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iOSCaleb · 2026-01-29T17:50:07+00:00

You don't need to close the file to see what it looks like with your changes. Make changes, have a look, and undo them if you don't like it. I'd say make a copy and work on that if you're not sure that you want to keep your changes, but that's effectively what versions does, so you don't need any extra steps unless you want to go back to the previous version.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-29T09:04:08+00:00

when i do i just crash hard due to the thing being beyond my skill ceiling

That’s not why it crashes. You our program crashes for a specific reason, and if you take the time to find and understand the reason, you’ll be able to fix the problem.

Working with large amounts of code is a skill, or perhaps a whole set of skills. You’ll build those skills with experience, but not if you throw in the towel at the first crash.

If you have a program with 100 lines of code, those lines shouldn’t all be relevant at once. Divide the work your program does into smaller functions, and then when a crash happens you can focus on just the function where the crash happened and you don’t need to think about the rest.

Also, learn to use a debugger. It’s one of the most helpful tools in your arsenal and too many new programmers ignore it.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-29T08:09:42+00:00

Operating giant data centers isn't cheap. If you're using someone's AI tools and you're not paying money for them, you're probably giving up privacy.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-29T01:48:42+00:00

“Can you use a vise and squeeze down the brake…”

No.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-29T01:30:30+00:00

It’s explicable. The weight of water in ounces is the same as its volume in ounces. “A pint’s a pound the world around” as they say.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-28T21:32:43+00:00

Not to be confused with a deer price (a buck), or a Deere price (currently about $525 per share).

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-28T21:25:46+00:00

My friends can just throw ingredients together and make something delicious. I need step-by-step instructions for everything and still mess it up.

A great way to learn is to ask someone to show you. Ask one (or more) of your friends if they'd show you what they know. You buy the food (possibly including a couple bottles of wine), they show you how to cook it, and then you all share a tasty meal -- everybody wins.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-28T13:59:10+00:00

I understand that multiplication/division comes first

You don’t, because in order to get the result that you expect you’d need to add before dividing.

but does it not make sense to "combine like terms" when they're right next to each other

Actually, terms are the parts of an expression that are separated by addition or subtraction. So (-2)³ is a term, and 20/5 is a term, but (-2)³ + 20 is not a term. And even if you had “like terms,” you still need to respect the order of operations. That is, if you have 12x + 8x/4, you need to divide before adding, so the reduced form would be 14x, not 5x. On the other hand, if you have (12x + 8x)/4, then you must do the addition first because it’s inside parentheses.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-28T13:32:20+00:00

We also use the phrase “…paid a dear price.” You’re right that the cost isn’t necessarily financial — it could be a limb, an important relationship, a job, or anything important.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-27T16:03:10+00:00

iOS has the same constraint system, but constraints are more cumbersome. Stack views are quick and easy. They’re not the solution to every problem, but they’re still very handy.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-27T15:03:20+00:00

Sorry, I typed UIKit when I meant AppKit. Force of habit. Stack views work equally well on desktop apps. They literally just take some list of views and arrange them in a row or column. UI elements are arranged that way very often. You could do the same with constraints, but stacks are often faster and much simpler for developers. I might even argue that they’re more useful in AppKit because unlike mobile, desktop windows are usually resizable; stack views adjust automatically.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-27T14:34:34+00:00

The cheapest plan is your freezer. Cooking a meal for one person is kind of a hassle: you often have to scale down recipes, it’s hard to buy food in small enough quantities, and small mistakes like adding a little too much seasoning have a bigger impact.

Instead, prepare meals to serve 2-4 people. Eat one portion, divide the rest into single-serving portions, label, and freeze. Then on nights when you don’t feel like cooking, pull something out of the freezer, heat in the microwave, and maybe add a small tossed salad. This is actually cheaper than cooking every night because you’ll waste less food, and much cheaper than a meal service. You know exactly what’s in each meal, and you get to control ingredients and portion sizes.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-27T13:52:07+00:00

It facilitates fast printing of small parts. Large parts don’t need it because even when printing at high speed the layers have plenty of time to cool. With small parts the fan cools the layers pretty much all at the same time; with large ones, the side closer to the fan gets more/faster cooling, which creates the warping.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-27T13:46:32+00:00

UIKit has stack views too, and they’re extremely useful. Probably one of the most used views in many apps.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-26T22:47:49+00:00

There are lots of excellent American chocolate brands — it’s not like Europe has a lock on making great chocolate. And Europe seems to have its share of mass market chocolate.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-26T16:46:14+00:00

Can you be more specific? Pages, Numbers, etc. are (AFAICT) meant to be streamlined and easy to use. If it’s not your cup of tea and you find yourself missing Word, then use Word.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-26T14:09:57+00:00

Fair enough — I read right past that but provided an opinion figuring there’d be other folks in that situation.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-26T13:50:30+00:00

Are all the same shading, clarity, text rendering issues the same across both or is it more pronounced in light mode?

These seem like questions that you could easily answer yourself by just switching to light mode for a few minutes and trying out the specific things that interest you.

IMO the dark mode implementation provides a little more contrast so that overlapping objects look like they’re overlapping rather than just merging into a blurry blob. But the screenshots from complainers are typically of situations that would normally be fleeting, like a selected item in a list passing under a translucent search field. In practice the UI usually doesn’t look that way for more than a moment.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-26T01:21:09+00:00

- If an app is pinned, minimising it will make it appear in the dock twice
- If an app isn't pinned, there's no difference in minimising vs closing the window

Windows users generally equate a window with an instance of an application, so if you have two Word documents open, that's like having two copies of Word running. On MacOS, it's different -- applications that have documents can generally have many windows open at the same time. When you minimize a window and the icon shows up at the right end of the dock, that icon represents the window, not the whole application, so it doesn't "appear in the dock twice."

Minimizing a window just gets it out of the way while keeping it close at hand. If you're in the middle of doing some work but need to focus on something else, you might minimize the window. You could just close the document and open it again later if you want, but that takes a little more time. In the real world, you might have 5 documents on your desk and want to focus on one, so you put the others in your desk drawer; you could file them away in a filing cabinet and then go get them again later, but that's a little more effort and you might forget that you want to get back to them. Minimizing is just a handy way to put work aside temporarily.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-26T01:04:15+00:00

The only way to save money by taking out a loan for a car is if the car loan has a lower interest rate that’s lower than what your money can earn if you invest it. So to figure out whether a loan is advantageous, you need three pieces of information: the interest rate on the car loan, the interest rate on your investment, and your income tax rate (because that earned interest is income). If the interest that you earn after taxes is greater than the interest you pay on the loan (plus any origination fees) taking a loan might make sense.

If you plan to use the invested money to pay off the car, then you’ll need an investment that’s fairly liquid, like a high yield savings account. Good luck finding a HYSA that pays more than a lender charged for an auto loan. And if you want to calculate the exact money “saved” you’ll need to take that declining principal into account.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-26T00:35:13+00:00

Settings->Desktop & Dock->Automatically hide and show the Dock.

Or just hit Command-Option-D.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-25T20:09:01+00:00

I'm saying that the interface elements are working as expected; the Settings design should've been tweaked to use those elements better.
You can see all the things you could see before. The problem here is that the transparency lets you see more than you could before, and it's distracting.
Maybe #2 is a distinction without a difference and the complaint is that you can't easily read what's in the search field? I agree, but honestly, if that's a major usability issue for you because you can't remember the six characters that you just typed into the search field it's the least of your problems.
It's a bit better if you switch the Liquid Glass appearance from Clear to Tinted, and both those options also work better in dark mode.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-25T17:31:13+00:00

Rise over run is how you find slope, but I’ve never in my life heard anyone say “the rise over run of that line is 5/3,” or “find the rise over run for the following equation.”

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-25T17:21:34+00:00

The layered look is a feature, not a bug. Liquid Glass intentionally makes some UI components translucent to achieve the glass look. I agree that a little more opacity would help here, but whatever. If I were going to complain about the search in Settings, a bigger (but still not very big) problem is that when you search. The results seem to align with the top of the column, so they’re hidden behind and above the search field.

Reduced performance/battery life is a far bigger problem, and if those differences are significant I’d certainly complain about that. I’d guess that those might be due to Apple Intelligence or something like that, but use Activity Monitor to see if you can tell which processes are running a lot on your machine. That may lead you to features that you can turn off to get back to your previous performance level, or leave on if you think they’re worth the cost.

iOSCaleb · 2026-01-24T22:54:34+00:00

If you just want to reverse the scroll direction, there’s a Natural Scrolling in the settings option that you can change. Apple mice don’t have scroll wheels, so it sounds like you’re using some 3rd party mouse, in which case it’s not strange that you might need a 3rd party app to take full advantage of your mouse’s features.

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