Flashbacks to my ex's dad drilling the "missing" holes in his Ikea computer desk (pieces in the wrong place) makes me wonder if consumers are ready for DIY electronics. Love the concept and industrial look of it though.

Maybe a toaster made up of modular parts fitting together like Lego? They'd only fit one way so as to avoid assembly errors. Modular construction means that failing parts could be easily replaced.

That sounds like a really cool way to get both safety and maintainability!

Call me cynical but coding at some companies has such perverse incentives that I kind of get it:

- "Solve" the issue assigned to me with a bunch of code that looks about right. Passes review and probably not covered by tests anyway.

- Once QA or customers notice it's not working, I can get credit for "solving" the bug as well.

- Repeat for 0 value delivered but infinite productivity points in my next performance review.

I suppose that you are using a dynamic language? Static typed languages have less of this problem.

This is a hypothetical "I". Personally I am deeply passionate about delivering shareholder value, producing high-quality code, enthusing stakeholders, tabs vs spaces, and so forth...

> It appears that you’ve ticked the “Reduce motion” option in your system settings. As a result, certain whimsical features on this page have been disabled.

I think this is a Windows setting I enabled to get rid of annoying window animations, didn't know it could affect web pages, and I'm not sure I want it to :D

Well it's nice actually, but in this specific case I think I'd like to override it.

yep, it can be detected in JS and even CSS with a media query: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref...

Depends on how the dev wants to implement it, usually when I'm throwing a small animation on a site I'll silently respect the preference and skip the animation without an override option, but for a site like this I'd expect an override switch.

This is so evil it has already been implemented by Microsoft (Excel sheets...)

No surprise to see that coming from microsoft.

yeah, to keep it in spirit also add localization of function/operator names and make sure only the locale version works not all at the same time.

There's something to be said about a psychic and her massages.

Oh, please share it!

That would violate the eighth amendment and the geneva convention.

Ah, I see. Poetry à la the Vogons.

I just had to use Windows 11 to do some work for a client, and it made me miss Windows 95. XP even more.

WSL is a welcome addition of course. PS is pretty powerful. The rest is painful. :D

Same, but as a suffix

π+1−π = 1.0000000000000

But

π−π = 0

I think I understand why, from the article, but wouldn't it be "easy" (probably not, but curious about why) to simplify the first expression to (1-1)π + 1 then 0π + 1 and finally just 1 before calculating a result?

that would require an algebraic solver which is definitely possible but more complex than really warranted for a "basic" calculator

I think the downvotes is for essentially doing what you are criticizing when you point out a certain thing someone said that hurt you.

They were making an effort to stay on topic (reliability issues with Tesla's cars). You're making it about divisiveness.

The ethical considerations around Tesla are pretty bizarre. It gets political, since the owner of the company is so deeply associated with both the cars and politics.

I don't think your comment comes from a bad place, I understand the fatigue and the desparation. However, when someone in power does something "divisive" (quotes, because its the understatement of the decade - you can probably come up with examples) and people who mention it, even by not mentioning it, are told to be quiet because they are being divisive - it can come off as trying to silence people and ensure no criticizism can be raised.

Again, I don't think that was your intention but it has that effect either way.