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For Photoshop specifically (and perhaps other CC programs, but I'm less familiar with them) another problem compared to alternatives is that a great wealth of instructional material (tutorials, paid video courses, etc) are built around
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Super cool project. It makes me wonder what the smallest/barest SBC one could get away with for emulating the last 68k Macs or average mid-to-late 90s PPC Mac at full performance might be. Retrofitting a modernish laptop body of some s
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There may be an argument that reducing the voting age could result in more politically engaged under-30s (and eventually, over-30s). At 18 most people have too much going on (high school graduation coming up, studying for and applying to co
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It's odd how little attention we've paid to the long-term effects of viruses in general. The cumulative effects of the illnesses they cause could easily be carving off multiple years of healthy lifespan for millions of people but
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This is true, with the caveat that your imports don’t share member names in common (e.g. you can’t static import two “medium” members, one from SpiceLevel and the other from PizzaSize). Swift doesn’t have this restriction, at least as far a
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The bulk of my UI graphics and mockup work has been in Sketch for around a decade at this point, with the odd excursion into Pixelmator Pro or Affinity Photo for work more suited for raster graphics. For vector work I’ll occasionally use Af
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IMO many of its most glaring issues could be fixed by “simply” (I know it’s probably more involved in reality) swapping out bespoke widgets for standard GTK counterparts with more standard/commonly familiar behaviors. The poster child
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I can’t offer much in the way of reasoning or explanation, but having written plenty of both Swift and Kotlin (the latter of which being a lot like a more verbose/explicit Swift in terms of syntax), I have to say that in the day to day
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The problem is, reliably catching programs misbehaving is non-trivial even for the technically capable, let alone everybody else which easily results in a lot of damage having been done by the time they’re caught, if they’re caught. I don
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I don’t have data to back it up but I think both the number of people moving and the frequency of moves has increased substantially in the past couple of decades. Some of this is undoubtedly going where opportunities exist; my graduating hi
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I think I remember playing with POV-Ray (along with Yafaray) as alternative renderers for Blender back in the early 2000s, not long after Blender had been ported to OS X. At that point I had been making simple scenes in Blender for a while
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I believe that this is a much larger contributor than many realize. Moving is a total reset for the individual and a hole left behind for the town moved out of.
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The WM being tiling-dominant doesn’t really make sense if one only ever tiles the odd window every now and then. In that situation it makes more sense to use a floating-dominant WM with light tiling features (like that of Windows, most majo
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Exactly, nuance is important. Short term protections are good, but companies shouldn’t be able to keep works from entering public domain for decades on end.
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What I dislike about the 7 → 8 transition is that it went from feeling like a handcrafted Mac app to an indistinguishable generic SaaS thing, which is exacerbated by 8 being built with Electron (which brings dozens of little papercuts that
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Even as someone who keeps a laptop booted into Linux most of the time, yes there are bumps and rough edges that will be encountered once venturing off the most common path of “internet, video, and word processor box”. It’s much better tha
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Timely with how official support for the old 1Password 7 apps probably won’t be continued for too much longer, with 1Password pushing users over to the notably worse v8 apps. I’ll probably switch.
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This is why I typically only use LLMs in programming as a semi-intelligent doc delver with requests like, “give me an example of usage of X API with Y language on Z platform”. Not only does it goof up less frequently on small focused snippe
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> Much more low hanging fruit exists if you give up on writing a Chromium clone. One idea that’s crossed my mind (may never get around to trying it) is writing an engine that completely ignores everything that’s not modern HTML5 and CSS3
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Wonky spaces seem to be a fairly common thing in dreams. One that I used to have every so often was walking around inside what at first seemed like a normal room, then looking up to see that the ceiling was several tens of stories high, as
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I think this sort of thing is more subjective and dependent on what the user is used to than most are willing to admit. I find the vaunted Aero Snap feature incredibly annoying for example because it’s so “noisy” with its proposed-snap anim
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It also means that app devs can’t just eschew menus altogether in favor of junk drawer hamburger menus, like is so common on Windows/Linux. Even Electron apps that don’t have menubars under Windows/Linux usually do under macOS b
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Got that reminder a couple of months ago when doing a fresh 7 install on an old Core 2 Quad workstation laptop. It’s very clean and “quiet” compared to modern Windows, and though its visual style isn’t exactly fresh I don’t think it exactly
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A bit tangential, but it’s a bit shocking how consistently bad firmware for x86 motherboards and laptops is, as is most visible in the UEFI configuration screen. It makes me wonder if a new entrant in the motherboard/laptop space could
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In fairness, I’ve encountered similar flakiness when using third party window/desktop manager utilities on Windows. Commercial OSes in general just aren’t designed with that kind of flexibility in mind.
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> I would have liked window snapping, but instead we have 1/2 baked split screen virtual desktops. There’s at least non-fullscreen tiling available now if you hold down Option/Alt when hovering over the green traffic light (whi
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Having dabbled in some of this for a hobby project (not a window manager, but adjacent), it’s because the official APIs to do these things with are limited. You end up relying a lot on undocumented private APIs and hacks, which are flaky bo
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For one, Starship+Superheavy will enable launching of large objects like space telescopes without forcing object in question to be engineered with expensive, delicate, failure-prone folding mechanisms (like the James Webb Space Telescope wa
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Yeah, a lot of the friction comes from macOS being one of the only surviving major desktops that isn’t based on a Win9X paradigm, instead being a blend of classic Mac OS and NeXTSTEP (both dating back to the 80s) with a smattering of modern
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The free Itsycal[0] can display whichever date pattern you prefer. It’s what I’ve been using for several years now. [0]: https://www.mowglii.com/itsycal/

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