What's crazy is there's so much malvertising on Google. I used to see heaps of Homebrew advertisements leading to malicious curl | sh installs.

At the point its vintage people will just buy something new as it will perform better.

This is such a great treatise on RC. I always found RC alum posts on HN are always interesting.

This article resonates a lot of what I've been going through recently, so I thought I'd just reflect about it here.

I was in a slump a year ago, and I felt like I wasn't being challenged and just lingering. I wanted to do something more, and have always looked at study or a programming retreat like RC, just to stimulate myself and keep myself always occupied, otherwise I'd just spend most of my spare time lethargic and sleepy.

I mean I have a great job programming that is remote/wfh with little to no supervision, excellent pay, and a good team. However I feel was simply not making good use of the time when not working, and I didn't want to just go hard and work extra hours.

I looked into studying maths but there is a dearth of options for my requirements: to do it in a classroom setting since I believe maths is a great social activity. I just can't pull off part-time maths while working and the local universities are pretty expensive for doing this.

However last November a colleague tipped me off about a program called LPAB which is a diploma that is equivalent to a law degree with remote/distant learning, classes during evenings and weekend schools, and simply incredibly value (20% of what a law degree would cost in Australia).

I didn't anticipate studying law, but I jumped on it because it was the only thing that would fit my lifestyle. Now in my second semester and I feel I'm always occupied and engaged either studying or working. It's also helped with giving discipline and structure to my day. Before this I would just wfh at scattered hours with little to no supervision or contact. I now have a cohort of study buddies and now friends that are all in it together also with work and kid obligations, so we endure the suffering together.

I wish there were more options for advancement for people in a career and need a part-time option doing something substantial.

So is the news outlet that is speculating for clicks.

For sure... Just that wasn't the argument.

There's no indication there's a limited supply by Apple or you cannot get one. I don't see a marketing angle here, just speculation from "The Information", and people love to speculate for clicks so there's the motive.

Shipping times have been increasing over the last several months.

Because it is ludicrous and the tin foilers should be called out.

It absolutely isn't. It is only ludicrous if you hold Apple to some weird standard of ethics that they absolutely do not deserve. If you think this practice isn't common, that's purely a matter of ignorance on your part.

Yes, basically. [0]

[0]: Obligatory https://xkcd.com/386/

I use the default neovim theme and I feel that's essentially what I get out of it. Feels like sometimes I don't have highlighting enabled.

> If there be anything that can ever steal the spotlight from Mac; it would be Haiku.

I looked at the Haiku slideshow and I'm not seeing this. It looks like an eye sore, desktop environments familiar of the 90s. Even early OSX is a massive improvement (as it was to the NeXT desktop).

Don't get me wrong; Mac is light years ahead. What I mean is the level of harmony and design integrity the Haiku has. I doubt that any corporation can ever have even the team that used to make the icons of Tiger/Leopard era. The scrollbars of the Leopard or the whole Aqua. But given their team size and small scale of Haiku; this is one amazing job. The apps, the website, the icons; the documentations... all are in harmony and you don't find it anywhere else.

All of that has been straight copied from BeOS, which was a real corporation worth millions of dollars and in the cutting edge of technology at the time.

Very good point!

I honestly don't get this, what have we gotten since that's a considerable UI improvement? Bigger paddings? Flat UI?

IIRC you can even configure custom colors, have dark mode, etc. It might look dated with the gray color scheme but that's really the only thing I can guess would look dated to someone.

We are these days blessed with the gift of elegantly useless skinny scrollbars

> Even KDE looks better today.

:-o

I am honestly amazed.

IMHO KDE is fugly and it always has been.

One thing Haiku has is that it looks utterly coherent. Yeah, it looks 90s, but at least it looks like that everywhere you poke it. Every other OS out there became, in that regard, a mess.

But that's not going to "make Linux fucking happen".

Not that Linux is going to ever happen anyways. (talking Desktop)

Seems wrong that this post is flagged.

I was humbly going to posit same, but given the vitriol apparent against the publisher, it is symptomatic of something, I guess. The points downthread make for an informative read, pro-against.-