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  • That’s just people not used to dedicated cycle paths.
    You would likely have as many issues of a pedestrian trying to cross a road and not seeing a cyclist, as you would travelling on a dedicated cycle path with an ignorant pedestrian.

    It just needs everyone calling out people on cycle paths. They likely aren’t even aware they are on it.

    But that’s a lot to read into a single picture. Maybe they have checked both ways, and know nobody is coming (like they would with cars on a road)

    Edit:
    The 2 people further down don’t look like they are crossing!


  • I can understand.
    We have some new dedicated cycle lanes in our city (I mean, they are a few years old now. But fairly unique in our country).
    I feel bad for the cyclists. They have a dedicated path, which pedestrians are super ignorant of (they are better marked than this picture).
    My parents think they are a menace when they visit, because they are unaware of them and get menaced by cyclists.
    Except, that’s literally what roads are. They just grew up with roads and (even faster) cars.

    So, I am understanding of the transition.
    And everyone needs to call everyone out over it. It will make everyone safer


  • WRT macros & VBA conversion:

    with AI to save time and avoid errors

    Maybe it saves time, but I doubt it avoids errors.
    I would rather the time spent to develop this was spent on improving the plugin/extension/macro development ecosystem.
    I know they have an SDK, and I’m sure it’s great.

    But with MS Office, I can install Visual Studio, create a new VSTO plugin for what I’m targeting (excel, word, powerpoint, outlook etc), and get into coding. When I hit Play (as in run with debugger) it will launch the targeted application and build/hook in my plugin.
    It’s literally idiot proof, until it gets to writing code (then it’s c#).
    And Visual Studio is a decent IDE.
    The only thing really holding it back is the terrible documentation from Microsoft regarding the VSTO or Com Interop or whatever it’s called. It’s truely terrible, trying to figure out how to implement your idea.

    Make Codium systems similar to Platform.io (which is for Arduino, ESP32 etc), except for your given office suite.
    Make it better than the Visual Studio VSTO experience.

    That’s what I really want.
    And more people to use it, of course. I’m so fed up of Microsoft crap









  • I had an offline windows account on my laptop.
    I was freelancing for a company that gave me a Microsoft account.
    I logged into teams, but was very careful not to assign my laptop to that account. I had to use teams, but I didn’t want my client to manage my device.

    Shortly after I installed Linux, which broke windows bitlocker, and I had to get my bitlocker key.
    I hadn’t set up bitlocker, I wasn’t expecting it. As far as I was concerned, I had bricked my device.
    On a hunch of “hmm, maybe”, I checked my Microsoft account from the client, and it has a bitlocker key which unlocked my windows install.

    At which point, I disabled bitlocker and now primary Linux.
    But yeh, in my experience bitlocker is transparently applied during windows install and you never know your bitlocker key. If you never log in to a Microsoft account, you will never be able to recover it if you don’t save it in advance. And if you don’t know its happened, why would you know to save it in advance?!
    The fact that I was able to recover my bitlocker key for my offline/local windows account because I had installed & logged-in to teams via a client provided Microsoft account is strange as fuck.