...I believe you've just made it 2003.

The creator's hopes are actually not too far off for how large wheeled robotic systems have been used in the past. In the late 50s, the USAF sought a radiation-hardened robot for refuelling nuclear-powered bombers. The result was the GE Beetle, and though the project was ultimately scrapped, it does have something of a resemblance to the ARCHAX structurally, so that's neat. The anthropomorphism is probably wasteful, though!

Oh, no, the delay itself is good; I wouldn't want the previews (which are also useful) to get in the way instantaneously. It just sucks to have no other way to find individual windows.

The first image shows a preview pop-up—the existing behaviour that was introduced in Windows 7 and became mandatory in previous Windows 11 versions. The previews are good, but having to wait for the pop-up window to appear in order to select one window from a multi-window application is annoying. Everyone agrees on this.

The author specifically states that he wants the labels completely gone (emphasis added):

It's baffling that Microsoft can't get this feature right after three years with it being one of the most highly requested features.

A simple toggle to disable the showing of Windows titles could have been added, or Microsoft could have replicated the Windows 10 feature many of us requested.

What TFA wants isn't an option in my Windows 10 settings, either, despite what he claims; I think it might have existed in Windows 7 (and earlier 10 builds?), but it doesn't exist now. I'm guessing he's in a very small minority of people who ever used it this way.

That said, if I recall my old registry black magic correctly, the maximum taskbar button width used to be based on the size of the caption bar for iconified windows; a remnant from early builds of Windows Chicago when programs still minimized to the desktop (something similar can still be occasionally encountered in MDI applications or when Explorer crashes). The setting should be somewhere in HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics, but I don't see anything that looks like a likely candidate; must've been removed at some point. Back in the days of NT 4, I distinctly remember using taskbar buttons that were extra-wide, just for the novelty.

Actually, the author of TFA is deranged: he wants individual icons but no labels on his taskbar. That's what the article is about. (Which is sort of amazing since he gives the example of having 10 Notepad windows open at once, which are indistinguishable when they're all just iconized...)

The feature as implemented works as intended, which is to say it works the way anyone who's ever used Windows 95 or fvwm95 would expect.

Rest assured, there's prior art for everything.

ARM CPUs have a flag that can be toggled that makes all instructions take the same amount of time no matter what their input is, to try to defeat timing attacks.

So yeah, it could be done.

Mr Garak, it is against the values of your society to favour any agenda that imperils the survival of the State. As a former high-ranking member of the Obsidian Order, you of all people would know that ignoring the fallout from a disaster, even a natural disaster, would be a direct threat to civil order. It is the State's duty to protect its people, not to simply shove its hands in its pockets and shrug in the face of Nature's capriciousness. Should it abandon this mandate, it no longer has the right to govern. Should you abandon this mandate, you would longer have the right to represent Cardassia. Do not invite us lowly Terrans to do the same.

I am not an ornithologist, but I would hesitate to expect anything to be useful that hasn't been essential for millions of years. In general, though, it is fair to assume that (flying) birds are likely to do well during drastic global changes because they're already migratory and capable of following the climate.

Doing some very quick reading, the penguins are perhaps a useful case study. Estimates range on the clade being anywhere from 70 to 100 million years old, at a time and place which would have been quite a lot warmer than today, but they seem to have favoured the coldest reaches of the planet back then, as well. Although there are tropical penguins (as far north as Galapagos, above the equator!) they only arrived much more recently, perhaps as little as 4 million years ago.

So, with that one piece of evidence, while birds may be pretty good at getting away from the heat, they probably won't be exceptional at colonizing extreme environments. When biologists talk about organisms "remembering" conditions their ancestors experienced, they're usually referring to plant epigenetics, which, in computer nerd terms, is like saving a config file full of auto-calibrated settings for the next generation. Plants that have been exposed to certain soil or weather conditions will tend to produce seeds that are more resilient to those conditions, but their genes haven't changed, just a few pieces of metadata that tip the scales toward better adaptation. It's likely that these can encode short-term weather cycles (e.g. El Nino years) but long, irregular trends (much less short, sudden, anthropogenic ones) could not possibly constitute a selective pressure to drive the evolution of a specific memory-like mechanism; at best the plants of each new generation will have to spend some effort adapting directly. (Fortunately, a single field of corn produces an absurd number of offspring. Plants are very good at exploring the problem space of evolution!)

If you see any other mention of "genetic memory," that's a misunderstood reference to Frank Herbert's Dune, and it is not real science. There are cases where the body alters its own genome for practical purposes—the immune system creates new antibodies by randomly deleting blocks of code from a master template protein sequence, and there's some evidence neurons use their own DNA as a limited form of data storage—but nothing substantial is heritable. Heritable epigenetic phenomena do exist in animals as well, but they're probably not very interesting and seem almost vestigial or dysfunctional.

I know this may be hard to believe, but the global average temperatures from the Cretaceous period are not very compatible with Earth's current biosphere. Even if the current period of global heating were principally driven by natural causes (and the scientific consensus is that it most certainly isn't, no matter how many arguments on Slashdot you win through attrition), we would have a duty to intervene as the de facto caretakers of our planet.

Probably some big web-scraping project—this is all based on browser user agents, so any spiders would show up as unidentifiable. (Or maybe it's zombie Amigas from outer space.)

Are you sure? Slashdot itself isn't even 'full' of that. Now, apk's HOSTS file crusade, on the other hand...

This is an incredibly niche point, but Gresham's law is about people melting down coins for their metal content whenever one particular specie is of a higher gold or silver content than another. The "good money" and "bad money" in question are literally "pure coins" and "debased coins." You could extend this to, say, grey market economies where USD or Euros might be preferred over an unstable local currency that supposedly has the same face value, but that's about it as far as modern applications go. It certainly has nothing to do with the market competitiveness of cheaply-priced goods.

Please, tell us more about Russia minding its own business.