Maccy - The Open Source Mac Clipboard Manager

I was discovered recently to discover Maccy which is a free, lightweight, open source clipboard manager for Mac. A clipboard manager stores history of items that were in your clipboard and lets you quickly access them. Maccy works so well it feels like it shipped with the operating system. I just hope it does not get abandoned like Hush.

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Chronic Nothing Works Syndrome

From The Atlantic:

“The very first symptom of the general collapse was an old one: nothing worked.” The sentiment is old—it comes from Doris Lessing’s 1969 novel, The Four-Gated City—but it’s hard to think of a better epitaph for the economic vibes of 2022. From the oil markets to the baby-formula markets to the general sense of safety and disorder, the U.S. seems to suffer from chronic Nothing Works Syndrome.

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The Formula One Steering Wheel Explained

From Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team YouTube Channel (no embeds allowed, click through to watch it). You’ll notice almost all the controls are physical, a different direction from consumer automobiles today.

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Why Nobody is Happy with Hybrid

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The Underfunded IRS

From the New York Times:

Adding to the pain: A hodgepodge of data storage systems that do not communicate with each other has handicapped customer service workers at the I.R.S., who often cannot determine why a tax return has stalled in the process.

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