neurobashing

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Comment · 1 month ago
> Here's a fun fact: You can find references to NeXTSTEP, the ancestor of macOS, in its UI! You're not supposed to, mind.

This confused me; the NS prefix has been part of OSX since the beginning. I get that it shouldn’t have been shown but it’s hardly some deep secret

Comment · 1 month ago
My Fenix 7 has ~12 days of life, while using it every day for fitness tracking, maps, the occasional LED flashlight, etc. It also is at least IME much more of a beast than an (admittedly older gen) Ultra. I charge before I leave, then spend a week or more living out of backpack and sleeping on the ground. I very much want to go back to Apple Watch but Garmin battery life and durability is just so much better for my use case.
Comment · 6 months ago
I switched from Apple Watch to a Garmin Fenix 7, for much longer battery life (advertised as ~14 days, in practice 10-12), durability (they're very tough), better biometrics, and stuff like built-in maps/GPS (I camp/hike/hunt/etc a lot). I just didn't use any watchOS features, and I use an MVNO that doesn't support sim cloning so cellular's a wash. In short even with reduced features I am considering just going back to an old analog Timex Explorer and using a dedicated GPS device, because even the more limited feature set of the Garmin seems like I'm barely using what it's capable of.
Comment · 6 months ago
one thing to note (I didn't see it in the article or the comments as of this moment) but a thing that happened a lot with eg LL Bean was, people were buying old Bean stuff from yard sales and so on, then returning it for a new one, under the lifetime warranty. The implicit "customer for life" cycle was thus broken, and they were giving all-but-free stuff to people who had little intention of ever buying new.
Comment · 1 year ago
can you perhaps elaborate on which companies and in what capacity?
Comment · 1 year ago
Sad to not see "dart" in there, I assumed from Letterkenny that it was a regular Canadianism. Perhaps it's too new?
Comment · 1 year ago
the point is not that firefox is "not doing much worse than chromium browsers". the point is that they were founded upon principles of not doing that
Comment · 1 year ago
I think for the average user it's more of a remnant of NeXTStep. It is galling that Little Snitch doesn't let you use a supported feature; but I think Apple doesn't really care about ~/Applications any more, since they "solved" it w/ the Applications and System/Applications "split".
Comment · 1 year ago
on Sequoia, it's already separated. Apps shipped as part of the OS live in /System/Applications, and stuff you install (however you do it) are in /Applications.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
my head canon is that in the Dune universe, their response to the Butlerian Jihad was to develop better and better mechanical computers; specifically, via miniaturization, down to the nanometer level. It doesn't quite work for everything (Holtzmann shields are entirely analog?) but it works well enough to map most objects to a viable analog controller made of nanometer-scale analog computers.
Comment · 2 years ago
It is a "cultural fit" test, a cousin of "how many golf balls can you put in a manhole cover" or whatever. The question aims to figure out if you're going to take on certain tasks, and how you would take them on; especially in the frame of something outside your vocation, and if you're a "doer" or not. He states this frame explicitly in the post. Do you tackle the problem, and how, or do you throw your hands up, stating that it's someone else's problem?

You definitely will not get hired by that guy: you misunderstood the question.

Comment · 2 years ago
Only thing I can't hide yet is the "sign in" in the upper-right.
Comment · 2 years ago
Now see, I'm the opposite. I would like to pay a reasonable fee to drive a silver-and-oaken stake through the heart of the collab features. I will pay real money to just make it all go away. As others have said, I work in an environment with lots of different tools so collab stuff like this is just visual noise, let me turn it all off.
Comment · 3 years ago
According to Script Debugger, hardly the massive powerhouse that may end humanity like GPT-4, it's the "bounds" property of a window, specifically the 3rd element.

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