With all this discussion about Notepad++ finally being ported to Mac, I thought I’d drop a link to a previous attempt at a “port” that I’d heard of.

Notepad Next: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

It’s a (still work in progress) cross platform re-implementation of Notepad++.

It also predates agentic coding, if that’s something that concerns you.

The argument is "there is no significant evidence to support the claim that Apple has given up on the Vision Pro".

I don't think anybody is arguing that it's selling amazingly well or is a growing market.

And I agree with the argument. It seems a little premature to make this claim now, so close to WWDC.

If WWDC comes and goes with no major announcement for the future of visionOS or the Vision Pro, that would be a significant indicator of Apple having given up.

Maybe the posters might have deleted the comments themselves?

I often post comments on HN, just to delete them 5 minutes later when I realize I don’t care to deal with the replies I’ll eventually get.

You have to be quick because if someone does reply, you can no longer delete your message.

One benefit of this forum is that they purposely passed over notifications precisely to save us from the temptation to "deal with" replies.

And I very much appreciate that feature, and hope it never changes.

However when I make comments here, I do it with the intention of reading what people have to say in response.

If I am making a comment with the intention to ignore the responses to it, then that’s a good signal for myself that what I am writing is likely not an appropriate comment for HN, and then delete it.

I didn't realise messages even had a delete button. I'm going to reply here so I can check.

edit: you're right, there's a delete button.

> Why do you speak about yourself in the third person?

When you submit a link to HN, there is an entry field for text in addition to the url.

It does not really describe what the text is used for. For links, the content of that field is simply added as the first comment.

Someone who is unfamiliar with the submission process may assume this field should describe what they are submitting, and not format it like a comment.

Then that text gets posted as the first comment and tons of people downvote it, jumping to the conclusion that the weird summary comment is from an AI, and not the submitter describing their own submission.

(I also assumed these comments were AI until someone else pointed this out)

Could not have said it better myself. Thanks.

AH! Thanks, that's useful context!

Anybody who has spent a day in school as a student knows that students can’t be trusted to follow the rules.

People in general can't be trusted to follow the rules. That's why we have the inforcement.

Students are just little people

I think super cores are a new type/tier of core, not a rename of performance.

The base M5 has super/efficiency cores.

The Pro and Max have super/performance cores.

The people with green names almost certainly have alternate, primary accounts with that capability.

I can't speak for this developer, but as someone who dabbles in App Store applications, EU trader laws require that the App Store publicly displays an address for the app developer if they want to make their apps available in the EU.

It's possible this developer didn't want to do that, so they chose to not publish in the EU.

If you are willing to wing it, 6£/mo address from https://www.ukpostbox.com provides you with a document that Apple accepts.

You won't be able to actually read the mail though, so depends on the seriousness of the project. If it's an actual business then best get a proper business address.

Or at least get the higher tier where they scan your mail and send it to you.

I wonder if the reason why the screensaver process doesn’t exit has something to do with the live wallpapers they added to macOS a few versions ago.

The live wallpapers become your screensaver, playing the video. Then when you move your mouse, the video continues until it finds a “good” stopping point.

Might explain why the screensaver process lives on forever for seemingly no reason.

I used to work at Microsoft and I can tell you this was absolutely not true during my time there.

As an engineer, you needed to have an answer to that question or else you could not be promoted (at least in some parts of the org chart).

It was a box that your skip levels needed to see checked in order to approve promotions. My lead told me as much in exactly those words.

What about now during the current administration and after DEI has just been killed?