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stmpjmpr

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stmpjmpr··on AI is going to kill app subscriptions
I use them when appropriate, and have for long before LLMs were using them. I'm not going to stop now.
stmpjmpr··on UTF-8 is a brilliant design
*EBCDIC
stmpjmpr··on macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons
I follow him, and despite being an Apple commentator, he can be very critical of Apple. You might have missed this from earlier this year: https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_th...
stmpjmpr··on Tech CEOs are backtrack on RTO mandates–now, 3% want workers in office full-time
I know of someone who, at a different company, did this. They were discovered and fired immediately. Don’t follow this advice.
stmpjmpr··on Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?
Yes, for movies and TV, and as a virtual monitor occasionally. I've travelled with it quite a bit as well, and it's great on long international flights.
stmpjmpr··on Apple Maps Gradually Winning over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests
I'm currently visiting Poland and Estonia, and have been using Apple Maps to walk from place-to-place. It's been working well for me—I have yet to get lost using it, and it seems to be giving me good directions.
stmpjmpr··on Ask HN: Why do some electronics use 6.2 volts DC?
Marine batteries are commonly 6v.
stmpjmpr··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?
Also a happy NNW user. I'd been using Feedbin, which is also good, but since I'm a Mac and iOS user, I switched to using NNW with iCloud syncing, which has been working great. It's so nice to have fully-native apps!
stmpjmpr··on Ask HN: Why are online training classes divided into small chunks?
I don't mind it being broken up, but I would prefer that there wasn't any kind of opening/titles/intro to the ones beyond the first.
stmpjmpr··on MDN Plus
There's a "Get MDN Plus" at the top of the MDN pages. Link: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus
stmpjmpr··on Nova 9
This is exactly backwards, IMO. Command-P is "print" on the Mac, and always has been; Command-O is open. This is the kind of thing that makes non-native apps stand out as poor platform citizens.
stmpjmpr··on What happened to Mint?
Longtime YNAB user here. It was rough moving to nYNAB at first, and I missed features for awhile. It's generally caught up and surpassed YNAB 4 in most respects. Things I still miss: the red right arrow (good reason to abandon it, but I still liked it), and being able to see three months side-by-side. Starting over occasionally is not a bad thing, IMO, and I did a fresh start with nYNAB. I created a "Next Month's Income" category, and use it exactly like YNAB 4; I don't budget beyond the current month. It woekd just fine that way. I generally ignore "Age of Money", which took over as the "Live on Last Month's Income" rule, and still follow the latter.
stmpjmpr··on Q&A With Nine Great Programmers
I'm not sure why Guido Van Rossum bothered to answer at all.