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  2. Posted

    14 minutes ago, Dalija Prasnikar said:

    the wrong place to push equality

    Yet, women are fighter pilots, front line soldiers, astronauts, mountain climbers, race car drivers, plumbers, electricians, engineers, and what not.

    IMO, equality is about more than comparing physical traits. It is about mentality, attitude and equal opportunities.

    I think it is good for any industry to have a balanced work force, hence we need to find out why there are less female programmers, and not bury our heads in the sand, like SO did with their yearly polls.

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  3. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

    restriction could have been caused by the care of women's health

    The health risks are the same for men and women in that environment. Even when pregnant.

    Apart from the ability to exert physical strength (not including my niece who is a strongwoman national champion), women are no less fit than men to work in difficult or demanding enviroments.

     

    I also have a machine-engineering niece, and another one that is currently doing her master on material techology.

    But, as always, we are drifting - no, racing - away from the core topic, and I am (as often) to blame.

     

  4. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

    Norwegian miners 99% are likely white male

    No idea. We don't really have that many mines these days. However, women can drive heavy machinery as good as or better than men.

    https://forskning.no/svalbard-partner-historie/kull-karer-og-kvinnfolk/1023284 informs

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    There were strict regulations from the 1860s that prohibited women from working in the mines. In Svalbard, it was only at the end of the 1970s that women were allowed to participate in this type of work.

     

  9. Posted

    https://www.wired.com/story/stack-overflow-gender-problem/ and there is this... 
    Can the moderation be a factor when women, minorities and non-native english speakers are put off by SO?

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    FOR 15 YEARS, Stack Overflow has been the main hub for discussions of computer programming and development. It’s where users who are facing a tricky conundrum or are hitting a wall in their code can come to ask questions of fellow users. And historically, it has been a male-dominated space. In the organization’s annual survey of its users conducted in 2022, 92 percent of respondents identified as male, and three-quarters as white or European. The platform acknowledged then that it has “considerable work to do.”

     

    But in 2023, Stack Overflow’s survey, published on June 13, stripped out questions about gender and race. “I kind of would understand if they decided not to ask about people, but they still ask geography, age, developer type, years of coding, and a bunch of things about salary and education,” says Sasha Luccioni, a member of the board of Women in Machine Learning, an organization lobbying to increase awareness of, and appreciation for, women in the tech sector. “But not gender. That’s really screwed up.”

     

  11. Posted

    Personally, I would be fine with it being in the background while I wait for it to complete the update/restart.  At that point - I'd prefer a notification panel that would allow me to refocus the new window manually.

    I really do not like apps that bring themselves to the foreground - for whatever reason. 

     

    I am looking at you, configured to start-with-first-login Teams, Outlook, and Discord.

    If I didn't initiate the starting of the app MANUALLY, I don't want it to grab my focus and keyboard input.

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  13. Posted

    29 minutes ago, Uwe Raabe said:

    Some people found it helpful to manually uninstall all GetIt packages before the update and re-install them afterwards. The installer seems not to handle that very well by itself.

    I second that.  I had a lot less issues after I started doing upgrades this way.  

  14. Posted

    On 6/13/2023 at 4:12 PM, Brandon Staggs said:

    I couldn't find anything in their documentation suggesting it is deprecated. Can you point me to that? Here's what I did find:

    It is more a defacto observation - since MDI window styling doesn't happen in Windows 10 and 11.

    Ref. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/issues/3691 which has a series of interesting comments.
    So - given it has been like this for 10 years - is it likely to be fixed?

  15. Posted

    @David Heffernan

    20ish years ago, we replaced it with a toolbar-like main window and floating windows with "magnetic" edges.  

    But - the floating approach became less sexy when you no longer could control the window size/position of other apps.


    Today, it would probably have been based on larger windows, with multi layer panels/grids.  It depends a lot on your use case.

    The current apps - which are WMS related - use a navigator sidebar/menu and "virtual tabs".

     

    The drawback of MDI was a lot of space went to borders and title bars.  You could work around that, but why do that when you can just as well do panels/grids/splitters?

    Also - what if MS decides to yank out MDI completely? It is, after all, deprecated.

     

  23. Posted

    Right, so it should be set to false to match the original code samples.

     

    There is something odd in the original samples.

    If I copy the text, and paste it into a code block here - I get artifacts in other.cff - note the red dots.

    Makes me wonder if the artifacts also exist in the original code - in which case it should fail.

     

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