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Not helping with your US/big tech dependence though

It's roughly the same price (or even more expensive) and doesn't include Outlook... which is THE crack application for all those windows addicts.

You could absolutely nail the document compatibility aspect and it still wouldn't be enough because of freaking Outlook.


10 years ago I would have agreed with you but these days.. Outlook has been crapped on so much that Google Workspaces are competitive imo

Agreed, the 'new' outlook destroyed everything that was good about outlook. Which wasn't even all that good by the way, it was just the best but that says more about the competition than about outlook itself.

I'm trying that one too. I did not like Octopi or KISS. Kvaesitso looks nice, I like the drawer and the drawer widgets are kind of cool too. The annoying thing that might drive me away is that you cannot set the order of favourites and the order changes depending on what you last used. Changing the order of something has to be very thoughtful or it quickly becomes frustrating - and with the favourites its not obvious that should be like a "recently used" list.

Kvaesitso is open source, so since writing this I downloaded it, removed the dynamic ordering and updated it on my phone.

Holy crap nice! Well done!

I remember talking about this 10 years ago. Not as a prediction but as a sensible business move for MS. What is the value in the Windows client now? The consumer side seems like more of a liability. The parts that make money don't need to be in their own operating system. Just like the browser engine no longer made sense, does the OS make sense?

They could release all their point and click enterprise tooling on top of a Linux based client. That would be plenty of work but I'm sure enterprises would love to be able to fully manage Linux and Windows machines. Then they could just phase out their own kernel.

People point out that the NT kernel is better in several ways to Linux. But that's not really what is important to a company, it's the effort vs value. Linux is so good at running win32 apps now that a moat is drying up. MS could contribute to that effort, and benefit from the Linux development ecosystem in general.

It probably won't come to pass.


This is the madness of the whole thing - the US could already build more bases in Greenland if they wanted to.

This isn't about building bases or military strategy or even resources. If it were about those things then the US could take over Greenland slowly with little effort. My understanding is the population there would have welcomed investment. The US could have done some minor leg work and in 10-20 years Greenland would have been closer / keen to join, or whatever.


> He might be their end-user (either business or customer) in which case he won't get 20% VAT back.

My understanding, dealing with VAT/GST in another country, is that a business customer still gets the VAT back even if they're the end user. If my company (which comprises of 1 person) buys paperclips, or a laptop or whatever for business use, I claim the VAT back. It's only the consumer who pays VAT. If I want to transfer an asset from my business to myself then I have to pay the VAT.


Yes, what I told is a slight simplification. Since any company is usually not an end user and does something with its inventory that will sell to some end user, you can always get your VAT back. The way this works is that you as a company just never pay any VAT in the first place if you have a special VAT tax ID that you have to apply for and give to all your business partners. But that usually only works when not exporting or importing.

Could you fix your video to not zoom in and out constantly like that? It's pretty hard to tell what's going on when it zooms right in every time you click something, and it's so fast it actually gave me a bit of motion sickness.

i noticed all these new ai-tool launches have this zooming effect. maybe 1.2x zoom is fine, but these usually over-do the zoom like 3x.

instead, an old-school arrow/pointer (or pointer trails like its '98!) would be nicer.


There is no rational reason. The US can put as many military resources as it likes there, and the fact that they haven't probably points to it not being a great place to station a larger force because of the climate. US companies can mine there if they're able - it's not currently economic to do so due to the climate and glacier.

So I guess we have to look to irrational reasons.


>US companies can mine there if they're able

You can't just go mine there. For one no-one can own land. A permit is also not something you just get and the laws protecting the environment are much harsher than US laws.


That's probably quite unfair. The EU nations don't have huge militaries that allow them to project force around the world. And they used to. They didn't just become cowards after WWII. Europe was reshaped by wars, and by American policy, and then yes they sat on their laurels for too long after the cold war when it came to defense spending.

Nobody has stood up against China really. Nearly the whole world, including the US, went along with the one China policy for the sake of money.


The US tried in the Korean war but they were hard work to fight.

wasn't that more because at that point the US public just weren't interested in carrying on?

I mean, I had a similar experience with the old doctor not being very worried when I had the same symptom. But when I raised that I was worried about having a heart attack and dying he was equally unworried about that "people die, don't worry about it". And yeah a surprising number of athletes also die suddenly from heart conditions, so I'm not sure I find that very reassuring.

In any case, they did diagnose SVT or some variant. But it pretty much went away, it seemed that getting dehydrated and/or alcohol was triggering it for me.

I actually find a smartwatch that monitors my heart rate very reassuring. I have suffered from anxiety in the past and if I think I'm having anxiety symptoms I can glance at my watch and it tells me everything is fine before I start stressing and making it manifest physically.


Dehydration is the biggest trigger for me as well, as far as I figured out.

Not to be crude, but if my pee isn't basically clear, I immediately start slamming fluids until it is again.


I’ll add fatigue/stress.

A long bike ride after a stressful week and off it goes.

An interesting observation from a cardiologist to me was that cyclist have 5x the rate of rhythm disorders compared to to general population.

But… ‘It’s hard to work out if that’s drug induced or not’.

Say maybe lay off the performance enhancing drugs.


Why did you use `track` for variables and `#` for lists instead of using the same syntax for both?


Scalars and collections have different update semantics. track() is for atomic updates, # is for structural mutations — separate syntax makes reactive tracking and optimization simpler.


why not abstract that away so that `track()` can do it all? It would be alot easier to work with.


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