This is, most likely, another outcome of the wage stagnation and lack of any fit-for-purpose consumer protections in North America.

Likely true that it's not sold. They want to retain ownership. Like all modern items, they LICENSE your data to others.

That it's likely to be used to mine your personal data and be used to create AI slop in exchange for more global warming are just reasons to hate it more, but I think it's not the primary hate point.

Make it work the same as delisted games where you can go into your purchase history and click download.

It might "work" just fine on mobile (or not) but you may have stopped trying before reaching the point of re-scrolling, because it's insane.

Yes, there's a fee to get access to the App Store, but almost nobody on the Mac uses the App Store... the fee is mainly for putting stuff on iOS (and likely watchOS, tvOS).

The fee also gets you the absolute latest Xcode, but go back one version, and it's entirely free.

On Mac, you can install brew, and use it to install gcc, clang, qemu, whatever utilities you want.

You used to need the developer fee to put stuff on your iOS device at all, but these days you can put stuff on your personal devices without a fee, but the binary expires in a week... enough to learn and debug, but not ideal for a personal tool. That's about the only annoyance where the fee comes up... long term deployment to iOS.

Liked the first Locked Tomb, didn't really enjoy the remainder of the series.

The Witch King (from the Murderbot author), was alright.

The Time Travellers Almanac. Time Travellers Almanac was meh. A set of short stories, but many retreads of the same ideas we've seen over the decades. There was one good story, and one other interesting concept...

Road to Roswell and Crosstalk. Connie Willis' books were great, as usual.

Brzrkr. Keanu's book was meh.

The first five of the Kate Daniels Series: - Magic Bites - Magic Burns - Magic Strikes - Magic Bleeds - Magic Slays

Kate Daniels is doing an acceptable job filling in for Dresen's absence, though book 3 and 4 go a bit heavy on the romance side.

Pre-orders pending on the next Murderbot book (Platform Decay), and Dresden (Twelve Months)

I have no idea what input events zooming generates. Perhaps an option in the URL could be used to turn on a log of input events that people can copy/paste and submit back to you, so you can get a sense of what events are coming from various devices and input methods without having to find devices to try them all yourself.

Plenty of map sites have spent years broken on Macs, not handling smooth pinch-zoom or Magic Mouse smooth scroll wheel events. A slight 3mm movement of a finger going from fully zoomed in street view to fully zoomed out planet view. I'm assuming every micro-movement event is treated as a Windows scroll wheel event where you expect to move a decent chunk on each event.

However you're treating zoom inputs, you've got the opposite effect. A full zoom motion barely does anything.

Minor usability note, zooming by pinch on a MacBook trackpad is painfully slow.

If you've got a decent tech job in Canada your marginal tax rate will be near 50%. Any new income is taxed at that rate, so that 3% COL raise, is really a 1.5% raise in your purchasing power, which typically makes you worse off.

Until you're at a very comfortable salary, you're better off job hopping to boost your salary. I'm pretty sure all the financial people are well aware they're eroding their employees salaries over time, and are hoping you are not aware.

And? Are you saying neither Intel nor AMD engineers were able to determine that this was a bottleneck worth chasing? The point was, anybody could add more cache, rename, reorder or whatever buffers they wanted to... it's not Apple secret-sauce.

If all the competition knew they were leaving all this performance/efficiency on the table despite there being a relatively simple fix, that's on them. They got overtaken by a competitor with a better offering.

If all the competition didn't realize they were leaving all this performance/efficiency on the table despite there being a relatively simple fix, that's also on them. They got overtaken by a competitor with better offering AND more effective engineers.

At some point I just moved on, and solved the next word, Chess, in like 2 seconds. The results claimed I spent a whole pile of time on Chess, since it has no idea which result I'm thinking of solving (though all the wrong guesses for Catan should have been a clue that the time should have gone towards Catan.)

I'm not sure the per-word time values are useful if they can't be trusted to be accurate.

I was alive for both amber and green screens too.

Please don't suggest people are making things up from times before their birth simply because you have a different view.

We haven't yet had a glowing-white paper.

Traditional-normal for computing was a dark background.

There was likely a technological limit in the use of pure white at the start when "emulating" paper. VGA 16-color mode likely meant that the choice was between bright white and medium grey, which was too dark. Configurability has lagged behind though.

Windows adopting the "paper"-white background and whole world drooling over the arrival of Windows 3.1 and 95 is when it became the standard, I think.