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Apple also put the music video for The Old Apartment by Barenaked Ladies on the Mac OS 8 CD.

Unfortunately, if you use a two-monitor setup, you cannot have the dock on the left of the right-hand-side monitor, or vice versa.

I've never looked into the PDF format, but, does it not allow for annotations that say, "the glyphs in the rectangle ((x0, y0), (x1, y1)) represent the text 'foobar'")? That's been my mental model for how they are text-searchable.

After Wise moved away from Evolve to Community Federal Savings Bank, they gave me new account details that included an address in New York.

Looking that up on Google Maps and Street View, it appeared to be a small branch in Brooklyn, on a street that looked immediately familiar to me as the starting area in Grand Theft Auto IV.

That doesn't match my experience. I have some unlisted videos that I or a small handful of friends might go back and watch once a year, and it takes several seconds of loading before they start playing. It's very noticeably different from the near-instant loading of most videos I watch.

Until a few decades ago, the term 'billion' actually meant one million million (1e12) in the UK, rather than the now commonly-accepted meaning of one thousand million (1e9). As a British paper, the FT may simply be trying to avoid the ambiguity.

Two problems that have occurred in recent times when Dota tournaments have not used booths:

- the crowd whistling to tell their favourite team that the enemy team is making some kind of secret play (e.g. taking Roshan, or using a smoke).

- clearly hearing the play-by-play commentary that's being played to the crowd over the arena's loudspeakers, which can also give away information about what the enemy team's doing.

Any open file

Any file that was opened without specifying FILE_SHARE_DELETE in the call to CreateFile[1] (the Win32 equivalent of open(2)). Unfortunately, most language runtimes that wrap CreateFile tend not to pass that flag.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/fileapi/...

The Mac is no better, in my experience. I just timed how long it takes to open the Calculator app – the simplest app I could think of – on my 2019 MacBook Pro, and the window appears 600ms after clicking on the dock icon. I would not call that immediate, and it only gets worse when you try more complex applications, especially those written in Electron.

Yes, and it was actually Microsoft who first brought the iMac stripes to Mac software with Internet Explorer 5, before OS X.

The classic MacOS's Finder was 'spatial'. Since each folder on disk could only be open in a single window, and that window remembered its position and layout, there was a certain physical consistency - it felt like the windows were the actual folders on disk, with the same kind of coherency and stability you expect of real-world objects.

Meanwhile, the Mac OS X Finder is not spatial. You can have the same folder open in multiple windows, each with different layouts. There's no longer that illusion that the window and the folder are one and the same – it's just a browser showing you the contents of the folder.

This article goes into a lot more detail. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2003/04/finder/

Does it really have 2000 employees? I remember when they were owned by Conde Nast and had something like 5-10 people. I know they have a lot more users now, and have added features like image and photo hosting, but to go from that to 2000 employees is quite the blowup.

The Platinum theme used by MacOS 8-9 was probably the closest-looking to that Windows 95 look and feel. And since Windows 2000 was a combination of that old look and feel on top of a modern kernel (NT), one might argue that the Mac OS X Developer Preview was the nearest Apple equivalent.

The first two Developer Preview versions of Mac OS X used the Platinum theme, not the Aqua theme that ultimately shipped with 10.0.

You can see screenshots here: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/macosxdp1

Note that one of the .kkreiger devs (ryg aka Fabian Giesen) works at Epic Game Tools on the Oodle compressors mentioned in OP's post.

Is that Apple Garamond?

Importantly, the punt is propelled by having someone stand at the back and push a pole against the river bed. It's popular with students and tourists in both Oxford and Cambridge, although the two cities disagree over which end of a punt is the back.

Musk might care if this move drives all the influential power users away.

I'm not influential – I almost never tweet and have almost no followers – but I've read Twitter almost every day for the last 15 years. If I can't use Tweetbot, I'm just going to stop using Twitter. The official client and the website are just not usable for me.

Sure, they haven't been getting any ad revenue from me using a third-party client, so they won't miss me, but they never even attempted to provide those ads to the third-party clients.

s/Playstation 1/Playstation 3/

A lot of AAA games presumably got ported to Linux so that they would run on Stadia. Were those efforts funded by Google? I wonder if we saw more proper Linux game client releases as a result, and whether we'll see fewer Linux ports in the future.

Note that they remastered the game in 2012 as "Doom 3: BFG Edition", and that included the ability to use the flashlight while holding weapons.

I think Doom (2016) and Doom Eternal are far more successful as Doom games than Doom 3. Like the original 90s games, they're fast-paced, with wide-open combat areas and hordes of enemies on screen at the same time. The technical choices they made with id Tech 4 meant that a game like that wasn't really possible with the hardware available in 2004.

Maybe they just shouldn't have called it Doom? But its design as a slow-paced horror game, what with all the tedious monster closets, doesn't compare well to Resident Evil 4, which came out only a few months later.

For comparison, here's the wording on the Brexit ballot papers in 2016:

Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

Voters had to choose from one of the following:

- Remain a member of the European Union - Leave the European Union

One of the more memorable and surreal experiences I had on my visit to SF was walking around Golden Gate Park, and suddenly seeing what looked like the mast of an alien sailing ship looming out of the fog in the distance.

It turned out to be Sutro Tower.

Sorry, I had to reword and shorten the headline from the linked page to fit within HN's title length limit.

I remember using something called Google Hangouts for video calls at my last job. What happened to that? I remember it being confusing because there was a seemingly unrelated Google Hangouts app for instant messaging.

You're not wrong.

I guess they're just trying to say that LLVM's control-flow graph is implemented as individually heap-allocated objects for nodes, and pointers for edges. (I haven't looked at the LLVM code, but that sounds plausible).

Even if those allocations are fast on Linux/Mac, I wonder whether there are other downsides of that representation, for example in terms of performance issues from cache misses when walking the graph. Could you do better, e.g. with a bump allocator instead of malloc? But who knows, maybe graph algorithms are just inherently cache-unfriendly, no matter the representation.

I suspect they are actually talking about the modern/redistributable C/C++ runtime, not the old msvcrt.dll.

Microsoft refer to the modern libraries as the "Microsoft C and C++ (MSVC) runtime libraries", so shortening that to MSVCRT doesn't seem unreasonable.

The main repo I work on for my job is open-source, and yes, it happens fairly regularly that someone opens a nonsensical PR that might randomly perturb some Markdown or YAML file, or attempt to merge commits from some other developer's in-progress branch.

I'd say we only get them about once every week or so, but then the repo is not anywhere near as high-profile as the Unreal Engine, nor as likely to be on the radar of children.

They were probably trying to avoid using 'football' or 'soccer', because the former would be misleading to some North Americans, and the latter would be off-putting for some Europeans.

The suffix FC is used by teams on both sides of the Atlantic, and should be well understood by fans of the sport.

I'll make sure we fix those (I work on CodeQL).

That's odd. The error was not present in the original publication of this article in ACM's Queue magazine: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3487022