Ahhh. I use command-click to open in new tabs.
I haven’t played a game that uses the mouse in several years. I mostly play Roguelikes such as NetHack, DCSS, or Caves of Qud using keyboard controls only, or console games with a controller.
I have never used a CAD program though sometimes I’ve thought about it.
I can’t remember the last time I’ve ever wanted to click the middle mouse button. The experience of having done so once or twice was bad enough to get me to rebind the action to something else.
Middle mouse paste was great on true 3 button mice. It became a liability with the invention of the mouse wheel, which made it a total crapshoot to try to click that damn button without rolling the wheel at the same time. It’s a classic case of overloaded functionality.
Like imagine if cars put the accelerator into the steering wheel, so you had to press the steering wheel down to accelerate. Everyone would hate it and it would be a safety nightmare. We put up with things on computers that we never would in other areas of life.
Wow yes. So many older and retired workers from the skilled trades could benefit from this.
It would also be a huge boon for recruitment as I imagine young people considering the career may be discouraged by the physical demands of the job and their potential lasting effects.
At this point I’m surprised when Putin is telling the truth. He lies so much it’s just easier to assume he’s lying and wait to see if there’s actually any evidence for what he’s saying.
I predicted that this story about an attack on his residence was a lie. Putin does not want peace. Every time they get closer to an agreement he pulls back. He knows that the peace will lead to him getting Gaddafi’d.
If they’ve got ADHD. Then the meth is literally self-medicating them and allowing them to function. Non-ADHD people on meth are a different story.
Construction often ends up with the worst sorts of people. I have multiple friends and family who have worked in the business and they’ve dealt with people who would regularly no-show (not even call in sick), show up drunk, high on meth, and do all kinds of dangerous / stupid stuff including throwing heavy tools down from upper floors, walking around without paying attention (and falling off scaffolding etc).
My uncle also had to deal with mafia guys involved with construction unions.
There’s a numerical asymmetry to stuff like this. You could have only 1 in 1000 men be catcallers yet a single catcaller could catcall thousands of women on their way to work (stereotypically from a construction site as they walk by).
I think you’re exactly right about his name. It’s completely irrational but people seem to buy into the nominative determinism at a subliminal level!
That makes sense. No enzymes to cleave the carb chains into simple carbs. That’s how lactose intolerance works too.
My coworker showed me how her cat tore into a loaf of bread and then had horrible farts after that.
Don’t cats get the equivalent of lactose intolerance when they eat carbs? I thought they basically can’t digest carbs.
I don’t see how YouTube could ban Patreon at this point. It’s too big to fail. Many of the top YouTubers have a Patreon account that earns them tens to hundreds of thousands per month. Cutting off people’s main source of revenue would just cause them to quit YouTube for another platform.
No, I’ll just block you because you’re putting words into my mouth and arguing in bad faith!
Their value is based on confidence in the current system. Change the system and the confidence is lost.
It’s like tickets to a movie. They’re valuable before the movie starts. After the movie’s over they’re worthless.
Put a total wealth tax on the stock market is like throwing sand into the gears. The whole system will fall apart. You can argue that it shouldn’t be that way but you’re currently in the system. The challenge is not to imagine how it ought to be, it’s how to get there without the whole house of cards crashing down around you.
There is a loss though. By instituting this process, even if it was only applied to Tesla, you would crash the entire stock market because investor confidence would be lost.
You could say nothing would be truly lost in a stock market crash, but real people would still be severely impacted. The market crash would lead to bank runs which would topple the banking system, and then ordinary people wouldn’t be able to buy food or other necessities. It would be a disaster that would cause people to demand the old system be restored.
How does that work in practice? Let’s say we want to tax people like Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg. Let’s say for convenience we want to set the tax at 10% of their total net controllable assets.
Take Musk for example. He has an estimated net worth of $500 billion so we’re going to tax him $50 billion a year. To pay his taxes in the first year he’d have to sell 10% of his shares in his companies (since his wealth is concentrated almost entirely in stock).
What would happen if he offered 10% of his shares for sale on the open market? It would cause the stock price to tank since there aren’t enough buyers out there willing to pay the current price for those shares. As the stock price tanks, his net worth plummets along with it, say to $400 billion. Now he has to sell 12.5% of his shares to pay his $50 billion tax bill. But that means offering even more shares on the market which cause the stock price to drop even more.
At the end of the day, just forcing Musk to pay his tax bill could completely wipe out his company. Maybe that’s actually your goal, but it’s not clear how that will raise money to help people.
And that gets to the point I actually want to make: stock prices as a form of wealth are somewhat fictitious in nature, not unlike the way money is created by banks through fractional reserve banking. Trying to tax all those shares of stock is similar to creating a bank run. Rather than unlocking a bunch of wealth you can use for other purposes, you just end up destroying the wealth altogether.
Here’s a video by an accounting professor that explains what stock prices really mean by way of an analogy with baked beans (yes, he’s a British professor)!
Slop falls to the bottom but I bet a lot of hidden gems do too. The greater volume of games coming out, the harder it’ll be for individual developers to get recognized!
Old school indie developer Jeff Vogel has a whole talk about how difficult it is.
Not possible. Cats are incapable of feeling shame!
Nowadays I use a trackpad for almost everything. I do use a mouse at work but then I mostly use keyboard shortcuts for everything I can (Excel really flies when you know some keyboard shortcuts).