Eric_WVGG

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by Eric_WVGG 5mo ago
also treaties I imagine?
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by Eric_WVGG 5mo ago
Yeah, Disney, the company that recently tried to bankrupt several novelists by claiming that when they bought Star Wars, they didn't put themselves on the hook for respecting contracts that Lucas signed. https://www.hollywoo
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by Eric_WVGG 5mo ago
One of the most frustrating things about getting older — besides all the fun stuff that happens to your knees and hair — is the fact that younger generations just take what has been normal their whole lives and say “yes this is the normal s
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by Eric_WVGG 5mo ago
plants plants plants. Most of these are dummy easy to care for, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study#List_of_p...
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by Eric_WVGG 5mo ago
Looks sick. I think we're at the point where the inclusion of USB-A is a demerit. Also the x86 processor… that's like two toes in the past… still looks like a heck of a machine. I’d take this over a Framework any day.
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by Eric_WVGG 5mo ago
Doesn’t have to be a profit-making venture though, just needs to cover the cost of flights — which are not money losers . If they can build a model similar to REI, count me in.
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by Eric_WVGG 5mo ago
and why the people most prone to praising it are ones who mostly write emails all day. “Wow, this is very, very good at my job, which must be a difficult job because it pays well and I'm a smart guy. Imagine how well it will work for t
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by Eric_WVGG 6mo ago
Speaking of “worse on purpose,” I immediately tried to subscribe to this site’s RSS feed — none. Unthinkable on any blogging platform for most of the past twenty years.
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by Eric_WVGG 6mo ago
Apple was considered very late to the smartphone game at the time. Windows CE was introduced on PDAs around 1996, and was on phones by 2003, so the iPhone was arguably between four and eleven years late depending on how you define the spa
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by Eric_WVGG 6mo ago
similar, but I got the 486 DX2-66. I’ve been thinking a lot about these inflation-adjusted prices due to the big Apple Computer anniversary — an Apple // cost $5000 in 2026 dollars, meanwhile a $600 Macbook Neo cost $150 in 1980 c
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by Eric_WVGG 6mo ago
> Pay for a license for BetterTouchTool. Enable “Move Right Space (Without Animation)” and “Move Left Space (Without Animation)”. > I managed to find [another solution] with none of the aforementioned drawbacks. I don’t consider payi
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by Eric_WVGG 6mo ago
I recently switched from NextJS — where every one of the dozens of projects I built would have 7-8 minute deployment times, regardless of hosts — to React Router, and saw my deployment times drop to 1-2 minutes. Aside from some difficulty w
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
I use the Reeder app on iPad. NetNewsWire and Feedbin are good alternatives. I’ve never had a particularly good experience on web apps.
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
hi, I'm a dev who was working in journalism around thirty years ago and still has some connections. The entire industry is run by actual journalists, it's one of the few industries where people who know how to do the job still ris
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
SteerMouse is legendary. I think it’s been around since Jaguar? Case study in getting it right the first time.
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
I just helped a friend replace her eleven year old 11" Macbook Air with a new M4 Air. her review: “this thing is HUGE :( :P ”
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
I have so many questions. - Was there a lab where they tested beating people to death with IBM hardware? - Where did they find subjects? Volunteers, interns, exit-interviews from layoff rounds? - Now that you can't beat people to death
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
“hardware is slower” single core is significantly faster than the M2 Ultra chip. And when you're browsing the web, single core is all that matters.
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
I feel like if they can profitably sell a Mini-LED in a $1400 14" Macbook Pro, they can find a way to sell a larger one in a 27" display for under $3300… I have the last-gen Studio Display, pretty great during the day (the nano-te
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
Low-res is low-res. Curves on SVGs and vector graphics look terrible.
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
I don't have any official numbers, but it sure seems like the Air is selling worse than the Plus which sold worse than the Mini. (source: keeping an eye out on the NY subway, which I have found to be a pretty damned good gauge of consu
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
This is true. But if they can afford it for the iPad Mini (my other favorite Apple product), then they should do it for the iPhone Mini. an every-two-or-three year release cycle would be fine, ideal even
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
Looks cool, but burns a bit of credibility by ripping off Apple's icon designs. There has to be some fresh-out-of-college graphic designer in Berlin ready to make their name by designing a custom icon library for a project like this, a
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
bemused by how competently designed this is, compared to enshittified blogs and whatnot To be realistic, this design needs more weirdly sexual etsy garbage, “one weird tip,” and “punch the monkey”
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by Eric_WVGG 7mo ago
I texted a RIP message to a friend-chat with the comment, "easily one of the top five space opera novels of all time" One of the friends asked Claude-AI "what are the top five space opera novels of all time," and it rank
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
When a company with good tech buys out a company with crap tech, they're not paying for crap tech — they're paying for the user base. I would wager that Stripe has already put together a consumer-cash platform, and is weighing whe
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
so… what are “ice cookies”
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
Mine is text-box: trim. Twenty years of trying to explain to graphic designers why it’s next to impossible possible to get the top of a capital letter to a box, I feel free like a bird.
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
Thanks for the correction. Still have no idea what it actually means, or why it takes so crazy long. If they have to update symbols upon every OS version bump, are they cleaning out the old ones? It's so frustratingly opaque.
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by Eric_WVGG 8mo ago
Like you, I think that Xcode maybe gets a worse rap than it deserves, but it's also endlessly frustrating. First, the performance is just bad . The responsiveness compared to apps like VSC or Panic’s Nova is night-and-day. The attenti

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