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I used a Mac for a long time, but since Polish uses diacritics heavily, the default position of Option was just terrible for touch typing. I have always simply swapped Option and Command because of that. That was always there in the system's keyboard settings, so no extra tools were needed.

It was only when I moved to overriding CapsLock that I installed Karabiner.

I distinctly remember using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator way back to replicate Mac way of entering some typographically correct punctuation on top of Polish layout. You could make your own custom layout as well.

However, when I still used Windows 11, I remember there being a variant of US keyboard layout built into the system that included Mac-like way of entering international diacritics. I no longer have access to a machine with Windows, but a quick Google search suggests United States – International might be what you're looking for.

Yes, eventually it will be solved. But I drive today, and until I can charge the car, there's no point getting the electric one.

> I don't censor bad grammar.

We're not talking about bad grammar, but sentences that are correct and sensible, and if you wrote them before AI, nobody would bat an eye. But because they are used by AI, these days they make people dismiss the whole piece.

It's not really different from dismissing people because they happened to use the same phrasing as Stephen King. You can't even tell if it's because they read Stephen King that much, Stephen King wrote it for them, and they are now trying to pass it as their own, or just coincidentally arrived at the same literary construction.

Whenever I see those threads, they usually don't discuss the merits of the writing. They claim that AI must have been used, so it's not even worth reading.

> AI writing smell is as bad as bad grammar

It sounds to me like you want to censor perfectly fine phrasing just because AI rolled the dice to use it. Let's not forget that AI learned to "speak" from people in the first place.

Not to mention that as people shift their phrasing to avoid being accused of using AI, the AI will keep evolving, training on the new phrasing and then adopting it, too.

I understand the language evolves, but evolving language just to sound different from AI feels like wasting effort better spent elsewhere. On actual substance of the message for example.

When I lived in Sweden I had an 8-digit pin and biometrics enabled, indeed.

> I think the real problem is Google Play Services. It's far, far too tightly integrated in a way that it just seems like Android was designed to be unusable without.

Wasn't the point of Play services to enable keeping OS "updated" regardless of the manufacturer schedule? Which is to say: they are tightly integrated because they were designed to be part of an operating system that Google can keep updated through Play Store even if the device OEM is slacking on porting upstream updates to the users.

Oh, yeah, the Snowfield itself is secret enough, but getting to the palace afterwards is just a matter of exploration. The teleport is not that hidden.

FWIW, after you get one half of the medallion, get invaded by Gideon's lackey and then talk to Gideon, he will tell you to look for the Albinauric woman, so at least they give you this much.

All in all, I find the quests in the base game relatively straightforward, but anyone with any prior experience in their games will have an inkling that if they care about quests' results, you need to double-check with the wiki.

All the speedrunners just kill the guy in the jar to get the medallion: you don't have to talk to him.

Also, all you have to do in the Snowfield is to take a teleporter: that's not very secret, is it?

The peasants did not live for long, though, did they? Hard to say if and how the diet contributed, but just because people rarely ate meat then, for example, doesn't necessarily mean it's better for your health. Even if we could agree that people these days eat too much.

People talk about how we spent generations adapting to certain aspects of diet, and so following the habits of old is surely safer, but seem to forget that evolution only really "cares" about producing offspring, not your longevity, or quality of life in old age.

Code review just means you need an accomplice. It makes it harder, not impossible.

Its mere availability is not "encouragement."

I never got the idea from git itself that changing history is encouraged. What makes you say otherwise?

I don't think the internal design is/was that similar. We switched from CVS to git, and were evaluating multiple choices. What tipped the scale in the end was our trust in the internal data model, which for git was the idea that it stores the snapshots, and they are immutable. The diffs you can get out of it are calculated on demand. Even if on-disk storage can end up using some diffs to save on space, the actual conceptual model of every operation is based on those snapshots, and that is also how every new commit is stored before repacking the repository.

This appealed greatly to us, and always meant that it is effortless to undo any operation because it only creates new snapshots, while the previous ones stay there for a while in case you need to recover the previous state.

This is in contrast with Mercurial, where the data store is (was?) a sequence of diffs, and then the state of the working tree at any time is reconstructed on demand from those diffs.