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LaunchBar doesn't use Spotlight's data. And so, as a result, can't search for data inside files. That said, it provides a Search in Spotlight command – that you can assign a shortc…

I also host my own email. In my case, Google always routes the first email I send to a new Gmail address as spam. After the recipient marks the email as good, future emails are rec…

Gmail always rejects the first email I send to a new gmail account. It does this every time – and has done for years – despite the fact I have sent emails to hundreds of other gmai…

Space en-dash space is standard British typography – whereas US uses em-dash and jams the words together on either side of it. It took centuries for the written word to acquire spa…

I agree. And this together with the obvious misunderstanding of Exhalation re: thermodynamics led me to put down the article. I don't think the article was written by an LLM, but I…

Verily.

Robert Saunders, Reader in Modern British History at Queen Mary’s London, wrote an interesting thread about “the economy”. https://bsky.app/profile/robertsaunders.bsky.social/post/…

Years ago, I went to live and work in Strasbourg. My French was… rudimentary, school-level, but after a few weeks I was picking up the rhythm and following along. Then the grand ch…

Thanks. This is excellent, as you'd expect from Emily Maitlis.

Proper old school investigative journalism, and he didn't hold back. Terrific scam, but, y'know, PayPal – I'm an old timer and remember the early days of that outfit. They're still…

> Not sure why the reply buro9 gave is dead I vouched for it, so it should be visible now.

If you're interested in how vector calculus developed, and who was instrumental, all the way from Newton/Leibnitz to Dirac or so, by way of Hamilton, Maxwell, Einstein and others, …

Stacy McGough wrote about this topic recently wrt the third Gaia data release: https://tritonstation.com/2023/09/19/recent-developments-con...

The best – and I think the only – way to discover what good code looks like is to work with it. Eventually, after working on, say, half a dozen code bases, you'll start to understa…

There's a real world example of this situation from the six-month Irish bank strike of 1970. Cheques, pubs, and trust ultimately replaced the banking system; and everything kept mo…

293,000¹ vs 184,000², so about 1.6 times the word count. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire#Publish... ² https://www.anycount.com/word-count-of-books/harry-pott…

Let me present a counterpoint. I have two Apple machines. One is old and stuck on Catalina – three iterations behind the current macOS [Catalina -> Big Sur -> Monterey -> Ventura] …

This is exactly how it was on twitter during the early years.

Yes, this is the biggest problem. Otherwise it's a great project. But until this is fixed, not worth playing, sadly.

Philip Pullman uses it too to great effect.

Climate breakdown is commonly used in the UK.

Guy Debord wrote about this thoroughly in The Society of the Spectacle (1967) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/381440.The_Society_of_th... And Johnny Rotten: “Ever Get the Feeli…

Sebastian Barry is a master. Try Days Without End. Quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/50666270-days-without-... The criminally unknown Janni Howker borders on poetry in …

re: The Golden Compass (sic) Not only did the American editors change the title, but the device in question – the alethiometer, which is not a compass – is made of brass not gold i…