One only needs to carry 11 states and 27% of the popular vote to win the presidency (you could also do it with 23% but more states). So yeah, it kind of has been the case.

California 55
Texas 38
New York 29
Florida 29
Pennsylvania 20
Illinois 20
Ohio 18
Michigan 16
Georgia 16
North Carolina 15
New Jersey 14

Of course, you don't need huge margins in this scenario, but 11 isn't too far away from "a few" in this context, I would say.

Well then that shows that the scientists in question were incompetent. It doesn't show that science itself supports bigotry.

Dude. He didn't say government funding was completely without merit. Leaky pipes will still supply some water to the destination.

Take a chill pill.

Is your sample pool limited to Slashdot? Because if we do that it's easy to draw the conclusion that every single scientific study is bought by some corporation and full of shit.

Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm paranoid, or Slashdot is, or the whole world just blows.

You have a very lenient definition of "common." 0.33% is not common.

No.

Relatedly, the number of times I've been trying to resize a window and accidentally went two pixels too far to the southwest and closed the program (since it didn't have an exit sanity check) over the last couple years is a bit embarrassing. Mostly VLC and Chromium.

To be fair, Linux DEs had snap-to-edge for several years before Windows 7 came out. But yeah.

This situation requires both that A) DE developers limit drag sensitivity to pixel-perfect for some reason, and B) theme designers wanting the smallest possible border on all their windows (well, technically you can run entirely without a border but whatever). Back before Unity I knew how to tweak the Ubuntu/Compiz/whatever themes to fatten up the borders, but after GNOME got flushed, doing that in XFCE would've required digging into text files IIRC.

Windows 7 was the platonic ideal of Windows. After that it's just been an accelerating downhill slope.

"The" year? Microsoft has been doing that for decades.

Star Trek has a weird notion of what "manual" means. There was a scene in First Contact where they had to enable the manual release for a door.

The whole point of being manual is that you don't need to enable it if the automation fails! It still just works!

If you want to write software that attempts to read my mind, at least give me the option to turn that feature OFF and do it manually.

Imagine trying to use Swype on a phone without it giving you the list of possible completions.

I don't know why Linux DEs have such a hard time with window borders and their damn single-pixel-across resize sweet spot. That's one thing Windows at least does right--the resize "grab range" is like 5-10 pixels across.

XFCE at least makes up for it with Alt+right click and drag anywhere in the window to resize. Not very discoverable though.

Silly user, finite pages are so 1998. Now we have pages that load in more crap as you scroll.

You should check out this page (not the article itself; it's depressing as fuck). It's like Medium cranked up to 11:

The header covers the entire screen, is an autoplaying video for no reason, and when you scroll down it fades into a picture and "sticks" for a couple scrolls until you can get past that.
Then you scroll past that and it's the standard column of too-large fontsize text that only takes up the middle third of the screen with huge white stripes on the side.
Then you find out later that horrid header thing is repeated for each of the seven or so mid-article chapter headings.

People picking other themes than The New Hotness makes them look bad, so obviously it had to go.

I suppose you could repurpose long-press as "hover" but then you lose "right-click."