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by jen20 8mo ago
This largely shows how far standards have fallen - it’s not that long ago that 8 gigabytes of RAM was unthinkable in a desktop class machine - much less one that cost nothing once inflation was taken into account. It required buying an E10K
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by jen20 8mo ago
I was thinking yesterday while reading the Thinkpad repairability story that I would pay an unreasonable amount for basically this laptop in the chassis of an X220, with a 7 row keyboard and Mac touchpad.
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by jen20 8mo ago
> Many people are stupid, and do stupid things like calling the cops for no valid reason at all. Those people are annoying and can be ignored, Either you are disingenuous or incredibly sheltered. It's hard to tell which, but I suspe
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by jen20 8mo ago
I have personally charged back a transaction (not fraud per se, but certainly not a service delivered) in the last month. It's not just about merchant fraud, it's about holding businesses to account in a world where individual con
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by jen20 8mo ago
Not true as of macOS 15 onwards [1]. [1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/usi...
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by jen20 8mo ago
The real thing consumers get is fraud protection, and the ability to charge back when merchants become intransigent. Let's not pretend other systems (even the ones prominent in the US like Zelle) offer the same protections.
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by jen20 8mo ago
While there are missing features (e.g. ability to merge records), I have to say that Passwords.app is worlds ahead of 1Password since their electron rewrite. System Settings is not the best (mostly because the search is broken), but Passwor
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by jen20 8mo ago
Native is shorthand for "integrated into the platform". Lowest-common-denominator stuff that Electron gives feels correct nowhere (looking at you, Slack). The very best cross-platform applications implement their UI using the nati
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by jen20 8mo ago
The LG UltraFine's were garbage, but got better over time as either the firmware improved or macOS added drivers that worked around the nonsense. For a while I ran with two of them on an iMac Pro with a 5K itself, but switched to a sin
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by jen20 8mo ago
A "private road" typically means one not maintained by the city. I live on one, but so do two other households, who have equal right to drive on it.
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by jen20 8mo ago
Both iPhone and iPad have an app named "Files" too.
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by jen20 8mo ago
Having a .rust-toolchain file and the edition in Cargo.toml should achieve this - and both of these should be done anyway!
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by jen20 8mo ago
The points about tooling certainly do not apply to Java, for example, Maven vs Gradle (which is a huge mess in and of itself - do you use Kotlin or Groovy), and which plugins are you willing to pull in? Or is Ant still the thing? SpotBugs,
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by jen20 8mo ago
I believe both to be correct but “would be surprised if this isn’t happening” to be a stronger statement than “wouldn’t be surprised if it were”.
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by jen20 8mo ago
This is exactly how non-AI assisted speed cameras [1] have worked for almost four decades. You don’t even need video for it. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatso
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by jen20 8mo ago
You can search scroll back on Ghostty nightly. I switched straight from iTerm2 (after 20 years of iTerm), but _do_ remember the reason I rejected Kitty: it has a ton of Python in it, which is usually indicative of software which is going to
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by jen20 8mo ago
It works well enough that I didn't realize I've been on the nightly channel since it appeared, too!
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by jen20 8mo ago
Even better, IIRC on the Treo the phone key would turn it on? I had a Treo 600 and and then 650 from around 2003 until 2007 when the iPhone came out. The 600 was among the best devices I've ever had. Rock solid, did exactly what it sai
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by jen20 8mo ago
Most of the fall in living standards since 2016 can be attributed solely to one thing: Brexit.
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by jen20 8mo ago
If this is the reason (I don’t believe it personally) then there should be no problem with an outright ban on non-compete agreements for zero-hour contracts. Somehow I don’t think employers will agree.
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by jen20 8mo ago
I actually encountered this today - one of a group I am planning a trip with posted some of the breathless nonsense that ChatGPT produced ("you're not picking a hotel, you're picking a group dynamic..." and other such te
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by jen20 8mo ago
It's not done for either of those reasons. It's done to remove the decision point around believing you need to comparison shop on impulse purchases, by pretending that a price will be matched later should you find one. However, th
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by jen20 8mo ago
From where I'm viewing, the standards in software have never been lower.
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by jen20 8mo ago
> those are a blight and it’s the EU’s fault This is the fault of people using unnecessary cookies.
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by jen20 8mo ago
It doesn't even need to be an attacker - CloudFlare themselves have managed to take down impressive portions of the internet more times than should be accepted just this year.
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by jen20 8mo ago
Perhaps in America. Woe betide anyone in the UK who used a landline phone to call their friend before 6pm when the evening rate kicked in.
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by jen20 8mo ago
That extreme centralization makes the single choke-point vulnerable to all kinds of other problems. The web is supposed to be decentralized and distributed.
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by jen20 8mo ago
It rather sounds like you are arguing for the acceptance of weasel words in marketing. Unlimited means just that. Otherwise, there are limits, and the word “unlimited” does not apply.
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by jen20 8mo ago
If swift package manager is using it (I believe it is based on some of the error messages I occasionally see from it), deprecating it is difficult, since SPM is not distributed as an App Store app.
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by jen20 8mo ago
There was never a high quality alternative to Google search, until Kagi - and even that isn't free!

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