cosmic_cheese

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by cosmic_cheese 5d ago
I use Sublime mostly these days but I still have a soft spot for TextMate. Sublime is the closest that exists to its spiritual successor, but it’s missing the “macness” that TextMate brought back in the day, which is the cost of being a cro
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by cosmic_cheese 6d ago
In my mind this hinges on whether LLMs become capable of actual comprehension of the code they’re writing. If not, for serious projects (especially those which are mission-critical), it still makes sense to optimize for human understanding
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by cosmic_cheese 6d ago
On the JIS 2003 model, the more traditional Control position is great (it’s how I map my boards) but the Caps Lock positioning is really good too and makes so much sense with how infrequently it’s used. Very little risk of accidentally hitt
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
I’m more than a bit out of my depth discussing the topic, but I’m not sure than imperative-dominant languages will ever really go away or that functional-dominant languages will ever become as popular as C and C++. Ugly as they may be, impe
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by cosmic_cheese 7d ago
Yep. Google has been incredibly aggressive in promoting Chrome over the years, including practices similar to those Microsoft gets lampooned for doing the same with Edge. The thing is that most of this is invisible to people who already liv
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by cosmic_cheese 8d ago
I feel like that was always going to be the outcome with how many of these datacenter projects have been conducted. Shady backroom deals, hearings deliberately arranged to be impractical for residents to attend, residents’ opposition being
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by cosmic_cheese 8d ago
Same. I prefer Celsius for most other things but I find Fahrenheit very well suited to climate usage.
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
A lot of odd desktop/workspace behavior comes down to the OS confusing screens. It’s at its worst when one has 2+ of a monitor model that incorrectly reports the same EDID across all units of that model (surprisingly common). Some of i
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
From the American side it felt like we had more cross-pollination with Australia in the 90s than in the decades following. Disney even had a studio out there that animated some of the TV shows it aired in the US (and presumably in Australia
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
That’s the beauty of Linux though, users can use the software that suits them best, at least in theory (said software needs to first exist). Even if it’s deemed a dead end by some, data-dense desktops of various flavors can continue to exis
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
And that’s fair, GNOME doesn’t need to be a macOS-alike, but it’d be nice if something was! As an aside, I have yet to be convinced that touch on desktop operating systems makes any kind of sense and the MacBook Ultra or whatever it ends
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
> What exactly do you miss about the Mac desktops when using gnome's? For me the only thing I've noticed is lack of independent desktops per monitor though Windows also suffers that deficiency. No independent desktops is indeed
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
Snow Leopard was solid, but when I went back and used it I was surprised by how I missed some little bits of polish that'd been added since. My ideal would probably be Mavericks 10.9.5 with the Leopard/Snow Leopard 2D grid virtual
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by cosmic_cheese 9d ago
Window management (and indeed, desktop environments in general) are rather subjective I think. As someone who's been using Macs in some capacity since 1996 I'd be upset if macOS suddenly resembled a traditional Windows desktop or
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by cosmic_cheese 10d ago
Ease of backup too. One of the issues I take with browsers allowing web apps to save data locally is that they don’t also expose a way to easily locate the data in the filesystem or export it, and to my knowledge on-disk format isn’t standa
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by cosmic_cheese 12d ago
Slim, lightweight form factors similar to that of the Bigscreen Beyond are not going to be practical in a self-contained headset for quite some time to come, at least if the goal is to play anything more demanding than Terraria on it and it
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by cosmic_cheese 12d ago
I'm ready to pay it to not be forced into using Facebook's terrible desktop software that they frequently break the PC Link functionality of. The way it's Windows-only also sucks; it's one of the few things that's p
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by cosmic_cheese 14d ago
In the long term, yes, but infrastructure projects are famously drawn out in the US due to meddling from NIMBYs, companies puppeting sham environmental groups, and third parties forcing their way in and holding projects hostage unless they
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by cosmic_cheese 15d ago
I had heard that prices went up as a result of the oil supply crunch. Not seeing where the downgrade is, though. Even the cheaper trims of Ariya are nicer, better equipped, and more powerful than any new car in the low-mid 20s price range a
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by cosmic_cheese 15d ago
It kills me that Japan and other countries have a nice hybrid Honda Fit that the US will never see.
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by cosmic_cheese 15d ago
It’s almost maybe not a bad idea to take a ~30m breather on a 250m trip. Good opportunity to grab a bite to eat too since many chargers are situated near rest stops and restaurants.
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by cosmic_cheese 15d ago
It’s not just old EVs that are cheap, it’s 1-3 year old low mileage off lease models too. My numbers may a bit out of date but for example, depending on the trim and mileage, the Nissan Ariya can be be had at between $15-$25k (with MSRP bei
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by cosmic_cheese 15d ago
Last I checked, depending on one’s needs, used EVs are among some of the best values in the US used car market. Their prices are closer to what prices on used gas cars would’ve been had the market not been turned on its head during the pand
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by cosmic_cheese 15d ago
To be clear, it’s definitely improved some in that time, but there still yet remains plenty of room for further improvement. Google seems extremely reticent to have anything resembling strong opinions in Android’s API design and so there ar
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by cosmic_cheese 16d ago
And following this, I'm sure we've all seen the pattern of manufacturing the data required to justify the removal of features. Bury feature → usage numbers tank → oh hey look nobody uses this any more, guess we can safely cut it!
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by cosmic_cheese 16d ago
Absolutely. I think that over-reliance on analytics has had a similar effect; compared to relying primarily on proper usability research and in-person user studies, doing that creates a detachment and distance that further removes the proje
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by cosmic_cheese 16d ago
I'd like to see equivalents of UIKit/SwiftUI components that do most of the layout/navigation heavy lifting for you. For most apps, either the iOS 18+ UITabController or UISplitViewController comfortably covers every platform
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by cosmic_cheese 16d ago
Speaking personally, JVM toolchain bits like Gradle being involved is a turnoff and has kept me away from KMP. Last I checked support wasn't really there yet, but I'd much rather go the other direction and use Swift Package Manage
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by cosmic_cheese 16d ago
> I can absolutely see that being more attractive especially with things like the Duo where, I assume, SwiftUI gives you a number of things "for free". Apple may not trumpet it as loudly, but these freebies are handed out in UI
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by cosmic_cheese 16d ago
The thing that makes Microsoft's case particularly annoying is that they have demonstrated how they can develop half-decent Electron apps with VS Code, but have simply elected not to with anything that's not VS Code. Like yes,

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