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by veidr 2y ago
Linux pulled ahead of macOS for desktop computing like 3 years ago. But, that was about 3 years after desktop computing became this niche thing that only GenX/Boomers still do... (T_T)
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by veidr 2y ago
> What you’re arguing here is not that Fauci was doing science Well, sure. He was doing his job as a government employee, and right then the job wasn’t to do science and spend the next five years doing a comprehensive study on the virus.
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by veidr 2y ago
You are. When there's an active pandemic killing thousands (would become a million, just in this (outlier bad at responding to it) country), "science" doesn't require having a peer-reviewed ten-year old study that has be
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by veidr 2y ago
In this context, it just means "underappreciated" or "less widely known or acknowledged than other inventions of similar magnitude of impact". I don't think it's millennial slang; I'm almost 50 and I'
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by veidr 2y ago
I came here to say that part about EndeavorOS. I've never had any problems with Manjaro, and it seems actually quite good to me, too. But the key difference is that it uses its own, different, package repositories. EndeavorOS is simila
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by veidr 2y ago
Well, you don't have to abandon double clicks in probably the most common case, where click is a non-destructive action like "select" that can precede the double-click action (e.g. "open"). Long-press does indeed ha
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by veidr 2y ago
I feel like this is the most important comment I read before giving up — Altman seems to have tried to move fast and break things (a dubious strategy at best) but now he's going full Musk/Shkreli.
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by veidr 2y ago
But that's the problem with science. (I love science!) In general, for many horrific (from an individual standpoint) problems, the time delta between "hmm, that's potentially a concern, I wonder if there's a causal relat
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by veidr 2y ago
Yes, that was it! The delivery of that line, deadpan, was so well-done I laughed out loud. That's why I rememebered it, even though I don't personally ever need to set multiple timers.
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by veidr 2y ago
I hate the join the "unreliable anecdata faction" in a thread where we are talking about well-established science-backed points (eating 1000+ extra kcal of trash most days contributes to being overweight; walking 10x more every da
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by veidr 2y ago
Yes, you are right, of course. I missed the faint pen shadow the first time I watched the video. It appears in addition to the mark preview, and is indeed a nice touch.
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by veidr 2y ago
Ohhhhh — OK, I watched in on my phone, and did not actually see the faint shadow of the pen body itself, and thought we were discussing the preview of the pen tip. I retract my statement, haha — that is indeed some pretty nice attention to
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by veidr 2y ago
Yes, it does. The "shadow" isn't a shadow, it is a preview of what your mark will look like, before you actually make the mark. So if it isn't aligned how you want, you can rotate the stylus in your fingers to get the an
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by veidr 2y ago
One of the Apple bigwigs made a self-deprecating joke about this at a recent Apple event. I forgot which one, but it was something like "annd... you can now even set more than one timer. Will technological wonders never cease!" I
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by veidr 2y ago
This isn't "insane attention to detail" — it's the basic functionality of the new feature. It's not just a shadow to look cool, it's literally the shape of what you are going to draw, if you actually touch the
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by veidr 2y ago
I do not know the story, but I remembered the book because of that, and now after having mentioned it here, I just bought it. So my n=1 study indicates it was a successful design. :)
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by veidr 2y ago
Worth noting that this set of exercises was created by the author of "Zero to Production in Rust", the well-reviewed book with the crab-in-a-human-skull cover[1]. [1]: https://www.zero2prod.com
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by veidr 2y ago
You want it if you yourself use the iPad for more than just watching Netflix, and you ever hand your iPad to your child without locking them into a single app using that feature. Otherwise, they can do things like delete incoming chat messa
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by veidr 2y ago
> But at a time when many creatives feel like AI is going to replace them or make their skills irrelevant, it's pretty tone deaf. This is what I realized, too. At first, I thought the outrage was dumb, but I think this is the conte
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by veidr 2y ago
I get why this take is so common, but it's just wrong. Not that most use of iPad isn't consumption, but that this is different. PCs, too. MacBook Whatevers, too. TVs, too (obviously). The iPads have had a hard time because, yeah,
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by veidr 2y ago
Yes, it has always reminded me of the old "Apple just sells all those shiny devices because they're good at marketing " trope. As if marketing alone could do that. Poettering does seem to be, to a casual observer, kind of a
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by veidr 2y ago
I will start saying this, too. :) Instead of e.g., "blah blah blah a monorepo — not necessarily a literal monorepo in terms of having only one repo with every single project in it, but a repo in which several related projects are coloc
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by veidr 2y ago
This article sucks. Does your company have tens of thousands of employees? If so, hopefully you have some engineers working on your tooling. If not, you don't have the problems described here, and you will also happily get all the &quo
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by veidr 2y ago
BTW the key to getting work done in AVP while running on a machine (or any other active scenario, like housework or walking to the grocery store) is to enable some of the Accessibility features. The normal dictation feature is so bad it is
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by veidr 2y ago
I agree. I’m reading this (and now typing this reply) from the Vision Pro, while doing a 2-hour low-and-medium-intensity cardio workout on my elliptical trainer. Hard to overstate how much better this is than the old MBP/iPad plus big-
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by veidr 3y ago
I don't think so — in this specific case (and probably you can extrapolate to some degree in a generic way) one of those viewpoints has proven to be more successful/adaptive/helpful than the other. Even though they are both &
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by veidr 3y ago
As somebody old enough to a.) have used svn, and b.) only fully migrated everything to git in 2010: Subversion:CVS was like NVMe-SSD:HDD, and Subversion:Perforce was like SATA-SSD:HDD. Git:Subversion is more like RTX2080:RTX3080, or, say, &
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by veidr 3y ago
That's how I remember it too, with the additions that they also did a bunch of additional shit like show early-stage surveillance ads, and sign you up for unwanted mail lists by default, and more, but all less-awful than the installati
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by veidr 3y ago
Not that wild. It's not like Boeing would convene a board meeting and take a vote, "should we hire a contract killer to eliminate this threat?" When a company hires a killer to kill somebody, it is almost always[1] one person
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by veidr 3y ago
I clicked through to ask this, as well. I appreciated Dioxus directly addressing that in the README, but would also be interested to hear experiences from people with experience using both of them. With Tauri, I built a toy desktop app to s

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