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cmiller1

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    Comment #49036165

    On the current M series hardware, in my experience, it's rare for the icon to land from its first bounce before the software is up and ready.

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    Comment #49035470

    Perhaps its a slight overcorrection but it's better than the past where an online shop I gave my credit card info to would reply to a forgotten password request with an e-mail with…

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    Comment #49035354

    I think this is less a "macOS lacks the feature to prevent focus stealing" and more they never even imagined the scenario where it takes time for the app to open. Instead of even c…

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    Comment #48920005

    That is likely the case; cost savings, simplicity, etc. but the end result is USB-C does not "just work" for most consumers.

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    Comment #47544705

    I've always found the opposite, do you have any examples where macOS falls short compared to Windows in shortcut consistency?

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    Comment #46840288

    The "this is how you use it as a daily driver" would be for the sub project called SculptOS, you can find details on that and how to set it up here: https://genode.org/download/scu…

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    Comment #46547121

    Jobs was a terrible person on a personal level, all the other tech CEOs are terrible people on a societal level.

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    Comment #46217109

    Not trying to nitpick you, just genuinely curious what version your first experience was with. There was no System 6.5, there was a 7.5 and System 6 ended at 6.0.8.

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    Comment #45812325

    "CSS-only" colloquially tends to mean HTML and CSS without Javascript, sometimes without images.

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    Comment #45812248

    Lots of javascript for a "css-only" tool. Looks like just the rendering is css-only.

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    Comment #45596660

    Porque no los dos?

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    Comment #45594396

    > Why the hell is there no key to delete a file? Cmd+delete? I don't really want it to be a single key as it's too easy to accidentally trigger (say I try to delete some text in a …

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    Comment #45594032

    One implies "we should regulate AI" and the other implies "we should regulate the wealthy"

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    Comment #45196220

    > Like most good stories, this one starts in the middle and works its way back and forth Don't tell me your story is "good," let me read it and I'll be the judge of that.

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    Comment #45133249

    Oh, I did something similar on my website! https://interruptkey.com

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    Comment #44992361

    Yeah, people who aren't firemen shouldn't be allowed to shout "fire!" they should just burn to death.

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    Comment #44856222

    > I wrote Forth/2 out of pure spite, because somehow I heard that it just wasn't possible to write OS/2 applications in assembler I was thinking about this recently and considering…

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    Comment #44604680

    I agree but it'll never make it there, this is exactly what your average user of this site wants to avoid hearing.

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    Comment #44485497

    Is it Bit Chat or Bitch At?

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    Comment #44479823

    I agree, I also would argue that this counts as an earlier incarnation of the System Settings icon: https://i.imgur.com/cqtpKhI.png

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    Comment #44377075

    > Consider EXE – it is probably an executable, but an executable for what? Most commonly Windows Has anyone ever used .exe for anything other than Windows?

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    Comment #44376995

    Yes JPEG-XL has an alpha channel.

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    Comment #44376984

    How do you pronounce PNG?