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budgefrankly

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    Comment #47424887

    Drawers were a big feature of early MacOS X, as an alternative to NEXT's multiple columns. App's inherited from NEXT (email, finder, etc.) used columns still, but newer apps used d…

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    Comment #46872101

    > changes too fast The core language has been static for ages, and breaking changes are handled by the edition system so you can use a modern compiler to build code on old syntax. …

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    Comment #46793616

    > Most managers are no longer technical, and just create bloated middle layers that slow everyone else down. > The only managers that are decent are the ones that have kept their t…

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    Comment #46778626

    Telegram isn't even encrypted, at least not in the sense of the on-by-default end-to-end encryption used by WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal. In reality its selling point is that your…

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    Comment #46733463

    Yeah, Swift looks like someone started trying to port a C# syntax onto an esoteric object-orientated C-dialect (similar to Vala and GObject) then at the last moment noticed Rust 1.…

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    Comment #46631705

    In this particular case I believe the mountain is largely karst (limestone) and the panels substantially reduced erosion -- particularly of soil -- leading to an increase in fauna …