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> Cool and how do I delete the entire word in front of the cursor? On windows thats easy, control + delete.

On macOS it's option+delete.

> On Mac, somehow I never remember how to do it and end up deleting the entire line of text. It's just stupid.

It's stupid that the shortcut on MacOS is different than on Windows and you can't remember it?

> Also, want to delete a file? Yeah that's going to be a different keystroke, the delete is only for text.

AFAIK there is no macOS shortcut to delete a file in Finder. There is a shortcut to move a file to Trash. This is a different action than deleting text (there is no Trash for text), so I think it's fair to use a slightly different shortcut (command-delete).
Buying a macbook to develop on is a decision to get a massively overpriced mediocre Linux distribution with numerous developer hostile features.
Polish Mazurka is kind of reminiscent of a 3/4 time Tango, so I think there is already an implicit cultural link.
The cooling on the Air is worse as there's no heatpipe from the processor to the fan. If you care about performance I'd suggest you probably should take a look at the Pro.
In practice people that object to the taxes just move away.
Then they try anything else, see it’s even worse and most of them buy an MBP anyway.. until the next release

The circle of life!
> if a software developer does not like hacking around with software they are probably in the wrong career

This is some gatekeeping right here. There's a lot more to developing software than hacking and dealing with low level linux configuration just to get my graphics and sound working at the same time after a system update
Judging how well the iPhone processors perform in compute tasks, one can expect even higher performance when there is 10x the thermal budget avialable, as in a 16" laptop. There is all reason to expect impressive performance.
You can make finder show the current path (including file path) with Cmd+Option+P. You can manipulate the path with Cmd+Shift+G. These options are also right there in the menus.

Did you even use Finder or are you just trolling?
I can't upvote more on the docker comment.
Docker in OSX is terrible, it has caused tons of problems on every single developer with a MBP i know, while in other platforms is so much better.
google doesn't use google authenticator? How odd.
I’ve also had a 15” 2017 MBP since new. I’ve not experienced any of the issues you mention.

However:

* I had to pay to replace the screen when it suffered the well-recognised broken ribbon cable issue. Unfortunately, Apple only offer free replacements for the 13” model, not the 15” - which is just outrageous, given the identical mechanism of failure. (Some weird ‘Fight Club’ calculations on the background there, I suspect.)

* USB-C connections are very unstable (physically) - like, hold your breath and don’t make any sudden moves while you’re copying large files via that route

* For some reason only some of the four USB-C ports work for video. This has changed - pretty sure they all did when it was new.

* My battery is shot and giving me the service message after about 310 cycles. It’s meant to last 1000, apparently. (I should get in touch with Apple, but after the screen debacle I just get a sense of weariness at the thought.)

At some point I’ll need to replace it... and I have no idea what I’ll do. I like MacOS (up to Mojave, at least) and the idea of going back to Windows or struggling with Linux makes me shudder. But likewise I’m not going to buy another Mac laptop, given the huge range of issues they now suffer.

Maybe this is what Jobs meant when (referring to Tim Cook) he shook his head and said he’s “not a product guy”? Apple are ultra-successful, but the essential quality of their products is on a downwards trajectory.
> For some reason, you are trying to make it seem like I'm saying that the author is making a quantum theory

No, I am pointing out that you do not understand the paper you misquoted as evidence that "Not all physicists think they [GR and QM] are incompatible".

The author would not have written a paper trying to take a small step toward a solution if he didn't think that there is a problem.
So Etherdraw? :) https://github.com/JohnMcLear/draw
While most Smalltalk-like languages are good candidates for such security mechanisms, they have never been integrated, perhaps because the mostly academic environment in which they are developed is more cooperative than malicious.
Thank you! Do you have any leads book wise, a certain methodology or a though leader in the field?

I think i will try to find a place similar to yours in Scandinavia but want the quality to be right.

Alternatively i am thinking if consumer EEG electrodes are good enough at this time to create a personal setup.
Southern France/Northern Spain is not a total wilderness. That level hunger after a two day detour implies a serious level of poor planning.
Then don't maintain a customized distro? I use Manjaro at home and Mac at work, and the user experience is far better on Manjaro without any tweaking. Also it's easier to install the developer tools I need, but that depends on your use-case of course.
If it's sluggish to begin with and fails basic operational tasks, sure, it doesn't matter that much whether the eraser works—because it hasn't even met the low bar to be judged on its tablet functionality at all.
> There's a short boost in clock speed, after which the processor almost immediately overloads the power delivery and cooling system and clocks down to base clock.

But it's not just Apple doing this. It's literally the principle behind ultrabooks in general.

If you don't want this you have to go back to big fat workstation laptops or slightly less fat gaming laptops, which in turn were designed for 14 year olds and usually have a shitty touchpad.
I also wondered what this is. Is NSTableView that resource intensive? I've had good experience with it on my own projects with it redrawing quite a lot of items but I'm not a macOS developer so I don't know it too deeply.
I do feel like things have gone downhill. I bought a mid-2009 13” MacBook Pro which easily lasted 9 years (with an ssd upgrade and more ram added at some point) and was honestly the best laptop I’ve owned.

I was hooked and hyped to get the new 2016 MacBook Pro. Talk about polar opposite experience:

* The keyboard is terrible (replaced 3 times already),

* Touchbar is meh (if you touchtype when do ever look at it - this feels like a thing that’d be more useful for entry level machines where you are likely to find hunt-and-peck typists) and it now flickers in the corner occasionally.

* The fan is noisy

* I can no longer upgrade the ram or internal storage

* I’ve gone almost completely usb-c but the lack of usb-a and hdmi is still annoying on occasions - especially on a pro machine

On the good side

* the speakers are amazing

* the “retina” display is crisp and bright

* it’s amazingly small and light

What’s really killing Macs right now is the software-side “it just works” seems like a thing of the past e.g.

* I used to chuckle at people on windows when waking from sleep but Macs (possibly because of FileVault) feel just as slow now

* As mentioned in the post general Bluetooth flakiness (tbf it does seem like the latest patch release or two of Catalina seems to have got on top of this now)

* Using spaces (inc animation) for full-screen and making that what happens for the maximise button - just weird and clunky

* General system responsiveness - it just feels sluggish

I really can’t believe the turn around - they’ve managed to turn a customer-for-life to now I’m seriously considering getting a Linux-based laptop instead.
Writing software for a closed source OS.
It seems at least mostly on topic to share here this thing I released a little over a year ago: https://www.swapadoodle.com

It's definitely not useful for the same things, but it has a lot of similarities and seems potentially interesting as something to compare and contrast with this.
Tested on my Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 (AKA. my sidearm), with Dell's active pen, running Firefox.

Works surprisingly well, it's the first web whiteboard that's actually usable with the pen. Congratulations on getting this right! One minor inconvenience: when I draw with the pen, it doesn't show the line I'm drawing until I lift the pen back.
Unless I misunderstand you - several Lenovo laptops run Ubuntu right out of the box (Typing this on a X1c 7th gen which shipped with 18.04 LTS.)
Every Mac has a delete key. See the upper-right corner in https://images.macrumors.com/t/1fzeYEfYshf6-8P82x5bPKhWNfY=/....
I recommend the latest season of Patrick Wyman's Tides of History podcast [1] for an overview of the latest discoveries in archeology and related fields.

[1] https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/
Thanks for commenting, this one worked for me.
Not GP. Tested on my Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 (AKA. my sidearm), with Dell's active pen, running Firefox.

Works very well with the pen indeed. I love this, and the fact that it's self-hostable only makes it better. Also, props for deferring to the system color picker!
massively overpriced mediocre Linux distribution

I don't understand? Are you saying macOS is Linux?
Lambda Calculus Diagrams (2015)
Interesting. Any links or sources to read more about this?
People did lose money when left-pad was not available. Sure, it was only a day and the whole class of issue solved now, but there are other modes of attack.

And dev dependency bloat might be nonsensical to you but it's not nonsensical to me. Different people have different priorities, that's it.

So yeah, maybe you can afford not to care, but that doesn't mean you should give us that can't a hard time about it :)
I needed to buy a Mac this year. I rarely work out of my home office these days, so after reading up on people's negative experiences with the new MacBooks, I've settled on a Mac Mini.

Half a year later, and it's... okay. It gets the job done. But then so does my old trusty Asus UX32LN (i7-4500, 8 GB RAM), running Ubuntu with all the hardware working out of the box. I've had more hardware glitches with the Mini so far than I'd had with the UX32LN.

Software-wise, I don't feel much difference. I pretty much live in Emacs and the browser, and both work everywhere. I like the polished feel of macOS (although I've had a brief encountered with it in the Snow Leopard days and it felt _more_ polished back then), but I do miss the customizability of Linux (the macOS maximize/fullscreen experience is subpar).
3rd party app stores that are not pre installed by the manufacturer are crippled and provide a bad user experience. Auto updates is also not possible.
Some do, but changing countries is not that easy.
By the same token, anyone claiming that this must be agitprop designed to promote a political agenda, is promoting their own agenda of nationalism.

Vielleicht sind die zweisprachigen Sprecher jedoch besser darauf vorbereitet, die Wahrheit zu finden: Sprache ist Politik - Es wird besser, je mehr Sie es verwenden.
I just wrote my own comment system. It does not take long
I do not really want to bash MacBook here as Apple does what it wants and that it how it should be. The other manufacturers do the same.

I have no real problems with my Windows and Linux setups though. I had a loaner MBP and Mac Mini for about a year for testing purposes and frankly I did not see a single thing (OS/hardware) that would cause me to switch. So your statement about "the least amount of problems" is likely what you feel personally and does not really translate to what somebody else would fine.
Funny thing: I had my email on a commercial support page for, you know, companies that wanted to pay money for custom work. 100% of the emails were from companies asking various questions; everybody took that page as priority free support for companies. I just removed my email in the end.
I do the same thing for my laptops and phones, better for the environment too!
As a mac user i shifted all my development to use containers for deps management and runtime efficiency. My thought process was this would also translate well to a productive move to Linux (i have similar concerns to you) and it just so happens to also work with my cicd platform. The biggest pain on linux is dependency management across a variety of languages and software stacks. I believe you can be productive on Linux today with a similar approach.
The 2019 Macbook Pro has to be one of the worst macs I've ever used. It feels like a culmination of software and hardware design disasters, as a lot of comments here suggest. But for me, the biggest let down is there's all this fancy hardware: fast ssd, high core count cpu - but it isn't perceptively or objectively (in a real workload) any faster than the half decade old hardware it replaced apart from synthetic hw benchmarks.

I'm seriously looking at switching back to either a windows or linux powered machine.
RE: minor-keyed

This is an interesting topic for me personally, and the way I experience it is like this:

The starting point to a musical scale, classically, is major. Minor is the first alt-culture in key signature.

However, the next step to get a major minor like, is the major 7th, or other half tones, like the 6th. Then, you have the converse, making minors major like, such as the melodic minor scale, or the minor 7th.

Interesting songs, especially in popular culture, make use of this dualistic view. Examples are Wicked Game by Chris Isaak (in a mode, where you don't regress to tonic, giving it an incomplete and spooky theme), Clocks by Coldplay (major chord, minor on 5th rather than major; major on 4th).
I used WordPress for a long time before and never liked it too much. It's very powerful indeed and you can do a lot of things with it, but I think it's overkill for many people if all you want is a blog where to publish your own content.

For this reason I built DynaBlogger (https://www.dynablogger.com) as a fully managed (hosting, backups, updates etc are taken care of do you can focus on content) alternative to WordPress which is simple, to the point and focused on blogging and at the same time much more affordable than Ghost, which is perhaps the most similar product available.

Simple but not too limited like other options in the market, DynaBlogger has all the features one really needs for publishing content baked in. No plugins on purpose - most WordPress plugins are poorly coded and introduce vulnerabilities or performance issues, and I didn't want that.

It has a free plan, so it would be awesome if you could give it a try. I'm looking forward to any feedback
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In file dialogs, like saving a file, you can start typing a path and it will pop up. You can also drag and drop a folder into the save dialog to save it there.
> So here's a smaller community where the majority is fine with high taxation

Yes, but it's not the majority that runs offshore companies in Panama, but those rich enough that it makes sense for them to go through the trouble of setting offshore companies up.

And IMHO the problem is in simple psychology of how humans compare between themselves. We don't compare in absolute means, but relative to people around us. If you're a middle class and you pay the same taxes as everyone else around you, you might grumble a bit, but in the end you'll except it as a part of life, because, well, everybody does it. If you make a lot more money than others and thus have to pay a lot more taxes, you'll perceive it as an injustice, being punished by mediocrity for your success. And you'll have a much less of morale dilemma should you try avoid paying it.
I agree that having a real name policy and some kind of identity verification service for npm authors would be a better path forward.

We need to bring the human element into these algorithms if they are to be effective.
Updates are not incremental. You get the whole new thing, even if the diff would have been 1 character. Combine that with the fact that AIUI, DMGs and XIPs are stuck with deflate/gzip or bzip2, all of which are slow by modern standards, and you're on for some pain. Also, macOS may not have enough entries in its inode cache for the number of files there are in Xcode (although I haven't looked how many there are, maybe it's fine)
Are you writing an OS?

I'm pretty sure the linux kernel compiled is < 350mb. Debian net install is less than this
I was a long-term Mac user (>10 years) and switched do Windows and Linux. I will „never“ go back to a Mac.

One of the reasons was that I couldn‘t make Mail.app working with Exchange/Microsoft 365 (especially shared mailboxes) and the other that Docker is so slow (volumes with many files are unusable). It‘s sad to not have a single OS for everything. I now need Windows to write e-mail and Linux to do my work.

I would have kept a Mac and installed Linux in dual-boot but I need something that „just works“ because I need to do work sometime and I wasn‘t sure enough that it will work smooth.
Is there a laptop comparably silent, though? I have a corporate Lenovo X1 Carbon (6th gen) which feels like having a vacuum cleaner on all the time. In comparison my private 13" MacBook Pro (2018) is absolutely silent unless running some simulation.
I actually use finder quite a lot for previewing. Like all the time.

I have the downloads folder in the dock and use it frequently.
The amount of heat in the air is small compared to that in other materials; buildings with stone or concrete walls have a sufficient heat capacity that you can ventilate without temperature changing too much. This works less well for buildings with wooden walls though.

Ventilating properly requires discipline though. No tilted/semi-opened windows for prolonged time for example. In winter, heating should be turned off and the windows should be as wide open as possible to minimize the time to exchange air. That's to reduce the loss of heat. 5-10 minutes of ventilating is good enough, usually. We usually don't have air condition here, so I don't know what's the recommended process in the summer.

It's common to ventilate like this in Germany in the winter for example. I know (now returned) former German expats that completely missed this development. They still tilt windows and let the heating run all day long.
Even if MacBooks have the least amount of problems, there is almost nothing you can do, when problems occur, unless you have extended warranty. My first MacBook died (one year old) and I couldn't even take out the SSD to back up any data.
Tested on my Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 (AKA. my sidearm), with Dell's active pen, running Firefox.

Looks sleek, initially seemed to work fine with pen drawing. That was until I touched the screen with my palm. Then all hell broke loose - the app got stuck imagining there are some input events happening in the middle of the screen, so every attempt at drawing created a squiggly mess - every nth point dropped by my pen got connected with an imaginary point in the middle of the screen, and then back to my drawing.
Sorry - my bad. Totally overlooked that.
I find that I'm often advocating for incremental improvements when doing code-reviews. Knowing that a wider view will be taken anyway by me will change the attitude of my peers when approaching problems.

Another benefit of code-reviews is that they share the risk. So making a bigger change will feel safer to the individual.
They're evading because taxation is based on income.

If it were based on expenditure, there'd be no avoiding.
Well, it doesn't work if the access is so random that everything is guaranteed cache miss. On the other hand, if there's a subset that's accessed more often than rest, it reduces cache pollution from accessing outside the core subset.
Because my customers are 90% on Windows and most of the rest are on Mac and it's them I need to worry about. Hence I develop in Windows and test on Mac.
>basically YAML, "but better"

That was my intention behind this, too:

https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml/

The general structure of YAML is fine I think but its feature set grew a little bit out of control.

The "cleanliness" of the format leads to one of its inherent weaknesses - syntax can't be used to encode type information so you either need a schema to encode type information (strictyaml approach) or have magic conversions (yaml approach) or to assume strings (strictyaml w/o schema/nestedtext).

The interesting thing I discovered about schemas building this is that it kind of pays to make them extensible and build them in a turing complete language. Schema validation done using a non-turing complete language (e.g. jsonschema) allows for cross language usage but it ends up being a kind of blunt object.
> AFAIK there is no macOS shortcut to delete a file in Finder. There is a shortcut to move a file to Trash. This is a different action than deleting text (there is no Trash for text), so I think it's fair to use a slightly different shortcut (command-delete).

There is: Option+Command+Delete.
When and why did America become so embarrassed of itself?

I'm a liberal, but I hate all of the censure going on. I think people have the capacity to understand change and social progress. In other instances, we're actually backsliding into conservatism (wrt sex and nudity). Replacing sex with violence is not a good alternative.
I don't understand. Mind to elaborate? Eli5?
From this experiment you might say something about disinfecting air, but the guinea pigs weren't wearing masks. What you are testing, if anything, is the efficacy of "UV-C lamps to kill TB bacilli".

Wearing masks is an entirely different thing, and would need an entirely different test.

Even the original experiment leaves questions for me. How does one diagnose TB in guinea pigs? What health state were the guinea pigs in? Was there a familial predisposition to respiratory illnesses for some of these? What conditions were they kept in? Etc.
Alexa, when did the last Age end?

>The Pleistocene Epoch is typically defined as the time period that began about 2.6 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago

makes sense
> On Mac, somehow I never remember how to do it and end up deleting the entire line of text. It's just stupid.

I agree that switching hence and forth between the two systems is a bit annoying. I configured AutoHotKey on Windows to get my Mac-shortcuts there. (Command being Alt).
Too much untrue assumptions. I worked in tech for years and never used a YubiKey or similar device.
> Why does it try to pretend like there is no filesystem

I've had sane settings for macos for years and migrated with them.

But I've set up a fresh machine recently and I will say the default settings for macos have changed. There are a lot of annoying "recent apps" and "recent files" and non-filesystem things in sidebars that I keep banging my head against.

It takes a while to set it up to do just simple files and folders.

I do keep applications and utilities in the dock, and set that up as:

display as folder
view contents as list

so I can just click and pick
Entertainment and thought provoking are not mutually exclusive.
You should try disabling processor boost. This causes Windows to drive processor hard even for no apparent reason and fans go nuts. To do this, merge this registry key, go to Power mode Options, CPU and then set Processor boost mode to disable from Aggressive.

https://github.com/sytelus/pcprep/blob/master/windows/proces...