matthewmc3

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by matthewmc3 9d ago
Conversely, a no-AI ethos is one that will very likely need to be walked back at some point in the future for tech products. AI isn't going anywhere, so finding ways to use it constructively with your product is going to be a far bette
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by matthewmc3 12d ago
I'm not convinced about ignoring everything, but one of the best changes I ever made to my git workflow was ignoring all dotfiles by default by adding `.*` to ~/.config/git/ignore. My projects do now have to have a boile
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by matthewmc3 22d ago
10% of Microsoft's revenue is Windows. Azure is closer to 40%. Their focus has shifted hard from software to services. Azure is making them around $100B and growing. It'd be far more surprising if they were putting their focus bac
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by matthewmc3 4mo ago
Exactly. We heard for years they wouldn't do generics it until they could do it right, and that was perfectly fine with me. Who wouldn't want a well thought out implementation? Then they released generics and it was like, "th
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by matthewmc3 4mo ago
Generics being omitted wasn't pitched as a feature that I ever saw. The discussion was mostly around "hic sunt dracones" with generics. The Go authors were very aware from the get-go that generics are an incredibly difficult
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by matthewmc3 4mo ago
As far as I can tell with oils, they haven't fully defined what YSH is going to be yet - you basically have OSH (the bash compatibility syntax), with the option to add YSH features as a bolt on. It'd be like Zsh shipping with a bu
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by matthewmc3 5mo ago
Scott Forstall here. I’ll resign before I apologize for the choices we make at Apple. All our research shows you’re gonna love it, and if you say you don’t it’s because you’re wrong, not me.
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by matthewmc3 6mo ago
> Moving the request to the Start Centre is not an escalation, but a change in location and frequency. I support LibreOffice and what they're trying to do here, but this statement that it's not an "escalation" out of
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by matthewmc3 6mo ago
Wow... that's... incredible. I've used Hammerspoon forever and never knew that existed. Just messing around I found you can extend the grid size with `hs.grid.setGrid('4x4')`, which you also may then want to shrink the t
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by matthewmc3 7mo ago
Tahoe will be gone in 7 months when macOS 27 comes out. Meanwhile we've been talking about ads in the Windows 11 start bar since 2021 and Gnome 3's Gnaval gazing since who knows when? Apple tries something weird every now and then
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by matthewmc3 10mo ago
Honest question - if it comes in binary form, how can you know it's the same core ZFS code BSD uses?
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by matthewmc3 10mo ago
You forgot perhaps the most important one: 3. six `six` was instrumental in repairing the Python schism by giving people a way to incrementally move their 2.7 code to Python 3, and write code that was compatible in both. The six project did
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by matthewmc3 1y ago
So if Google is to learn from others’ past mistakes, it ought to be able to leverage Gemini as long as the user can easily and fully swap out Gemini for an alternative. That was the problem regulators had with IE and the App Store.
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by matthewmc3 1y ago
That album still shows up today in jarring ways in Apple Music when you use the Create Station feature because it was on everyone’s phones and their algorithm still isn’t good enough to recognize when one of these things is not like the oth
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by matthewmc3 1y ago
> You can't navigate to a hidden folder by typing its name (let's not get too creative!). You can, actually. ⌘-SHIFT-G in Finder lets you navigate to any folder by typing in the path - even hidden paths. No mortal user would ev
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by matthewmc3 2y ago
The just sounds like ⌘-Z with extra steps.
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by matthewmc3 2y ago
Fish has a lot of features out of the box I find really useful: * Command auto suggestions as you type based on your history * History search (using up arrow) based on a partial command * Helpful completions and descriptions when you hit TA
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by matthewmc3 2y ago
You can get the rest of the way there by combining the Hammerspoon method of launching with WezTerm's ToggleAlwaysOnTop feature. I use a similar method described here: https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues&#x2
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by matthewmc3 5y ago
The bigger irony is that Python has had its own venv built in since 3.3. I haven’t needed virtualenv for years.