@torumaike @michal_jares @willmcgugan Not really a problem; especially since you were polite.
Besides, mentioning WM_QUIT gives anyone reading a good search term to learn more.
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Testing to see if having a bio reduces the number of spam followers, but I would prefer to be anonymous.
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This is the kind of pedantry that you need in UIs. Bad UI is everywhere. But it can be fixed.
Mike Rundle@flyosity
The → forward button in Chrome shouldn't have a hover state when it's disabled No disabled button should have a hover state. The point of a hover state is to indicate an actionable element, not show me where I could click IF it were enabled It's just bad UX design
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@michal_jares @willmcgugan The close button does the exact same thing as on Windows or Linux, it closes the window, not the application.
MacOS applications can stay open without any windows, but so can many Windows applications, though they often keep an icon in the system tray rather than the dock.
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@willmcgugan It's funny that people are talking about hover effect on a disabled button from a third party app while one the three native os buttons above makes no sense since sometimes it closes an app and sometimes it doesn't.
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@DevnullElixir_ @TheFP @rookisaacman Good manufacturing tolerances on a bad or misused design are in no way better than worse tolerances on a good and tested design.
Apollo was a marvel of the technology of its time, Constellation/SLS+Orion/Artemis is by comparison a modest achievement despite gross mismanagement.
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Apollo heat shield had no backup and had much worse tolerances compared to Orion. This guy is the one always praising Apollo, yet Apollo missions were next to suicide compared to Artemis. This is why you don't put a billionaire layman in the NASA admin chair. What a goddamn idiot.
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@mushtaqasqer99 @fracvermite1978 If readability was the priority, phones would not have notches, and this would not be an issue. I think stacking the percentage text on top of the battery gauge makes both the text and the icon harder to read.
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@amhayes8 @cqcqcqdx Depending on how often you replace devices, and how well you take care of your cables, I can see different cables being the best option.
Lightning is more durable in the short term, and the port springs wear slow enough that Apple probably expects devices to be replaced by then.
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@yappingidx @peterrhague Branded as a "daily affirmations" feature I presume?
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@peterrhague Classic Apple. reintroducing a problem we finally escaped and calling it a "legacy feature." Next up: a USB-C port that only works if you whisper "courage" while plugging it in. Truly the pioneers of intentional inconvenience.
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Apple understands that users miss the experience of always inserting USB cables wrong the first time, and wondered how they could recreate this experience with USB-C…
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@MariaOnSecurity @MalwareJake It is probably used to match non-computer military terminology; drones, lasers, radars, missiles are now often described as effector or sensor systems,
sto.nato.int/document/defea…
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@MalwareJake So you call cyberattacks “effects”? I’m not up to date with the jargon
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Hi, former NSA hacker here 👋: You'll notice they're targeting civilian infrastructure, not government networks with intelligence collection value. That's because once you deliver an effect (CYBERCOM speak for "cyber attack") in a network, you lose the ability to collect intelligence from that target. 1/4
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian@manniefabian
Amid the Israeli and US strikes on Iran, a wave of cyberattacks have also targeted the country, the semi-official Fars news agency reports. Fars says that several major Iranian news agencies were targeted and "experienced severe disruptions in their operations," and that some widely used mobile applications were also experiencing disruptions.
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@FullOfStarships @CharlieCamarda @rookisaacman @eager_space If the wind blew differently on the ground, and therefore the oxygen venting did not cool the joint even further, the o-ring pair may have worked, despite still being colder than Thiokol was initially comfortable with.
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@FullOfStarships @CharlieCamarda @rookisaacman @eager_space Segment joint design, overly aggressive leak test pressurisation, unpatched putty, high altitude wind shear, liquid oxygen vent onto that particular side's booster, cold weather.
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The same NASA machine that steamrolled Richard Feynman into believing that the O-Rings were the cause of the Challenger accident just sold @rookisaacman that they know the root cause of the Artemis I Heatshield failure! You know what they say…Fool me three times?
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@jackalacken @OzIndie @ThatYuta You can move the negative to the end of the sentence,
"You would like to eat ramen with me, wouldn't you?"
or
"You would like to eat ramen with me, no?"
but all three will in most cases sound threatening or coercive like @mage1776 describes:
x.com/Mage1776/statu…
メイジ@Mage1776
@ThatYuta Another thing it can be is coercive, like if you are threatening someone. Often it’s annoyance but in a more extreme case… Imagine if a mob boss surrounded by henchman said “You want to eat dinner, right?” You fear the consequences of saying no.
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@Truthful_ast Pad building does not improve Ship success on current flights; it is entirely possible for an aspirational company like SpaceX to continue pad construction despite severe setbacks in the vehicle.
I hope that is not true, but companies often performatively do unproductive things.
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It's so crazy that SpaceX has 5 launch pads in development right now meanwhile people on Twitter say the program is going to fail, lol.
Jake (Max-Q) 🏴@J_A_Rees_94
Here's another fantastic 50cm/pixel satellite image of Space Launch Complex 37 (SLC-37) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station taken on January 23, 2026 @ 16:01:14 UTC. Credit: Harry Stranger / © CNES 2026, Distribution AIRBUS DS.
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@Truthful_ast The Artemis suits may well be heavier than on Apollo, so this is probably good crew selection,
arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/…
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@IanCutress For this example specifically, even I would prefer the third option; the facial expression already makes all three look like clickbait/meme, and the text just completes the look.
Unfinished clickbait looks worse than the complete version.
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We had an opportunity to push back against the meme thumbnails. This is highly frustrating.
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@TheGingerBill For example, help is effectively muscle memory:
type ____ -h if you need a quick reminder,
type man ____ if you need detailed help pages
Powershell on Windows undermines this with its wordy command options and names, which I think is why it sees less use than shell on unix.
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@TheGingerBill I think you are underestimating the value of speed in issuing terminal commands, and an amount of baseline consistency in interface:
Most terminal programs keep the same style
-o or --option
even sometimes sharing specific options like -h for help near universally. …
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I understand when you have no choice but to use a terminal, but actively loving it? I have never actually understood that. I swear it's either Stockholm Syndrome or a lack of vision of what anything but terminals can do (I'm being vague on purpose).
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