cmiller1

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by cmiller1 2mo ago
On the current M series hardware, in my experience, it's rare for the icon to land from its first bounce before the software is up and ready.
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by cmiller1 2mo ago
Perhaps its a slight overcorrection but it's better than the past where an online shop I gave my credit card info to would reply to a forgotten password request with an e-mail with my password in it in plaintext. Security used to be a
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by cmiller1 2mo ago
I think this is less a "macOS lacks the feature to prevent focus stealing" and more they never even imagined the scenario where it takes time for the app to open. Instead of even considering that a user may add inputs while waiti
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by cmiller1 2mo ago
That is likely the case; cost savings, simplicity, etc. but the end result is USB-C does not "just work" for most consumers.
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by cmiller1 6mo ago
I've always found the opposite, do you have any examples where macOS falls short compared to Windows in shortcut consistency?
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by cmiller1 8mo ago
The "this is how you use it as a daily driver" would be for the sub project called SculptOS, you can find details on that and how to set it up here: https://genode.org/download/sculpt
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by cmiller1 8mo ago
Jobs was a terrible person on a personal level, all the other tech CEOs are terrible people on a societal level.
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by cmiller1 9mo ago
Not trying to nitpick you, just genuinely curious what version your first experience was with. There was no System 6.5, there was a 7.5 and System 6 ended at 6.0.8.
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by cmiller1 11mo ago
"CSS-only" colloquially tends to mean HTML and CSS without Javascript, sometimes without images.
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by cmiller1 11mo ago
Lots of javascript for a "css-only" tool. Looks like just the rendering is css-only.
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by cmiller1 11mo ago
Porque no los dos?
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by cmiller1 11mo ago
> Why the hell is there no key to delete a file? Cmd+delete? I don't really want it to be a single key as it's too easy to accidentally trigger (say I try to delete some text in a filename but accidentally bump my mouse and lo
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by cmiller1 11mo ago
One implies "we should regulate AI" and the other implies "we should regulate the wealthy"
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by cmiller1 1y ago
> Like most good stories, this one starts in the middle and works its way back and forth Don't tell me your story is "good," let me read it and I'll be the judge of that.
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by cmiller1 1y ago
Oh, I did something similar on my website! https://interruptkey.com
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by cmiller1 1y ago
Yeah, people who aren't firemen shouldn't be allowed to shout "fire!" they should just burn to death.
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by cmiller1 1y ago
> I wrote Forth/2 out of pure spite, because somehow I heard that it just wasn't possible to write OS/2 applications in assembler I was thinking about this recently and considering writing a blog post about it, nothing fee
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by cmiller1 1y ago
I agree but it'll never make it there, this is exactly what your average user of this site wants to avoid hearing.
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by cmiller1 1y ago
Is it Bit Chat or Bitch At?
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by cmiller1 1y ago
I agree, I also would argue that this counts as an earlier incarnation of the System Settings icon: https://i.imgur.com/cqtpKhI.png
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by cmiller1 1y ago
> Consider EXE – it is probably an executable, but an executable for what? Most commonly Windows Has anyone ever used .exe for anything other than Windows?
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by cmiller1 1y ago
Yes JPEG-XL has an alpha channel.
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by cmiller1 1y ago
How do you pronounce PNG?
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by cmiller1 1y ago
I have software people use up on pypi and I'd love to switch to uv for personal use to benefit from the improved speed but I'd need some guarantees that things work EXACTLY how they work on pip or that I could run them concurrentl
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by cmiller1 1y ago
Seems to only work in Chrome, I stared at the "end result" in both Firefox and Safari wondering what the heck was so special about a regular old dropdown menu.
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by cmiller1 1y ago
Whichever one is selected.
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by cmiller1 1y ago
I'm on the Tahoe beta and holding command with an item selected in spotlight shows the path.
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by cmiller1 1y ago
Absolutely terrible science, the conclusion is a bunch of mechanistic speculation passed off as causal inference, just more keto bro grifters trying to pretend to be scientists.
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by cmiller1 1y ago
Comment from the author found below the post: > New Yarvin has mostly dropped the king talk and switched to proposing an imperial president like FDR but moreso. I agree it would be extremely un-aesthetic for America to have a king (even
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by cmiller1 1y ago
A long time ago when I envisioned a "smart home of the future" I imagined using lots of sensors to control vents, windows, blinds, and HVAC to more efficiently heat and cool the house and optimize comfort in it while using less en

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