I think what’s telling isn’t whether em dashes are used but where they are used. You can still use em dashes as you see fit in serious academic and literary writing without others in the community raising an eyebrow. But a sudden proliferation of em dashes in a tabloid or an online forum will surely and rightfully raise doubts about assisted writing.
Author here — the image quality was comparable, if not better, which is understandable because both use pretty standard commercial scanners. An upside is that instead of cutting the binder as 1DollarScan does, they tore the pages from the seam, so the pages remained whole. They didn’t do any compression either.
Agreed. I used to struggle with remembering all these names in novels, but recently came to terms with the “dysnomia” by drawing parallels between reading fiction with hearing anecdotes, where capturing the rough dynamic and vibe is more important than remembering characters; confusing names is venial if the confusion is part of the experience.
Please don’t. Most mobile apps made by Chinese developers, esp. big techs, do employ grid, paged layouts everywhere as though multiple iOS home screens were squeezed into the app. However, most grids in such layouts are useless, distracting, and even malicious from a UX perspective, their mere reason to exist being to steer users into endless rabbit holes of the devs’ multiple lines of businesses for KPI purposes, and thus subject to constant and arbitrary changes. As such, you can find an icon for personal financing in a cloud storage app, or find an icon for groceries in a ride hailing app, only to be replaced with icons for online dating and hotel booking and something something a week later. This density of user-adversarial features is to be avoid by all means.
They are also extremely useful when it comes to adblocking. Without their partial matching capabilities it'd have been almost impossible to target ad-containing elements in most of these days' js and framework-ladden websites.
I am a paying Kagi user and it seems to me that the post is from an over-zealous user venting after their unsolicited advice was rejected. Reading through the post without finding a single mention of search quality is quite telling about its content.
There is no reason for Kagi to remain “pure” and avoid AI features as suggested by hardcore AI haters. I am not a fan of AI hype either, but I am pleased to see that Kagi has integrated some moderate capabilities such as the summarizer and search-based generation, which are natural extensions of a modern search engine. (I do hope they improve the expert mode soon, as it is currently far inferior to Perplexity, but that does not invalidate the general point.)
Email-based account management may not be perfect from a privacy perspective, but registering with a privacy email alias has mostly resolved my concerns. As for GDPR, let’s not pretend that it is disproportionately burdensome for startups. I value the way a company operates much more than the privacy theatres (banners, opt-outs, legaleses) enforced by GDPR.
Other criticisms regarding operational details range from nitpicking to trivial. I do hope that the founder was less insistent on arguing with and lecturing zealous users like the author.
These days I stick to a minimal profile for the default shell (zsh on macOS and bash on Linux), adding no further than some aliases. When I need more “friendly” interactive features I launch fish which is… friendly and interactive, and exit when I’m done. Thus I get the best of both worlds.
> I have a high prior that any nonprofit that hasn’t been rigorously shown to be good is probably bad, and the potential advantage of capitalism over normal charity usually isn’t enough to overcome my decreased certainty in its efficacy.
It’s just not convincing to say that immediately after an improvised performance of EA maths justifying a water dispenser charity against Instacart…
You can use a separate utility named “AutoRaise” to get autoraise and autofocus functionalities without having to rely on yabai for these.
https://github.com/sbmpost/AutoRaise
