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Re:A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts on Thursday September 24, 2026 @02:36AM (#49827017)
That is so sad!! The larger our screens gets the smaller the scrollbars get, making it at least twice as difficult to use.

Where do you remove the option for me to see how long your (now often AI generated) blog post is just by glancing at the scroll bar, why do you remove it. That’s really crappy UX…

Also - apps (mainly Office 365) no longer use a framework that allows the OS supported use of Accent Color (the thing that allows the active windows toolbar to get a Color that quickly and effectively signals ‘I’m the active one now). No no - I am Office I am so important that I need to always be green (Excel) or blue (Word) etc. No need for you to know if I am the active window or not - you’ll find out when starting to type and the ‘wrong’ windows receives your input!

It seems that there is a design pattern where product owners favor apps to look nice in board room presentations over making them effective to use for professional users (as well as average Joe).

Don’t get me started on the often lack of keyboard shortcuts - just use the mouse (no thanx - way too much clicking, only use mouse where it makes sense, please)…

But IIRC the de facto unit for network transmission speeds are bits - not bytes - pr second, and when it’s more the rule than the exception than people write ‘B’ in stead of ‘b’ then the confusion gets even higher..

I would expect this crowd here to not make these mistakes as ofte. :-)

B is defacto for storage…

Re:Zellij 0.45.0: nested sessions, Kitty graphics, a fresh UI on Thursday August 20, 2026 @11:31AM (#49376051)
It’s the (very small) price you pay for a great and free product (I think it’s great!!!). If you don’t like that ‘feature’ you’re not forced to use it ;-)
Why this enshittification…

I also see this bad design pattern - tried to clone an outlook calendar event, a meeting with a teams link it that I need repeatedly at sporadic new times (thus can not set it up as repeating).

Outlook native is unable to do that - I am then forced to use Teams to clone the event, likely because Teams need a new meeting id - but why the f••• is Outlook native not able to do that (oh - it’s a webthing).

Too bad they are making changes for the sake of changes (and $$$) in stead of user needs …

Re:"Nothing" is the secret to structuring your work on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:52AM (#46986380)
Zellic - wow there goes a day learning a new awesome tool. This is just what I need (I think, based on a quick glance).

Thank you for mentioning this - best tip of the day ;-)

Seems to be inspired from emacs/doom-emacs and friends … great!!!

Re:A4 Paper Stories on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @11:09AM (#46528062)
Ha - I have made so many measurements using an A4 with great accuracy that this monitor-story might as well have been me :-)

I never understood the US paper size system while living there (or since...!), don't get me started with feet and inches and 16'ths etc - ISO, metric and base10 is just so much more logical and easy to use...

If one want’s an opinion from AI, one must ask AI - if on the other hand one want’s an opinion from a human being (those with a real brain thinking real thoughts etc.) then - hopefully - that’s what you get (and will keep getting) when visiting HN.

Please don’t pollute responses with made-up machine generated time-wasting bits here…!!!

Re:Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:39PM (#46048321)
Why do you want to remove the scrollbar on a website - you never know how long the ‘page’ is… - I really hate those UX decisions
Re:AI scrapers request commented scripts on Friday October 31, 2025 @01:45PM (#45774679)
Human behavior is interesting - me, me, me…
DNA - wow, makes you feel really welcome…
Re:What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? on Friday October 24, 2025 @05:00PM (#45699020)
I just noticed a meaningless feature of iOS: The cursor moves (since iOS 15?) in steps of one pixel.

Probably just to make it slick looking (fluent)…

- BUT that’s completely non-effective as it allows for the cursor to be positioned on top of a single letter in >10 different positions.

So when you’re editing you are having a much more difficult time placing the cursor just between the two letters you want.

I noticed it when using some app the had disabled this stupid feature and it was just so much more effective to do mybediting as the cursor jumped to the position BETWEEN the letters in stead of FLOATING ALL OVER.

It’s nice on slides when presenting a new fancy feature, but completely useless for s ‘professional’ (focused) user.

PS yes I recall those old Apple adds - saw them when they were brand new and Apple was a better details oriented company (I miss those days….)

Re:What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail? on Friday October 24, 2025 @04:45PM (#45698884)
I demoed that exact feature (though on 10.5) not so long ago and people didn’t believe me…!
And this article is full of another failure of the internet - adds…
Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:22AM (#45616498)
They had a great add then (I also had a lot of G4’s ;-)
Do kids have to fly…???
Re:Revamping an Old TV as a Gift (2019) on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:54PM (#45306444)
Excellent work - really nice to see the creativity you put in to that gift! Love it!!
Re:Robert Redford Has Died on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:15AM (#45263459)
Thus the “late 80’ies”…
Re:The Value of Bringing a Telephoto Lens on Sunday September 14, 2025 @08:07AM (#45239216)
Also called ‘perspective’ and the only way to change it is to move the position of the camera

It does not matter if you crop an image taken with a 50mm lens to get the same area of the motive as taken with a 300mm lens from the same ‘standpoint’ - there will be no difference between foreground and background (except for grain and noise - but that’s another story… ;-)

You have to move the camera to change that.

This is often seen in movies (those shot on real film) as opposed to on video as zoom lenses are often used without moving the camera, film based often use a dolly to move the camera. The effect of combining zoom and camera movement to keep the same crop of the foreground while having a dramatic effect of the background quickly getting larger/closer (or vice versa) is really effective - also in illustrating this concept.

In my early life (before taking the education as a photographer) I was really liking wide angles as it brought ‘life’ in to a lot of pictures. Wide as in 24 mm for my 35mm camera (Nikon F2, from 1973 should you wonder) was a favorite, replacing my 28 mm.

Too bad full frame digital is still so expensive. Using a 14-24 f/4 on the DX format in (Nikon D7100) just is’nt the same.

So now the iPhone is the most used camera (you know - the camera you have with you…!)

Re:Microsoft PowerToys on Thursday September 11, 2025 @02:26AM (#45208461)
The ‘proxy’ part on MacOS (which I think was a thing way back to System 9, 8 and maybe even 7) is something I have always missed in the Windows world. Also being able toneart a path in to an open/save dialog to get the path there is a thing I miss!
USB keyboard?
Re:A computer upgrade has shut down BART on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:02PM (#45142328)
Just came back from a vacation in Japan, and completely agree - even compared to the (much better than SF) danish public transport system the Japanese are orders of a magnitude better on so many levels!

Nu then - having 37 mio people just in one city, Tokyo, does require you to get the logistics in order (all of Denmark is just around 6 mio…)

Re:A visual introduction to big O notation on Monday August 25, 2025 @02:43PM (#45017406)
Beautiful - I sent a ping and hope it was delivered and have a small dopamine kick ;-)
ThirstyInRome I presume (the only iOS app returned when searching for ‘Fountains in Italy’ :-)
Thanx - sounds like what I need ;-)
Thats the exact reason i dichted my dock and connected the monitor directly to my labtop. 30 Hz is way too low, I need 60 (or maybe 50 would have been enough - I’m in the PAL part of the world ;-)
Re:How to make o4-mini report you to the FBI on Friday May 23, 2025 @10:18AM (#44073142)
A more sensational title?
For files - nothing beats TotalCommander for me.

As mentioned earlier in the thread, keyboard shortcuts are built-in, not missing or bolted on later…!

Re:The History of Album Art on Saturday May 03, 2025 @04:46AM (#43877703)
I have this book https://biblio.co.uk/book/album-cover-album-book-record-jack... And also a lot (well some - it’s a large book…) of the depicted albums.

I find it sad that cover art is reduced/dead due to 12” -> 120mm -> gone (LP -> CD -> mp3/streaming.

I really enjoy my covers for all the ‘old’ music I have.

Thank you Rockaway Records from where I bought > 1.000 vinyls when living is LA in ‘87…!

Re:Organised gangs behind rise in QR 'quishing' scams on Monday April 14, 2025 @03:00AM (#43678753)
Why not a short URL where one can at least read the domain name and see if it looks reasonable before progressing with whatever the task ($£kr) is
Re:Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI? on Friday March 21, 2025 @03:59PM (#43440208)
Not ‘he’ … ‘it’. It’s a machine, not a human(!)

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