Yes, I've dabbled in gtk, wxWidgets and several other systems. All of them are meh.
The big player these days seems to be web-based (Electron and friends), though the JVM stack with a native theme for Win/Mac is certainly usable in an environment where you can rely on Java being around.
I think the best option would be some kind of cross-application client-side HTML etc. renderer that apps could use for their user interaction. We could call it a "browser". That avoids the problem of 10 copies of the whole electron stack for 10 apps.
Years ago, Microsoft had their own version of this called HTA (HTml Application) where you could delegate UI to the built-in browser (IE) and get native-looking controls. Something like that but cross-platfom would be nice, especially as one motivation for this project is that Chrome apps are no longer supported so "Web Server for Chrome" is going away. So the "like electron but most of the overhead is handled by Chrome" option is actively being discontinued.
Sounds like work colleagues should have a signal chat, or at least whatsapp, to stay in touch when someone suddenly disappears from the company. Not to take revenge or leak company secrets or anything like that, just to stay in touch and meet up for social events occasionally. If someone at work is my friend, that doesn't end when they're fired and I support them as much as I can in difficult times.
Int-to-int pairs are more likely to form in nature at specific watering holes.
For example, EA/rationalist is not quite my kind of community (altough I think highly of many of their writings), but an ACX meetup looks like a good place for introverts of a particular kind to come together.
I guess the trick is to find the right kind of place first.
Ughh, LessWrong is a bit more of a rationalist cult than anything - and I say that as somebody who is in the AIS & EA space. It's a huge problem that fields like AI Safety happen on that forum, as "normies" really get scared off by the stuff that's on there.
If the lowest package you can buy is 100 shinies = 4 EUR, then an item costing 1000 shinies gets shown as 40 EUR. This is independent of whether you can get 1000 shinies for 35 EUR as a bundle deal, or you can earn 10 shinies per day from logging in and completing other in-game tasks.
That was Edward Snowden's explanation as well, for why he was technically employed by Booz Allen Hamilton while doing sysadmin work for his former employer, the NSA.
Isn't the Navy going back to teaching sextants and astral navigation, just in case in a conflict the enemy interferes with GPS?
On land, I always carry a paper map while hiking and have a bit of a, shall we say, opinion of people who neither take a map nor could competently use it if they needed to. Especially on multi-day mountain walks with a night in a hut along the way.
I don't know about the standard navy officer school but the naval academy only stopped teaching it for like a ten year period and then brought it back.
Funny enough though serious rec sailors are the most likely to know it well I think. They are much more likely to be in a situation where it's necessary and they have fewer shipboard obligations compared to a naval officer so more time/boredom to use futzing with it. It does take practice.
I'm now a SAR navigator on a lifeboat and we now have a renewed focus on manual navigation as skills atrophied due to reliance on GPS plotting. While GPS in our AOR is rock solid, our plotters are not and frequently unavailable.
The story of playing at damming the creek or on the sand at the seaside is wholesome and brought a smile to my face. Cracking the "puzzle" is almost the bad ending of the game, if you don't get any fun at playing it anymore.
People should spend more of their time doing things because they're fun, not because they want to get better at it.
Maybe the apocalypse will happen in our lifetime, maybe not. I intend to have fun as much as I can in my life either way.
I would not object to a tariff on shitty IoT devices, with the level determined by things like if the default password is "admin".
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