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by matwood 9mo ago
> There isn’t any app on windows or linux that can match what Preview does. And Quickview, and printing to a PDF. Maybe some equivalent exists in Linux/Windows now, but Preview is pretty amazing and something I take for granted ever
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by matwood 9mo ago
> My laptop has been up for 43 days You made me check mine...40 days. Last reboot was likely for a macOS system update.
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by matwood 9mo ago
> which makes it worth sacrificing the ability to run your machine the way you want? I’ve never felt like I couldn’t run my machine the way I want. When I leave macOS is when I start to miss all integrations and ease of use affordances.
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by matwood 9mo ago
Good point. We all end up with different definitions of sys admin. I’ve managed fleets of Linux servers just fine with a macOS as my only client computer, but I’ve never managed other clients. Maybe a Linux client would have helped in that
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by matwood 9mo ago
This would be my answer, though I also do sysadmin stuff from macOS just fine. I've used OSX/macOS for a long time, I understand how it works and how to move around, and the ecosystem integration is nice. Adobe products, MS produc
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by matwood 9mo ago
> I've never personally understood the point of macOS for power users These threads always end up with veiled insults like this. Can you really not understand people who use Windows, Linux and Macs? They each have their strengths de
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by matwood 9mo ago
At this point, not-a-Mac often stands out more if you want to cite conspicuous consumption.
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by matwood 9mo ago
Good catch. Initially it was defunded, but looks like something has now survived.
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by matwood 9mo ago
> So why is inflation still so low? Inflation was on a glide path to the 2% target until the tariffs. Now it's back to ~3% (most say the 2.7% was off b/c of the missing data). The general economy is also slowing. Job growth has
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by matwood 9mo ago
> And bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. has been a pretty big GOP selling point. Which is comical since the US is the #2 manufacturer in the world behind China. And that makes sense given the absolute size of China. The US manufact
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by matwood 9mo ago
> She just didn’t lie and claim she had a magic wand to fix price gouging her first week in office. This is part of Trumps genius and preys on many American's ignorance. Ask random people on the street if they understand the inflati
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by matwood 9mo ago
> They will never ever not vote Republican As someone who grew up in the south, I know many people who left the GOP over Trump. Obviously not enough people have, but there is a glimmer of hope.
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by matwood 9mo ago
> - US inflation has continued to slow at 2.7% with core inflation at 2.6%, continuing the trend from the last 2 years under Biden after a huge 9.1% inflation spike in 2022. Because of the missing data from the shutdown, most financial p
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by matwood 9mo ago
> Religions need relics, and if they can’t find them, they are created. I have long believed that being religious primes people to also lose the ability to think critically in other areas of their lives.
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by matwood 9mo ago
> Writing code is one means among many for achieving an outcome, and if the same outcome could be achieved by the business without software, the software would be dropped instantly. Not because care doesn’t matter, but because the purpos
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by matwood 9mo ago
Time and thus cost. Early in my career I would look across a fairly large company at processes being ran on spreadsheets and see if it would be worth the time to create software to address and if those processes should be standardized. We b
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by matwood 9mo ago
> I think once you are asking for people’s money you should know what is going on pretty thoroughly. If that’s the bar, there likely a ton of businesses that should shut down…
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by matwood 9mo ago
> If so, you should make all generated code your code, exactly in the form it needs to be according to your deep expertise. This is solved problem with any large, existing, older code base. Original writers are gone and new people come o
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by matwood 9mo ago
It’s not marketing speak, but it’s rarely 100 percent one or the other. > More marketing speak. If you are using LLMs to write your code, by definition your product isn’t “polished”. This doesn’t make any sense. Polished to who? The end
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by matwood 9mo ago
He was a speakerphone or hold it to his ear person lol. Only used headphones if he was listening to music.
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by matwood 9mo ago
> However, I lead a life of very few meetings An old business partner had meetings which felt like 24/7. He had zero issue taking a phone call in the bathroom. I doubt anyone on the other end ever knew.
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by matwood 9mo ago
> gym no one talks with anyone The thing about the gym is you need to be consistent at the same days/time for a while. Eventually proximity will lead to some interactions. Instead of having full blown conversations at the gym though
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by matwood 10mo ago
That assumes your backlog is finite. Is the tech writers backlog also seemingly infinite like every tech backlog I've ever seen?
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by matwood 10mo ago
Same. Chrome dev tools, especially around JS are just better.
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by matwood 10mo ago
I had a 2008 Tundra I sold when I moved to the EU not too long ago. Still miss it. It was big, but could easily tow my boat or haul anything I needed. Was a 4 door and had a full sized bed. Had 125k miles when I sold it, and still ran great
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by matwood 10mo ago
> Elon got heavily involved in politics hurt it quite a bit I think the Cybertruck was DOA and his involvement in politics got people who shared his views to buy one in order to signal the same.
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by matwood 10mo ago
> Put your money where your mouth is I do, through my tax dollars. And the amount of money that was DOGEd was literally couch cushion change on the scale of the federal budget. And not only did those cuts directly lead to deaths but weak
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by matwood 10mo ago
I was about to write this. Heat pump dryers take a little longer, but they are so much gentler on clothes.
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by matwood 10mo ago
Agreed. I go to many industry conferences and rarely step foot on the conference floor. It's a great way to get everyone I need to speak to in one place for a few days.
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by matwood 10mo ago
I agree with you. It should also be clearly marked it's AI. I have this discussion all the time about written stories. At some point AI will start creating very good and possibly great written works. Do we ignore them because they are

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