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by lapcat 7mo ago
> Man... How did yall white Westerners turn out to be the weakest people in the world? You were supposed to be the bastions of freedom and justice This is a misunderstanding of American history. From its founding by wealthy white male la
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by lapcat 7mo ago
FYI I just published a follow-up, "The evolution of Mac app window corners": https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/3/4.html
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> So I think it would be wrong simply to say "the UI has gone a cliff, they've just thrown away their own HMI guidelines." My own view is that Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard was the beginning of the end, and it's gone downhill
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> this particular thing is not new. Article author here. I think the quoted claim is somewhat misleading. There are at least two different ways to interpret a UI feature as "not new": 1) The feature has been in the operating
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by lapcat 7mo ago
Here's a Finder window screenshot from Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah: https://512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/10-0-Cheeta... Notice two things: 1) The window chrome with traffic lights and title is
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> Any time Jobs had to step aside from the CEO position, Cook took over immediately. Any time Jobs had to step aside from the CEO position temporarily , Cook took over immediately. Metaphorically speaking, Cook kept the trains running o
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> Why would Apple keep copying the worst ideas from Microsoft? Remember also the "Get a Mac" ads that parodied Windows Vista permission dialogs, but now macOS is a permission dialog hell. Tim Cook was an IBMer. I'm sure th
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by lapcat 7mo ago
For me, a replaceable battery is the most important factor. With my level of usage, it's not a question of if but rather when I'll need to replace my MacBook Pro battery. It used to be so damn easy with my 2006 MBP. Pop the old on
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by lapcat 7mo ago
This article mentions that leisure and hospitality are down: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/economy/us-jobs-report-februa...
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by lapcat 7mo ago
The economy is an abstraction. Millions of individual consumers are concerned with the environment and have demonstrated that they're willing to take individual actions to reduce their environment impact. However, individual consumers
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by lapcat 7mo ago
See also from yesterday, "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261968
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> What if you're wrong? What if one day you wake up and the world (as we know it) hasn't ended? It appears that you misunderstood. I said, "This is not [emphasis added] like nuclear war" and "We're cursing
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> Methinks our current path has been determined since ~1980, with ~2000 probably being the last chance we had to stay under 1.5C. That's why I said "I realized this back in the 1990s" and was later complaining about Al Gor
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> So we should celebrate, and learn from, the occasional success. What success? It's too late. The time for decisive action was decades ago. The worst case scenario is occurring now. Humanity totally failed to avert a disaster. We&#
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by lapcat 7mo ago
Another interpretation is that Gore engaged primarily in symbolism. The Kyoto Protocol itself was primarily symbolic, with little or no enforcement mechanism.
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> If that's how you judge what "empires" will be left in a decade, good for you I don't make such predictions. I'm not Nostradamus, and neither are you. I don't think anyone can predict what will happen exac
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by lapcat 7mo ago
You're missing the point, which is that by all accounts, Al Gore was a close advisor to Bill Clinton.
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> the US hegemony is dying The US just deposed the leaders of two countries, Venezuela and Iran, but ok.
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> A 1 or 2 vote "majority" in a chamber is not really meant to allow you to do anything. 1) Democrats had a filibuster-proof super-majority during Obama's first term. 2) The filibuster is not in the Constitution. It can be
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> Guy tried. Give him a sticker.
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> the other would very much like to take action on the issue if they had the political power. They had political power! During the Biden administration, during the Obama administration, during the Clinton administration. Al Gore is a f
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by lapcat 7mo ago
Obama takes credit for U.S. oil-and-gas boom: ‘That was me, people’ https://apnews.com/article/business-5dfbc1aa17701ae219239caa... You have to be born yesterday to believe that Democratic leaders haven't merely h
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> Yes, in one country who seems hellbent on destroying itself. One of the largest countries in the world, measured by size, population, economy, and military. If you hadn't noticed, the US can do a lot of damage to the rest of the w
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by lapcat 7mo ago
> My hunch is there are not many who want to suffocate while trying to exist for shareholder value. Have you... read the news lately? You say it's not a matter of politics, but the politicians are absolutely trying to roll back the
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by lapcat 8mo ago
[UPDATE:] Oddly, it depends on whether the window has a toolbar or sidebar.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> I just checked: No, the corner radius is different. It may depend on which SDK version the developer uses.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
It's weird for the author to mention Mac window buttons and corner radius as reasons to use Electron, because while the main content of Electron app windows is HTML, the Electron windows themselves and the window chrome are native, wit
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> cross-reference all of Apple's CVE notes I never suggested that. But Apple itself prioritizes patches by severity when deciding what to backport. Some issues are so severe that Apple occasionally releases a new security update for
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by lapcat 8mo ago
But you probably don't want to receive all and only beta updates either, which is what the beta channel will give you.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
On the other hand, not all new security vulnerabilities are backported either. Do you think that new major OS versions introduce only fixes and not bugs? I think version N-1 is a good balance between getting the fixes and avoiding the new b

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