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aegyption Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window

Because that’s been the user convention for 30 years since the day Mac OS 10 was released.

People do not want to manage scripts and configurations in esoteric locations. They want to drag and drop app bundles into the trash from the apps folder.

This is trivially found out after 5 minutes with a user.

aegyption How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity

They’re not going back to VPS setups sadly, the article is about deploy button dollar siphons like Vercel, Render, Netlify

aegyption New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms

That is generally worse for PV potential, clouds, rain etc

aegyption Sanders: Government should break up OpenAI

Bernie Sanders is not a democrat or liberal, he is a democratic socialist who specifically runs as an independent.

That normal liberals are so deeply associated with his ilk by the national electorate to the point Harris was considered more radical than Trump is a whole can of worms in itself.

aegyption The Stagnant Order. and the End of Rising Powers

Over a decade of domestic pop geopolitical thought explicitly describing these circumstances as a win condition for the USA. This strain of American ascendance has been blackpilled onto this path since Obama.

“Rogue Superpower” is said while feigning dismay and hiding unadulterated glee. Peter Zeihan has millions and millions of views.

aegyption Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has flaws, Army memo says

“I personally don’t think that’s true, and it upsets me you believe it’s true” isn’t really an argument though.

What are they making that would intimidate China, that China doesn’t already?

aegyption Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently

The Netherlands has 2x as much land as the Tri State area with 1-2 million fewer residents.

aegyption Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

None of those countries are currently committing genocide, their lands were settled long ago!

aegyption Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

This is actually easily explained by Israel having an intimate role in US foreign policy and culture for the past 80 years instead of being a majority Muslim constituent republic of the Soviet Union!

aegyption Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

Those are US state legislators. We have 7,386 of them. Sometimes a few wander outside during their election races.

You could easily fit that delegation into New Hampshire’s House of Representatives of 400 seats.

Meanwhile it’s more than double California’s total state legislature size of 120 seats.

It’s fun!

aegyption Migrating to React Native's new architecture

That package’s churn single handledly changed my career path during the days of react 0.x away from FE. I think it was on v2 or v3?

I still feel anger hearing its name the better part of a decade later.

aegyption How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?

It’s $0.08 for every $1 at retail rates, from the powerwalls, regardless of time or market prices?

aegyption The Mac app flea market

Looks like the subscription price went from $10 to $30+ yesterday!

https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ngy8mz/setapp_pri...

aegyption AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts

It also works in the entire Rest of World outside the EU

aegyption Cuba's electrical grid collapses in nationwide blackout

"There has been a total disconnection of the Electric System," the (Cuban state) Energy Ministry and National Electric Union said.

The (Cuban) grid operator said the grid collapsed at 9.14 a.m. (1314 GMT) on the Caribbean island.

???

aegyption Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app

Basal Cell Carcinoma is very gross!

Think a set number of questions to start with would be good. Not sure if there’s an end point, I drifted off after ~20 or so

aegyption U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD"

Yes, for $30 a year you can instantly stream any torrent with no real setup or install. The most used client is a PWA that calls out to VLC or whatever.

Bluray 4K 100+GB copy of Dune Part 2 at >70Mbps with maybe 5 seconds of buffering at the start. Literally can’t replicate it with legal streaming.

aegyption Instant responsiveness in user interfaces is annoying

Just for what it’s worth, it is a very, very common and basic vocabulary term in any creative field including UI/UX.

The first thing a novice struggles with and reads 30 Medium articles from 2014 about is their taste exceeding their skill, and how to close that gap.

aegyption Figma files for proposed IPO

Still the default for most teams at Apple AFAIK

aegyption The Effect of Noise on Sleep

It is illegal to build housing without a permit, and you will not be issued a permit on much of California’s land.

Residential land area = land you can build housing on

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-californ...

aegyption The Effect of Noise on Sleep

Hopefully the legislators have thought of this and extended the downzoning to half a mile even for BRT stops in the middle of the sunset district :)

aegyption The Effect of Noise on Sleep

It is quite literally illegal to build anything but detached single family homes on 95.8 percent of the total residential land area in California / 75% of the residential land area in most major American cities.

aegyption The Effect of Noise on Sleep

https://cayimby.org/legislation/sb-79/

They will be allowed by right near any type of transit stop if SB79 goes through!

aegyption Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US

Germany is a member of the EU and NATO, the eastern nations of which are openly, publicly, and officially threatened with Russian invasion to the point they are now preparing for conflict.

aegyption RSyncUI – A SwiftUI based macOS GUI for rsync

Over the holidays I used an admittedly large USB stick to transfer photos from my aunt’s 2011 netbook onto my MacBook signed into her iCloud Photos because she doesn’t own a computer, and both her and my 13yo cousin asked if it was a vape.

aegyption Data center projects blocked or delayed amid local opposition

YIMBY is a supply side movement laser focused on regulatory barriers, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tax measure mentioned in relation to it.

Plenty of tax breaks though.

aegyption Data center projects blocked or delayed amid local opposition

The “YIMBY” movement is completely dominated by 20-40yo middle class professionals in my experience.

aegyption Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out

It just so obviously doesn’t, and even more obviously won’t. A pool of 9 billion > 340 million is a simple, hard reality that has trivially curb stomped any and all opposition since the dawning of the human race with the only variable being time-to-acceptance.

aegyption Microsoft blocked the email account of Chief Prosecutor of the ICC

ICC signatories:

- Europe

- LATAM

- subsaharan Africa

ICC nonsignatories:

- US

- China

- India

- Russia

- Turkey

- Israel

- Pakistan

- Egypt

- Saudi Arabia

Hubris is imagining a situation in which The Hague Act is ever tested in the first place!