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Lex Friedman[0][1][2] (with an “E”) would probably prefer not being confused with Lex Fridman[3][4][5] (without an “E”), the host of the interview linked above. The More You Know..…

I remember spending a day in fourth grade during Maryland history reproducing the flag on construction paper. (Admittedly that was many years ago; my children apparently didn’t get…

It looks like the occasion is the 30th anniversary of Bare Bones Software (the company): https://www.barebones.com/company/ >. Perhaps the original submitter mistakenly interpreted…

I believe it is Bare Bones Software (the company) that is having its 30th anniversary this month https://www.barebones.com/company/ >, rather than BBEdit (the program).

As of just now, that link redirects to the "Apple Music Classical" press release page.

Re the Dock: it may not be easily discoverable, but you can resize the Dock by hovering over a vertical bar between icon groups, then dragging up and down. Hold down the Option key…

From the same comment thread: > I know what you're asking yourself and the answer is YES. #Android communicates with #Google services outside an active VPN connection, even with th…

...which suggests that the notion that some designer at Apple subtly decreased the contrast on green bubbles to make them look "gross" is ridiculous -- if they really wanted to mak…

At the time the green/blue distinction appeared in Messages, it was widely reported that the green color for SMS messages represented the fact that most cellular plans in the US at…

Two such companies: Feral Interactive as well.

"Ventura Highway, in the sunshine..." [0] I may be dating myself somewhat here. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura_Highway

Since they moved macOS off version 10.x (finally), "Apple's crack marketing team" left the desert (Mojave) for the Pacific coast. Unfortunately, they didn't plan the trip carefully…

How about getting a MacBook Air and using your iPad Pro as a second display (using SideCar) on which you can also draw with your Apple Pencil? Possibly more flexible than a Wacom t…

No; if you give a shell script the .command extension (and make it executable), then you can double-click it in the Finder to open and run it in the Terminal application.

Written by the author of this article (Arika Okrent).

President Clinton was briefly given this power by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 [1], but "its effect was brief as the act was soon [in 1998] ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme …

$49 in the US for iPhone SE (1st and 2nd gen), 6s, 7, 8; $69 for iPhone X and later: https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...

(Straying a little off topic to provide the following hint:) There's a setting for this in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard. My recollection is that this was previously a c…

> Why can’t I view two code windows side-by-side? You can: in general, pressing option will open a new code editor (the exact behavior is configurable in Preferences > Navigation >…

It was a deliberate design choice for Lightspeed C (the original name of THINK C) to not perform error recovery in the parser, and thus to stop compilation on the first syntax erro…

Apple avoids GPLv3-licensed software, which may explain why they continue to ship an older version of bash (3.2, the last GPLv2 version). Eventually they must have decided that was…

The initial price target for the Macintosh was $1495, but with the addition of new technology like the Sony 400K floppy disk drive, the team realized it would have to sell for a hi…

Yes, that article is nearly four years old. Since then, Swift has evolved considerably. Steve Troughton-Smith has tweeted recently about his work in converting all of his apps to S…

So I don't know whether you've noticed, but there's this thing that's been going around that makes some people want to keep their distance from other people, even if they might oth…

To each their own, I guess; in case anyone else is wondering: "keyboard shortcut": Command-Shift-period "terminal command": defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles yes