it.
I genuinely think that :
1/ this field is dominated by a disproportionate amount of people with autistic traits
2/ their ability to reason only functions in the narrowest sense and their grasp of language (takes everything in the most literal sense, thinks in extremes, prone to putting things in boxes, have a very, very strong attachment to their routine and are unable to ever leave the comfort zone they constructed) makes any attempt at communication beyond painful.
I have come to not even bother replying to people who are unable to understand human words such as when they interpret "most" as meaning "all" or "rarely" as "never" as it's one of the telltale signs that it is going to be extremely unproductive.
This phenomenon is the cause of most pains and drama. Once you start to see how this pattern develops you understand the true cause of the endless bikeshedding, of why even the idea of having a code of conduct can raise endless anger and storms and so on. You're touching a comfort zone so the temper tantrums are thrown. The routine has been built and it must continue until the end of times.
If there's any field in this world that is in need of more neurotypical, emotionally stable adults, this is it.
Or maybe, just maybe they correctly interpreted "most" as "more than half" and "rarely" as "decidedly less than half", and actually disagree with the statement as is. And what can I say, "reasons like inertia, or lacking the time, or not having the budget to change, or being too tired to learn, or any other such thing" sounds exactly what almost anybody is confronted with -- so it doesn't exactly seem like just an _exception_ to the set of "almost anything".
But it's nice to add words like "autistic", "thinking in extremes", "painful", etc. to terminally bash on those people who are wrong and just can't learn...
Or maybe, just maybe, I explicitly agreed with the real-world limitations up-thread but now you are just looking to pick a fight because me agreeing with stuff does not fit your preconceived notion. :)
But, by all means, go on, I can only presume you are bored.
But it doesn't take many later versions of Photoshop to start becoming more productive than using GIMP because of functionality it has that GIMP does not:
Adjustment layers were introduced in 4.0 (1996, GIMP didn't even exist yet)
Layer styles were introduced in 6.0 (2000)
Smart Filters were introduced in CS3 (2007)
They're all invaluable tools that provide a non-destructive workflow where you can go and edit a change you made without having to undo everything you did after that change and redoing things again.
If I had to use an ancient version of a program and have nothing but that program until the end of times, I would pick Photoshop CS3.
This entire class of functionality still does not exist in GIMP.
A lot of modern tools can be added to GIMP through the G'MIC plugins (like the healing tool), but the core editing loop functionality, what is in my opinion the most important thing, is extremely primitive and outdated. All of the competition provides non destructive editing. Including other open source software like Krita (which focuses more on painting tools rather than photo editing, leaving a hole in the open source ecosystem).
Debian maintainers are experts at touching things they shouldn't and creating a mess in the process. The worst case, by far, was when they broke the RNG of SSH key generation:
Those guys are out of control and constantly having conflicts with upstream, I'm astounded to see the amount of support I see for debian in this thread.
> * Seamless internationalization. If you're a native English speaker you probably never experienced the "fun" of dealing with French and Russian in the same text document. Pre-Unicode supported English + one other language, if that other language wasn't too weird.
For some programs, that hasn't changed.
I use OneNote heavily to write some sort of personal info database I always look up when I forget something or need to reproduce a command verbatim quickly. The act of writing it and organizing the data also heavily reinforces my ability to memorize thing in my mind in and of itself too. So I'm quite fond of that little program.
When I tried to use it while learning Chinese I ended up having to turn off the spelling/grammar correction. It just can't function with two languages in the same notebook. All the Chinese text had the red squiggly lines warning you of a mistake and I found no way to enable the support for more than one language. You must select /one/ language for the spell checker in that program.
Or disable the spellchecker, which is what I did in the end.
I guess that's the worst case. Where we add gigabytes of data, require magnitudes more CPU and memory, but reintroduce problems that were long fixed.
I see that a lot with JavaScript apps. When they replace native, they often fail in details. Where e.g. my native text areas can handle multiple languages when spell checking. But where that diy or spellchuck.js npm version cannot.
If your device is associated with the "Find my Mac" "Find my iPhone" stuff, losing your Apple ID is the same as possibly (only possibly because you can still have user accounts with separate passwords and use the OS, but there will be limitations) bricking your device.
You can't even wipe the hard drive and reinstall macOS without access to the associated Apple ID. This is a good measure to dissuade thieves from wanting to steal Apple devices, but it is a terrible measure from the point of view of a user who has lost their ID.
>If your device is associated with the "Find my Mac" "Find my iPhone"
I said "if your device".
**IF**
Is it difficult to understand?
If it isn't associated (with "find my" turned on) there's no issue.
If it is, and you lose your apple ID, you are SOL. Turning on "find my" with an associated apple ID is the same as making Apple the only entity that can truly control and own your computer. You can no longer reinstall macOS without your apple ID if there's an issue.
> With barely any setup, Google/Microsoft/Apple will keep a backup copy, in case you lose your phone.
Not Microsoft. Their implementation has no synchronisation feature and provides no way to back it up or transfer to another device either. You lose the computer you lose the passkey.
Their implementation is very daft and goes counter to the point of passkeys since you will need a less secure way of authentication to remain enabled on the accounts you use a Windows Hello passkey for, for the sake of being able to recover those accounts.
Remember, the best security schemes are only as secure as the least secure scheme that is available to access the account. If you're still on an account that can be recovered by sending a 2fa code to email or SMS/texting then you have achieved nothing.
Hatred of a people based solely on religion while despicable has a different nature from racial hatred.
If you had googled "expulsion of jews from" you would notice there were many times they were allowed to stay if they converted (at least, give the appearance of). The Marrano during the times of the Spanish Inquisition is a notable example.
But if you are a jew in the era of antisemitism, there is nothing you can adopt to not be a jew. In the eyes of racists, you will always be a jew and the object of their hatred.
So, yes, 19th century antisemitism has a markedly specific nature that doesn't compare to the past.
It's google, so probably not. Their claims should always be taken with a grain of salt. They went with their own stuff route for the SOC on their Google Pixel phone lines and those SOC are always much worse than the competition and are the main reason why those phones have such terrible battery life compared to Qualcomm powered phones.
I genuinely think that :
1/ this field is dominated by a disproportionate amount of people with autistic traits
2/ their ability to reason only functions in the narrowest sense and their grasp of language (takes everything in the most literal sense, thinks in extremes, prone to putting things in boxes, have a very, very strong attachment to their routine and are unable to ever leave the comfort zone they constructed) makes any attempt at communication beyond painful.
I have come to not even bother replying to people who are unable to understand human words such as when they interpret "most" as meaning "all" or "rarely" as "never" as it's one of the telltale signs that it is going to be extremely unproductive.
This phenomenon is the cause of most pains and drama. Once you start to see how this pattern develops you understand the true cause of the endless bikeshedding, of why even the idea of having a code of conduct can raise endless anger and storms and so on. You're touching a comfort zone so the temper tantrums are thrown. The routine has been built and it must continue until the end of times.
If there's any field in this world that is in need of more neurotypical, emotionally stable adults, this is it.