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> Baldness is something negative

This is 100% subjective.


It's subjective, but given the frantic search of a cure for baldness, and the extents to which some people go to conceal it, I'd say it's pretty much unattractive.


People search to "cure" everything they don't like about themselves. In the case of baldness, it only seems frantic because it's elusive. The ED cure use to be frantic until a little blue pill was developed. A lot of people embrace their baldness, so it cannot be objectively negative or unattractive.


I have Home edition on my home desktop, and I see updates way more than 3 times per year as well. It doesn't really bug me unless the update takes more than a few minutes.

The search is absolutely terrible. And it's inconsistent. Sometimes I can type "no" and it'll come up with Notepad++ immediately. Other times I have to get all the way to the first + before it finds it. And still other times, it can't find it at all. That goes for all programs too, not just Notepad++.

I've somewhat tried using tools like Everything [0] but never given them more than a few tries before uninstalling. Maybe I should do it again.

[0] https://www.voidtools.com/


It's super old, but I've been using launchy[0].

I started using it in the WinXP days, stopped during Win7, (never used win8), and Win10 regressed in this department so badly I've returned to using this ancient software...

[0] https://www.launchy.net/


> I've somewhat tried using tools like Everything [0] but never given them more than a few tries before uninstalling. Maybe I should do it again.

I've tried a bunch of stuff too, and even bought one (Listary), but from a muscle memory perspective, nothing beats hitting the Windows key with my pinky. I guess I could remap the Windows key, but I think that would have too many negative side effects.

I was on Mac as my daily driver for about a decade (but have no desire to go back), and Spotlight worked great as a launcher.


I've been using a tool called KeyPirinha for launching programs. Configured it to launch when Alt+Space is entered.

http://keypirinha.com/


Classic shell fixes the start menu and its search


Little anecdote.

At my dad's old company, where he'd been for almost 25 years, they still used Lotus Notes. About a year ago, he moved to a new company that uses Office, and he hates it (old dog, new tricks, etc.). His old company is still the only company I've ever personally had experience with that still uses Lotus Notes.

Is it that bad?


Notes is itself pretty remarkable, but suffers from a peculiar UI + dysfunctional efforts from two sides in development (people who wish it was a RDBMS not a document database, and people who don't really have any business writing application code). The complaints about it being kind of an ugly email client are not really of the essence. In addition, IBM has pretty much left it to rot on the vine since the early 2000s. I think "R5" was the last release of any real significance, and even that was not revolutionary.


Here's how bad it is: In the mail editor you are lucky if you can undo one change. Multiple undo is out of the question.


I'd assume that the people who are getting zero viewers aren't generally the same people getting bullied, doxxed, hacked, identity-thefted, and so on.


I'm the same way. If I lose interest in a book partway through, I'll stop reading it and go on to other books for a period of time and finish it later. I currently have 6 books in my "Reading" list on Goodreads, 5 of which I started at some point in the last couple of years and haven't finished yet.


Windows 10, Firefox 60.0.2

Search doesn't do anything when I type a term and hit enter.

Gif: https://gfycat.com/ShortNeedyEmeraldtreeskink


Thanks. Will fix.


I'm trying out switching over to Firefox and this is 100% the biggest thing I miss about Chrome. I keep double-clicking words and waiting a few seconds just for nothing to pop up.


There are many extensions for Firefox that provide the same functionality. Here's one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dictionary-ex...

Also, if you're using Windows, you can use WordWeb (which is a full-fledged app).


The firefox extension is incompatible with the current firefox version, and the UX of WordWeb is ... incomparably bad.


And on Mac you can three finger tap on any word to get a definition.


It was our rookie year this year, and after watching how great some other teams were with mecanum wheels, we decided to look into them over the summer. To be honest, I'm just excited to try driving them :)


I'm with you on Goodreads. I absolutely love the yearly challenges and how easy they make it to track.


I have a playlist that I've been working on for the last couple years[1]. It's mostly instrumental, and it's my pride and joy :) I listen to it every day for most of the day while working.

If you end up listening to it, feedback is welcome!

[1] https://open.spotify.com/user/124904258/playlist/7gOx724pPSe...


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