GeneralMaximus

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by GeneralMaximus 2y ago
I’m a macOS/Linux person, but I feel this is a bit of a hot take. I see Linux users copy and paste commands into their terminals all the time, sometimes without understanding what they’re doing. How is that different from clicking “nex
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
> And then they move on to the next topic, without making any argument why the thing they just discussed is important, or what implications it might actually have. There are so many articles on the Internet that dive into the implication
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
JavaFX programs needed the Java runtime too, and they were still just Java apps. How is the JRE different from Safari or Edge? Or is my understanding of JavaFX incorrect, and it somehow turned applets into native binaries when you dragged t
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
> I don't see how "owning" has to include updates for life. Oh, I never meant to imply that. Apologies if it came off that way. I just meant to say that if UpfrontPayment.app wants you pay $60 to upgrade to a new major ver
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
I've had mixed experiences with apps that I technically "own". On one hand there's iA Writer. I don't even remember when I bought the app -- five years ago? seven? ten? -- and I'm still getting regular updates
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
If you want, it's possible to wire it up too! I use the included USB-C cable to connect it directly to my MacBook. It's much more reliable that way, especially if you're on a flaky WiFi connection.
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | Bangalore, India | local or remote with worldwide availability I'm an independent frontend engineer with over a decade of experience building complex browser apps. In recent years, I've delivered projects using Reac
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
I've been using GitHub Copilot since it was in early preview. I still have it turned on in VS Code. Sometimes I have a spotty Internet connection and it fails to return any completions. I barely notice when that happens. If my text edi
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
> Personal sites still exist in the west, but nobody really seeks them out. The IndieWeb movement, standards like WebMention, services like Neocities, and a growing Fediverse have made it so that there is at least some interest in person
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
I have far too many subscriptions, and I should probably cancel some of those. I'm only going to list the ones I like and regularly in this comment. Git Tower. I don't like git and I don't like interacting with it from the co
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Backdoor snuck into Python packages targets developers(arstechnica.com)
3 points by GeneralMaximus 3y ago|0 comments
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
Oh, that’s very cool. Do you think it’s possible that Squeak and/or Pharo will ever want to build upon the UI work done by the GToolkit developers?
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
Would Automerge be a good choice for a non-realtime single-user app that just needs to have reliable offline support? E.g a personal note-taking app where the user will never have any collaborators, but where they expect the app to work ful
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
I personally make liberal use of parens to make the precedence of operators as clear as possible. Then I run formatting tools like Prettier or rustfmt on my code, which remove any parens that are not strictly required. This way, I end up wi
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Toga: A Python native, OS native, cross platform GUI toolkit(toga.readthedocs.io)
2 points by GeneralMaximus 3y ago|0 comments
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
The idea makes sense to me. It's basically Emacs, but using Smalltalk instead of Lisp. Instead of using plain text to create your user interface, you have access to a built-in UI toolkit. That's very neat! What's more interes
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
If you don’t want to go to the trouble of setting up a Git repository and connecting it to Netlify, you can always use Netlify Drop: https://app.netlify.com/drop Just drag and drop the directory containing your website to t
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
The one I have most problems with is "Toronto". Every time I've heard it said out loud by somebody from North America, it has sounded like "Turrawnno", with the T's barely audible. On the other hand, my (very P
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Everything wrong with tech in 2023 (in no particular order)(joanwestenberg.com)
43 points by GeneralMaximus 3y ago|51 comments
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The modern CEO job is broken – AI could make executives useful again(businessinsider.com)
4 points by GeneralMaximus 3y ago|1 comments
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George R.R. Martin and Many More Join Authors Guild in Lawsuit Against OpenAI(tor.com)
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
> I'm curious what Mac software you use in 2023 that is only available on Mac. Ulysses, Bear, Things, Reeder, Mela, Alfred, MindNode, just to name a few. These apps are incredibly well designed, and have no equivalents in the Window
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
I really REALLY want to use Pharo to build something significant -- I love the ideas behind Smalltalk -- but I've been disappointed every time I've tried. My problem is that, in 2023, Pharo still doesn't support high DPI disp
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
Emacs and Vim are both up there. Modern VS Code is basically Sublime Text with extra steps, which is TextMate with extra steps, which has been around for more than 15 years now. While it didn't pioneer it, TextMate popularized the &quo
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
I use iPhones because I can get 5-7 years of use out of each one. Can you recommend an Android phone that has the same level of software support? Preferably something that also works properly with my MacBook, because that is what I use for
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
If you don't use Apple Music at all, you can uninstall it from your phone and it will stop being the default choice. I do this on my phone without any problems.
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
They gave up on FirefoxOS too soon. They also didn't promote it in the markets where it could have made a real impact. I live in India, and a dirt cheap FirefoxOS phone would have done very well here if only they had made it easy to pu
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
Sadly, Firefox has abysmal support for PWAs on both mobile and desktop. I love Mozilla and Firefox -- and I still use it as my primary development browser -- but at this point Firefox is functionally worse than Chrome, Edge, and Safari on m
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by GeneralMaximus 3y ago
What’s “mainstream”? Why is English “mainstream” while other languages are not? Twitter’s second largest market is Japan, with Saudi Arabia ranking fourth, Brazil, Turkey, India, Indonesia, and Mexico all in the top 10[1]. While a lot of pe
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by GeneralMaximus 4y ago
The difference is that ads in Windows don’t go away even if you already subscribe to all possible Microsoft services. I own a license for Windows 11 Pro, pay for Microsoft 365, and use Edge as my default browser. But I’m still shown ads ins

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