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Keyboard Maestro 11 is not available from the Mac App Store and probably never will be.

I appreciate the honesty here.

Which is really fucking weird, considering they (Toyota) already made a fantastic RAV4 EV from 1997–2003(!!) and 2012–2014. The second time was a collaboration with... you guessed it, Tesla.

Is Apple preparing for a loss of their Google search default revenue?

Are there any numbers available for this? I am skeptical for two reasons:

(1) Torrenting is a hassle compared to the streaming services.

(2) Millenials are the only generation tech savvy enough to do that en masse and honestly who has the time?

Why would you even go all this direction while an easier and more logical reason is that they are fighting for a Palestinian state

Because that would make them freedom fighters, and it’s important to make sure that the Palestinians are never, ever validated in any of their grievances. It’s a key step in dehumanization.

What do you think Hamas thinks?

Those of us who came of age during the "War on Terror" are feeling a distinct sense of deja vu.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

When’s the last time you were in the back of an ambulance telling the driver which hospital to take you to?

Apple doesn’t seem to be, or have I missed something?

They operate on a vague sense of envy that someone might be making more money than a preferred class

They operate on the principle that without revenue the people doing the actual work of journalism will go out of business.

Do you think the regulators are wrong on that point?

Most people don’t think in systems, they think in stories.

When it comes to corporations, we’re all just numbers in a database.

This is a good system to create mindless drones who suppress their own ambitions and interest and toil away until they die. Fuck that.

For example, it's been shown that the woman pay gap is largely explained by different life choices rather than sexism.

How were life choices controlled for in these studies? I’m sure lots of black people in the pre-civil rights American South never applied for jobs only given to white people because not getting lynched is a pretty important “life choice.”

Put another, less stark way: if you see no one like you in a certain field, starting as a child, can you really say it was a “life choice” not to pursue, I.e, computer science?

From your pragcap link:

Sometimes I feel like people read some econ 101 and the admittedly intuitive idea that inflation is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”, but didn’t stop to think that it might be a lot more complex than that.

This is the case with almost every armchair economics comment. The same thing happens with the complexity of affordable housing: “It’s all just supply and demand! Econ 101!”

cuteness, ergonomics, stability, features..

So long as you don't need fractional scaling, touchpad gestures, or hibernation. Also you are able install right wifi card. And don't mind your windows not staying in place when you plug/unplug external monitors.

As a result Windows will only lessen over time, fewer will install it, people will avoid it, stay in what they’ve got.

People don't install windows, they buy devices with it already on it. So when they stay in what they've got... well, that's whatever their device came with, or whatever it ends up having once the OS updates itself.

The fact that you are avoiding Windows 11 puts you in the 99,9th percentile... for even knowing what version you're running. Everyone else, when asked what version of Windows they're running, says "I don't know... the latest one?"

I have watched this video about a thousand times and it never, ever fails to make me laugh so hard I get tears in my eyes.

My neighborhood was built pre-cars, and it shows. The sidewalks are narrow, so everyone walks in the street. If you’re a lucky motorist, we might move over and let you pass. If it’s dark, or snowy, or raining, or the pedestrian is wearing headphones and doesn’t notice you behind them… forget it. You’ll have to drive slowly until the pedestrian reaches their destination or turns out of your path.

I wouldn’t have it any other way.

“What’s the harm?” is just turning the question around because the original question — “what’s the benefit?” — doesn’t have a satisfying answer.

If you want to reduce it down to “LFLs make people with extra books feel good” then, great, it’s obviously a resounding success, as evidenced by all the articles of people who built them beaming.

People devalue things that are free. Ever been to the Google cafeteria?

The books were obviously not wanted by the people who put them there, otherwise they would have kept them.

A single person reading a book they wouldn’t have otherwise is an absolutely miserable ROI for the materials and labor involved. It would be much more efficient to just offer the first person you meet a free book of their choice from Amazon.

Surveillance coming to every inch of the earth

Not a fan of little free libraries, personally. They are a dumping ground for unwanted books, and they’re placed in neighborhoods that traditionally have the most access to books, not the least.

Libraries are not just stacks of books. Information access is an ongoing challenge that requires experts to help others navigate. Libraries have librarians for this. In that sense, LFLs aren’t libraries at all, they’re just book boxes with an unclear mission and no documented success criteria.

How is that different from a password? PIN stands for Personal Identification Number. Words change meaning all the time, of course, but in this case there’s no reason to call it a PIN when there’s already another word for it.

So why not just have a password that then unlocks the passkey? I already have a password manager.

Why is a pin more secure than a password?

It's good, then, that the non-profit pharmaceutical company called Civica Rx will manufacture the insulin under the brand CalRx.

If it’s already covered, what’s the harm in letting the bill go into effect?