isametry

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by isametry 2y ago
In spirit, this kinda reminds me of the Czech chemical nomenclature – large parts of it (including original names for many elements) were designed pretty much single-handledly by natural scientist Jan Svatopluk Presl. This was part of the C
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by isametry 2y ago
It should definitely by lying like this, because that information routinely gets abused to force you into just giving full access. Apple could totally be more strict with the App Store, and eliminate contact-stealing malware such as: - In
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by isametry 2y ago
• New numbers: fortunately you can just type the number in. • Adding to groups: Sharing an invite link is a good workaround, you need to be group admin though.
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by isametry 2y ago
This is the reason I made a dummy contact of myself. My own contact is by far the most bespoke in my address book: it has multiple numbers, emails and addresses. It also has many "family member" fields filled out (which allows Sir
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by isametry 2y ago
I think these permissions should be handled in a way where the app simply cannot know whether you gave limited or full access. The app should see a pool of items (contacts / photos / health data / whatever) without the info
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by isametry 2y ago
You're not wrong, the frontpage screenshots don't entirely do it justice. That title bar you mention is one of the most custom-looking components for sure, especially in the "Neon" theme. But it gets better when clicking
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by isametry 2y ago
No disagreement. But I was talking within the scenario where you only get one . (Should have pointed that out.)
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by isametry 2y ago
Greatly put, thank you so much. We should put this up somewhere as the Mac-assed manifesto. But I would actually add, on a more fundamental level: 0) Does it actually run on my metal? I.e. not in a VM, not any sort of "thin client&quot
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by isametry 2y ago
First, I wish there was a resource but there isn't. This kind of just lives on as bits of folklore among users and devs. You'd think Apple's guidelines was a place to start, but honestly not really. The sibling comments gave
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by isametry 2y ago
I'm gonna bite on this example since you chose such a good one: if the convention on the platform is that `Page` buttons are like scrolling – NOT like arrowing – then good applications should respect that convention. You personally lis
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by isametry 2y ago
I think he's implying that it's a decent bet when running a business, yes.
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by isametry 2y ago
I am also interested in Zed! (Although I think the program still needs a bit of time to smooth out the edges, plus not everyone may be a fan of the AI and collaborative features, which get a lot of care in the GUI. You can turn all of it of
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by isametry 2y ago
First word of the headline – it works and feels native to the platform. JetBrains and especially VS Code don’t respect the conventions of macOS software, visually as well as functionally.
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by isametry 2y ago
> grew organically over centuries (1.75 centuries, to be exact)
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by isametry 2y ago
A helicopter cannot drive on land?
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by isametry 2y ago
Emmet Brickowski furniture idea: Double-Decker Couch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is0tzNUZwF4
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by isametry 2y ago
Typing this from a German iPad keyboard. It’s the ampersand key (& → §).
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by isametry 2y ago
Well you’ve just answered your own question: because it’s not just font metrics. There seems to be more to that custom view than a standard line of text; something about that view is not optimized for low-dpi displays.
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by isametry 2y ago
Did this possibly start when they added “live” collaboration (quotation marks placed very intentionally) to shared notes? [0] says that was in macOS Ventura 13.1 and iOS 16.2. I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to rewrite the text editing
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by isametry 2y ago
You mean another, more compact version of `j` with a shorter descender? Well that’s called an alternate glyph. Kerning is strictly about the relative spacing between two adjacent glyphs. The only case that would ever be vertical is if you
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by isametry 2y ago
Not GP, but usually when people talk about the "dumbing down" of macOS, they refer to new apps and GUI elements adopted from iOS. macOS as an operating system has been "completed" for about 7 years. From that point, almo
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by isametry 2y ago
> but bad for cars Or in other words, it’s good against cars :)
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by isametry 2y ago
(What's happening here is a reduction of the color count: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_quantization )
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by isametry 2y ago
I find it helpful to set a different wallpaper for every space. In fact, that approach has been so useful that I’ve mostly stopped wishing to rename the spaces – I can glance at the colors so much faster than I could ever read a written tit
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by isametry 2y ago
> and not deal with the Photos app What’s the point of this qualifier? Why not use the current, up-to-date default app for photo import that has been there since 2002 to literally serve this purpose? Yes it has a lot of extra functionali
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by isametry 2y ago
Ignoring most of your comment and only focusing on this part: > the world needs smart people like you solving real problems It has them. And they’re doing pretty much exactly this. What’s described in the OP resembles a pretty standard m
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by isametry 2y ago
Successful product != well-designed product. Microsoft got Windows where it is by having no sense of self-respect and willing to play the B2B race to the bottom. And it remains dominant thanks to decades' worth of legacy software that
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by isametry 2y ago
I don’t have an exact answer either, but based on this particular image, “duotone effect” is definitely a keyword.
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by isametry 2y ago
(La)TeX is an example of a very enlightened _idea_ that offed itself \footnotemark{} with a spectacularly cursed user interface. It is simply gross to write, and it's difficult for frontends, converters and GUIs to make it much bette
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by isametry 2y ago
I, for one, realized quite soon that this is well out of International Color Consortium‘s jurisdiction and capacity (however non-compliant the color profile implementations in Gaza might be).

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