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I agree in principle but Homebrew only supports the latest 3 versions of macOS. Right now Ventura 13 which came out in October 2022 is unsupported.

I still think that's entirely fair for a power user tool like homebrew. With the upgrade rates of macOS that probably means that's 98% of the users would be covered. Expecting an open source project to accept bug requests from a bigger variety of versions that then would need test devices on these versions to replicate issues sounds unrealistic. Bigger companies, or Apple itself I would hold to much higher standards when it comes to that.

> power user tool like homebrew.

That makes no sense then. A power user may still want to run older OS versions for a reason. Take the training wheels off it and then it'll be a power user tool.


> A power user may still want to run older OS versions for a reason.

No doubt there are edge cases like that, but I don't fault a project for not catering to the < 1% of users who would fall into that bucket and would probably be the ones that cause trickier support cases. These would maybe also be the user that could just install it without homebrew then, it's not like homebrew is the only way to install software.


This is not an edge case. Most HN commenters describe the latest two versions of macOS as being objectively worse than earlier versions: slower, less stable, more broken. There are significant numbers of “power users” who deliberately avoid upgrading or have actively downgraded macOS to Sonoma because they care about their computing experience.

People who downgraded to Sonoma are the definition of an edge case, maybe you hear from some of them on HN and it sounds like a big group but this is a niche of a niche.

https://telemetrydeck.com/survey/apple/macOS/versions/


brew used to say, more or less, "This OS is old and unsupported. Don't submit bug reports. If you have problems, too bad. If you submit a PR to fix something, we might merge it". Fair enough, right? Now it just says, "Go fuck yourself, grandpa."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_Almanac

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Farmer%27s_Almanac

People do know things other people do not. They are fairly notable, though obviously not as much in today's society, hence this one's retirement


You are thinking of Elon Grok, not Groq


When Grok originally came out I thought it was unlucky on Groq’s part. Now that Grok has certain connotations, it’s even more true.


"There's no such thing as bad publicity." PT Barnum


Do you think you could support typing answers in scientific notation? So 8e9 for 8,000,000,000. It would make typing in answers easier considering my guesses always end in a bunch of zeroes!

Does the orange mean your answer is within 25% of the absolute value? Or that your logarithm value is within 25% of the logarithm value of the true answer?

Thanks for making this, this is awesome


I'll definitely support scientific notations going forward. But it might take one or two days before I have that implemented.

The orange means your answer is within 50% of the absolute value. I might change it at some point away from a linear scale to a logarithmic scale, but I'm not quite sure yet.


I didn't know that and my Google fu is lacking, does anyone have a resource I could read to understand that limitation?


I think the fundamental issue is that a single 'cell' (value) can contain newlines, so you can't just assume each line is a 'row' and trivially parallelize.

The problem is perhaps most obvious when you consider that the value of a single cell could itself be a CSV, and this could be recursive


I haven’t worked out if the BNF is unambiguous (RFC 4180) but if you have a CSV in a cell you would escape any ambiguous characters.

An unescaped cell within a CSV will break most CSV parsers in the world even with recursion handling.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4180


Could be wrong, but isn't this the same Guide?


I think that's the point. They were talking about how many times it's been posted, so that's probably the best of those submissions.


whoops, best thread is what I was thinking.


> Having a high say-do ratio has always been important to me

You probably mean a "high do-say ratio"? That is, to complete as many things as you set out to do.

Great story though, it reminds me a bit of how the German language has individual words to describe specific intents and feelings. Of course the German equivalents are far more verbose!


I think the original context could be correct: if they say they will do something, they do it.


I know I’m being pedantic, but that would be a low ratio.

But I understand the point being made and my pedantry just a peculiarity of English meaning having a strong word order dependence than many other languages.


Just to throw another variable in there, the clause about the ratio is separated from the one about completing things, by the conjunction "but," indicating opposition. So it can be read as something like "I've always prioritized communication" (high say-do ratio, as written) "...BUT, I wanted to" (make a change and) "strategize seeing things through." Probably not what was meant, but plausible and one of the possibilities I considered when I noticed the thing you noticed!


That's actually interesting, because if they'd said low ratio, it would probably have confused people. I think it's math having the strong order dependence; when people say a high a to b ratio, they likely mean a 'good' ratio contextually instead of mathematically high.


Doesn't every language have words for feelings?

I mean, sure there's variations (e.g. not all languages have "saudade" or "schadenfreude") but it seems a pretty basic group of words.


It's "gesagt-getan" in German so it's a combination of two words in the order mentioned in TFA


I think the title should say "in French *Google docs." As is, it seems like French code documentation/papers are littered with emojis?


But it also occurs on Atlassian suite, Gitlab, Github and probably more tools…


It wasn't Kyrie, it was the Yankees. The opening came just before the start of the MLB season but well into the NBA season.


Rumor was Aaron Judge, the Yankee's biggest star, was unvaccinated. He personally sidestepped question about vaccine status and the team had publicly said a few (two?) players on a Yankees hadn't had their shots. Before opening day there were questions about if Judge would be able to play in New York.

The whole thing ended up being a mute point, because everyone on the starting roster[1] eventually got their shots so they could travel to Canada to play the Blue Jays.

[1] they later traded for an unvaccinated player

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/sports/baseball/aaron-jud...


moot


Yeah, I also meant opening day roster, not starting roster. Can you tell I couldn't sleep last night?


3 digits? So up to $999/year? That sounds extremely low. In the US salaries are done per year, so a 6-figure salary is >=$100,000/year.

Do you mean as an hourly wage? That would be $200,000+/year and a 6-figure salary.


I imagine they mean three digits above the first set of zeroes.


Right, I meant 6 digits.

I think I meant "3 digits before the K".


Hourly would be $2,000,000+/year at that rate


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