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by jxdxbx 11mo ago
Ghostty is so great. Cross-platform but native on Mac and Linux. Core written in a cool random language, showing that you can have well-behaved Mac apps that aren’t just pure Swift / Objective C. Same great design no doubt helps here.
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by jxdxbx 11mo ago
I like System 6: the most complete version of the “real” classic Mac OS before System 7 started to be more “modern.” Dead simple, not a lot of new abstractions and metaphors layered on.
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by jxdxbx 11mo ago
I tried to get it set up so I could boot into my Windows partition natively and also boot it in a VM in Qemu on Linux and, what a nightmare.
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by jxdxbx 11mo ago
Cosmic.
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by jxdxbx 11mo ago
As I expected lots of discussion of scrolling managers in this thread. I'll just say that I think that scrolling windows managers like Niri, which I use, are very well suited for laptops in particular. Tiling WMs always feel cramped
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by jxdxbx 11mo ago
I have tried and failed to use the Mac Teams app repeatedly. I will try to join a meeting I’ve been invited to, but there is some conflict between my personal and word Microsoft accounts that causes it to flip out. Only the web app reliab
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by jxdxbx 11mo ago
Tell every game console maker.
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by jxdxbx 11mo ago
Hi bluetui author. I just discovered your app last week, just wanted to say it is great. I truly like this new generation of command line utils (I have bat, eza, etc aliased to things like cat and ls) and TUIs like yours. TUIs in particul
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by jxdxbx 1y ago
You don't need a license for most of what people do with traditional, physical copyrighted copies of works: read them, play a DVD at home, etc. Those things are outside the scope of copyright. But you do need a license to make copie
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
Typst is cool, but sadly (I checked with experts on the discord), there is still no way to simplify legal citations to create a table of authorities; you'd have to mark each one manually somehow, just like in Word. (Every single citat
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
I hear this a lot, but what the hell. It's still computer chips. They depreciate. Short supply won't last forever. Hell, GPUs burn out. It seems like using ice sculptures as collateral, and then spring comes.
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
I mean, you can invite anyone. it’s not limited to apple device invitees.
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
I switched to iCloud for my personal email once it supported personal domains (switched from Fastmail). It’s all I need really. Work is Gmail of course, with its annoying-in-retrospect tagging system instead of folders, which causes havoc w
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
More misleading random circuit sampling benchmarks. All it proves is that Google has built a quantum computer that does quantum things.
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
For a long time the best Apple display you could get was in the iMacs. An iMac with nothing used with it besides a wireless keyboard and mouse, where you can even hide the ethernet port in the power brick, makes for a nice clean desk.
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
I’ve been using an M1 iMac as my main home computer (with 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD) and have zero reason to upgrade. I’ve loved it. Exactly what I need, though I offload a lot of home server type tasks to a big tower PC, including messing with
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
The Major Questions Doctrine is just a way for the Court to reject a reading of a statute even it agrees is supported by the plain text. It a statute gives an agency broad authority, the agency should have broad authority, and if Congres
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
I've never given KDE a shot (only used Gnome and XFCE) but...not that Linux needs more fragmentation...System 76's Cosmic Desktop (don't make us use all caps please) is very interesting. FWIW, I like that Gnome is more "
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by jxdxbx 2y ago
I would not trust an "open source" app that is just a web app.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Google should send traffic to airlines, not intermediary booking services
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I didn’t want to pipe up right when it happened with my non-expertise but seriously, that Odysseus lander seemed liked a pretty dumb design. Of course it tipped over. Come on
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Not that it matters to anyone else, but having driven across that bridge dozens of times with my kids, this is just shocking. It’s one of the main corridors in the area. Thank god it happened in the middle of the night, though that’ll be no
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
re: using Unix tools on Windows, I do like that you can pipe the output of a program in WSL to the Windows clipboard (clip.exe). I was really surprised by this! I use pbcopy on the Mac for this all the time.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Claude is better than GPT 4 for my uses, and was able to help me do some simple coding things that GPT 4 could not. It’s worth trying at least.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Store shelves would be empty and businesses would shutter. There’d be less to buy. Banks would hold on to money instead of lending to productive businesses.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
Deflation has always been a disaster.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
I’ve followed her for a few years now sort of in horror as she’s become a YouTuber. She seems contrarian for the sake of it.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
There are 3” Android “media player” devices for under $100 on Amazon. No cellular but cool to play with.
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
How does this relate to synthetic data?
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by jxdxbx 3y ago
My Apple trackpads don’t click when they are powered off. It just feels like pressing a piece of glass.

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