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There is a tiny dot for the actuaries at 14%

Windows has a “snap to default button“ setting which does the same.

Saves you a bit of movement on large screens, but since it jumps it doesn’t lead the eyes which makes is disorienting.


I’ve never heard of that feature in Windows! Unfortunately, that means I can’t judge it.

But I have used mouse warping in other environments and I’ve never been caused disoriented. It never occurred to me that such a problem is possible. In general, it seems like this problem can be avoided by 1) moving the mouse only to changed states of the screen, 2) only if they’re small enough to be easily observable, and 3) only for repetitive tasks.


> ...but since it jumps it doesn’t lead the eyes which makes is disorienting.

What happens when you enable "mouse pointer trails"? Or is that a feature that died like a decade or two after manufacturers stopped using the extremely slow LCDs that made use of the feature all but mandatory on machines that used them?


That could actually make it work -- but I just tested and, sadly, the cursor still gets teleported without a trace.

Sad! I wonder if more than a handful of people at Microsoft know that the "cursor trails" feature still exists.

Nice! Even for a non weather nerd like me it makes for a helpful, and privacy friendly, forecast app, especially using the ensemble.

The scoring on rain seems a bit binary though. In my area, one got 100%, the rest all scored 0.


Yeah when there's been very little rain, it's just hit or miss ;) Does it still look like that when you increase the Score tab lookback window?

I will add some minimum amount of rain though, otherwise the score feels weird indeed


Is 52% “most“ (headline) or “a slim majority“ (article)?

Two percent of Switzerland is 200k people. Which is about how many people immigrate there every year

My point was about "most" vs. "slim". Two percent of the 5.6 million voters are 112k people. And since only half of them actually vote, it's a majority of around 56k. [1] That's a slim majority, even for a small country.

The immigration rates don't change that, because the immigrants cannot vote. The net immigration is also smaller, at around 85k per year, not 200k. [2]

[1] https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/politik/abs...

[2] https://www.sem.admin.ch/sem/de/home/publiservice/statistik/...


Net migration is not as relevant as inmigration, which is what I was referencing fyi

Re [0] how do they measure this reliably during a race, especially the C-isotopes in the breath?

From the picture it looks like he is only wearing a watch and there is perhaps a little bulge on his left side.


They collected samples every 5k in the 30k long run before the marathon, see Substrate section in http://athlete.maurten.com/


On one hand I agree that the content of a file should guide a search. Copilot has improved lately to help me find something (standard Windows or SharePoint makes even searching for file names painful).

On the other hand, folders are still a good (and necessary) way to convey structure and meaning. Which files did I attach to that tax filing? Where can I share files related to this project?


Yea, it's hard to disagree! … and I don't think it's plausible to completely move away from folders (thinking about all those GitHub repos I've cloned or `git init`ed).

Otoh, there are some abstractions that I would favor or at least like to explore for some (categories of) tasks.

Think of Miro or Prezi, for example… they combine a zoomable UI, allowing you to navigate through your content that's meaningfully grouped. If I compare that to Google Drive, which is a combination of files and folders, plus files shared with me by numerous people who all have their own preferences for naming conventions, etc., it feels disorganized by default and requires the mundane work of organizing, which could be abstracted by novel technologies that "understand" the meaning of files.


Agree. The Miro and Prezi analogy could lead to some very helpful new ways.

And re naming conventions: I really would like to have a linter that gives me all files in my convention (could be a local view for me rather than forcing for everyone).


Yes, they only had data for West Eurasia.

> Just because an allele, SNP, or trait swept into or out of West Eurasia during this time doesn’t mean this happened only in West Eurasia. Researchers can use the new computational methods to look for directional selection in other populations worldwide that have enough ancient DNA sequences and construct a clearer picture of what’s unique to different groups and what generalizes across populations.

> Reich expects that future studies will show that shared selective pressures acted on some of the same core traits across diverse human groups, even as those groups split off and migrated to different parts of the world over tens of thousands of years.

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/massive-ancient-dna-study-revea...


Neat. But I am still disappointed that their ATEM Mini Extreme does not capture the transitions when recording to disk and opening in DaVinci Resolve (you only get the tracks). In their marketing materials it sounded like you do. Switched back to Premiere after discovering that.



Ooh, that 2nd link has a nice construction by Terry Tao giving a clear way to show infinitely many such functions exist for pretty much any set of operations.


The French move will hit the Productivity/ Business segment. Their motivation is to limit extra-European dependence so they will look elsewhere for this.

Similar to Germany with its DeutschlandStack and some migrations already ongoing.


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