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They also announced new APIs for native Linux containerization on MacOS with a specific focus on security and performance. This seems like it may be in support of that as well. Any…

Lest we forget, Jobs LOVED the original iMac Hockey Puck Mouse and wanted the iPhone to only run a handful of Apple-designed apps.

I do, I use Fastmail and create aliases for every service. It's interesting to see how fast companies will "lose" or sell your email address. I've seen it as fast as 24 hours my un…

I did a few tests and asked it some legal questions. 4o gave me the correct answer immediately. o1 preview gave a much more in depth but completely wrong answer. It took 5 follow u…

But the AI generated article from the front page yesterday said I shouldn’t use Screens anymore… /s

They first introduced a product called Snowball which is a big briefcase of hard drives that would ship you, you transfer up to a petabyte of data and send back. This was the exten…

I do this all the time. Change a character so I can quickly see that I’m running the build that I thought when iterating internally. This theory makes the most sense to me.

You still have to go through security with PreCheck. It's usually faster and requires fewer steps that non-PreCheck passengers have to go through. I used to fly up the East Coast a…

No you’re NOT a moron, just a minor mistake. Have a wonderfully Wednesday.

I switched to Kagi and really like it. It really shows you what's possible when you're not optimizing for ads. Lots of cool functionality like: Lenses: Allows you to run a search t…

I miss when Twitter was 140 characters. This tweet could have benefited from the enforced brevity.

The author has a “lab” Patreon where he works out more of the specifics and also builds proofs of concept for the different functions he describes. The prototypes he built so far a…

Seems like the only people making money in this whole thing is the company hired to change the sign every other week when Musk decides to make a joke or do a sudden rebrand.

Fun fact: According to famed programmer Brian Kernigan: one day a colleague at Bell Labs was doing textual analysis on *The Federalist Papers* but it was proving challenging due to…

Correlation ≠ Causation

Can we just stop with the types of articles and agree that everyone is different and that the best strategy is to provide flexibility for employees? Where I work, employees can wor…

Such a bizarre take. It would be much easier to state something like: If you’re printing code for others to read, stick to standard characters. If you’re choosing a font for your e…

I’ve always been fascinated by alternative calendars (also alternative timekeeping). However, barring an apocalyptic event, I don’t for see any alternative calendars taking off. Fo…

I think the issue is the incentives have shifted over the years. A lot of software today is built to drive a specific user behavior to generate revenue instead of being designed fr…

My 2018 F-150 does something similar and it’s very annoying. I’ve figured out a workaround to mostly prevent it though. There are 3 “groups” of presets for SiriusXM (not a subscrib…

Regardless of whether you prefer Apple or Google, the benefit of phone projection is that you can get a good experience with relatively low specs from the head unit because the hea…

Revenue of a startup is no where close to being a reliable measure for such a small sample size. Give me any variable and I can make a similar graph to prove anything you want. Cor…

Seems interesting but the ads and full screen modals ruined it.

“ There's a common saying and rule of thumb in programming (possibly originating in the C world) that it's never a compiler bug, it's going to be a bug in your code even if it look…

American here, what is that in football fields (the one true measurement)?