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Google meet on FF used to be almost a no-op but for the past year or so it has operated without any real issue. Screen sharing is sometimes off when iterating windows but that is pretty minor. (on Windows anyway)

It may also depend on optimizations. Potentially you may be able to do fewer hops but if the schedules have 1/week flights they may end up taking 2 weeks calendar time for 7 hops while 20 hops gets you there in 4 days. If the window used for the graph creation doesn't cover enough schedule time, more optimal routes may fall off the edges.

This doesn't match the phrasing in the presentation, I would expect "the graph has diameter 20" to be defined without any reference to the weights of the edges (whether in flying time, total time, cost...)

But it's definitely plausible the author half remembered the routes with 20 hops from some optimized search like this, and wrote the wrong thing in the presentation.


I think you can get back to Win9x/2k style controls by instructing the system to not add any theming. If you're finding a panel that is using 3.x controls, they're likely in the resources of the app/dll. Although the 3.x file picker can still be found in a couple of rare corners of the OS.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/uxtheme/...

    STAP_ALLOW_NONCLIENT
Specifies that the nonclient areas of application windows will have visual styles applied.


Thanks, this is interesting!


I'm similar. Shave in the shower with a 2 blade cartridge for 2-4 months. Thumb off the blade after use to clean and put it away until next time. No soap, no cream, no oil; just water, skin, and blade. I don't get cuts or bumps and have been using this arrangement for 10+ years.


> algorithm that reflects “editorial judgments”

I don't think timestamps are, in any way, construed editorial judgement. They are a content agnostic related attribute.


On HN, timestamps are adjusted when posts are given a second-chance boost. While the boost is done automatically, candidates are chosen manually.


What about filtering spam? Or showing the local weather / news headlines?


Moderating content is explicitly protected by the text of Section 230(c)(2)(a):

"(2)Civil liability No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of— (A)any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or"

Algorithmic ranking, curation, and promotion are not.


Or ordering posts by up votes/down votes, or some combination of that with the age of the post.


The text of the Third Circuit decision explicitly distinguishes between algorithms that respond to user input -- such as by surfacing content that was previously searched for, or favorited, or followed. Allowing users to filter content by time, upvotes, number of replies etc would be fine.

The FYP algorithm that's contested in the case surfaced the video to the minor without her searching for that topic, following any specific content creator, or positively interacting (liking/favoriting/upvoting) with previous instances of said content. It was fed to her based on a combination of what TikTok knew about her demographic information, what was trending on the platform, and TikTok's editorial secret sauce. TikTok's algorithm made an active decision to surface this content to her, despite knowing that other children had died from similar challenge videos, they promoted it and should be liable for that promotion.


What is more likely is that the UI for those setting go away and you'll be told that to do advanced things you need to use the netsh tool.


Which is not that bad honestly. As a power user, the command line and scripting should be easy to learn. That's how it works in Linux anyway.


> That's how it works in Linux anyway.

But it's not necessary even in Linux. Many (most?) DEs offer control panels that let you do pretty much everything a normal power user will want to do.


The problem is that without a straw to mediate the max volume you can move, you end up with a massive blob of viscous liquid. When you get enough of an angle to start it moving, it will move as one and end up all over your face.


Teams (and I believe Slack too) uses what I call MS Word formatting (They call it "Auto format as you type"). A lot of the markup you can do in teams came from elements that do the same in Word/Outlook/etc.


The model is the "old school" model for software sales.

The first version you sell to a user at full price and offer a discount for upgrading (something like 40% off). It lets the customer pick when they feel the value prop is worth the cost and lets you offer a loyalty incentive to the user.

Right now the choice is "keep paying for it to keep working" or "fully price for every upgrade".


I don’t exactly remember how it went but ~5 years ago Goodnotes 5 came out and they offered a “bundle” of Goodnotes 4 and 5 together at the same price of Goodnotes 5. Maybe owners of version 4 had some kind of discount on the bundle because they already owned half of it?


That isn't officially supported and is super error prone. People can end up getting charged more if things don't work perfectly.


Bundles can be used for upgrade pricing, you put the new version up for full price (ie. $20) and and a bundle with the new and old version (ie $30, for a 50% discount on it) for those who own the old version. When you buy a bundle you don't pay for the one you own.


Are there any examples of apps that do that? As a consumer, I haven't ever heard of an app that offers this (e.g. goodnotes, LiquidText, MarginNote, Audulus and Things have new major releases and don't seem to do this)


Couple of the old school macOS dev houses tried this once this hack became visible and little birdies said the hack WAI. (ex. OmniGroup)

Since then, people have backed off.

If you're going to this much work to help users workaround Apple nonsense, you really care about helping them save money, and the support + refund costs of people accidentally buying the bundle with the old version they don't need is > just building out your own server-side system, versus a combinatorial explosion of bundles in the App Store that creates a confusing minefield for users.


By jumping through hoops, tying unrelated tools together, confusing users, and reaping an extra $10 you didn't want to take + support costs thereof, yes, it is possible. It is not what we expected or asked for when we started asking for this in 2007 (we = iOS devs).


There are several vendors who do this, for instance 1Password and the Omni Group both do. You have an in-app purchase option that is unlocked by a previous receipt. The challenge is that Apple does not provide tools to help or guidance. They do indeed think e.g. requiring users to buy an upgrade to keep the app working on a new annual iOS version or macOS version is a bad model for users.

Panic even had an upgrade for MAS users when they released their new version of the now defunct Coda outside the MAS (for sandboxing reasons).


FL Studio (fka FruityLoops) is an outstanding exponent of this old method (but once, free upgrades for life)


Free upgrades are problematic themselves: once you've saturated your market (a good place to be, right?) you no longer have income to provide upgrades.


FL Studio has had free updates for +23 years and is a company with profit.

It does not look like a problem for them.

Do you have an example of a company that saturated the market with free upgrades and went down because of it?


Given that I'd never heard of them (and I've played around with a few DAWs), I don't think they've saturated their market.


Again, do you know any company that closed because free updates? Or you just make things up?


ST put priority to going north through Cap hill and up to Northgate (where there used to be a mall). Prepping the I90 bridge took a long time (8 years ago they shut down the express lanes, after adding an HOV to the main bridge) so far from my recall.

It was scheduled to open a few months ago but early this year they found a fault with the rail supports on the bridge that was missed as they were put in during early COVID and didn't have the ability to get them inspected as well as normal. So for the next year you've got Redmond to Bellevue with a missing link across the lake.

On the other side. I think that this month the main line from Northgate to Lynhood is going to open with several more stops so the system is expanding in a couple directions.


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