Hey computer, what files did i work on last thursday afternoon? and it'd show me a collage of word, excel emails and cad files I was using. this would be fantastic. If it worked. and didn't require i sell what's left of myself to the computer.

I click Windows 11 "Start" button and under Recommended it has the last 6 files I opened. Click "More", and there's a list of files for the last two weeks with dates, and timestamps for the last week. So they've already got this idea covered.

We do have all the News and Weather and other "Suggestions" turned off.

Adding features isn't inherently a bad thing, but we don't believe Microsoft can do it without making the existing features worse.

That sounds like a useful feature. Thanks.

alas my new work laptop is still on win 10.

WinFS and Longhorn are back on the wishlist, apparently. But this time you're getting a really fat thin client OS and non-deterministic execution.

In my experience there are several ways to look at it. One is the very basic unspoken rule that many feel that you taking time off puts your work on someone else's shoulders, so don't do that. I have also heard the phrase: If we can survive without you for X days, we can survive without you. So taking a proper vacation is not felt to be attainable. Then there is the whole, I gotta get ahead in my work to prevent the feeling of being a burden to others and catching up on voicemails and emails during the trip and then spending the long hours once back to catch up to all the things you missed etc.

It's first to file now. Imagine front running patents! Or granting every application and preventing the throwing out of bad ones. Bend the knee and pay your tithe or be buried in lawsuits.

First to file really doesn't change anything relevant here. It just makes it so that if two or more independent inventors invented the same thing and both are applying for a patent the patent goes to whoever filed first instead of trying to figure out who invented it first.

Trying to figure out who invented first could be hard because your priority date was not necessarily when you actually thought of the invention. It was the latest date where you started working diligently to reduce your invention to practice and continued so working until you succeeded.

So if you came up with the idea and started right away working diligently on it and keep doing so until you succeeded then your priority date would be when you came up with the idea.

But if you took breaks you might lose that priority date, and your new priority date would be when you resumed work.

So then we have to decide when a break will reset your priority date. Is it just the length? Does the reason for the break matter?

And what counts as working diligently? Does it need to be full time or is it OK if you are working on your invention every evening after your job?

It was quite messy.

That's one way it could go. Another is that no new patents are granted. No lawsuits. Full Shenzhen.

I'm always wondering about thoughts like this. Although there are likely a humongous amounts of low end devices, as a whole, how much potential return would you get from this group? This is a value judgment and I know many have low end devices for reasons other than monetary and just completely ignoring quantity may not be viable for certain investments, its just an interesting thing. It might be similar to the debate about the cost of handling credit cards vs cash. Cash has its own set of costs that are usually neglected. You could easily get more return by adding features than spending any time optimizing.

> how much potential return would you get from this group?

This reads a bit like "these poor sods can't afford to pay for my app, so why bother", at least to me.

However even if a certain device owner subgroup doesn't represent a potential revenue stream, you can as a developer still profit from also (or even primarily) targeting their devices.

Apps that will run on lower-powered devices will almost necessarily be leaner, and as a side benefit will have less complexity, less dependencies, and, ultimately, less technical debt for you as the developer to manage.

A lot of interesting information is not what I think many people really want. They don't seem to want the mundane facts, they don't seem to care about other countries, they seem to want to find salacious details that confirm conspiracy theories, details that would make headlines and be able to use for clickbait titles to further engagement. Having to trawl through lots of data to find anything of use is beyond most peoples attention span in my experience.

A US president has some authority granted by congress to enact Tariffs. Donald Trump doesn't like being told no. Donald Trump is also very transactional. Ergo, he can implement them and then tell the entities under the tariffs he can make them go away if they give him what he wants.

Yeah. That's absolutely true. I think people under-appreciate their effectiveness as a negotiating tactic.

I'm not sure Donold is actually good at negotiations. The last time, the tariffs did not have the intended effect, we had to bail out farmers from reciprocal tariffs, and the deal to end it was not honored by the other side (did not buy anywhere near the amount of farm products they agreed to)

He is first and foremost a reality TV star, second an unilateral directory of a family real estate empire. All of his other "businesses" are largely brand deals for his name, most of which went bankrupt

I think the reason he reaches for things like tariffs is because he is lacks experience in and is unable to negotiate and build consensus, especially with members of congress. Tariffs are a unilateral action he can take, which is like how he has operated in his private family businesses

I'd be curious to hear Maggie Haberman's take. Trump has given her more access and interviews than others over something like 20 years

Having opportunities to change things after being voted out seems to be a bad oversight to me. The difference is time and effort. If the outgoing administration doesn't do anything else, you can already setup your agenda and timelines for things you want to accomplish, tossing stuff in can derail your agenda and/or timing. The outgoing president is still president until the incoming one is sworn in though, so that is what you deal with.

Should the highest office in the land just go on pause? People voted for the previous president knowing they would be in office almost 3 months after the next election results.

Yeah, that's a valid argument.

I'd wager shoulder surfing was never that likely, but it is much less likely today and much harder. However, high def recording is much more prevalent these days. The one thing I like that some password forms have started doing is obscure the username. Usually the first time you enter it, its plausible to grab, but subsequent entries, only grabbing the password, if it is at all feasible, isn't as useful without the username.

I'm sincerely glad I haven't seen login forms that obscure the user ID. Blind user ID entry, followed by 10+ characy,high entropy password, also blind, on a tiny keyboard with no tactile feedback. Don't know about you, but my fingertip can cover 2 phone keyboard virtual keys, and touch corners of 3 or 4 at once.

Logging in is already excruciating. That would make logins secure by making them impossible.

The main concern I see with "technologic" wombs is who is then responsible for the upbringing and care of the fetus until it because viable to live on its own? If someone gives up a fetus but is still force to be financially responsible for it, more harmful and destructive forms abortion will be, by necessity, be used.

My use of “unburdened” includes financial in all variations, even sealing the ability of the subsequent child to find the parents.

It’s pretty clear that it will be the state who assumes receivership of the fetus and subsequent human with full constitutional rights.

It’s also a pretty easy legislative problem to say the state is transferring unwanted fetuses, despite the technology for its viability not currently existing. The outcome shifts the burden of guilt - or lack thereof - away from the parent(s), over to an immune state regardless of that state’s laws on abortion. And it shifts priorities and funding measures on creating the technology to ensure a fetus’ viability, whether that turns out to be a fool's errand or not.

This will easily bridge consensus between “camps” as the discomfort over citizens killing fetus turns into a market choice instead of a legislative debate. What will the market primarily choose to end a pregnancy

I would love to see all those things myself. Part of my job this past week was inquiring with local jurisdictions about utilities to request utility atlases and other existing condition reports. Unfortunately, this info can be hard to find, inaccurate and inaccessible. There are many pros and cons for showing/hiding utility data etc. <p> If you're interested in getting started with roads, Local GIS shapefiles and tiger databases can be found for much of the US. Not too familiar globally. <p> Downloading a database from the following site and opening with QGIS or similar might be something to start with: https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series...

Thanks for the resource. Never used QGIS so I may have questions.