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Nominative determinism.

Look, I haven’t tried the dev beta of macOS 27 Golden Gate yet, and by all accounts it’s got some good improvements. But with that name, you’re just asking for trouble.

yomitomu:

I’m just waiting for the first controversy with this new OS so we can call it Golden GateGate.

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