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Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:08PM (#50268514)
This is going to be great with Asahi
Re:Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:18AM (#50179005)
What do you mean, "broke" it? What they do is always correct, and it's the user who doesn't understand, is attached to legacy technology, lacks the courage to make the change, and doesn't understand Apple's vision for the future.
Re:"Traditional, but Puzzling" on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:28AM (#50148699)
I read the title as "traditional butt puzzling" and expected something slightly different
Re:The Engineering That Allows Articulated Buses to Bend on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:25PM (#50126124)
Truly a hub for circular reasoning
Re:The Engineering That Allows Articulated Buses to Bend on Friday October 16, 2026 @01:27AM (#50114429)
I relate more to the inarticulate bus
Re:Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:01AM (#50016178)
I thought ⌘ denoted a place of interest. I found many an interest spot just pulling off the road when seeing that
The article explains precisely how I feel about MacOS
Re:English: A vs. An on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:13PM (#49778382)
Good, but having a plot subtitle "Tree style visualization of the first two letters of a word Visualization showing whether the first two letters of a word are enough to determine whether it should have “a” or “an”" isn't very informative. Tell me how to read it
Re:Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:33AM (#49521822)
I'm glad the abominable child sexual predators were mentioned. Poor Aisha bint Abi Bakr
My username checks out
Re:GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:42PM (#49486404)
So it's the opposite of smartphone, where keyboards are UI driven
Re:Intriguing Stories in Computer Science on Monday August 17, 2026 @09:48PM (#49340152)
I disagree with the author about Black Lives Matter and abolishing ICE (more like abolishing the leaders who enable ICE to do terrible things - maybe there's some common ground there)
Re:The End of Mathematics on Saturday August 15, 2026 @01:58AM (#49308056)
Seems like clickbait so I'm not clicking it
Re:Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI (Lecture) on Thursday August 13, 2026 @08:38PM (#49293479)
You beat me to posting this. Our YouTube recommendations must share some latent features
Re:As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program on Saturday August 08, 2026 @01:52AM (#49219211)
I'll never forget the first time that dreadful window appeared. I was frustrated for 10min, eventually turning to my phone to search for what to do.
I was hoping this was going to be about french fries, but I'm not disappointed
Re:The Voice of Google on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:24PM (#48987343)
I'm glad James Damore's arguments were correctly strawmanned
It's interesting how all base 10 numbers identify as non binary
Re:Everything is logarithms on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:50PM (#48625061)
I can't believe he called normal logarithms 'based'
Re:GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @08:14AM (#48608680)
It's fine if it hallucinates, as long as it sounds overconfident
Re:Dopamine Fracking on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:43AM (#48443196)
I don't really think bro dude understands any of the environmental effects of fracking, especially compared to other drilling mechanisms. But it's just a metaphor.
Re:Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:57AM (#48264175)
Wow, things operate according to lists of instructions. What a concept.
Re:Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book on Thursday May 14, 2026 @01:44AM (#48131507)
I got it down to one, and then remembered I'm not a great chess player
Re:What's a Mathematician to Do? on Sunday May 10, 2026 @11:04PM (#48090638)
Good question, but I'm offended by the egregious misuse of a semicolon. My JIT compilation is throwing an error.
Re:Local AI needs to be the norm on Sunday May 10, 2026 @10:58PM (#48090602)
Just let me turn it off to preserve battery life
What about just setting the stores in high income areas to have higher prices?
Re:It's OK to abandon your side-project on Monday April 27, 2026 @06:49AM (#47919941)
What if your side-project has a side-project?
I made this acct to hate on MacOS but this is like shooting fish in a barrel
Re:Filing the Corners Off MacBooks on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:52PM (#47725455)
Try exfoliating your wrists with square virtual windows
Re:Filing the Corners Off MacBooks on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:49PM (#47725416)
It's great how apple makes everything so customizable

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