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Re:Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:26PM (#49591127)
You can press Command-Shift-. (period) to toggle hidden files. This isn’t very discoverable, though.

You can also hold Option while stopping a folder to get an additional Merge button, but at least one folder needs to have unique items.

Re:Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:24PM (#49591114)
Context menu → hold Option; “Copy” will change to “Copy <file> as Path”. (Sometimes you can just drag and drop the file to where you want to paste, but that depends on the destination app and so isn’t consistent.)
Re:HyperCard on the Macintosh on Sunday December 14, 2025 @08:16PM (#46269155)
It’s how I got my start into more than just tinkering with Apple BASIC!
Re:Fun ways of deciding authorship order on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @08:09PM (#43699929)
I’d guess it’d be a particular collation, rather than Unicode order…otherwise ö would always come after z (which is incorrect for English, but correct for, e.g., Swedish).
Yes: “Stigmata” is the (a) plural of “stigma”.
Re:Gemini Ad Backlash on Sunday August 04, 2024 @03:33PM (#41155746)
Not to mention the title of the button to dismiss: “I’ll fix it next time”. Ugh.
Re:Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA on Friday July 05, 2024 @08:42PM (#40887327)
Twitch supports regular TOTP now, thank goodness.
Re:Dwarf Fortress starting during apt-get upgrade on Saturday May 18, 2024 @08:46PM (#40403267)
That or being logged in. It was “not found” for me, too, until I logged in. (I don’t have any rep on the Ubuntu site, aside from the 100 for being on other SE sites).
Re:US English: Why do Brits hate it so? [video] on Friday April 12, 2024 @03:53PM (#40016956)
“Could”, maybe?
Re:Show HN: Fake or real? Try our AI image detector on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:44PM (#39752458)
If the iPhone one is the one I’m thinking of, it turns out the leaf was actually there.

https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026

That’s genAI, though, no? LLMs specifically deal with language.
Re:C23: A Slightly Better C on Monday January 22, 2024 @01:09AM (#39086837)
If you mean #import, it already exists as a keyword (though the meaning is different between GCC/Clang and MSVC).
Re:Parsing an Undocumented File Format on Saturday December 30, 2023 @08:04PM (#38820861)
The Unarchiver still doesn’t handle multipart RAR files correctly fairly often, too.
Re:How to fix the disastrous new Xcode 15 console on Sunday October 29, 2023 @12:16AM (#38055777)
nil Objective-C objects, too. Also, logging a signed int in Xcode 15 (for me) ends up being displayed as unsigned if os_log_* or NSLog are used (appears fine in Console.app, though, thankfully).
Re:Kevin Mitnick has died on Thursday July 20, 2023 @03:08AM (#36797652)
Wired story about the origin of the cards: https://www.wired.com/2007/06/lock-pick-busin/ (I looked it up because I thought they looked like some cards someone I knew designed, and sure enough…)
Re:Why can’t you just roll back from a bad macOS update? on Saturday July 15, 2023 @08:24PM (#36742200)
No, that’s a “rapid security response”, which is uninstallable.
Re:Suspicious iOS KeePass Client on Sunday May 21, 2023 @07:06PM (#36025459)
The provisioning profile expires after 7 days; you can transfer your development app to your devices as often as you want. Not sure if you lose data, when the profile expires, though.
Re:Common Mac OS X Cursors on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:14PM (#35097469)
No, it was x3. The physical displays on the early “plus” phones were slightly smaller than the actual rendered resolution, so that was downscaled slightly.
Agreed. Statements like those really need a preposition: A “by” or “to” would really help.
If I’ve read correctly [1], Safari on macOS 13 (released after the mentioned article) supports the standardized Web Push APIs.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...

Re:Moonwalkers: The World's Fastest Shoes on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:32AM (#34271661)
It’s the trend of using “faster” when what’s meant is “as fast” that I don’t like.
Re:Adventures in Advent of Code on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:43AM (#33851236)
The 5.7 compiler runs on Monterey, but the runtime is still 5.6, AIUI.
Re:Drag and Drop from Terminal on Saturday December 03, 2022 @05:22AM (#33842350)
I wrote something similar for fun for macOS a while back[1], though it doesn’t have the niceness of double-clicking the filename. (And of course now I’ve noticed more things to fix or change.)

[1] https://github.com/Wevah/dragterm

Re:Investigating why Steam started picking a random font on Sunday November 20, 2022 @12:03AM (#33678443)
Some (many?) currently-updated 32-but OSS have been changed to use a 64-bit timestamp now, too.
Re: on Friday November 11, 2022 @05:55PM (#33567934)
It might depend on which key your question mark is on, if not using a US layout.
Re:Chrome Responds "No" to JPEG XL on Friday November 11, 2022 @05:44PM (#33567862)
Re:Ask HN: Do you remember Computer Chronicles? on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:47PM (#33220883)
I was only introduced to it in the past few years, though I would have absolutely been in its target audience.
Re:Ask HN: Do you remember Computer Chronicles? on Saturday October 15, 2022 @11:46PM (#33220879)
HyperCard was when I finally felt like I was able to do something “real” (only messed around with various BASICs before that, and was quite young).
Re:A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ (2020) on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @06:21AM (#32735135)
IIRC K&R signatures are out in C23.
Re:Pronunciation Guide for Unix on Friday July 01, 2022 @02:44AM (#31943173)
If that page is correct, it’s because Donald Duck is called Anders And in Danish(!).

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