Never said I wanted to prevent others from using click focus. To me I like focus follows mouse, but if others prefer other models, great, just expose it so it can be easily changed. The older systems did make it prominent, but I find I have to search deep to find it in more modern distributions. And I think it should be possible to switch it back and forth via some mouse or key action. Not sure how though, I just never find myself wanting to use click focus.

Another very frustrating issue I've had with click focus is graphics. Say you have a graphic window wanting coordinates, and focus is in another window. You have to click in the graphics window to make it active, but that enters a coordinate. So you have to find a spot in the graphics window to click that will not enter a coordinate to bring back focus so that you can see rubber banding/ghosting again in the graphics before entering the point. I hit this with pcb/ic systems all the time in click focus.

I don't think Apple has the focus follows mouse for some reason. I started using window systems on suntools. I think mouse focus was the default, and I think mouse focus was the default for X11 for most wm's when I started using it I think around 89. I don't remember any *NIX systems that defaults to click to focus and I used several. I think somewhere in the late 2000's I started to see click to focus get hard to change.

It is exasperating to lose the visibility of a window I want to see because I had to click on the window I want to enter something into that causes the clicked window to now be raised and obscure the window I want to see. I typically have 6 xterm's open at any given moment on a screen and they overlap some. That layout would just not work without focus follows mouse.

Practically the first thing I do when I setup a new system is to switch to focus follows mouse. I don't know how the default went to click to focus. So painful with multiple windows. Excruciating.

All the AI co's need to monetize. Those investors are not spending a trillion out of the goodness of their hearts. Expect many more free to paid and pay to pay more announcements.

I think one of the problems for overweight people is the sheer availability of food, and bad food too. I've yet to go to any event like a fair, game, amusement park, ... that is serving steamed vege's for people to snack on. Nope, they come up with really crazy stuff like deep fat fried butter. Or hot dogs, or french fries, ... All high calorie. It would be like if we offered booze and drugs up at every opportunity. Granted booze if probably offered a bit more often then it should but I've yet to see a public event offering up opiates for sale with big signs.

I've seen people with dogs that you can just put food down and they eat until they are full. My dogs have been hounds and that does NOT work. My current hound can find bunnies in the back yard as have all my previous ones. You try to watch for it, but bunny moms must think it is a fenced yard so more secure from predators I guess. Mom forgets about the predator that comes out from the back door. Perhaps the overweight one has the better nose?

Slightly envious, the article is talking about UK/Australia insurers. Is it an extension of their healthcare, or is it special travel insurance. Prior to medicare, I was shelling out around 8-10K/year for premiums for a policy that paid zero until I was out 9500. So I guess my insurer would have paid something, but I sure wouldn't want to drop the first 9500 on this.

Yep, me too. And if I really really really want to follow a link in the email it lets you launch a browser. The extra friction I think is handy as you carefully examine the link. And it has to be a very special case as if the sender did not say it in text, I'm probably not interested.

Unfortunately, you may be prescient. I expect exactly what you say to happen in a few years with "connected" cars and a maker that goes bk.

In 2023 Cruise jammed things up with 20 cars after a football game in Austin. https://www.thedrive.com/news/... Also in Austin a month or so ago, a waymo stopped in an intersection blocking an ambulance carrying someone after a mass shooting at a bar downtown. https://news.ycombinator.com/i... And I thought SF had some cases where AV's were clogging things up in residential areas. So welcome to the party China.

Agree, here is one for 50 bucks. https://www.alarmsystemstore.c... Quite a few years ago I switched my alarm from POTS to a cell communicator. At the time that was a 3G system and I think I paid around 200 for the modem. 3G got sunset'ed and I had to upgrade to a 4G. I was thinking oh crap what is that going to cost. Turns out cheap, I think it as around 70. And now 50 for one, in a separate enclosure. I imagine the guts can't be more than 10. And back when I switched from POTS to cell, I think the alarm co raised the monthly from 13 to 15, so an extra 2 bucks probably to cover the connect fee plus a little more profit for them. I think I saw it is down to under a buck a month for high volume/low bandwidth clients, so more profit for my alarm co today.

Patel may have bigger problems soon. Apparently the Iranians have hacked his personal email. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/2... Maybe some juicy salacious stuff will come out.

I recall writing software to read/write stream format. I wrote a library of routines that would read/write a full record (like everything in a polygon, path, text etc) so that it was easy to process a thing. Back then it was very proprietary and I was pretty lucky to get a copy of the spec. Plex'es and properties were the magic they used to convert pcells. I ended up writing a ton of useful programs for processing stream. text modification programs, hierarchy listings (fancy tree commands) layer changers, layer filters, cell name changers...

If I remember correctly, and its been decades, the CALMA system's used the DG's for the brains and then some customer graphics for the clam shells. Those CALMA's were part of the heritage of the evolution of the chip biz. CALMA developed stream format if I remember correctly and it is still used today for many purposes, although much bigger files. I've seen 130GB. I do remember taping out on CALMA's and waiting like an hour to write the real 9 track tape and it was way short of 130G.

Oxygen free copper has been a thing for quite awhile. I've known about it for at least 20 years. Here is one definition, "Copper is widely used where high electrical or thermal conductivity is required. Pure copper is defined as having a minimum copper content of 99.3%. Copper with oxygen content below 10 ppm is called ‘oxygen-free.’