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Everyone clapped. Someone handed over a hundred dollar bill. The name of that Bill? (Bill Clinton/Benjamin Franklin/Albert Einstein)

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  • Swiss pikemen were trained well-enough that they could maintain a wall of pikes while walking, or even at a trot (‘pike charge’, also the name of one of the holding positions for a pike, ‘at charge’). Swiss pikemen would become the last word in European warfare for some 200 years, and their imitators would eventually form the basis of modern professional armies, replacing the ad-hoc retinues of the warrior-caste of European aristocracy.

    Meritocracy … good?
    Bullshit nobility… bad?

    My god, with these strategies, I could control the biggest contiguous land empire the world will ever know!


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    I found the happily short-lived windows “metro” interface similarly jarring like you describe, but the gnome equivalent has never caused me any difficulty for some reason.

    That’s interesting. what separates the two for you? Because I dislike them both for the same reason. Is it the subtle blur and transparency for gnome?



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    Are you just talking about the way the app launcher uses the whole screen?

    yep

    That seems like the silliest thing to care about

    well, I find it jarring. It’s my preference/feeling/aesthetic and I’m entitled to it. There are enough ways to do that don’t take up the whole screen that my opinion must be fairly common. Macs have spotlight, the start bar that has existed forever, Krunner…