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But will they know if you close the bank account that was previously verified?

This neglects to address WHY bitcode was removed. Wasn't this supposed to be a big deal, and required of all app submissions only a couple of years ago? I thought it was to facilitate the porting of applications to whatever architecture Apple saw fit to deploy.

Update: This sounds like a pretty good explanation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72543728/xcode-14-deprec...

I bought Pixelmator also, but gave up on it because of incredibly clumsy and baffling UI decisions.

I want to support independent, non-rental-scam offerings as well. But Serif's attitude toward fixing bugs in its suite has been pretty bad. And in their presentation of "what's new," they seem to have ignored repeated requests for features that are standard and expected in this type of software.

They're not even complicated requests; stuff like non-printing layers and the ability to resize the selection marquee. I mean... WTF?

App stores? You can buy the apps directly.

Pfff. Illustrator was and is roundly defeated by Corel Draw. Unfortunately the attempt at a Mac version of Draw was a hideously defective failure.

Before that, I'm confident that Aldus Freehand kicked Illustrator's ass.

But Illustrator is ruined by a glaring omission that people have been complaining about for years (if not decades): There's no way to select only the objects that are totally within the selection marquee. Every other vector art application offers this critical selection mode (Affinity Designer defaults to it, I think).

I consider Illustrator unusable as a result. It's also essentially abandonware.

I wonder if they fixed the defect that repeatedly and incrementally blurs your images in Photo when you merge layers. I mean... how can you use a product that degrades your images continually as you work with your compositions?

Does Photo finally have a "transform selection" option, which lets you resize the selection marquee? Yes, it was released without a way to adjust the selection... and has stayed that way for years.

Does Photo finally have a crop tool that actually crops the image?

Does Designer finally have a function to trim the canvas to the objects on it?

Do the apps finally have a "do not print" option on layers?

It doesn't appear that Serif has fixed profound UI defects that have hobbled the suite from the beginning...

The gradient-fill dialog hasn't been revised at all; it is still baffling and dysfunctional, and lacks any way to control gradient angle: https://i.imgur.com/OUh5Ase.png And there's only one color well.

The eyedropper's functionality is still backward... or I should say eyedroppers', because they're all over the place. You can have three or four on the screen at once. Why?

You still can't set things to be the same size by selecting them all and then entering dimensions in the transform panel. It irritatingly resizes THE SELECTION BOX around the objects to the size you enter, mashing the objects to unintended sizes within it. WTF?

This is not looking good. Historically they've had a smug, shitty attitude toward defects and sure enough, they persist for years.

Well, don't try GlassesUSA. They are a scam operation operating under various names, working hard to test your resolve to prosecute them.

Warby Parker is a rip-off too.

I start with negative reviews, looking for well-written ones with specifics.

The fake ones are often absurdly easy to spot, with mindless cheerleading, lists of features regurgitated verbatim, and fully spelled-out product names. That's my favorite: ridiculously complete product names with taglines, practically only missing the (tm).

Did you read the Wizard of Earthsea books? Really great escapism in a more grown-up sort of Harry Potter situation, many years before Harry Potter.

I really, really wanted to like Picard (as I'm sure most fans did). But it sucks. It's boring-ass gibberish about... um, I think it's about people who hate androids. Right?

Terrible. Remember how the Phantom Menace's central premise originated with unjust taxation, but didn't show any hardships or physical struggles caused by said taxation? Also shit.

"a proof-of-concept method that should allow for the installation of arbitrary homebrew applications on the consoles."

Good. That should be allowed anyway.

Interesting, thanks!

Must be 500,000 nested IF statements.

It should be noted that if you're using an APS-C (or Super-35mm for motion pictures) sensor, the 35mm is your "normal" lens.

I don't recall anyone ever claiming that it was truly comparable in fidelity to FM. In addition to bandwidth limitations, AM is still subject to way more interference than FM.

Maybe in a perfect lab setting it could approach FM, but... yeah. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In '97 I bought a '96 Mustang and had an AM station on for some reason; maybe a Cubs game. I was shocked to hear stereo effects come out of the speakers, and then I looked at the LED display on the radio and saw a little "headphone" icon. Sure enough, the stock Ford radio had AM stereo.

Cool novelty, but in the end it was the same AM sound quality but with two channels. A worthy improvement though.

Whatever you thought that meant.

It wasn't DOA because of FM. FM stereo predated it by decades.

Same in Safari. It's pretty cool actually. In the demo, it does as you say when you switch tabs: plays a few more notes in the right channel, then holds the left in a loop of the last sample.

The term is WREAKED havoc, FYI.

Huh. I was programming my Ataris at that time and have worked as a professional programmer for decades, but I never heard of "Rogue" until seeing some posts about it on this site.

"Roguelike" is one of those irritating, smugly obscure terms that keep surfacing in HN post titles. What doesn't help is the failure to capitalize "Rogue," which would at least provide a clue that this is a reference to a particular work.

Just beware that corticosteroids can destroy your vision: https://www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/corticosteroids-rare-r...

Don't accept the irresponsible "rare" declaration, either. "Seldom-reported" is far more accurate and likely, given that CSR can be subtle. It takes a particularly knowledgable doctor to diagnose it, or a very persistent patient. When you combine those factors with the fraction of users who even have the wherewithal to go to an eye specialist in the first place, and the likelihood of the incident making it into a tracking database, you have the formula for a hugely under-reported malady that can ruin the quality of people's lives.

Patients should be apprised of all risks so they can weigh the benefits of the treatment, which may of course be deemed superior. The important part is that patients should always have the facts so they can make the choice.

The fact is that Music is still iTunes, a terrible jukebox app that Apple bought.

For years after iTunes launched, you could be listening to Internet radio (REAL Internet radio, not Apple's BS "radio"), and there'd be artist and song metadata displayed in iTunes. But could you click on that and say "buy song from iTunes?" NO. I mean... WTF, I wanted to spend money on iTunes but Apple didn't allow that.

To my knowledge that was NEVER fixed. Incredible.

The (desktop) Music app suffers from such stupid UI omissions that I hate rewarding it with money.

Example: You discover a "radio" show you like because it is suggested on the Browse page. Well, there's no way to save that. There's no way to bookmark it. You seriously have to essentially WRITE IT DOWN if you want to come back to a show later. WTF?

Or you're on the Browse page and you play something. There's no indicator in the UI of what's playing. If you click on an interesting-looking playlist or show and 20 minutes later you've decided you like it... you come back and look and there's no way to find out what you're listening to. There's not even a little "playing" icon on the thing that's playing, let alone a proper highlight or selection. It's unbelievable. And of course, there's no way to bookmark that, either.

Nobody should be shocked that it's computationally possible for a tablet to run this software. The question is why would you opt for that?

This is on a tablet with no proper I/O, running an OS with no user-accessible file system. And, based on screen shots, this software presents essentially the same UI it does on the desktop... which is totally inappropriate (if not unusable) on a touchscreen with one's fingers.

So now we have something that is profoundly gimped by the hardware, for which you have to buy MORE hardware (a Pencil). But the Pencil is only supported by the most expensive iPads.

In the end, you're paying as much as (or more than) you would have for a MacBook Air; a real computer running a computer OS with proper I/O, keyboard, and high-quality video and audio output. It's only marginally bigger than an iPad Pro, and... get this... it has A HEADPHONE JACK, which the iPad Pro does not.

All of that makes the MacBook Air a far better portable solution for Resolve than a tablet will ever be.

The integration with Fusion is pretty clumsy at the moment. It's not clear what timeline event you're working on when you're on the Fusion page, especially when you have several video tracks stacked at the playhead's location. It disregards the user-selected event (if one has been selected) and instead shows (IIRC) the topmost one instead.