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On a long enough timescale there will be a generation who have grown up "AI native" (analogous to the older Digital Native concept) so they will probably have different thought and work patterns that are more conducive to day-to-day "imagineering".

Is the rendering in Cuis really hardware-accelerated? I agree it looks great but think it's all software-rendered using the CPU.

I dunno, tjpnz might be on to something. Would a nice smooth blue leg stepping towards the camera with super exaggerated perspective really be so bad right about now?

I think some developers are kinda dense or something, and don't understand that shoving AI content in people's faces is simply rude.

In recent versions of iTerm2 for example, when using the plain old menubar and hovering over some items, panels appear showing awful sloppy AI images. WTF? https://files.catbox.moe/5ivkhw.png - That makes me question everything... Was the developer always tasteless? Or did they get a taste bypass?

I imagine that's a deliberate decision of the overall project to try and get people to evaluate it on its merits, rather than associating it with something old and unfashionable.

> It's the part that faces the user. It's what helps the user form their first impression of your product.

Same for the README on a GitHub project. Alas, plenty of those are now just voluminous AI spew.

I am comfortable on Reddit because I understand that it's made up of thousands of sub-communities that vary wildly in how interesting/friendly they are.

I don't understand this desire to ignore that aspect and pompously dismiss Reddit as a whole. It's like dismissing an entire country as worthless because you didn't like the vibe in a couple of the big cities.

It was playable even on an 8 year old iPhone XS. I cleared up the whole wikipedia page and the framerate never got bad enough to hamper the gameplay.

That's amazing. I would have no clue how to write that so that it works so well.

Edit: I guess the main enabler is that it gets out of the business of HTML really quickly, by importing a representation of the page into the game engine. The classic bookmarklet version linked below messes with actual page elements using CSS transformations etc.

You should submit it to this site too: https://macoswm.com/submit

If it's anything like the one to set up Siri/Apple-Wallet, click it as if to start the process, then bail out and it goes away.

Just the other day I thought it looked like the friggin official Python homepage is using Courier for the code example

In hindsight, the movement in the early Tomb Raider games was really awkward. It didn't feel very human... it felt like an endless loop of rotating a circular tray then putting your foot on the gas.

Learn from the old master... with a big stinkin' LLM interposed!

Using a home PC without an internet connection in the 90s, I would basically do laps of the entire OS, looking at every app/window/dialog, searching for novel stuff. That's what exploring one of these feels like!

I remember downloading ISOs at like 4-8 KB/s from FTPs. It was an achievement to even get one successfully downloaded and ready to burn.

Let's call the M6 the 'A20P Max'

I'm disappointed that it is not influenced by the username ... "You sound like a skateboard kinda person"

Back in the day I used an old laptop sitting in my house running with its lid closed and free dynamic-DNS :)

You can't dismiss typography as irrelevant and trivial aesthetics. It's a whole field encompassing many things including legibility to humans. There's nothing more "functional" than principled crafting of legibility for each UI element. And no, a crude "Just use the same font in a single size for everything" approach is not the endgame for legibility.

Just because there have been some crappy industry trends doesn't mean the answer is to turn away and permanently regress to the confines of a terminal emulator.

The typical TUI fan is a nerd with no clue about typography so therefore they don't notice any problem with being shown elements that have no reason to be monospaced in monospace.

i.e. ignorance is bliss in the world of typography.

I like Fastmail but I'm starting to feel that the subscription cost is a bit overpriced for the way I use it (just IMAP email - not using the app, calendars, contacts, file hosting, ...). I've researched and found some other independent paid email providers that are significantly cheaper, although I suspect most of having a low bus factor with just 1 or 2 people operating them.

Ideally they'd grandfather in accounts that were created long before the spammer days :)

Live preview of what?

Completely pointless smug comment, given that there are thousands of subcommunities of wildly varying quality.

I'm sure it is a learning exercise in OS development to some extent, just a lightweight exercise compared to doing it 'properly'.

FWIW I don't upvote submissions like this though, because it contributes to a climate of cheap superficial fame.

I badgered my parents into getting 64k ISDN installed at home in ~2000. Whatever the pitch was, IIRC my true motivation was to get double-digit ping times for Quake etc.

Playing from the north of Scotland on typical UK servers, that went from 200+ ms unstable on a normal modem, to 70ms stable. LPB† status, wahoo!

† http://lpb.urbanup.com/36431

I noticed someone has already adapted libghostty for Swift/SwiftUI: https://github.com/Lakr233/libghostty-spm

EDIT: Apparently an official version is actually coming soon: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2072724957902381319

That's neat that she designed their house. When I've seen photos of Wolfram in his house I've always thought it looked an awesome high-class place.

We get it, you're really proud that you choose to disable JavaScript, and need to let everyone know about it