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  • Apple acquires the team behind Pixelmator Pro

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    Pixelmator is a really good app.

    And the Lugens will be first picks for the Apple intramural basketball squad.

    (Lugen is Lithuanian slang for Lithuanians, who tend to be tall, good looking and really good at Bball. Not lügen, which is to lie in German. If you grew up in the Chicago area you probably know this.
    Alex_Vwatto_cobra

  • Apple HR exodus continues with recruitment exec departure

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    blastdoor said:
    elijahg said:
    Is two people leaving really an "exodus"?
    Ha ha -- yeah, like when Moses and one other guy left Egypt :-) 
    Um… the entirety of Israeli’s enslaved by Egypt left Egypt…

    I know…I missed the Sarcasm. Lol
    "In short, the biblical writers invented the idea that the Israelites lived in Egypt in order to impel them to maintain their distinctiveness in Canaan. And the story of servitude in Egypt is an allegory of servitude to Egypt. Our ancestors, among others, did perform forced labor for Egyptian taskmasters, but they were never slaves in Egypt."

     The Original Torah: The Political Intent of the Bible's Writers  (ReformJudaism.org)
    9secondkox2blastdoorronn

  • Apple stock overtakes Microsoft on increased AI expectations

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    DAalseth said:
    Every time there is a big innovation people try to put it in everything. Then after a few years they realize that most of those applications were stupid*. This will be the way with AI. Right now they want it in everything, while we the customers just want a Siri that can understand linked questions and a spelling checker that won’t recommend ‘banana’ when I type ‘mountai’. I am actually glad to hear that most of the Apple Intelligence features will be rolled out separately over the next year. That way I can hunt them down and kill them one at a time. 

    *This is how we ended up with asbestos modelling clay, and radium in makeup. 
    Just FYI, asbestos has been used in clay for thousands of years, and radium and thorium were used in makeup in the 1930s and banned in 1968, so they were not new concepts that went wrong after a few years. I get the point, though, and I agree.
    dewmewilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • System Settings getting shuffled again in macOS 15, among other UI tweaks

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    dewme said:
    The Settings app has always been challenging. While Apple has made much needed improvements over several releases, it is still quite baffling and lacking a common schema or recognizable hierarchy. Are all settings organized by functionality like Connectivity, Storage, Passwords, Peripherals, etc. Yes and no. ......

    ......A great UX/UI team will always find a way to blend the user experience, look & feel, and aesthetics of an app together in a way that make sense and truly connects better with a greater number of users. 
    I share your general feelings about the organization of Settings, and it offends my delicate sensibilities of orderliness and thoughtfulness. It's irksome that Apple hasn't quite figured this out, as it wouldn't seem to take a team of geniuses to think about a structure for it. Perhaps it's because most users only go there once in a while after setup.

    Regardless, I certainly don't see any excuse for not having an immediate fix available in the next OS issue. This isn't recoding the OS.
    elijahgwilliamlondon40domiAlex1Nhecalder

  • Apple wants all of TSMC's 2nm chips, so they sent Jeff Williams in secret

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    We have all become blasé about nanometers. It pays to remember that a sheet of paper is 100,000 nm thick. and a strand of human DNA is about 2.5 nm. A nanometer is invisible to the naked eye.

    I suppose we're all waiting for picometer chips.
    ronncg27watto_cobra