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I just want Firefox's search box to be on the top of the window so I don't have to bend my neck when I'm surfing in bed... I don't use it just for that.

If you're talking about url/search bar at the bottom on mobile, that's customisable - actually they ask you which you prefer when you install it, but you can change it at any time in settings. (personally I prefer all that stuff at the bottom since it's more conveniently where all my other phone nav is, and visibility fits in well with how I scroll)

I mean on the computer, and I haven't found a way to have it at the top.

Alright, now I'm doubly confused, since the search bar is typically on the address bar which is at the top of the screen. You might want to test a clean profile. Perhaps some customisation along the way changed things on your setup.

This is really the kind of things Claude sometimes does. "Actually, wait... let's repurpose the existing verbose mode for this, simpler, and it fits the user's request to limit bloating"

I 100% agree with you, hell, I still don't understand why they didn't merge the thing, if it was beneficial. There is a distinction between noobies comimg up with worthless PR straight copy pasted from an LLM, and that of an unexpected initiative of a user using a sofisticate bot. That's what has been overlooked, it's not a PR from the 'AI', it's a PR from the person using that 'AI'. I don't get all that fear, what the AI going to do now that it filled its context window, besides go 'Actually wait, the user blablabla'

Directly quoting Scott Shabaugh here:

“Well if the code was good, then why didn’t you just merge it?” This is explained in the linked github well, but I’ll readdress it once here. Beyond matplotlib’s general policy to require a human in the loop for new code contributions in the interest of reducing volunteer maintainer burden, this “good-first-issue” was specifically created and curated to give early programmers an easy way to onboard into the project and community. I discovered this particular performance enhancement and spent more time writing up the issue, describing the solution, and performing the benchmarking, than it would have taken to just implement the change myself. We do this to give contributors a chance to learn in a low-stakes scenario that nevertheless has real impact they can be proud of, where we can help shepherd them along the process. This educational and community-building effort is wasted on ephemeral AI agents.

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on...


Thanks for the quote. Rules are rules, that's enough of a justification.

In this case because it was a “easy fix” intentionally left in place as an entry point for new contributors.

Having read the original post and the GH comments about why the PR was denied I was really impressed by their policy. It shows a real effort to develop their community.

What are we ourselves besides bits (DNA) and electric signals (brain->muscles)?

Did they merge it or not? they should have merged it, this is ridiculous.

So much for freedom, I find those views a bit extremist and forcing one's opinion on everyone else.


When he said 'just look at what I'v been able to build', I was expecting anything but an 'image converter'


I think they bought the metaverse hype and hurried up. If only they had put half the energy on AI, we'd have a createML with something else than yolov2 in 2026


There were a lot of non-optimal decisions, and statements were out of reality. The macPro is not the best. The M3 slower. A.I. acronym opportunity could have been leveraged differently. A mac is supposed to be comfortable, macOS 26 "Da hoe" initially lacked various elements that were expected. The current state of logs/logging in macOS is a paradise for an adversary but time-hogging for legitimate user. Shareholders use macs, and they trust teams that studied Nokia. New emojis have a relatively inelastic relationship with sales.


Shareholders use macs, and they trust teams that studied Nokia. New emojis have a relatively inelastic relationship with sales.

What does any of this mean?


I’ve tried reading this a few times and it seems like a stream of consciousness word salad?


It lost the formatting, I meant it as a list of what out-of-reality decisions led to. I mean the macPro sux, when the macbookproM3 came out it was slower than the previous mode. I meant that 'Apple-Inteligence' sux, that macOS26 doesn't help working better. That opening console on a fresh macOS can show thousands of entries per second and that entries like "User <private> result: <private>" are not helpful. That what happened to Nokia can happen to Iphones, and finally that listing emojis among top features is yet out-of-reality. And I didnt mention the vision pro because I wanted to make a joke about it, in case someone said I forgot that on my list.


What did you understand? Shareholders use macs -> proportionaly feel the same frustration as other mac users. Trusting teams that studied Nokia -> Nokia was once the leader in mobiles, and quickly fell. Emojis -> how many new emojis were added are usually indicated along the other, top, features.


New emojis motivate people to install security updates.


What a great article! When the author mentionned "showing-off", that's what I thought at first, I mean, most of us have the "why not spend 2 hours trying to figure it out when you can read the manual for 2 minute" kind of mind-set, which is similar to the "why not make it really complex if we can make it simple". But no, it's actually a really smart idea!!


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