BatmanAoD

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[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

None of the features discussed are aesthetic only.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope. It links to an explanation of what that poster is:

This is the UNIX Magic Poster, originally created by Gary Overacre in the mid-1980s and published by UniTech Software.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like we're talking past each other. My impression was that 30% towards your living situation is a pretty decent target; what would you expect the percentage to be?

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Okay, what I meant was, is rent taking 30% really indicative of a low standard of living?

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Rent eating 30-40% of your income is extremely normal, isn't it? Or is that only true in the US (where it has recently become much more than that for many people)?

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

Lots of acronyms no longer stand for anything due to losing their original associations. LLVM, AT&T, SAT (the test, not the programming problem), etc.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Probably moreso for expressing the opinion so strongly without actually knowing any of the three languages.

Edit: I'm just guessing why a different comment got downvotes. Why am I getting downvotes?

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Doesn't the first edition use K&R style parameter lists and other no-longer-correct syntax?

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

If you mean the box at the top, with "Larger Text", "Default", and "More Space", mouse-over shows a resolution spec. Is it actually just scaling "as if" the screen had the given resolution?

Even so, I can understand how a Mac user would be confused by this and expect the equivalent feature in a different OS to be called "resolution".

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Based on the headline, they've probably maladapted to Mac OS, which doesn't actually have a scaling setting.

(This is somewhat baffling to me, since Apple clearly cares a lot about their display hardware and about having good screen resolution.)

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

You don't have to imagine it; you can browse the Linux Kernel mailing list!

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's called a mailing list

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