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gruber

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I write Daring Fireball, host The Talk Show, and created Markdown.

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I still go to the File menu to quit an app if I'm mousing (as opposed to ⌘Q’ing).

daringfireball, to random
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‘Apple Intelligence’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/07/apple-intelligence

gruber,
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@DonSqueak @gruber Fixed on both sides, @danielpunkass's and mine. 👍

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Gurman Reports Apple Is (Finally) Breaking Passwords Into a Standalone App for the Mac and iOS
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/06/gurman-passwords-app

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@DonSqueak I refuse to predict what the EC will care about but from what I see they could and might go after anything and everything that gets added to the OS, and want anything and everything to be replaceable without any care or understanding of where it actually lies in the OS stack.

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New M2 iPad Air Has 9-Core GPU, Not 10-Core as Originally Specified
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/06/ipad-air-m2-9-core-gpu

gruber,
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@peternlewis But it's the same M2 SoC that launched in July 2022: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/all-new-macbook-air-with-m2-available-to-order-starting-friday-july-8/

The M2 MacBook Airs were binned; lower-priced ones had 9 core GPUs, higher-priced ones had 10. I suspect Apple changed their mind on which of these to use in the new iPad Air?

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My guess is that Sam Altman will not be in the WWDC keynote, but if he is, how awesome would it be if he wears two or three stacked polo shirts?

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@EshuMarneedi I could see it either way, and it depends how much Apple wants to mention OpenAI at all. If the partnership is going to be emphasized, then I do expect an appearance from Altman or both Altman and Murati.

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@Aaron What would Steve Jobs have done? I think SJ would have pitched with a 5-minute explanation of how everyone else has gotten it and wrong and here's how Apple is getting AI right. Lots of talk about AI, but in a very different way.

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@moirearty Too hard to predict. Could see it either way. Look at Google Search -- still in Safari. But if it's core technology, the Cook doctrine says Apple wants to own and control it.

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eBay Is Dropping Support for American Express
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/06/05/ebay-amex

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@mjgardner Like I wrote last year, I just don’t see Apple partnering with Amex for the Apple Card. Apple wants the Apple Card to seems like its own card, not the branded Mastercard that it is. And Amex is like Apple — they do their own thing on their own brand. They’re not infrastructure for others.

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I know I've mentioned this before, but one of my favorite features on the Mac that has no equivalent on an iPhone or iPad is adding new words to the system-wide spelling dictionary. The feature dates back to Mac OS X 10.0 and I'm pretty sure was in NeXTStep a decade before that.

And, even better, the custom words you add to the dictionary are stored in a simple text file, one word per line, at:

~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.AppleSpell/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary

gruber,
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That text file used to be at an even simpler location:

~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary

but Apple moved it at some point in the last few years into a sandboxed folder. Kinda sucks that such much stuff is buried deeper in ~/Library/, but one can see why this file deserves to be protected.

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If you ever make a mistake or simply wish to remove a word from your custom spelling dictionary, you don't need to edit the text file. Just secondary-click on the word again and choose "Unlearn Spelling”:

gruber,
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@Wowfunhappy I wouldn't mess with that. Not a user-serviceable part.

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Interesting to hear mainstream media pundits constantly complain of the toxicity of platforms like X, but they stay on them and do not attempt to build an audience on the fediverse because it's just too much effort for them

gruber,
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@harold Inertia is a powerful force.

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“Nintendo’s first-party titles have almost consistently been successful without predatory monetization or deplorable pricing structures because the quality speaks for itself. Even at their worst, Nintendo has consistently produced quality games that continue to make them money decades later.”
https://www.zeldadungeon.net/in-a-turbulent-gaming-industry-nintendo-has-shown-a-better-way/

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@invalidname Culture matters. It needs to be nurtured and deeply valued within the organization, but companies like Nintendo and Apple show that it can be preserved.

I suppose Microsoft's internal culture has been preserved as well, but theirs has never been one that values quality first and foremost.

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My son got some fancy keycaps for one of his keyboards, and while I like the feel overall, I realized only after trying to use it myself that this compact layout lacks a backtick/tilde key, making it impossible to do a code span in Markdown.

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@wklj That's just him using whatever keys fit the space. It works as a Command key in Mac mode.

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@GreatBigTable He was very unimpressed a few years ago when, while I was helping him with a Python programming assignment for school that required a Markdown-formatted readme, I told him I invented that. Very, very unimpressed. It was like I told him I'd invented rubber erasers on pencils or something.

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@kraigschmidt @wklj @jsnell @viticci @Moltz Folding how? Like sideways? I tried a bunch of those about 10 years ago thinking it would make for a great super minimal travel computer with just my iPhone, but never found a single such keyboard I liked. One problem for me is that my fingers could never get used to any sort of gap down the middle of the keyboard.

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@Jackaninny They do -- they look and feel like hard candy.

gruber,
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Also pictured there: my beloved Chockdingus™.

gruber,
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@chockenberry The chock is in the mail.

gruber,
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@danielpunkass He’s got more than me unless you count the AEK II backups I have in boxes.

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@gruber did someone edit in an Australian voice here where you say “totally”??

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gruber,
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@tobinator Ha! Nope. I don't know how that came out of my mouth that way but it's not a gag.

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How much do you bet this product makes it to market without accounting for the fact that some people have longer hair than these two men or sometimes wear hats?

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A photo of Sam Altman. His hair is quite short.
A photo of Jony Ive. His head is shaved.

gruber,
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@BenRiceM That doesn't seem like the sort of thing LoveFrom would overlook. Does it to you? To me, cameras on earbuds make little sense, if only because of hair and hats. But I can't see them going forward on it without considering it.

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