Oreb

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by Oreb 6d ago
Shameless self promotion: If you’re a Mac user and want something with native look and feel, there is also The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton (TestFlight beta): https://testflight.apple.com/join/mqfhpmHY There
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by Oreb 13d ago
Some humans are much better at writing. Most humans are not. If you think they are, you are luckier than I am when it comes to the humans you need to communicate with. As a non-native English speaker, I think the current LLMs write better
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by Oreb 1mo ago
I’m working on The Marvelous Brass Chessplaying Automaton, a chess app for Apple platforms: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mqfhpmHY This work is motivated for my lifelong love for chess, my passion for Apple hardwar
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by Oreb 3mo ago
> A year ago none of my normie friends new them, and when i suggested using Claude looked at me like when I recommend Linux. Isn’t that still the case? Normies haven’t even heard about Claude, in my experience.
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by Oreb 3mo ago
> The abstractions allow devs to build faster or work on things users care about I care about native macOS look and feel. Sadly the entire industry has pretty much decided that this is no longer worth the effort. I miss the days when Mac
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by Oreb 3mo ago
Not really. The problem with the names in Dostoyevsky (and Russian literature more generally) isn’t that the names on their own are difficult to remember, it is that all names also have familiar forms, which are sometimes very different fro
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by Oreb 3mo ago
My own experience from elementary school was that teachers being wrong was shockingly common. There is no subject in which I would trust any of my elementary school teachers more than a state of the art LLM. This was in Norway. I’m guessing
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by Oreb 4mo ago
At least for now, no, it is not possible. I agree that what you describe is how it ought to work in an ideal world, but it would probably require some serious rethinking of macOS UI/UX in order to make it work. For instance, it is not
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by Oreb 4mo ago
Yes. I spend maybe half of the year (on average) away from home, traveling with my MacBook. I bought the Vision Pro to use as a portable display, and I’ve been extremely happy with it. I work in it about 8 hours per day whenever I’m away fr
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by Oreb 4mo ago
I don’t know much about the Baltics, but in the Nordic countries, dismissing employees is no easier than in France.
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by Oreb 4mo ago
Posts like this makes me feel like I’m using a different World Wide Web than everybody else. Where are all these pages that don’t work in WebKit browsers? I use Safari as my main browser, I open Chrome only when I encounter a web site that
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by Oreb 5mo ago
I vaguely remember that there was also TRES. EINE = Eine Is Not Emacs ZWEI = Zwei Was Eine Initially TRES = Tres Replaces Eine’s Successor
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by Oreb 5mo ago
Not a cheese, despite the name.
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by Oreb 6mo ago
> syntax is hard to read unless you spend a lot time getting used to it That’s pretty much exactly the opposite of how I always felt. Perhaps because I’m not a programmer by education, I always struggle to remember the syntax of programm
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by Oreb 7mo ago
I’m not sure I’m representative of “most people” in this respect (I have always used both n and m dashes), but I personally find the difference between n and m dashes bigger and more noticeable than the difference between regular and n dash
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by Oreb 7mo ago
I agree, I always found the charging port location to be a total non-issue. The battery life is long, charging is fast, and you get warned that the battery level is low long before the mouse dies.
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by Oreb 7mo ago
Does it depend on what type of programming you do? Doing Swift/SwiftUI work, I have exactly the opposite experience. I’ve been using both recently, and I want to use Claude alone (especially after the last week’s events), but Codex i
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by Oreb 7mo ago
I honestly don’t understand why Liquid Glass provokes so strong reactions. To me it’s not that radically different from the old design. I don’t love it, and I don’t hate it. There is nothing new that in any way impacts how I use or experien
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by Oreb 7mo ago
As a native speaker of Swedish and Norwegian, I can mostly understand spoken Faroese (if they speak slowly). In spoken Icelandic, I understand some words, but rarely a complete sentence.
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by Oreb 7mo ago
Phonetic spelling would perhaps make the language easier to learn for native speakers, but it would make it harder to learn for foreigners, at least those of us who come from Europe. Most words in written English resemble words in Germanic
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by Oreb 7mo ago
> The Spanish I understand most easily is the heavily accented Spanish of non-native Spanish speakers. Are you sure this is because of their accent? I have the same experience with French (the non-native speakers are easier to understand
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by Oreb 7mo ago
Why do people even use the app? I never understood it. I always just run Slack in my browser.
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by Oreb 8mo ago
I also find it hard to agree with that part. Perhaps it depends on what type of software you write, but in my experience finding good test cases is one of those things that often requires a deep level of domain knowledge. I haven’t had much
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by Oreb 9mo ago
Why Sweden? Did you mean Norway, perhaps?
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by Oreb 9mo ago
I agree with your general complaints about the decline of Apple’s software quality, but what’s your problem with Safari? I’ve never found another macOS browser I like half as much.
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by Oreb 9mo ago
“Emacs Makes Any Computer Slow” is another one I remember from back in the days.
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by Oreb 9mo ago
And astrophysics has MACHOs and WIMPs.
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by Oreb 10mo ago
> Dark mode should be reserved for after sunset and before sunrise. Isn’t that already how it works in all major operating systems?
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by Oreb 11mo ago
The Helix mode in Zed is promising, but still nowhere near complete, and has a long way to go before it is as user-friendly as the Helix editor. For instance, the nice pop-up display of available commands. When I press “g” in Helix, I get a
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by Oreb 11mo ago
How do we know how high pterodactyls were flying?

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