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The author is an unreliable narrator. The very first thing, the location of the script, can’t possibly be true (the app itself won’t be in per-user support data directory). They conflate things, they definitely don’t know enough about macOS to know to use sudo. I mean, they even rant about bog standard localization files…

You improve this skill by not using LLMs more and getting more experienced as a programmer yourself. Spotting problems during review comes from experience, from having learned the lessons, knowing the codebase and libraries used etc.

The LLM would, under that argument, be a transformative derivative work, which has important fair use implications (that don’t exist in the chardet case)…

IMHO pluralization is a prime example, with an API that only cleanly handles the English case

That’s not true at all? Gettext is functionally limited to source code being English (or alike). It handles all translation languages just fine, and competently so.

What is doesn’t have is MessageFormat’s gender selectors (useful) or formatting (arguably not really, strays from translations to locales and is better solvable with placeholders and locale-aware formatting code).

fully in the translator's hands.

That is a problem that gettext doesn’t suffer from. You can’t reasonably expect translators to write correct DSL expressions.

Yeah, the joys of mass ignorance.

- Barely literate native English speakers not comprehending even minimally sophisticated grammatical constructs.

- Windows-centric people not understanding that you can trivially type em-dash (well, en-dash, but people don’t understand the difference either) on Mac by typing - twice.

Apple tells you why they rejected the app, and you correct the problem and resubmit.

Such as, elsewhere in this thread, app for viewing HealthKit data “unnecessarily using HealthKit”?

App Store rejections are arbitrary bullshit most of the time. We stopped shipping through MAS because of that and went direct-only, the 30% wasn’t even part of the decision; the bullshit and broken sandbox were.

Beta 3 walked it back and added frosting.

Beta 4 went back again.

As for being "sure" Apple will find the right balance, they never fixed usability regressions in macOS introduced in the last redesign. And they have ~10 weeks to fix all this.

Same. Large companies keep freeloading and ask for support. They buy a single personal license and share it among employees. And it’s not some small shops from poor countries, where you can understand it, it’s (often German) enterprises…

...and Wise support became utterly terrible a few years back. I mean "failing basic reading comprehension" terrible, the level of incompetence shown in this article is par for the course.

Might be an EU thing, though.

So is Wise:

All investment services are provided by Wise Assets Europe AS, incorporated in Estonia under registration number 16267372. Wise Assets Europe AS is authorised and regulated as an investment firm by the Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority under licence number 4.1-1/174. The registered address is Veerenni 24, 10135 Tallinn, Estonia.

Major ones are enough. Linux and Darwin (that is, macOS and GNU userspace, really) differ sufficiently that you need to pay attention or limit yourself to POSIX. E.g. sed and wc burned me a few times with scripts that need to run on both.

Hard to follow this argument, not sure which companies in Europe "won't have to play by the same rules"...

Nobody except Apple is required to make its new features available to competitors, from day one, no?

I hope this works out, it's ultimately to the benefit of the consumer.

See iPhone mirroring on Mac: not available in EU. This was entirely rational choice by Apple given how small market EU is, and it's hard to see them handling any new deeply integrated features any differently.

See also how GDPR worked out: clicking through bazillions of obnoxious banners and an occasional 451 error on obscure US websites that can't be assed with this nonsense.

Thanks to overreaching EU bureaucrats, I will now also "benefit" by missing out on features that I would probably personally consider beneficial (just as do iPhone mirroring). Thanks I guess?

I didn’t even notice the typos when reading it... I did notice how well the text flows, how easy it is to read.

I (not a native speaker either) probably don’t make that many grammatical errors, but I envy their ability to just write. I can’t do that, I struggle with every word in long form writing.

These small errors are easily addressed with a final pass in e.g. DeepL Writer.

If you're trying to send from America, it's still the normal way to send a payment to Europe

It’s not; SWIFT is, and that requires additional information not shown there (although some of it is encoded in the IBAN if you know how to decode it).

This setup prevents new entrants from competing just the same.

Look at the new entrant browsers out there: all of them are based on Chromium. The existence of Chrome as an OSS project enabled competition in practice - the cost of entry is orders of magnitude lower when you have a mature browser engine at your disposal.