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I've found bin[0] to be great (and simple) to manage binaries released via github, specifically those tools not already available via macports and ones for which I'm too lazy to write a portfile for. Seems like kelp is attempting to replace this combination with one tool.

[0]: https://github.com/marcosnils/bin

Looking at their about[0] page, it seems like Typogram is a company started by the person who also created Coding Font. That might explain the "by Typogram" label.

[0] https://typogram.co/blog/about-us/

I’ve not read this book, so can’t offer a comparison but Thorsten Ball’s two books [1] are great.

The dragon book was my textbook in college, brings back memories, might be outdated but some concepts should still be useful.

[1] https://thorstenball.com/books/

Is it Sweet Transit? The about section mentions that the developer was part of Factorio.

Edit to add link - https://www.sweettransitgame.com/

It's a term borrowed from assembly lines(0), where if the andon cord is pulled, the entire line stops until some manager or the likes inspects and restarts it. For amazon, the equivalent would be pulling the listing immediately from the website, blocking orders and flagging the item for immediate review.

(0): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing)

Really hoping the native app survives. Thanks for the great app! I’ve been a user for a long time and hope to remain so.

Paw[0] is a pretty good native macOS option, at least for now. They were acquired sometime last year by RapidAPI[1], and since have released electron based versions of their app for Linux and Windows.

I’m really hoping they don’t go the 1Password route and kill their native macOS product to move everyone to the cross-platform one.

[0] https://paw.cloud/ [1] https://rapidapi.com/

Interesting, I never played much games but the WASD keys sounds like a really good reason why some may type '6' with the left hand.

If MSFT released a cherry MX version of this keyboard, and moved the 6 key to the right hand cluster, it'd be an instant buy from me. I learned touch typing with 6 on the right side, and most keyboards I've seen have it setup the same, so not sure why MS sticks with this convention.

A few libraries in the Java world have this model. They haven't produced unicorns but seem to be pretty stable businesses - jOOQ(1), hibernate(2) etc. I'm researching DB libraries for work and so those are the ones I recalled immediately, but I think there are some commercial UI ones too.

[1] https://www.jooq.org/ [2] http://hibernate.org/orm/support/

Docker for mac is ridiculously bad to use. We use build containers at work, and Big Sur definitely gets mad at the VM activity & the high disk activity. My 2019 15" i9 MBP sounds like a jet engine half the time.

Checkout jooq(1) for a SQL DSL in Java. I've used it with MySQL and love it. Trying to convince my employer for the paid version with RDS.

[1] http://www.jooq.org/

Metafilter.com has a $5 one time sign up fee and a waiting period for similar reasons. That discouraged posting useless questions that plagued Yahoo Answers. Used to be a good, useful website a few years back but rarely comes up in results these days, maybe because Quora is free and drives more traffic or better SEO!

This post[0] by Tim Dettmers should help. Reading through the article, it seems like he covers a lot of ground and lays out choices quite well. tl;dr is that only Nvidia is your best bet for local computing power, stay away from AMD & Intel for now.

[0] - https://timdettmers.com/2020/09/07/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

Since you mentioned DataGrip, it seems like IDEA has this capability built in - [0]. You may need the Ultimate version. In that case, the $5/month really comes down to the collaboration features, although, office 365/google docs could be a poor-man's alternative.

For MySQL users on macOS, Sequel Pro can export your schema to graphviz format as well - [1]

[0] - https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/creating-diagrams.html [1] - https://www.norbauer.com/rails-consulting/notes/erd-diagrams...

That's interesting, did not know about the carbon to cocoa move, couldn't afford anything Apple back then :)

If both platforms had to handle such migrations, I guess it's only fair to say that Windows' solution would be much more difficult given how committed Microsoft is to maintaining backwards compatibility.

I don't do any desktop development or use Windows much for that matter, but it looks like as of today, there are at least 4 ways [0] to build Windows desktop apps. No wonder the UX feels far less consistent and enjoyable than macOS.

[0] - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/

This is terrifying! At least with Google's fiber, you have to buy their connection for them to spy on you. With sidewalk, who knows how much data Amazon can scoop up just by devices broadcasting their capabilities.

Cmd+Shift+<square_brackets> - i.e '[' and ']' switch to the previous and next tab respectively

I use this a lot, but is missing from this page. I'm pretty sure I didn't have to customise it in the settings myself. Not sure how I stumbled on this, but it works for me in all applications, native or electron (VS code is the only one I have installed).

This is consistency in UX is what keeps me from switching to linux full-time for my personal rig.

I would assume the keyboard UX would be a low-lying fruit. I'm hoping someone with deep knowledge about linux can help me understand what is stopping various distros from simply copying the mac keyboard layout. Replace 'cmd' with the 'super' key and setup the key combinations to match macOS. That way they're consistent whether you're in a GUI application or the command-line.

Is it that the super key is not available on every computer? Or are these shortcuts protected by some sort of a copyright? Kinto seems to work by intercepting signals and reinterpreting them, then why not have the X keyboard component recompiled with a macOS keymap? I'm not at all knowledgeable in this area, so may be missing some very obvious challenges to doing so.

MOTD - message of the day, it's the small text blurb that's printed when you start a new shell instance on linux or mac computers. Not sure if it's a thing on windows.

Readline refers to the GNU readline library [1]

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline

There's also kadhi[1], which interestingly is not the same dish as the Tamil 'kari'.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadhi

Or a business can decide to stay in the city, but work out a way to offset the costs, reducing annual raises or reducing bonuses etc. Hopefully this law does bring in some much needed help for the homeless situation, but looking at other Seattle city council projects, I'm not very positive on that happening.

Agree on the right-to-repair putting players on a common ground.

Thinking more on this, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out for Nikon. They have serious competition from Canon, Sony and others and if they keep their repairs open, Nikon will just end up hurting themselves in the long-run.

Apple on the other hand, is in a much safer position. There is no real competitor when it comes to macOS and so they can make these profit-driven decisions without any serious consequences.

I'd like to point out that when I say "no real competition" to macOS, I don't mean it's better than Windows or Linux. Rather, people who prefer macOS will keep using it, just like people who prefer Windows will keep using it. The force required to make them move to a different platform, change your entire workflow etc, is, in my opinion, much higher than switching cameras. Yes, changing the glass costs a small-fortune, but you have adapters, and image formats are standards.

I am still squeezing life out of my mid-2012 MacBook Pro and am very much pro right-to-repair. But given the complexity of professional DSLR cameras, and Apple laptops since I gave that example, I have to question my own belief that these decisions are purely profit/shareholder-value driven. There has to be something else at play here, maybe someone familiar with the high-tech manufacturing process can shed some light.

Alternatively, what stops these companies from offering technical education on repairing their products, and allowing the graduates to setup their own repair businesses? I don't think it's sustainable to keep forcing customers to pay up for $2k+ laptops or cameras every 3-4 years.

Would love to see the Clickspring channel on YouTube do a series on this. If you aren't familiar with Chris's work, he's got a series on a wonderful clock he made, mostly brass. Fun to watch. Apparently his machining techniques aren't great but I'm no machinist so doesn't matter to me.

Asking for a raise in a tactful way is something only your friend can do, best you could do is coach him.

That said, if you think that's never happening at your employer, then they have some options IF they're here on an H-1B. IANAL & I don't know anything about other visas either.

If your friend has a degree from a reputable US school and your employer is also reputable, they should have no trouble finding a new job and transferring their visa. GC applications may be redone as well, with the caveat that you don't hit H1 renewal after your previous employer revokes their application and the new one is approved. You could help coach them for interviews and with referrals, but that's about it.

There are risks involved in all these steps of course, so weigh the current salary with potential rise.

As far as I can tell, emacs[0] denoted control as 'C' first. The tmux docs most likely follow that trend. I'm only starting to learn emacs, so haven't yet come across any key combos that require a capital letter 'C' preceded by Ctrl. Will be interesting to see how that's represented.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ke...