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New comment by aegypti in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

aegypti — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:00:34 +0000

Because that’s been the user convention for 30 years since the day Mac OS 10 was released.

People do not want to manage scripts and configurations in esoteric locations. They want to drag and drop app bundles into the trash from the apps folder.

This is trivially found out after 5 minutes with a user.

New comment by aegypti in "How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity"

aegypti — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 17:43:02 +0000

They’re not going back to VPS setups sadly, the article is about deploy button dollar siphons like Vercel, Render, Netlify

New comment by aegypti in "New South Korean national law will turn large parking lots into solar farms"

aegypti — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:20:24 +0000

That is generally worse for PV potential, clouds, rain etc

New comment by aegypti in "Sanders: Government should break up OpenAI"

aegypti — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:41:26 +0000

Bernie Sanders is not a democrat or liberal, he is a democratic socialist who specifically runs as an independent.

That normal liberals are so deeply associated with his ilk by the national electorate to the point Harris was considered more radical than Trump is a whole can of worms in itself.

New comment by aegypti in "The Stagnant Order. and the End of Rising Powers"

aegypti — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:28:22 +0000

Over a decade of domestic pop geopolitical thought explicitly describing these circumstances as a win condition for the USA. This strain of American ascendance has been blackpilled onto this path since Obama.

“Rogue Superpower” is said while feigning dismay and hiding unadulterated glee. Peter Zeihan has millions and millions of views.

New comment by aegypti in "Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has flaws, Army memo says"

aegypti — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:24:05 +0000

“I personally don’t think that’s true, and it upsets me you believe it’s true” isn’t really an argument though.

What are they making that would intimidate China, that China doesn’t already?

New comment by aegypti in "Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently"

aegypti — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:31:28 +0000

The Netherlands has 2x as much land as the Tri State area with 1-2 million fewer residents.

New comment by aegypti in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

aegypti — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:45:00 +0000

None of those countries are currently committing genocide, their lands were settled long ago!

New comment by aegypti in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

aegypti — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:41:43 +0000

This is actually easily explained by Israel having an intimate role in US foreign policy and culture for the past 80 years instead of being a majority Muslim constituent republic of the Soviet Union!

New comment by aegypti in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

aegypti — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:42:02 +0000

Those are US state legislators. We have 7,386 of them. Sometimes a few wander outside during their election races.

You could easily fit that delegation into New Hampshire’s House of Representatives of 400 seats.

Meanwhile it’s more than double California’s total state legislature size of 120 seats.

It’s fun!

New comment by aegypti in "Migrating to React Native's new architecture"

aegypti — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:11:24 +0000

That package’s churn single handledly changed my career path during the days of react 0.x away from FE. I think it was on v2 or v3?

I still feel anger hearing its name the better part of a decade later.

New comment by aegypti in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"

aegypti — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:32:26 +0000

It’s $0.08 for every $1 at retail rates, from the powerwalls, regardless of time or market prices?

New comment by aegypti in "The Mac app flea market"

aegypti — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:43:27 +0000

Looks like the subscription price went from $10 to $30+ yesterday!

https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ngy8mz/setapp_pri...

New comment by aegypti in "AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts"

aegypti — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:45:43 +0000

It also works in the entire Rest of World outside the EU

New comment by aegypti in "Cuba's electrical grid collapses in nationwide blackout"

aegypti — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:56:43 +0000

"There has been a total disconnection of the Electric System," the (Cuban state) Energy Ministry and National Electric Union said.

The (Cuban) grid operator said the grid collapsed at 9.14 a.m. (1314 GMT) on the Caribbean island.

???

New comment by aegypti in "Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app"

aegypti — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 12:34:11 +0000

Basal Cell Carcinoma is very gross!

Think a set number of questions to start with would be good. Not sure if there’s an end point, I drifted off after ~20 or so

New comment by aegypti in "U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD""

aegypti — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 20:42:02 +0000

Yes, for $30 a year you can instantly stream any torrent with no real setup or install. The most used client is a PWA that calls out to VLC or whatever.

Bluray 4K 100+GB copy of Dune Part 2 at >70Mbps with maybe 5 seconds of buffering at the start. Literally can’t replicate it with legal streaming.

New comment by aegypti in "Instant responsiveness in user interfaces is annoying"

aegypti — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:36:53 +0000

Just for what it’s worth, it is a very, very common and basic vocabulary term in any creative field including UI/UX.

The first thing a novice struggles with and reads 30 Medium articles from 2014 about is their taste exceeding their skill, and how to close that gap.

New comment by aegypti in "Figma files for proposed IPO"

aegypti — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:14:42 +0000

Still the default for most teams at Apple AFAIK

New comment by aegypti in "The Effect of Noise on Sleep"

aegypti — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:19:31 +0000

It is illegal to build housing without a permit, and you will not be issued a permit on much of California’s land.

Residential land area = land you can build housing on

https://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-californ...