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by signal11 3mo ago
I recently got myself a Lenovo P-series Thinkpad to test something. My main machine's an MBP, so I was prepared for some pain, but honestly even an old Windows 10 box feels less laggy than the Thinkpad's fully-patched 25H2. Using
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by signal11 4mo ago
For the MS folk reading this: native zsh on Windows, please? WSL2 is great, but native POSIX is even better. Of course it’s a big undertaking, but it makes Windows a first-class dev platform for those who need POSIX in production.
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by signal11 4mo ago
Does this explain the numerous password reset messages I’ve received over the past year?
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by signal11 5mo ago
Yes, I was wondering about this. Old iPads running iPad OS 15 received updates last month . So even an iPad Air 2 from 2014 could receive updates in 2026. The big issue with old iPads though is that apps drop support for older iPad OS vers
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by signal11 6mo ago
I was using poetry pretty happily before uv came along. I’d probably go back. Note that uv is fast because — yes, Rust, but also because it doesn’t have to handle a lot of legacy that pip does[1], and some smart language independent design
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by signal11 6mo ago
If you believe the rumor mill, Touch-enabled Macs may launch this year[1]. [1] https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/08/apple-planning-macbook-...
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by signal11 6mo ago
> There's so much extra padding and rounding now I don’t like it either, but I wonder if that’s to support the touch-enabled Macs that the rumor mill is reporting about right now. In any case, Tahoe has many other issues beyond padd
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by signal11 6mo ago
Liquid Glass is Apple’s Windows Vista. They had a ton of fun with Vista in their “switch” ads, if the Windows team were in better shape they could have a field day just screenshotting Tahoe on Social Media. Lucky they’re distracted with the
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by signal11 7mo ago
The EU’s tech regulation has always been a bit “off”, like they don’t really understand tech or how to encourage improved behaviour. Eg cookie popups, those are a blight and it’s the EU’s fault — to the point they’re working to roll them ba
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by signal11 7mo ago
Last I checked, they were working on interop so you can move your keys from one provider to another without creating CSV files or equivalent[1]. However from my PoV — if the user or an open source project wants to create CSV files, they s
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by signal11 7mo ago
Shafting open source projects that implement your spec is not okay, and is terrible optics. Tech journalists should ask the FIDO Alliance if they’re just Google+Apple+Microsoft in a trenchcoat. Definitely not very open!
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by signal11 8mo ago
Yes, UIDocumentPickerViewController is 10+ years old at this point. There’s also a similar photos picker (PHPicker) which is especially good from 2023 on. Signal uses this for instance.
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by signal11 8mo ago
If you work with macOS or iOS users, you won’t be super surprised to see lots of “curly quotes”. They’re part of base macOS, no extra software required (I cannot remember if they need to be switched on or they’re on by default), and of cour
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by signal11 8mo ago
I’ve been using em-dashes since high school — publishing the school paper and everything. I remain slightly bemused by people discovering em-dashes for the first time thanks to LLMs. Also, “em-dashes are something only LLMs use” comes peril
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by signal11 8mo ago
>> Windows 11's file browser lags when opening directories with more than 100-ish files. Windows 11's file browser takes a few seconds to open at all > I can almost guarantee this is from some endpoint management software
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by signal11 8mo ago
Even “only” information funnels have value if they seek out valuable info, filter, curate. In reality some funnels in this context mutate the message they’re supposed to pass on :-)
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by signal11 8mo ago
In markets where Whatsapp is entrenched, it’s already begun to enshittify. They have ads and spam already (sorry, no-consent messages from businesses). This isn’t even new. [0] There’s a clear pattern, say “we’ve rolled out strict policies”
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by signal11 8mo ago
Is it practical to pay BT or HyperOptic to run fibre to you? If enough households commit to a contract they’ll sometimes do it for free.
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by signal11 8mo ago
Tahoe is a macOS mis-step on par with Windows 8 or Windows Vista. If you’re from Apple and reading this, my feedback is pretty succinct: “I don’t recommend others upgrade. I wish I didn’t.” Luckily for Apple, Windows 11 is not exactly in a
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by signal11 9mo ago
I agree with the “enforce competition laws” sentiment, but in this context, enforced naively , all it’ll do is entrench the dominant browser engine, Blink, even more across the mobile ecosystem. I’m sure some devs will love this. But equal
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by signal11 9mo ago
Many people forget — Google once used to penalise sites with some abusive behaviours, so webmasters had a vested interest in having decent web pages if they wanted good rankings. Somewhere along the line (when Prabhakar Raghavan was running
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by signal11 9mo ago
Design patterns are language independent, but a lot of the ones many Java devs focus on are a bit meh. In a world with only assembly language, for instance, it’s a bit like making a big deal about a “guarded repetition” pattern (aka a whi
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by signal11 9mo ago
I agree. Perl made sense as a “step up” in the world of *sh and awk. Also the culture wasn’t hostile to me as a newcomer. The Perl books I read encouraged not writing overly terse, cryptic code, and I got helpful answers via mailing lists.
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by signal11 10mo ago
You’re entitled to your opinion. All I’ll say is that in the context of the bald fact (French has an older literary tradition than English) presented by a previous commenter, “understandable by modern speakers” is moving the goalposts. In
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by signal11 10mo ago
This is a great example of moving the goalposts re the original (false) point that a previous comment made about French having a longer literary history than English. If you’ve got a specific agenda, say x > y, you can be very selective
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by signal11 10mo ago
Heh. English actually has an older written tradition than French. Not that it’s a competition or anything. But it’s interesting to see people make assumptions about easily-looked-up stuff.
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by signal11 11mo ago
Coincidentally, this site runs Arc[1] code. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language)
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by signal11 1y ago
> only downside is you have to upgrade every half year LTS OpenJDK distributions from eg Eclipse (17, 21 etc) stick around for longer[1]. Heck, you can still get updates for JDK 11 and even 8. You do have to update the runtime for securi
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by signal11 1y ago
> Sadly modern java also tends to come with springboot and people who can't do anything, unless they use springboot Spring Boot (and Spring generally) is more of a “Java culture” issue — someone on this thread used the term “framewo
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by signal11 1y ago
I’m not sure I follow. The UK and other European countries have equivalents, although the term “de minimis” isn’t used. The UK has a £135 limit, Germany iirc had €150. This is the limit for duty exemptions, VAT still applies.

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