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I'm so fucking sick of this "AI is just math it can't be intelligent" take.

Literally everything we know about human intelligence, especially as compared to animal intelligence, suggests that language is one of the key fundamental differentiators between us and them.

Now we've built a collection of simulated neurons, at a scale close to that of the human brain, and trained it on the entirety of the human language, and people insists that there's no way that could possibly exhibit any kind of intelligence.

If that's your level of reasoning capability you're not much better at it then an LLM.

Lol, typical American centric article.

Just outside Toronto, they're building four 300MW small modular reactors, at an existing nuclear plant, using proven designs from Hitachi, and the first one is targeted to come online by 2029 or 2030, eclipsing the Texas projects in scale, timeline, and practicality, but that literally doesn't even get a passing mention.

Now compare how many people would consider a strong work ethic at the office bad to how many would consider spending a lot of time on DnD bad. The difference is massive.

I mean, again, no one is going to consider a hard work ethic at the office bad by default, because it pays for you and your family's food and shelter.

If you flip the incentives around, i.e. you got food and shelter for playing DND and nothing but socialization for being at the office, then people would consider a strong work ethic at the office equally bad.

I mean it doesn't pay the bills, but it does get you respect from other speed runners and from people who respect speed running.

It's also somewhat a matter of your specific hobby ... speed running video games is pretty niche and useless compared to most hobbies.

Like on one end of the spectrum, there are hobbies that help everyone, like volunteering, cleaning up or beautifying your community, helping friends and family and loved ones, or organizing community programs.

Everyone is going to respect the hell out of you for that, and it's pretty easy to see those translate to jobs if you needed them to.

Then there are hobbies that can be beneficial to you or to anyone, like hobbies where you create stuff (whether it's knitting, 3d printing, home renos, gardening, cooking, etc). These are much easier to use to help others, and to turn into side hustles if you want to.

Then there are hobbies that you like that create community and socialization, from playing team sports, to DnD groups, to parties, to multiplayer video games, to organizing dinners and events.

Then there are hobbies that primarily benefit you and benefit the community only indirectly (in the sense of you being a better or more capable person). This includes stuff like running, weight lifting, reading a book, etc.

Then there are hobbies that don't even really benefit you but you do anyways, like watching TV, scrolling social media, or getting slightly better at a pointless mechanical skill.

Since when is a strong work ethic at your hobby considered bad?

Really my biggest gripe with iOS/MacOS is that a lot of functionality is designed for an apparent fluidity rather than intuition — I find you often have to be taught how to do the things you are complaining about.

Stop. Just stop.

Look through the comments. Literally everyone rushing in here to defend Apple says something along the lines of "skill issue" or you just need to be taught how to do it. But when I prompt them to explain how they switch to a different window, of the same application, on one monitor, they list a convulsed series of steps that are decidedly not:

"Alt + Tab"

or

"Three finger swipe left and right"

like they are on windows / decent Linux desktop environments.

Apple's full screen paradigm has always been nonsense. They pushed it super hard for every application because they have a shitty dock that takes up too much screen real estate, and it's always caused problems with the entire rest of their windowing system as a result.

You know what is fluid? A three finger swipe left and right with handy window previews. MacOS's window management is just UX band aid on top of UX band aid, but they market it as innovation.

American judges have also been hobbled by decades of Republican legislation and judicial interpretations.

The American legal system has fucked itself into a corner where judges have to make these incredibly dumb technical rulings in specific interpretations and precedence, whereas as judges in many other western countries have much more freedom to look at the big picture or take into account systemic effects.

right click them,

I want to know which ones are running on that monitor.

but you're a programmer, why do you even care about the dock at all, you should hide it and use hammerspoon to make your system more suited for you.

Because I'm a programmer. I have enough code to write and maintain, and because if it was possible, I assume someone else would have done it by now given how much it's asked for.

On windows and KDE Plasma it definitely shows just the running application.

First of all no, on windows that's a setting, because windows has settings for things. You can either

• Show the running applications
• Show the running windows but collapse them into their application once the bar is full
• Show the running windows and never collapse them into their application

You can hover over it and get a ridiculously long list of windows but that's honestly just as bad as mac. They're both bad solutions. Either you right click and get a list of text you have to remember, or you get a picture of the window that you have to scroll (I usually have way more windows open than this)

Lmao, no they are not equally bad.

First of all, on windows you can also right click and get that shitty list, but you probably don't use that because it's worse than the hover.

Second, the hover exists, and is better. An image preview of the window plus it's title is easier to scan quickly.

Third, you can also three finger swipe left and right on a trackpad, or windows key plus arrow key left and right to switch between windows, and you get a handy horizontal list in the middle when you do so you know exactly where you are in that list.

I can't tell if these are jokes or not.

How do you switch between the running windows on a single monitor on a Mac, without having to consider every running application and window on your whole computer?

Alt Tabbing switches between applications, not windows.

Command + Arrow key, only switches between full screen windows / desktops, forcing you to full screen windows, just so you can quickly switch back and forth between them.

you can disable this.. like, what even is this complaint. You can literally hide it just like you can on windows.

The complaint is that Apple's designers are obnoxious as fuck to waste more space than Windows on a taskbar that does less.

so yeah you literally don't know how it works. it literally is the developer's choice for how long a notification stays up and if it is persistent or not.

No, it is not. The user chooses in the MacOS settings for an app whether that app getsalerts or banners, and that changes their behaviour entirely. Alerts disappear and get lost, banners persist on your desktop until you dismiss them.

How about this. Go try out Hammerspoon, go try out AltTab. If those are too difficult for you then use BetterTouchTool (though that costs money).

How about the trillion dollar corporation spend their time and money coding a functional window system into their 30 year old operating system? Or how about they stop using bullshit walled garden tactics like the iOS / Safari Rendering engine to force developers into buying Macs?

the single qualm about the popups not showing for 'true fullscreen' apps. But you don't like fs apps anyway! So don't use them!

Again, there is no way to switch between running windows on a single monitor.

I do not understand why some people feel the need to defend such a dumb fucking windowing system. You obviously recognize how nonsensical Apple's full screen system is, and yet you come in here to insist it's not worse then Windows' because it has awkward multi step equivalents to windows' single shortcuts.

Second, asking how many windows I have open is dumb since you are asking for a static number for something that changes day to day. If I say 6, you say 7. If I say 11, you say a billion. You aren’t looking for a real answer to consider, you are looking from something to lie about.

It's not a dick measuring contest, I'm just genuinely curious how someone who actually uses a lot of windows manages, or whether I'm talking to a university student writing an essay.

I will say I have 3 browsers with multiple windows and tabs open across 3 screens, vscode, terminal, 2 virtual machines in full screen a simple swipe reveals, pages and numbers, TextEdit as a scratchpad for notes, a few finder windows, messages, discord, mail, and probably a few other things.

So how do you quickly switch to a different instance of the same browser, on the same monitor?

First, windows 11 has objectively the worst desktop GUI. It’s a downgrade from its predecessor and so bad literally everyone beats it now. It’s not better, it’s familiar.

Oh its just "bad"? I listed numerous basic failings of MacOS, including specific window management failings and their patronizingly useless notification system. How about you do better than "bad"?

Fair point, but it's the OS that forces you to use a specific desktop environment.

Read the comments, I do. Windows' GUI is better.

How many windows do you need open day to day to do your job?

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