No, QuickDraw is like DirectX, it's totally pixel/bitmap based and nothing at all like PDF or its actual precursor, PostScript. And a universal top-edge menu bar makes sense only for small screens, where it will always be nearby. When you have lots of windows with different functions on a high resolution display, it makes sense for each of them to have its own menu bar. And MacOS needed to make that easier to configure. There were some hacks which did it, but I found them to be flaky.

Basically the ACK with at least some concurrence, but I wonder (again) how long this discussion might have gone on if Slashdot allowed for persistent topics. Some topics are fundamentally too deep to discuss meaningfully in a the standard time unit of Slashdot. (Basically one day until it falls off the front page.)

There's a lot of people in and more importantly (and numerically significant) around health care whose job is to figure out who gets health care, what bucket the money is coming from... If you get rid of their jobs at the same time as we get rid of all these other jobs you're really going to wish you had UBI running.

In states which chose to fully implement all of the allowable provisions of the ACA, including Medicaid expansion, it is fairly well-broken. In my area most of the health care providers accept Medicaid, we have a servicer who handles billing so they don't have to do it themselves. If you don't qualify for Medicaid you can still get APTC, and most people who are just a bit over the income limit for Medicaid get their premiums covered 100%. (Of course I would like to do away with the insurance companies in this equation, but that's another discussion.) It's also much easier for people to get coverage for their children than for themselves, and adults get linkage to share of cost programs when they are caring for dependents for catastrophic coverage.

Only ten states didn't expand Medicaid to cover adults 18-65. They are pretty much the states you would expect. Kansas state gov. Laura Kelley has full expansion in her proposed 2026 budget. Most of the others are planning some kind of partial expansion (usually up to 100% of the Federal Poverty Level instead of 138%, and often with additional caveats and/or work requirements) which does not qualify for matching funds. It's still weird to me every time that states would leave money on the table, especially since these states already generally depend on other states' money to function.

Shitty terms for welfare are a bipartisan effort. Maybe it would have been futile to veto it and try to get it changed up, maybe it was intentional, it doesn't matter; the welfare reform act of 1996 signed by Clinton created the 60 month limit for welfare as well as the work requirement (ABAWD) for SNAP that the GOP now wants to bring to Medicaid. ABAWD is stupid when SNAP is barely adequate in most markets (as the food at the supermarkets gets more expensive much faster than the SNAP benefit amount is increased) and there is already a "work registration" requirement which prohibits quitting a steady, 30 hour/week job without a good reason.

We can hold Democrat politicians accountable without false equivocation, I think we should give it a try.

Yes, but there's lots and lots of counterexamples, especially there are a lot of conservative brown people. Mexicans (and many other Latin Americans) have historically tended to vote conservative because so many of them are Catholic. There's also no guarantee that they are not racist against other brown people. Just this morning I was looking at a post on feceboot about cleaning up a BLM street mural in Santa Cruz which someone did a burnout on. Around a third of the haha reaccs were from people with hispanic surnames and, upon inspection of their profiles, light beige to I'd say medium brown skin.

I thought we had all seen the "I thought they were only going to deport the lawbreaking immigrants" posts? Truth is, though, most of even the alleged leftists are still refusing to call it fascism. The supposedly left-wing news is talking about the rise of "authoritarianism"! I cannot express enough what fucking clowns these people are if they don't think this nation full of jackbooted SWAT teams that can be summoned to attack real or supposed enemies by any asshole with a phone is already authoritarian. Nobody seems to want to call anything what it is, so anyone who wants to can pretend it's not happening.

Microsoft had one called Access ;)

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Its largest shareholder is South African media company Naspers, which owns roughly a quarter of the company through its affiliate Prosus. Other significant shareholders include China Asset Management, Fidelity Management, and Ramirez Asset Management. Ma Huateng (also known as Pony Ma), the co-founder and CEO, holds a significant stake, according to business news sources.

So it does name Ma and not Bekker, but it does say a South African company is the largest shareholder. Rating partially true

Whether you learn to type in one of the approved ways, or any other way that allows you to type without looking at the keyboard, being able to do so is a critical skill for any kind of typing. The less time you spend thinking about how to type, and the less time you spend correcting edits, the more you can allow your thoughts to turn into text. I can do a certain amount of punctuation without looking (All the usuals... and of course including parentheses and brackets) and that's handy even while just scripting — or trying to quit vi.

Well I definitely disagree with the part about touch typing coming on its own. It's not a natural skill in any way that I can see. Then it gets into the strangeness about which keyboard I'm using in relation to the language settings (since I use two). My fingers "know" to switch layouts as soon as a special character comes up wrong?

However the bigger questions involve typing versus alternatives. For one of my languages I actually do most of my input via voice, which then has to be corrected. However I'm doing that deliberately to improve my pronunciation, so it certainly isn't part of the design plan. For correction there is an option to use a QWERTY keyboard, but I normally don't...

Yet within an IDE a lot of stuff is "typed" for you, and even formatted, so rapid selection from options becomes more important than touch typing? The AskSlashdot topic is "How important...?" and I still can't decide about the future. I think it used to be very important, but with AI support improving, maybe not so much next year?

I wish it was easier to see the chronology of comments on Slashdot... But right now this one appears at the end of a discussion that touched a lot of interesting points. I wasn't really going for that, but perhaps it was because I should have used "bizarro" in the Subject rather than "reverso"?

Really hard to summarize my position, but... If we insist that human beings have special value and deserve some form of special dignity, then we reach conclusions like preventing children from starving to death. Most folks would agree with that, but there's a slippery slope up to things like "heath care as a human right" or UBI where there is lots of disagreement. Or even minimum wage laws. Not sure how sliding up works, but...

The natural solution is different. In natural systems surplus produces growth until there is no surplus. All the animals are supposed to be on the edge of starvation all of the time. Okay, that is an exaggeration, but mostly because of the seasons. Usually it works our that breeding takes place during the season of surplus and most of the dying takes place during the off seasons.

When you do the numbers things get strange, leading me to strange conclusions. For example, the random shuffle of genes means that half the shuffles are worse than average and Ma Nature wants to square that circle with more than four kids but only two survivors (on average) for the next generation--and yet I haven't met any people who like the idea of seeing most of their children die before reproducing. Less of a problem if Ma Nature kills most of the parents before the question of which two survive is answered? But my strange conclusion for economics is that UBI is likely but I'd rather focus on limiting economic competition in ways that reduces the need for minimum wage laws...

Mod parent funny?

However i think the biggest joke may be that the sharks might be going after each other. Not the only reason, but one of the requirements for becoming so stinking rich is that they ALWAYS want MORE money, even though they already have more money than makes any human sense. Up to now, they have mostly been content to squeeze blood out of the impoverished cabbages like you and me, but if they are sincerely attacking each other, then maybe they've realized there isn't any more cash = blood available down here, so now they just have to attack each other for MORE. (And of course I'm also thinking of a couple of other blood feuds in the news...)

But I get to include the ancient joke as obligatory:

Question: Why won't sharks attack lawyers?

Answer: Professional courtesy.

Now if I was an actual comedian I would either update the joke in some relevant way or combine it with the thing about "No honor among thieves".

And a relevant citation? How about Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie? Mostly relevant because I'm sure someone paid him for the hit job on science. I can't figure out how to pan the book hard enough... Perhaps "A lot of good mixed with a tiny bit of not so good is the enemy of the perfect" or something about projection from his own field of psychology. Or the hype? One example is his hyping of the list of bad-science authors when I think he should have included a list of bad-science fields...

Climate change, of course.

Ha ha, only serious: Ukraine has a number of resources which are important to Russia, including cropland. Russia invaded Ukraine historically for the same reason. Ukraine also used to be an important manufacturing center for Russia. Notably, they produced cast tank turrets. You may have noticed that Putin is experiencing an armor shortage.