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Before typing with our thumbs made autocapitalization a popular feature, we were roughly as lazy, and it meant no caps at all.

;)

I feel like the term was already out of fashion by then, too.

LastPass is my go-to example for poor UI suggesting poor quality throughout.

iCloud Keychain syncing, strong password suggestions in Safari, and WebAuthn passkeys are all part of Apple's strategy. When they don't buy a third party and deeply integrate it, they tend to operate by insinuating themselves as the platform default. What would you have them add to that?

> scans lasting 15-35 seconds every hour or two during periods of low user activity

Doesn't sound like that's going to use substantial battery nor outprioritize low-latency A/V. Long before Apple was known for battery life, they were known for real time media. (I won't speak to user choice though since I'm not clear on which parts are optional should you choose to tinker with macOS.)

Here's what happens in Chicken Scheme:

  #;1> (define define 5)
  
  Error: during expansion of (define ...) - redefinition of currently used defining form: (define define 5)
  
          Call history:
  
          <syntax>          (define define 5)     <--

Silicon as a term for semiconductors and the things we make from them is common in my experience. But I've never seen such a concerted effort to pronounce it "silly kin" as Apple Silicon marketing.

Zig in particular stands out for having strong support for cross-compiling. I wonder how much simpler that makes adding a new platform to a self-hosted language, and what challenges persist?

If Zig is built on a C compiler, and (I assume) the C compiler self-hosts, then if Zig starts to self-host, it doesn't _introduce_ the dependency on a chain of previously built binaries, it just makes it a step more severe while removing a dependency.

Would you prefer if Zig not only didn't self-host, but didn't have any self-hosting dependencies? For your ideal compiler, would a full build from scratch require making a platform-specific assembler from machine code, then a few stages of successively higher-level languages?

I've always regarded it as a real-time roguelike. In fact it's probably the first game I played and thought, "this is like Rogue."

For what it's worth, Apple offers Numbers free on the App Store. I'm not sure how deep the financial functions go.

Graphing: The classic has been ported by its original author. Not free but a pleasant surprise https://swift.org/blog/graphing-calculator/

It really isn't. You likely have a phone, there's a whole App Store full of calculators, and in a pinch there's always Spotlight.

PCalc has been on iPad since just after iPad launched. https://www.loopinsight.com/2010/04/07/pcalc-now-available-f...

Right, but supporting a marginalized group for a month doesn't have much of an ethical downside. Repressing it year-round sure does. I think it just means ethics are not an overriding factor for them, just another pro/con item. Or the goodwill of their home customers and employees is a cost of doing business in more countries.

Don't go thinking other states or the federal government are immune.

Just an incredible film. Even the slow parts, and there are a lot of them, have so much rich setting to marvel at.

The love scene comes across as nonconsensual and it makes me uncomfortable every time. Whether that's intended discomfort or an artistic regret, I don't know.

Other than that, it's one of my all time favorites for the reasons others are mentioning. I recommend the 2007 Final Cut.

Generally I plug into one or two external 4K Dell displays, models P2715Q and U2720Q, with either USB-C to USB-C, USB-C to DisplayPort, or in the past, Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort.

I avoid HDMI ever since I once found I was limited to 30Hz at 4K, and DisplayPort solved that at the time. Today's HDMI standards are a bit hard to follow, so I have just stuck to what's already working.

The P2715Q needs to be power cycled from the wall outlet now and then. If your Mac detects it and sends it signal, but the screen remains black, this is probably the case. I've seen this with several Macs over the years, so I'm comfortable saying it's an issue with the display.

Coworkers have recently observed their U2720Qs occasionally failing to be detected by their 2021 MacBook Pros if they use the same USB-C port to connect to it after sleeping through the night. A reboot of the Mac has clears the issue, and I haven't seen it happen with other models I plug in the same way, so it's likely not the display's fault.

Otherwise, I have to say this setup has been quite reliable across several Mac laptops of different architectures, price points, and pixel densities; lid open or lid closed.

Details about that: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...

One limitation I have observed is that this VM can't host another VM itself.

Yes: Just now I checked TextEdit's "Open with Rosetta" box in Get Info, launched it, and saw it come up as an Intel process in Activity Monitor.

This was in a Ventura beta 2 VM run with Apple's virtualization sample project: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...