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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 f…

> 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 a…

> 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 thi…

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…

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 t…

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 U…

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…

I don’t know much about the Baltics, but in the Nordic countries, dismissing employees is no easier than in France.

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 b…

I vaguely remember that there was also TRES. EINE = Eine Is Not Emacs ZWEI = Zwei Was Eine Initially TRES = Tres Replaces Eine’s Successor

Not a cheese, despite the name.

> 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 educat…

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 mo…

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…

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 (…

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 …

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 sen…

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 Europ…

> 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…

Why do people even use the app? I never understood it. I always just run Slack in my browser.

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 r…

Why Sweden? Did you mean Norway, perhaps?

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.…

“Emacs Makes Any Computer Slow” is another one I remember from back in the days.

And astrophysics has MACHOs and WIMPs.