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Exactly. We heard for years they wouldn't do generics it until they could do it right, and that was perfectly fine with me. Who wouldn't want a well thought out implementation? The…

Generics being omitted wasn't pitched as a feature that I ever saw. The discussion was mostly around "hic sunt dracones" with generics. The Go authors were very aware from the get-…

As far as I can tell with oils, they haven't fully defined what YSH is going to be yet - you basically have OSH (the bash compatibility syntax), with the option to add YSH features…

Scott Forstall here. I’ll resign before I apologize for the choices we make at Apple. All our research shows you’re gonna love it, and if you say you don’t it’s because you’re wron…

> Moving the request to the Start Centre is not an escalation, but a change in location and frequency. I support LibreOffice and what they're trying to do here, but this statement …

Wow... that's... incredible. I've used Hammerspoon forever and never knew that existed. Just messing around I found you can extend the grid size with `hs.grid.setGrid('4x4')`, whic…

Tahoe will be gone in 7 months when macOS 27 comes out. Meanwhile we've been talking about ads in the Windows 11 start bar since 2021 and Gnome 3's Gnaval gazing since who knows wh…

Honest question - if it comes in binary form, how can you know it's the same core ZFS code BSD uses?

You forgot perhaps the most important one: 3. six `six` was instrumental in repairing the Python schism by giving people a way to incrementally move their 2.7 code to Python 3, and…

So if Google is to learn from others’ past mistakes, it ought to be able to leverage Gemini as long as the user can easily and fully swap out Gemini for an alternative. That was th…

That album still shows up today in jarring ways in Apple Music when you use the Create Station feature because it was on everyone’s phones and their algorithm still isn’t good enou…

> You can't navigate to a hidden folder by typing its name (let's not get too creative!). You can, actually. ⌘-SHIFT-G in Finder lets you navigate to any folder by typing in the pa…

The just sounds like ⌘-Z with extra steps.

Fish has a lot of features out of the box I find really useful: * Command auto suggestions as you type based on your history * History search (using up arrow) based on a partial co…

You can get the rest of the way there by combining the Hammerspoon method of launching with WezTerm's ToggleAlwaysOnTop feature. I use a similar method described here: https://gith…

The bigger irony is that Python has had its own venv built in since 3.3. I haven’t needed virtualenv for years.