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by alwillis 2y ago
Apple looked at it as an acquisition, while NeXT looked at it as a merger. NeXT didn’t buy Apple obviously, but Steve Jobs and his lieutenants took over the most important positions within Apple. Which made sense given the situation Apple f
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Apple could allow audio chat with no cell or WiFi needed(appleinsider.com)
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Fluid Breakout Layout with CSS Grid(viget.com)
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Tiling, Spaces, and Stage Manager fix the same problem(appleinsider.com)
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by alwillis 2y ago
Actually I have. I’ve used VimR for years, which provides a macOS-native GUI for Neovim. Neovim itself is a very polished project.
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by alwillis 2y ago
As more features get added to current and future AirPods, I'd like the ability to trigger an update or at least be notified if one happens. I get it—95%+ of AirPods users shouldn't have to know about firmware updates. But for thos
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by alwillis 2y ago
> I believe it is a courtesy to remove one's headphone when talking to another person. Social norms change over time; expecting someone to remove headphones will become less of a thing in day to day life. AirPods Pro 2nd generation
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by alwillis 2y ago
There are plenty of GUIs for Neovim [1]. [1]: https://github.com/topics/neovim-guis
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by alwillis 2y ago
Focus Work is another app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/focused-work-pomodoro-timer/id...
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by alwillis 2y ago
Sure, but a trademark applies for products and services in the same category. If someone makes Apple crayons, that’s okay. But somebody making media or computing devices with the name “Apple” in it, that’s a problem.
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by alwillis 2y ago
Great question. A great article on why OKLCH: “OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL” [1]. [1]: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rg...
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by alwillis 2y ago
I remember making shape tables manually in high school. Talk about a trip down memory lane.
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by alwillis 2y ago
> They have the potential to be world-beating (especially Numbers) Don't sleep on Numbers. It doesn't get a lot of attention but it can do some nice things in a much less bloated interface than Excel. It's had regular expr
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by alwillis 2y ago
> Whatever Pagespeed or Lighthouse might say, we haven't found minification to be a big benefit when we turn it on. Minify CSS Potential savings of 20 KiB Minify JavaScript Potential savings of 82 KiB The benefit is less data going
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by alwillis 2y ago
> Uh, no? There are reasons that user-agent sniffing is highly deprecated. I never mentioned user-agent sniffing nor would I ever recommend this outdated technique. Using media queries for responsive design became a thing in 2010 with Et
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by alwillis 2y ago
Sure, but if you've been using Windows for the past 5, 10 or 15 years, it's always been like that.
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by alwillis 2y ago
The average consumer doesn’t consider any of that. I’d guess lots of people upgrading from Intel Macs and to some extent PCs now that Apple Silicon Macs are hitting their stride.
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US Mac market share grew 22% in Q1, likely helped by new MacBook Air models(9to5mac.com)
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> The public itself is not interested in preventing. They think the probability of something bad happening for them is low Which is ironic because we all know someone who’s had a heart attack, cancer or a stroke. And if someone decides t
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by alwillis 2y ago
The site design and content are great; the execution, not so much. I only investigated because someone in the thread mentioned they had a bad experience on a smartphone; now I know why. Each font is another HTTPS request to the server; does
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by alwillis 2y ago
> While I admire Gwern's work a lot, I often find his website is trying to do so much that my browser will really struggle. As a web developer, I often look at the HTML and CSS of interesting websites… I gotta say, I've never s
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Apple Disables WebKit's JIT in Lockdown Mode, & BrowserEngineKit Is Restricted(daringfireball.net)
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Igalia Chats: CSS Working Group Face to Face Live(igalia.com)
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Exposure to greenspace may lower risk of certain cancers(uq.edu.au)
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by alwillis 2y ago
I agree with all of that; I was responding to a comment someone made about only using rems for everything. I probably posted it to the incorrect thread.
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> Until I get an unbiased opinion form a independent third party A core feature of Apple’s Private Cloud Compute platform is the ability for 3rd parties to validate the integrity of the platform.
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by alwillis 2y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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The short answer: rem is for global sizing and em is for local or component level sizing.
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The EU accounted for more than $24 billion in revenue last quarter, the most revenue outside of North America. Obviously this isn't something Apple takes lightly. Take a look at Apple's Private Cloud Compute white paper [1] and ex
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by alwillis 2y ago
It's not a tantrum; it's Apple saying to EU regulators we can't provide these features securely and privately while also while also making them DMA-compliant. Many Apple Intelligence won't fully rollout until sometime in

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