I generally find them easier to manipulate, which is a frequent use for measuring distance. Honestly, I think the big thing hampering metric adoption is that no one uses decimeters. Kilometers are useful for trip distances, centimeters/millimeters are useful for small/precise measurements, but meters are deeply unuseful (for the same reasons you rarely see things measured in yards).

1/10th of a meter gets you a lot of the same usability as a foot measurement, but now adding centimeters onto that is more straightforward. A lot easier to calculate for measuring space for furniture, height, etc. . .

We do actually work in decimeters a lot, we just refer to them in 10cm increments. And conveniently there are 10 units of 10cm in a meter.

Tom Francis (the heat sig developer) also made Gunpoint, which while not a rogue like is still a fantastic little game (and has a bunch of user built levels). Would highly recommend.

This might be a bit obtuse of me to say, but:

> This has everything to do with Edge, which is purposely configured to use a search engine that creates a liability for users.

You could say the exact same thing about Chrome and not be lying.

(The obtuseness being likening Google tracking to malware ads)

The argument to ditch Windows felt kind of shoehorned in.

If Bing is returning malicious search results, that's a reason to stop using the search engine, _not the whole OS_. The October update fiasco is a reason to stop using Windows. These are separate issues in separate projects made by separate teams, happening at separate times.

The implication is that everything MSoft touches is insecure or otherwise out to get me is weakly supported. It may or may not be true, but a quick toss in of one data point about how Windows is bad and oh by the way Ubuntu is better isn't convincing.

Are. . .you aware of some relationship between the two? I don't think I've ever heard of them being linked.

DuckDuckGo has a deal with Yandex to display search results from them on some searches. If you search for something in Russian, you'll see a "in partnership with Yandex" message in the corner of the search results page.

Can you narrow the set of search engines from which the results are pulled?

no, they don't expose the sources.

Ah, thank you for explaining.

To be fair, "Google" is pretty silly sounding too, in a vacuum. . .But yes, DDG isn't a great name, and it put me off using it in college.

Don't have much skin in this argument, but this would convince absolutely nobody not already aligned with those beliefs. . .which was GP's point in the first place.

> Don't have much skin in this argument

Do you expect to live another 20+ years? Do you have children or young people you care about? If so, I think you have plenty of skin in the game.

Let me rephrase. I don't have much skin in erubin and oldandtired's particular talking points on this post in HN. Happy?

Yeah, I didn't really understand this comment. Every living human has a skin in this argument.

A young resident of coastal Bangladesh has a whole lot more skin in the game than a 60-year-old millionaire in Colorado.

Nearly everyone has family or friends they care about. But point taken.

I'm the same way. I've gotten used to using a Mac for work; there are the few things I need to know how to run, and I've more or less figured those out. Even after that, though, I was utterly useless last week trying to send an email for my mom on her iPhone.

1. Open Mail

2. Click compose button

How could that possibly be difficult of all things?

I've never been able to understand why mail apps insist on the word Compose. Is it an American thing? I've never wanted to compose a piece of text, and never heard the word used in that way.

It's from the older phrase "compose a letter". Since letters were replaced with email, the phrase became "compose an email".

It's the word gmail uses as well.

no the word gmail uses is "+"

I do see a "+" front and center though,which is not the case on apple devices. even if I don't know what compose means, I do know that + probably means creating a email

To be clear: whatever the button is called, it doesn't have any text on iOS (which, as far as I can tell, is what OP was talking about). It's just an icon of a pencil writing on paper.

To be even clearer: It's literally one of only 4 buttons on the main Mail screen (the others being Back, Edit, and Filter). If you just go to Mail and don't even attempt a guess, that's on you.

What word would you use to describe the action of creating a new message?

write or create or new

Sounds a bit grandiose from here in California.

Compose is defined as putting together many pieces into one coherent work. Most people associate it with music, where composers put together notes until they make up a piece of music. In the mail app context it also makes perfect sense as you are composing a larger piece of work (your letter) from smaller individual elements (words).

TL;DR - Compose is the correct word to use.

Eh. . .I'm not against your points, but I think your analogy is off. It seems more like your CTO is saying "There's this bug in a library we use to improve this part of the system - if no one comes up with fix in the next year or so, I'm just gonna remove that lib and we can handle it's functions ourselves."

I might still disagree with that, but it wouldn't make me "seriously doubt their leadership".

Surely.