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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by kbart »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #87
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #78

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and there is no ambiguity, does 6/7/2017 mean 6th July or 7th June?

There definitely still is ambiguity if you're unfamiliar with the format. Show someone "2017-07-06" and they still might be unsure whether that's June or July.

I have never seen YYYY-DD-MM format, on the other hand, both DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY are equally common, that's why I always prefer YYYY-MM-DD format as it is the least ambiguous and most useful (sorting files etc., as other comments have mentioned). Feel free to prove me wrong though.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by briandear »

agildehaus wrote: post #29
mullsork wrote: post #7

Sort of off topic but what has happened to the web design team at Apple? Their landing pages used to be extremely pleasant to read but by now I often struggle to read their headlines. The blurred background with text on top is not easy on my eyes at all. Perhaps my eyes are starting to go bad... Their page for the new iPhone had the same issues. In my opinion their web designs has gone down hill this year.

Plus there's obvious rendering problems with the site's nav on Chrome. Made obvious when you click that little bag icon at the very right of the nav. I'm convinced they don't bother to visit the site on anything but Safari anymore.

To be fair, a large number of sites seem to never visit their sites on Safari. Have a look at the Javascript console when using Safari. All sorts of small issues that are simple fixes but they get ignored, especially when it comes to javascript embeds such as help desk widgets.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by messe »

nsomaru wrote: post #104
gradstudent wrote: post #81

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I remember the first time I saw Spotlight. It was magic. Then came Expose. Wireless that worked. Sleep that worked. Trivial configuration of things like sshd, apache and samba. Amazing days. Lately I only upgrade when forced. I ran 10.8 until earlier this year when I finally upgraded my machine. Then I spent a week trying to figure out how the hell to get gdb working again because binaries now require code signing an…

Remap single tap CAPS to ESC and when used in combination with another key or long-pressed - CTRL. This has changed the way I use my keyboard in vim and tmux. I'm doing this on Ubuntu, but there are ways to get it done on OSX too.

I have `jk` mapped to ESC in spacemacs, zsh and anything else I can set up to use vi keybindings. `jk` is essentially a no-op in vi, so rebinding it doesn't cause any issues while carrying the advantage that my fingers never have to leave the home row.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by jlgaddis »

smcleod wrote: post #57
nu11p01n73R wrote: post #51

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Took some time to realise that "Available 9.25" meant 25th September. The box looked more like a disabled button.

Yes, American dates are confusing and illogical at the best of times, I wish America would standardise on the international ascending order date style of 25/09/2017.

I'm holding out for ISO8601 and UTC.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by vetinari »

tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

In Android, it is not mandatory to use Google apps - you can use your favorite browser, mail or maps instead of the Google ones. Firefox, Nine or Here, for example.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by koolba »

tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

Is that referring to blocking ads or just tracking cookies? Why not just block all third party cookies?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by ninjaoxygen »

petercooper wrote: post #83
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #78

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and there is no ambiguity, does 6/7/2017 mean 6th July or 7th June?

Yeah, I thought about that as I was writing my comment and realized that's why I always write "back to front dates" with dashes instead of slashes. I think it's probably because I always use that format in filenames and slashes feel like a very bad idea there ;-)

Yes, it would be so great if there could be a standard for dates formatted this way. It would have to be called something awesome like ISO 8601! ;-)

That is definitely also my preferred format, everything just sorts naturally then. Not so in love with the 2017-09-25T12:00 format as it does not work for filenames on my OS.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by afro88 »

coldtea wrote: post #76
thomasdd wrote: post #14

If it's so lag-g-g-g-ing and non-responsive as iOS11. Then I better wait with the update :|

Have had no lag-g-g-g-g problems with iOS11. Maybe it's the device?

iOS 11 on my iPad Air 1 is laggier than iOS 10, but on my 6S is faster than iOS 10. Not sure why..

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by feelix »

When installing a major OS update it's often worthwhile to do a clean install. As a shameless plug of some free software I made, Install Disk Creator will make you a bootable USB installer out of any USB disk you have laying around made from the macOS installer that you download from Apple.
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