Keynote is so much better for presentations that PowerPoint it's not even funny. But if you're not doing presentations, I can understand dumping it. I do like to have Pages because it means I don't have to bother with Word's annoying ribbon interface and Copilot AI when I'm writing...though sounds like that may be changing?
Keynote is completely underrated, likely because people assume it's just a Powerpoint clone, but it's more like a highly templated motion graphics app with a UI that steers people into using it as Powerpoint replacement.
So not only is it a far quicker way to make a PPT than using Powerpoint. I also see it used for making presentation videos, interactive PDFs and even animated GIFs/HTML5 animations.
The number of motion graphics marketing videos I see which are actually just Keynote files exported to video is impressive.
That’s kind of funny you mention “quicker way to make a PPT.” Everyone at my company had been asking me how I make my presentations look so good. I’m no designer; I’m a lowly engineer. But I do them in Keynote and export them to PowerPoint, which is half the battle!
(Sadly, my work laptop is Windows. So I create them on my personal laptop then migrate to PPT and do my best to fix up the fonts on Windows.)
I put up with Numbers awful pivot table mechanics (why do they have to be manually updated?) because it genuinely allows you to create nice information displays with your tables.
I have a numbers file for my personal finances and it is so nice having some tables at the top with mortgage info and then details below. It makes running what-ifs super easy. Charts in excel and GSheets just kinda float over your content awkwardly.
I absolutely would. I've used them for years, alongside MS Office on Windows and Libre Office on Linux, and while they lack a few features they're not ones I've ever needed and the UI and ease of use is far superior to Office. Especially Pages is a pleasure to work with compared with Word.
I paid for Numbers way back when it was a paid app. I have simple needs, and I much preferred the smooth inertial scrolling compared to running Excel in a VM (which was what I was doing before).
Between arresting grannies for saying they support Palestinian Action and using armed officers to apprehend comedy writers I doubt they'll have the time.
I've had recent interns who've struggled with rebase and they've never known anything but Git. Never understood why that was given they seem ok with basic commits and branching. I would agree that rebase is easier to reason about than merging yet I'm still needing to give what feels like a class on it.
The fact that people have a harder time understanding rebase is evidence that rebase is harder to reason about. Whether you update your understanding based on that evidence is up to you. If I have to pick between merge and rebase, I would generally pick merge. It seems to cause less conflicts with long-lived branches. Commits maintain their identity so each one has to be conflict-resolved at most once.
However, even better for me (and my team) is squash on PR resolve.
IMO it's one of those things where rebase is at first less intuitive but once you get it is a lot simpler & easier to reason about. In contrast merging at first seems more straightforward but is actually less so.
that's not a value judgement in either direction, both initially simpler and longterm simpler have their merits.
147 countries import oil from Iran. Whether the idiot in chief could name even one of them is debatable, but it does include a significant number of supposed US allies.
I asked ChatGPT again for the source of 147, with that quote, which replied me:
> I don’t know the full list of those 147 countries because the publicly available World Bank summary statistics provide only the total number, not a ready-made list of all partners. The detailed underlying data (e.g., from UN Comtrade or the World Bank’s WITS interface) would be required to extract the complete set of partner names.
These are just for the oil. Probably the number of countries with any active trade with Iran is higher.
( PS: Also don't get me wrong; I didn't ask the question or did the research to try to prove you wrong; I am just curious to learn more about it. I was primarily curious how is still a trade with Iran, and if the sanctions against Iran has ever changed since 2022 - especially after Russian invasion of Ukraine )
Nice concept but struggled to find my area. Short of search or using my location it would be nice to have a line overlay (lines which go underground are obscured currently).
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