Post title is misleading as he’s not really the one causing the drama.

it’s simply false to say he’s continuing to cause the drama and problems when all he did was ask to get his commit access back …

No. When he realised he wasn’t immediately given access as he was asking for it he also made a post on the unmoderated reddit board with “Drama” in the title.

He inflamed drama during what should have been an otherwise fairly dull bureaucratic process, tried to hide his earlier posts, was called out on it with a timeline, then eventually half-admitted to creating drama.

… and tell his haters they’re being assholes

Engaging with haters is creating more drama, which makes more disruption, which makes more haters, repeat ad infinitum.

He just needed to ignore them and let the mods do their job, not make their job harder than it already was.

The drama comes from people who just hate the guy and are screaming about letting him back. His response to that was then very cordial and just calling out them for being to aggressive.

It definitely appeared cordial on his part, but the timelines of events comment showed he was cherrypicking and trying to change things after the fact. He was being deceitful and manipulative which of course made everything worse than it needed to be. He drove away more of the community.

All he needed to do was not be disruptive himself, let the mods sort out the initial haters, and let the boring topic of a commit bit be addressed.

Better to ask a rubber duck than an LLM.

It has better results, is cheaper, and makes has a positive compounding effect on your own abilities.

At least it was better than the developer survey that was only about AI. That one still makes me facepalm just thinking about it.

I’m not seeing anything in the data collected that I wouldn’t want to be sent if the app crashed.

This was 4 days ago, I didn’t have to look very far:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/27/google-project-nimbus-israel

Firing talent is a great way to bork a project.

As an outsider looking in, it looks like it’s a bit of a wipe the slate clean governance and moderation wise as voted on by the community.

So, now over the coming days the community will in essence vote on whether they will allow sponsorships from the military industrial complex.

Presenting: an excerpt from my lua windows management script:

-- Exists because lua doesn't have a round function. WAT?!
function round(num)
	return math.floor(num + 0.5)
end

Yeah, not a fan.

It seemed pretty clear to me that the article states that css is doing it’s job and it’s actually fonts that are the problem

The windows 11 teams runs better, but if you’re using a school or work account, you need to use the old AngularJS+Electron version, or the new React+Webview2 version.

So for the time being, the Windows 11 teams is more catered for personal use only. It’s kind of like a modern reboot of Microsoft’s old MSN Messenger. It was included in Windows 11 (rebranded as “Chat”) but it’s been unbundled from Windows 11 installs and I think rebranded again. But not having the school/work account support means not a lot of people use it.

The transition between the AngularJS+Electron version and the React+Webview2 versions is happening now. At some point soon, anyone who is running an OS too old to run the new teams will be forced to use the browser version.

So after their transition, we’ll have to wait and see if they add the school/work account support to the native version because everyone using teams right now only uses those accounts.

There’s a reason Teams is/was shit.

The first teams was written in AngularJS (which is a slow to run resource hog, but fast to develop) wrapped in Electron. It was kind of a minimum viable product, just to build something quickly to get some feedback and stats on what people needed.

The plan was to build a new native version of teams and build it into the next windows while having an web fallback (built on react) for everyone else.

They stopped working on the original teams and started working on the new versions.

They got half-way through working on the native and react versions when suddenly, covid happened.

They couldn’t keep working on the new versions because they wouldn’t be ready for a while, so they had to go back and resume development on the old one, introducing patch after patch to quickly get more features in there (like more than 2 webcam streams per call).

Eventually covid subsided and they were able to resume development on the new teams versions.

Windows 11 launched with a native teams version (which has less features but runs super quick), and the new react based teams (which can now be downloaded in a webview2 wrapper) has been in open beta since late last year (if you’ve seen the “Try the new Teams” toggle, then you’ve seen this). The React+Webview2 teams will replace the AngularJS+Electron version as the default on July 7th.

Eh, it’s the same on the Android side of the fence. There are big and small features that Google has been comically slow to crib from iOS.

I’ve definitely said “fucking finally” to things like overflow scrolling animations,

Those things like overflow scrolling, keyboard peak, etc… were only held back because Apple would patent it prevent it from being put into Android and would file frivolous lawsuits against other phone manufacturers to try and get them not to use them, even when some android variants already had it built in before apple patented it in the first place. (I still facepalm at apple trying to sue others over a rounded rectangle shaped phone)

And those patents lawsuits only stopped because other phone companies called bullshit and started threatening apple with their own patents.

and the “wild” idea that users should get 5+ of major OS releases.

TL;DR on this point: not much of an issue anymore.

This isn’t an android/iOS thing, it’s a manufacturer thing. If a chip isn’t supported by it’s manufacturer, then no software on it can be supported. Different manufacturers had different support windows, but Qualcomm became notorious for making chips, then only supporting them for 2 years so they could sell a new “supported” one (and watch the money roll in). Once they saw other the larger players getting pissed off and poking around with the idea of making their own chips, Qualcomm quickly decided that they could support their chips for longer. Now they have to since both Google and Samsung have made public promises for 5-7 year support cycles. Of course, that hasn’t stopped other phones from already reaching 7 years of official support before. (A notable example being Fairphone 2 who used a Qualcomm chip while they were still in their shitty behaviour phase and managed to support it for 7 years, 2 years Qualcomm support then 5 years of their own support despite Qualcomm.)

Also, when Google was pissed at Qualcomm they decided to start modularising their OS and pulling chunks out of it out of needing direct hardware support. This means that even if chip support were to stop, it would only affect the background / lowest-level-invisible-to-the-user parts of the OS, and all the user visible parts of the OS could be updated independently (starting with Project Treble, and going all out with Project Mainline). This basically means that entire chunks of the OS can be updated the same way an app can be, early 2010 Qualcomm companies be damned.

This also has the weird thing of android not really being a “version” per se, one phone might have different components of Android 10/11/12/13/14/etc… running at the same time. The components themselves have their own versions.

Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP and 7 are generally regarded as having great UIs.

Of course, we know what happened later:

https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111802159638869338

You mean a whole different window at the OS level?

Yes, that way I could switch between windows in a single shortcut, or even place them side by side so I can see both at the same time with other shortcuts.

That’s just a way inferior hack to the way vim does it by default.

Can you explain this more?

Why wouldn’t you want window management to be managed by the window manager?

Have you considered the Required<T> generic?

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/utility-types.html#requiredtype

I’m assuming for your example that only one tab is shown at a time?

In that case, you can do that in vscode, the only difference is the semantics of what is considered a “window”, and what is considered a “tab”.

To do this in vscode:

Have one window with four panes, and another window with three panes:

                         
        Window 1         
 ┌──────────┬──────────┐ 
 │          │          │ 
 │  Pane 1  │  Pane 2  │ 
 │          │          │ 
 ├──────────┼──────────┤ 
 │          │          │ 
 │  Pane 3  │  Pane 4  │ 
 │          │          │ 
 └──────────┴──────────┘ 
                         
        Window 2         
 ┌──────────┬──────────┐ 
 │          │          │ 
 │  Pane 1  │  Pane 2  │ 
 │          │          │ 
 ├──────────┴──────────┤ 
 │                     │ 
 │       Pane 3        │ 
 │                     │ 
 └─────────────────────┘ 
                         

You can then switch between your windows (or “tabs” in your example) by keyboard shortcut.

In vscode, you can make the Panes different files, or even different views of the same file.

What do you mean by:

There is no way to split a tab into windows in VSCode.

Do you mean, drag a tab out of a window to create a new window? Because if so, you can do that in vscode.

How would they know a release date if they haven’t finished making it yet?

I like to say:

We have a half finished skyscraper, and you’re asking me to Just add a new basement between the second and third floor. Do you see how that might be difficult? If we want to do it, we have to tear down the entire building floor by floor, then build up again from the second floor. Are you prepared to spend the money and push back the release date for that new feature?

Dude, I would just 2d print the png they sent and give them the piece of paper.

If they complained, I would say: “I literally printed the thing you told me to print.”