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IIRC Apple dropped sub pixel antialiasing in Mojave or Sonoma (I hate these names). It makes no sense when Macs are meant to be used with retina class displays.


A.K.A. workaround for a software limitation with hardware. Mac font rendering just sucks.


SCSI had a reputation of being very stable and yet very finicky. Stable in the sense that not using the CPU for transfers yielded good performance and reliability. The finicky part was the quality of equipment (connectors, adapters, cables and terminators) something that led to users having to figure out the best order of connecting their devices in a chain that actually worked. “Hard drive into burner an always the scanner last.”


We used to joke that it should be called SCSl: System, Cables, Scanner last.


Like everything else in engineering it is a matter of trade offs. The setup you chose to run really hampers the usefulness of having a checksuming file system, since it cannot simply get the correct data from another drive. As a peer pointed out: ZFS does support adding additional drives to expand a RaidZ (with some trade offs). What you cannot do is change the raid topology at the fly.



The Project Looking Glass UI != The Project Looking Glass They are talking about the UI which could have inspired Stage Manager. Apple also had the purple window button before Project Looking Glass so there is that.


No, it was not Steve that found the Symbol but Susan Kare the Macintosh graphics artist. https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html


But unlike Steve, Susan will live on immortal - as the inventor of the Dogcow.


Yeah, that means it was Steve. :P

/s

(joking, relax..)


IMO that is not your call to make, it is the reviews call to make. It is the reviewers resources you are spending to learn more quickly. You are consuming a “free” resource for personal gain because you feel that it is justified in your particular case. It would likely not scale and grind many projects to a halt at least temporarily if this was done at scale.


The decision is made by llvm https://llvm.org/docs/FAQ.html#id4


I would interpret this as similar to being able to take paper napkins or straws at a restaurant. You may be welcome to take napkins, but if you go around taking all the napkins from every dispenser you'll likely be kicked out and possibly they'll start keeping the napkins behind the counter in the future. Similarly if people start treating "you can contribute AI code to LLVM" as "feel free to submit nonsense you don't understand", I would not be surprised to see LLVM change its stance on the matter.


I can see what you are getting at. Reminds me a bit of their GTK theme Nimbus for the Gnome based Java Desktop System but also Bluecurve of Gnome 2 with Bitstream Vera. Perhaps it just looks dated?


Yea maybe I asked AI and it said the reason why is both Sun’s design and the Nokia design are both “a neutral neo-grotesque foundation, refined contrast, and consistent spacing”


That is a question for those that did not make that small (free?) script, not Rogue Amoeba that solved the problem with a paid for app.


If you read his boks or others stories about Woz you would know that he was like this long before he had fortune in business. He spent a lot of time and money on setting up a quite popular answering machine service for delivering jokes and did attribute his success as an engineer to not having that much money [1] so he needed to make due with what he had.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak#cite_note-2_co...


>If you read his boks or others stories about Woz you would know that he was like this long before he had fortune in business

I don't doubt he said that, especially when you're young, healthy and carefree you don't need much money. But being a millionaire doesn't hurt that feeling when you're no longer in your twenties and don't want to live with roommates anymore, since everyone can end up with unexpected illnesses or issues that can be made batter only by money.


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