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On Windows, with common messages boxes, you can just do Ctrl+C for copy and you get the message box text in the clipboard.

Don't know if that helps you particularly, but it is great when it works and little-known.


Thanks, doesn't help me, but you're right, a good tip to know. Though I'd still prefer a similar option to start selection directly in the UI instead of finishing the job in a text editor, this would also help highlight text in a screenshot without having to do image post-processing! I'd even accept some arcane finger-breaking ctrl-alt-win-x-y-z (which I could rebind) for the privilege

All the more annoying when such years-old fundamentals are broken in all the new "supposedly better" frameworks


Running experiments is really really hard due to regulations. Difficult to blame doctors for that.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-from-oversight-...


Thanks for this link, very interesting.

Notable citation:

> A system that began as a noble defense of the vulnerable is now an ignoble defense of the powerful.


Absolutely this. It is so disappointing that the big tech companies provide ANOTHER opportunity for less-skilled users to make a mistake.

And a mistake that might hurt them with security and certainly cost and functionality.

And in a core, security-sensitive function like "what third party apps should I have on my personal device?" This is not searching for fun memes on Reddit!


You can become a "junior soldier", which means you go to college in Harrogate until you are 18 and actually become a soldier.

https://jobs.army.mod.uk/regular-army/entry-options/soldier/


True, but even if you’re only in Harrogate until you’re 18, you are still signed up until you’re 22, meaning you can be killed on a battlefield aged 18 because of a decision you made when you were 16.

In the context of the discussion on voting, I think the “decision” part is the key point here.


You now have to 18 to marry. The age of consent remains sixteen. So having a baby is fine, but so long as you are not married.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/legal-age-of-marriage-in-...


Think how weird this would be to someone from the UK a century ago:

"You can have a bisexual orgy on your 16th birthday where someone gets pregnant in celebration of their first time voting, but under no circumstances is the woman allowed to be married until the kid is 15 months old, at which point she can marry another woman. Photographs of the event will, in many jurisdictions, be treated as a criminal offence even though the act itself isn't and those same photos would be fine at 18, which is also now the age when they are no longer subject to a mandatory choice between ongoing education or an apprenticeship."

Also, TIL that the UK was going to get compulsory part-time education from 14 to 18 back in 1918, but spending cuts happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Act_1918


Ah, I’ve been out of the UK too long.


Totally agree. Great product. I wish I could feed in internal company meeting recordings though.


Because it is blessed by the Emperor of Mankind. Glory to the Emperor!

It's great fun, smile.


A good use for this is people wanting to try an RPG, but not having a bunch of people to do that with. A parent wanting to try out this D&D thing so he or she can run it with the kids, for example.


Not having a bunch of people to do that with is solved by going out and creating relationships and communities. This is the basis of democracy, of society.

It's a tremendous loss for our species if we lose the impetus to connect. Do your kids a REAL favor, and build them a community—a SOCIETY—that they can join.


It was only officially renamed in 1930.


ZX Spectrum BASIC. Numbers could only be 8 digits, needed more for a Spacemaster RPG ship designer program I wrote for my friends. Came up with storing values as strings and splitting/manipulating them as numbers when required. About fifteen years old. Probably the smartest thing I have ever written, grin.


Hey, sounds like most of my Advent of Code solutions :)


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