Interesting Links for 12-04-2023

[andrewducker]

1. How Nicola Sturgeon's departure has helped to open the floodgates for anti-trans policy in UK politics

(tags:politics uk transgender lgbt OhForFucksSake bigotry )

2. 'Alien Calculus' Could Save Particle Physics From Infinities

(tags:quantum mathematics )

3. Russia's civilian economy is down around 50% as the country shifts to a war economy

(tags:russia war economics )

4. Voters want more compassionate politicians, survey suggests amid Labour ad row

(tags:politics uk OhForFucksSake )

5. Wind turbine blades recycling breakthrough

(tags:windpower recycling GoodNews )

6. No, current AI is not the solution to healthcare

(tags:healthcare ai )

7. Europe and Ukraine have repulsed Russia's attempts to weaponize energy - so far.

(tags:energy russia europe ukraine war )

8. UK economy to shrink by 0.3% this year, the worst performance in the G7

(tags:uk economy doom )

9. Nearly three quarters of Conservative voters want the UK to build more social housing

(tags:UK housing conservatives polls )

10. Truck carrying 40,000 pounds of toxic soil from East Palestine train derailment site crashes on highway (if you made this up then nobody would believe you)

(tags:environment usa incompetence WTF pollution )

11. Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?

(tags:software ux )

12. Traffic police roll out new way to catch reckless motorists - drones

(tags:drone traffic driving safety police UK )

13. EVE Online player uses obscure rule to pull off the biggest heist in the game's history (by buying shares and voting themselves into management)

(tags:games crime mmorpg EveOnline )

Comments

[simont]

#11: I got confused by the title, because it made me think of emacs, which maps ^F to 'forward' in a different sense, namely 'go forward one character in the current buffer'. (Goes with ^B to go backwards, and Alt-F and Alt-B to move by a word instead of a character. Also imitated by GNU readline, and other line editing systems that imitate that in turn, such as gnuplot.)

[andrewducker]

Oh yeah, for lots of older software Ctrl-F was forward. But it definitely became Find over time in lots of UI software. There's probably a PhD in researching how that kind of thing changed over time.