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Where I’m from, the person who sneezes often says nothing, unless they’re accidentally sneezing near someone else. Strangers nearby however will say “bless you!” or occasionally “g…

There were (and still are?) bathroom reader books. My parents leave copies of The New Yorker, Newsweek, and Nat Geo in their bathroom.

Paging John Gruber!

When I go to http://hackerne.ws I still get an error.

The redirect from hackerne.ws works, but I think there’s a certificate that needs updating.

People draw horses because they want to draw horses. People draw dicks because they feel it’s funnier, it’s a form of rebellion, and/or it’s way easier than almost anything else. A…

Apple giveth, Apple taketh away.

Personally, I am enjoying using Typst.

It just happened 1300 of years ago! (Reminds me of an episode of Flight of the Conchords.) But it is really interesting to read.

How about when users accidentally click too much, or they believe the first click didn’t register? I am still reminded of a keynote where Steve Jobs was demoing how much faster PDF…

> On Apple Silicon machines, the DFU port is closest to the screen on the left side. Nope, not always: https://support.apple.com/en-us/120694

Headline typo

Quality vs. Quantity. The forums I still go to are hyperspecific, and yes, the experience is crappier. But because of that, only the diehards frequent them, meaning you generally g…

And here’s a conversation.

Is there a Radar open for this?

Anyone else watch Season 2 of Hijack?

I remember seeing a video on Jerry’s Map from nearly 20 years ago.

I don’t even remember my own GPA, for me college was a lifetime ago!

Hell yeah

And for that matter, /developing/ for one person, often yourself, is probably better than for everyone. I’ll see this with app developers when they’re trying to figure out what kin…

Or just add an ampersand at the end and execute the command 8 times or so: yes > /dev/null&

Someone could also just make a font file that swaps all of the characters around. So like an A looks like a Z, and a Z looks like an A.

As a kid who grew up in the public schools in Minnesota, MECC was amazing, and Apple II’s were everywhere. Each classroom had a computer, and our school had an entire computer lab.…

I think the writer got the prices wrong, unless these are Canadian prices or something. It’s $599 and $699, not $599 and $799.