chipotle_coyote

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by chipotle_coyote 6mo ago
Well, it hasn't under the OS/2 name, but as the licensed successor ArcOS, its last release was literally this year. (Of course, that's also why OS/2 is pretty unlikely to be open-sourced any time soon: it's actually
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by chipotle_coyote 6mo ago
I have her album “No Mermaid” and wondered what happened to her. It’s a great album.
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by chipotle_coyote 6mo ago
At least in my experience, having worked in both Florida and California, that's more of a wash than people imagine it's going to be -- and more so than the "cost of living calculators" tend to demonstrate, at least if yo
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
"This might feel counterintuitive" is precisely why the religious right has seized on transgender participation in athletics as a wedge issue. When they say "well, somebody who was born as a man obviously has a natural advant
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
It's not pretty, but both Pages and Numbers are pretty powerful in their modern incarnations. If you actually need Microsoft Office, then you need it, but a lot of people who don't think they could get away with just Apple'
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
"Be indecisive." It means multiple things. :) Also, (1) the image is dithered, ha ha, and (2) The image on the page https://daringfireball.net/2020/05/dithering is an 863K PNG. (Which I bet we could stil
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
"For all my bitching, I'd still recommend it" has been my take since I got it sometime last year. It's kind of remarkable -- the ads are absolute trash and the apps, while not bad, are a little weird in hard-to-define
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
I think it would be more accurate to say that Bluesky is like pre-Musk Twitter because the moderation teams at both Bluesky and Original Twitter are primarily trying to remove/suppress posts that they consider to be illegal, violent, o
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
My point was more just that assigning a year to "no way to ever tell" seems as fraught as assigning a year to virtually any technological achievement we haven't seen yet. :) My strong suspicion is that by 2030, LLMs will be e
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
> Have you used AI to write documentation for software? Hi. I have edited AI-generated first drafts of documentation -- in the last few months, so we are not talking about old and moldy models -- and describing the performance as "e
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
When will Teslas be self-driving again?
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
While I understand that, I can't help but compare this to Mac hardware rather than software. There was a years-long stretch when it seemed like they'd really seriously lost the plot: the butterfly keyboard, the Touch Bar, the &q
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
I mean, you can take your iPad back to Apple and have them replace the battery, you know. For my current one (a "4th generation" Air) that'd be $120, which is not cheap, but it's cheaper than replacing it for $700 and
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by chipotle_coyote 7mo ago
As a technical writer who's spent a great deal of time recently editing AI-drafted documentation, this use case is not going to go as well as AI boosters think it is. :)
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by chipotle_coyote 8mo ago
It's the same challenge as picking an email server, which is why no one does that. ... Seriously, joining Mastodon is not particularly difficult; people just freaked out a few years ago at being asked to pick a server to join. The jo
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by chipotle_coyote 8mo ago
Trump didn't even win 50% of the people who voted. He got the most votes (a plurality), but ~1.5% of the votes went to third party candidates, slightly more than the gap between Harris and Trump voters. One of the many reasons this
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by chipotle_coyote 8mo ago
As someone who uses Git for technical writing and Word's revision system for fiction that goes back and forth with an editor, I mean, sure, it's sort of a merge request, but you need to place a higher value on the "goes back
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by chipotle_coyote 9mo ago
Of course not, but I'd rephrase what the OP said as something more like "it's unrealistic to expect them to go 'hey, guess what, never mind about all that' after a half a year. I think it's more realistic to ex
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by chipotle_coyote 9mo ago
Almost everyone buying MacBooks installs applications outside of the App Store, the process for which has never changed (e.g., download it and run the installer or unzip it, use the free open-source package manager of your choice, etc.). I
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by chipotle_coyote 9mo ago
Shortcuts are (probably) never going to be consistent across Linux apps; that's something Mac, and to some degree Windows, developers just historically care about more. I've also never found a better hardware trackpad than Apple&#
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by chipotle_coyote 9mo ago
Syncthing is great. I'm closer to the poster you're responding to -- I tried Asahi Linux and liked it, at least when I ignored the "Mac users will probably like GNOME more" and switched to KDE Plasma (this Mac user, at
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by chipotle_coyote 9mo ago
I don't remember Vim's Markdown support to be anything special, either; I do a lot of Markdown work, and tended to use Markdown-specific editors on the Mac like Ulysses and iA Writer, while doing my technical writing in BBEdit.
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by chipotle_coyote 9mo ago
When you say "better Emacs support," you're kind of understating things: Org Mode was -- and to a large degree, still is -- tied intimately to Emacs. It was only available in Emacs for years, and if you didn't use Emac
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by chipotle_coyote 10mo ago
Is there a connection between Tim Ferriss and Roomba, or is this just a joke about Brooks having a 4-hour workweek?
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by chipotle_coyote 10mo ago
That would be ideal. It's my (very limited) understanding that the costs of making television and movies makes that kind of scenario unlikely, though.
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by chipotle_coyote 10mo ago
I think you're right, but I've always been a bit skeptical of that vision -- it implicitly relies on the assumption that "THE streaming service" will choose to make as much content available as technically and legally po
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by chipotle_coyote 11mo ago
Roger Rabbit was voiced by Charles Fleischer. (Paul Reubens was under consideration in an earlier version, and you can find his voice tests out on YouTube, which might be what you're remembering.)
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by chipotle_coyote 11mo ago
I read the "fantastic 1981 novel", too, and you know what? It wasn't very good. It had a lot of really interesting world-building and some cool ideas, but the characters were flat and the central mystery was terrible. Despi
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by chipotle_coyote 11mo ago
I think it's not as much "if this guy becomes the lead I'm immediately quitting my Ruby job to return to PHP" as much as "if this guy becomes the lead I'm probably going to return to PHP for my next job."
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by chipotle_coyote 11mo ago
The specific examples in the thread, AFAICT, are about iOS, not macOS, and the person you're responding to specifically mentioned Macs. It's very hard to find examples of "things you cannot do on an Apple Silicon Mac due to A

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