If a build fails 10% of the time, it actually takes 100x longer before to fail for the 10%x10%x10% case.

Nice hardware (except for the reflective screen). Software is okay, fiddly, often fights with the user, bugs surprisingly often.

you didn't explain what the connection is supposed to be. even when asked.

What I find confusing and unhelpful is how The Apple OS deals with windows. Say if you have 4 safari windows, 3 excel windows, 5 window word documents and a bunch of terminals spread across a bunch of desktops. To me, I have clearly conceptionalized different work streams into desktops.

Apple doesn’t understand and respect that.

Firstly, alt-tab doesn’t consider windows, it considers apps. So if you have multiple browser windows or word windows open, you can’t alt-tab between them. It’s totally confusing. So I install an app just to get the normal alt-tab behavior of other OSs, to alt-tab between windows (mine is called alt-tab, and it’s a bit buggy and slow, I think they all are)

Next, Apple does not respect the multiple desktop boundary. If I click on the safari icon in the dock, it will switch to some seemingly random safari window in some other desktop. If I close any window, it will also run off to some other window of the same app in some other desktop (who came up with that behavior?) when I dismiss an outlook notification, it will run of to another desktop to look at outlook (actually I think this one is Microsoft’s fault, but Apple could probably do something about this one).

The result is that while working, I have trouble staying on the desktop I’m working on, I constantly am getting sent off to some other random desktop, and have to find where I am and where I was.

There must be a better, more productive way to manage windows and desktops.

(Also what’s up with the autocorrect, I had to retype every instance of “I think” in this message, because it insists it should be “o think”)

> Firstly, alt-tab

I assume you mean cmd-tab.

>doesn’t consider windows, it considers apps. So if you have multiple browser windows or word windows open, you can’t alt-tab between them. It’s totally confusing.

You use cmd-tilde to switch between windows.

>So I install an app just to get the normal alt-tab behavior of other OSs, to alt-tab between windows (mine is called alt-tab, and it’s a bit buggy and slow, I think they all are)

You don’t need an app.

>Next, Apple does not respect the multiple desktop boundary. If I click on the safari icon in the dock, it will switch to some seemingly random safari window in some other desktop. If I close any window, it will also run off to some other window of the same app in some other desktop (who came up with that behavior?) when I dismiss an outlook notification, it will run of to another desktop to look at outlook (actually I think this one is Microsoft’s fault, but Apple could probably do something about this one). The result is that while working, I have trouble staying on the desktop I’m working on, I constantly am getting sent off to some other random desktop, and have to find where I am and where I was. There must be a better, more productive way to manage windows and desktops.

This is a configurable setting.

>(Also what’s up with the autocorrect, I had to retype every instance of “I think” in this message, because it insists it should be “o think”)

This is a configurable setting.

>>Next, Apple does not respect the multiple desktop boundary... > This is a configurable setting.

If you mean the "When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application" settings, this works only partially. When clicking the dock icon its behaviour depends on if there are windows in your current Space (virtual desktop) or not. And don't get me started on where macOS decides new windows should go.

> You use cmd-tilde to switch between windows.

the approach is still pretty different in macOS compared to most other WM behaviors, namely: cmd-tilde cycles windows within the currently-open application, and cmd-tab cylces through applications. in most other environments, alt-tab will cycle windows across all open applications (and win-tab does something like cmd-tab on macOS but somehow horribly).

But the worst part: cmd-tilde cycles, whereas alt-tab on all other OS is a stack of most recently used windows.

I am mildly shocked after almost two decades of Mac use I never came across cmd+tilde thanks a lot!

I see this comment often and I usually pipe up to say that if you don’t have a US ANSI keyboard it can feel unintuitive. You can remap the hotkey to Option + Tab in those cases, easier to get used to.

Next try CMD+H to hide instead of minimising, like in Windows Land.

It doesn’t go to recently used, it CYCLES through the windows.to get to most recent used, you need to cycle through all the windows of the app. Who came up with that!?

> This is a configurable setting.

Give me pointers please. Getting same headaches every day. Clicking on icon in dock, closing some window produces random results every time, across many, many apps

How does that argument work?

which will be even worse so you don't get that angry after years of bad design, lol

O from OLED is round. That's why they need rounded windows. /s

Meanwhile, Germany is killing it’s heat pump mandate, re-introducing gas and offsetting it with single percentage “green” gas greenwashing mandates.

They've been lying and gaslighting for a long time now, especially when trying to cover up their own mistakes.

pedantry works best when correct.

"Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity."

Perhaps you are mixing up "ancient" and "prehistoric".

Galileo lived in the 16th century. Late antiquity ends around the end of the Western Roman Empire I think, which was before 500AD!?

But the text his notes were found in is ancient

No it isn’t, unless you date reprints to first edition publication.

They don't refer to an ancient book. They refer to an ancient text, as well as ancient wisdom.

> I’m of the opinion that direct air capture is the primary escape hatch

Great! That means we dont need to reduce emissions, cuz the magic bullet will just take care of everything. No need to change anything.