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New comment by mung in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

mung — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:47:44 +0000

They have high school graduation…

New comment by mung in "WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026"

mung — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:15:01 +0000

I guess this is the real way that AI will destroy humanity. By sucking up everything and making it expensive.

New comment by mung in "Affinity Studio now free"

mung — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:20:32 +0000

I feel like everyone is very negative about something that hasn't happened yet. This gives a desktop environment to Canva users, where the revenue actually is. It's both a trojan horse and a usable product. Will everyone's worse fears come true? Maybe, maybe not. Mean time you have an excellent app, for free, and very few software products, free, open source, closed source, perpetual, subscription.... last "forever". They are often obsoleted by some new product, new workflow or just a new OS. Take it for what it is right now.

New comment by mung in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

mung — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:03:06 +0000

Bit late to this thread, but you mention their design defects which bother the shit out of me. It’s been this way a long time now, but I hate, absolutely HATE how they changed save as (cmd+shift+s) to duplicate document in some of their apps. And then you close the duplicated document because that is not what you wanted, and it asks you if you really want to delete it. Delete what? It does not exist on the file system! I know one might say that technically it does or something because of versioning or some shit… the way every other OS and non-Apple app works was not broken. And I dont know anyone who likes pasting in text formatting as a default. MS broke that too. Why would ya change the functionality of an existing keyboard shortcut?

New comment by mung in "Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?"

mung — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:23:21 +0000

yep. dickheads.

New comment by mung in "A concrete example of what goes wrong with Apple's docs"

mung — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 23:41:41 +0000

It's why I never really bothered with Mac OS or iOS development. I don't have time to waste searching for answers. What an absolute PITA.

I like learning from 3rd party sources, but there HAS to be an official, maintained 1st party source or there is no point.

New comment by mung in "Elevated Errors on API and ChatGPT"

mung — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:40:56 +0000

I'm a teapot.

New comment by mung in "What if we talked about over-60s’ screen time as we talk about young people’s?"

mung — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 06:05:37 +0000

Yeah you can tell dumb people from smart people, dumb people, when they are older, think they know a thing to two by virtue of being older, while smart people recognize other smart people regardless of age.

Well, that’s one way that’s relevant to the discussion anyway.

New comment by mung in "Is there too much CSS now?"

mung — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 20:45:13 +0000

And yet styling form elements is still pretty limited.

New comment by mung in "Rage Against The Machine’s explosive debut album changed everything"

mung — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:12:49 +0000

I'm sorry, should they have voted for Trump instead? Those where the only real pragmatic choices. I'm not sure if the boomers listening to music with messages about political change are the same boomers who voted for Reagan. Those who want real change are always dwarfed by "moderate" status quo types, who are largely apolitical and uninformed and therefore easily swayed by fascist messages such is the fundamental nature of the average person throughout time. It takes effort and thought to remain progressive.

New comment by mung in "Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size"

mung — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 10:31:13 +0000

I'd like to know if any nation actually uses something other than dpi in printing.

New comment by mung in "Using a catch-all domain is a mistake"

mung — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 23:15:30 +0000

This is kind of less about the mistake of using a catchall and more about the mistake of naming it so obviously.

New comment by mung in "The Radioactive Boy Scout (1998)"

mung — Tue, 10 May 2022 04:03:00 +0000

Most people could not / would not go and teach themselves chemistry in their bedroom. While not a savant, it sounds like he might have benefited from being given direction from an interested adult.

New comment by mung in "Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie"

mung — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 03:31:29 +0000

Point-by-point: phones can (should be able to) unlock from portrait for video. As I said, video is generally better in landscape, so it's not really about TVs, TVs are landscape because viewing video is better in landscape. Why anyone has to even argue this OBVIOUS point just demonstrates the militant ridiculousness of people that get on the defensive because they often (not always) put no thought into their video compositions. Vertical video look stupid, get over it.

New comment by mung in "Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie"

mung — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 03:22:51 +0000

Well you can do what ya like, but I, as a viewer do have the ability to turn my phone to landscape to view landscape videos. What are you shooting? Pile drivers in action?

New comment by mung in "Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie"

mung — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:22:57 +0000

Yes you are holding it wrong because the resulting video is clearly wrong if you view the video on a TV (same aspect ratio, other orientation), a computer or if you watch movies, or if you, well, see out your eyes. If you want to capture just about any action, it's going to look better in landscape, and that is why EVERYTHING until phones were put in the hands of plebs is shot in landscape.

Now, you could argue that we've gone more mobile, and newer social media formats expect portrait, but, that doesn't change that it's risen because people take videos and never consider, "hmmm, if I turn it around, I get a better picture and it looks more like a TV! Duurrr." Just because it's more popular doesn't mean it's not stupid AF.

New comment by mung in "Apple introduces new version of iMovie featuring Storyboards and Magic Movie"

mung — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 22:37:43 +0000

My god it's tragic that vertical video has become a legitimate format when it really just arose from people holding their phones wrong.

New comment by mung in "Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid"

mung — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 02:18:08 +0000

But it's not from Greek mythology is it? It's always Christian mythology that is used in these sort of openers. It's almost always the default goto here. What lessons can we draw from the good book today?

New comment by mung in "Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid"

mung — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 01:05:17 +0000

Somewhat amusing that the article starts off using a parable from the bible. Maybe it's more amusing to someone outside the the US.

New comment by mung in "As JetBrains we condemn the attacks taking place"

mung — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 21:56:06 +0000

Should say... I dunno, Alphabet provide un solicited commentary on their take of... Australia's refugee detention centres? Not really.

Should a Russian-based company make a statement on their country invading another as the world (of customers) looks on? Probably.

Politics is everywhere, avoiding it can sometimes be an unintended statement too. Sometimes you have to state your position or others will state it for you.