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And yet copying multiple large files from or to the same disk grinds the throughput to a halt on Windows where Finder keeps up close to theoretical bandwidth in sum.

Windows file I/O has always felt slower than Linux, Mac, anything. Still does. I don’t know what’s wrong with it or why it’s unfixable.

SSDs make it tolerable… not by fixing it but by being fast enough to hide it. Back in the spinning disc days you could tell a windows machine by how much kerchunking the drive was doing.


That's not a UI issue.

Mac (the hardware) is amazing.

MacOS (the OS) is much better than Windows.

But MacOS (the user interface) is worse than Windows (or even Linux).


Even independent of tariffs, FedEx likes to send stuff to debt collectors and not apply reasonable processes. We had paid a customs bill at the door and the driver never filed it in the system. I have a receipt and after 4 “reminders” and fighting them, with that receipt attached they still sent it to collection. FedEx doesn’t care. Talked to the debt collector and they dropped it, and said: we will check why they don’t have their shit together (transliterated). And this is in Germany.


It could help in the sense that people would not accept a pile of `fix`, `fix of fix` commits in a PR anymore.

The current UIs don't punish you for that as the reviewer mostly sees one final coherent change.


I'm not aware of any PR/MR UI that hides the underlying commits. Some of us do look at them.


Not the same. ME also came out around 2000 but was based on windows 9x, windows 2000 was based on NT. The UI looked somewhat similar with those two.


A topic of the “Three Robots” episode of Death Love & Robots, kind of. Sorry for the fandom link.

https://lovedeathrobots.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Robots#:~:text...


I can only recommend difftastic[1], which is a language aware diff. Independent of linter that shows the logical diff, not an assortment of characters or lines that changed.

[1]: https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic


Yes.


Correct.


I think the use case would be limited to a handful of users (slight hyperbole).

The average user is content enough with using plain PowerPoint and won’t bother with Markdown. People using Markdown are more on the “you’re doing it wrong, put the basics on the slide” side.

The people that make nice backgrounds for their talk, sometimes with a word or two, won’t get there with a text based tool either.

People that use LaTeX, markdown or some other text to slides tool are few and far between.


For completeness, it does say “one month, one year or forever” in the linked FAQ and makes clear it’s not recurring. GP rephrased the FAQ.



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