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Control-click didn't exist until System 8. There was a good decade of zero contextual menus on Macintoshes before that.


Google filed a patent! LET'S RAGEPOST ABOUT PATENTS!


I agree. FE technologies are in and out of fashion faster than anything else, it seems. Dig in and hate away and then maybe your knowledge will get a slightly longer ROI.


The UI could still use polishing. For example, the attachment confirmation dialog is so confusing. I'm tempted to send them a patch that makes the wording clearer.

"Did you forget to add an attachment?" ("Oh, I didn't!", "No, I did!")


I notice that too when it pops up. I wonder if they make it confusing by design, to ensure you carefully read it, and not just blindly click through?


Exactly the same, except with 1/10th the article quality.


The bullshit didn't even have to be believable: "Marilyn Manson was the kid that played Paul from the Wonder Years. Also, he had a rib removed so he could perform autofellatio." Kids everywhere believed that. Hilarious.


Yep, my nieces and nephew, all six of them from 12 to 20 all believed that the guy who did the song "Don't worry be happy" had committed suicide.

I had to show them recent videos of Bobby McFerrin, his webpage, and then prove he had done that song.


We heard that about Gabriele D'Annunzio...


Right, like "Vaccines cause autism" and "Homeopathy is something you should say without laughing". Also hilarious.

There's a dark side to bullshit. There's a side which creates endless pain for no good reason, because things 'sound good' or are 'too good to check' and nobody likes a party-pooper, do they? Especially when the party-pooper is pointing out how this little piece of bullshit could kill someone.

No. Go along to get along. Don't be so serious all the time. Don't imagine you know better. It's rude.


As stolio notes elsewhere in the thread, there is a blunt difference. On the one side there's bullshit that matters, and on the other side is "no seriously, they both have Tyler in their name!" It is absolutely necessary to be able to tell the difference, since it's a basic way to avoid being conversationally tone deaf.

Alternatively, I invoke Poe's Law in case I'm being That Guy. (Tone's hard on the Internet - it's much better to play in person!)


Yet "vaccines cause autism" has spread like a virus over the Internet. I had never heard about it before the recent (ten years) memification. It's not like the recipients google it and go "no it doesn't" because it you really do you might as well go mad about the insane "facts" put forth. Google and the web in general probably spread as much bullshit as it kills. It's complicated.


On those kind of issues, the google results are a bit muddled. You'll get the results saying "No, of course vaccines don't cause autism", alongside a bunch of BS articles saying "It totally does, because I had my kid vaccinated once, and he's autistic!". Unless you actually search through the sources and figure out which is more credible, it's hard to get a straight yes or no answer.


So close to a WebGL Wave Race!


So long, NUC!


The NUC has different niches than what this is going for. The NUC line at the low end will probably be pushed out by this, but a lot of NUCs are sold with things like PCIe ports and the like that this thing almost certainly won't have. The low end has a lot of differentiation, especially in boutique devices where you just need a processor, and some kind of output.


needs more ram and better cpu before that


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