Bad_Initialism

As the icons progress to the left, identification increasingly depends on colour and shape. Since there are a limited number of colours and shapes, they tend to get reused. This increasingly leads to mis-identification of icons.

This is particularly true for the visually impaired and some elderly and neuro-atypical people.

What matters in an icon is uniqueness. Only the skeuomorphic icons to the right can be unique enough for proper identification.

Trendiness of visual appearance has no place in the functionality of a complex machine. If you think it does, I submit the following for your consideration: you. are. a. monster.

Yes, I said that and I mean it. You followers of Jony Ive and his ilk are assholes. The rest of us don't give a shit about your design schools. We just want to be able to click on the right thing.

Hate me, but it's true.

The article contains no actual information. Complete waste of time.

Requires MacOS 15 or later, so it won't run on my machine.

Does it really require MacOS 15, or have you just joined Apple in destroying the planet with relentless unnecessary upgrades and ignorantly set your requirements in XCode?

Well, just use your USB spectrometer, of course.

...you do have a USB spectrometer, don't you?

I have mine in my bedside drawer. I use it almost as often as my multimeter.

I thought I was having a stroke while reading that, and then I realized it was just AI slop.

Not really from scratch if it uses the SDL2 library. I'd try it if I had the first clue how to resolve this dependency without obtaining a university degree in the subject. Or if the README gave the slightest hint about how to proceed.

It may not be the flex you think it is to leave the SDL2 part as an "exercise for the reader". I don't think it would really affect the size of the data hoard on github if everyone who used an obscure and difficult-to-install library as the basis of their project explained how to get it. Isn't gatekeeping fun and cool?

Can it do anything useful? From the prompts it looks like a learning exercise only that can generate nonsense for toddlers.

I get that it is a learning exercise, but I find learning exercises to be a complete waste of time if the end point isn't something useful.

Segfault at start on 14.7.7.

Or, and follow me for a minute here, what if everything people tell each other without supporting evidence is just nonsense, particularly when it is self-aggrandizing and intended to control others by emotional manipulation?

What, and I'm just blue-skying this here, if we're a random occurrence consisting of locally decreased entropy evolved on a chaotic substrate?

Or maybe, and this is just a what-if, we're just stochastic phenomena telling ridiculous stories to each other in a doomed and nonsensical search for meaning?

I'm not saying that humanity is the stupidest thing that ever existed and called itself sentient, but maybe think about that possibility for just one second before tripping off into mushroom-level miracle stories.

It won't run on a MacBook Air M1 running Sonoma. Only Tahoe.

Come along with me! We'll destroy the planet so fast that we'll all be cinders before you know it.

All we have to do is gobble the marketing speak so fast and make everything shiny and new, and we'll all be dead before you can say "Greta Thunberg."

Come die with me for thin and for stylish. Kill the animals with me for "sleek".

Die. With. Me. Now! I made an app!

How unfortunate that the first line of that article contains a racial slur. Does the race of the pickpocket make any difference?

You may not realize that the Romani were victimized by the NAZIs or that they have been vilified because their traditionally nomadic lifestyle conflicted with the bourgeois mores of the shopkeeper class, but in the age of the Internet it's not too hard to figure that out.

Let's keep the overt racism to a minimum, please.

Once again, this is fantastic news for mice!

Summary: Since we cannot possibly accept the actions of the pilot in the context of our worldview, we must find some alternative, no matter how improbable.

You can improve the effectiveness and professionalism of your communication by spelling out initialisms the first time you use them, like this: high-bandwidth memory (HBM).

After you have spelled it out, feel free to use the initialism as much as you like for brevity.