Cockbrand

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by Cockbrand 5d ago
Now that you're mentioning it, I seem to remember seeing or even owning Extended Keyboard IIs with the same print. I may be wrong, though.
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by Cockbrand 6d ago
The weird Canadian helm icon on the Control key caught my eye in particular.
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by Cockbrand 6d ago
The Extended Keyboard II came with a plastic overlay for the function keys. It showed Cut/Copy/Paste for F2/F3/F4 respectively. See https://chrispeak.com/2022/04/08/apple-extended-ii for a
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by Cockbrand 6d ago
Maybe the author uses a CMS that's supposed to replace tags like [happy-face] with an emoji, but something broke?
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by Cockbrand 12d ago
What!? It's the entire, singular purpose and meaning of life for millions of people to make themselves look glamorous on Instagram, and you say it's optional ?! /s
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by Cockbrand 12d ago
And so the war began. This is a bit like vim vs Emacs - everyone should be able to use their favorite setup, and the formatting should not get in the way of the engineer's preferences.
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by Cockbrand 12d ago
Oof! Mine is still the original one, and it’s incidentally also at 89% after maybe 3.5 years of being my daily driver.
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by Cockbrand 12d ago
I agree, despite being quite the Liquid Glass hater at first. It has grown on me, and they have ironed out the worst kinks. I still don't love it, but it's great that we're getting a bit of three-dimensionality back, after al
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by Cockbrand 12d ago
Now I see that the page reveals this: > Four high-resolution, monochrome cameras provide controller and headset tracking (Emphasis mine) So it's not really suitable for real AR out of the box. Thanks for the heads up!
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by Cockbrand 12d ago
So what's your experience in terms of speed and battery life with iOS 27 on the iPhone 13 so far? I have a 13 mini, and I still haven't gotten over the (perceived) shorter battery life with iOS 26.
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by Cockbrand 12d ago
Not being very savvy about VR glasses, am I assuming correctly that this device can't do AR, as the cameras are only used for tracking?
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by Cockbrand 17d ago
> you could never do fancier than a 1500 buck iphone There's always high-end commercial modders like Caviar [0], who help customers flex both their wealth and their extremely bad taste... [0] https://caviar.global/ca
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by Cockbrand 20d ago
Or hit ⇧⌘N
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by Cockbrand 24d ago
Wow, that frog game - I haven't thought about this in a loooong time! Didn't it also come with the demo disk for the 1541?
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by Cockbrand 25d ago
I'm currently reading that book, and I find this sentiment interesting (not knowing any better myself) - is there a critique/fact-check somewhere?
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by Cockbrand 26d ago
This is great stuff, thank you for sharing!
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
I haven't tried the LLM approach recommended in the sibling comment, and I agree that the UI is quite cumbersome. Yet, once it clicks, it's still not super straightforward, but it allows for quickly implementing whatever one needs
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
I'm still quite often amazed by BTT's capabilities, for example right now by the fact that they bothered to implement Logitech's HID++ protocol.
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
Very fair, and I'd differentiate between being bored as a kid (unbearable) and being bored as an adult (enjoyable to some extent). Maybe "mild meditative zen state" would be a more precise definition than "boredom"
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
> It’s sort of the opposite of an activity, and the brain hates it. While this is true, I'd word it differently: It's sort of the opposite of an activity, and we've conditioned our brains to hate it. Boredom used to be a
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by Cockbrand 1mo ago
TIL there's burgerschachteln.de, because of course there is a person collecting burger packaging on the Internet.
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
I had never heard this name until now, but I owe Dr. Tim King a significant part of my career. Never having been a DOS user, AmigaDOS was my gateway drug to the command line interface, and to me learning the Linux CLI a few years later. Tha
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
For a brief period of time, CD ROMs were already a thing, and people still had 5.25" diskettes lying around. So someone came up with the idea to put a self-burned CD into the plastic shell of a floppy disk, and I actually found that qu
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
So will it be replaced by Hepatitis Rust for memory safety? (I'm sorry, and I'll see myself out, thanks)
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
This refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paper... . Here's a popular game based on it: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
Sounds about right. How I understand it: Mary is 24, Ann is a few (n) years younger M = 24 A = M-n Mary is twice as old as Ann was when Mary was as old as Ann is now. So we have to deduct the age difference twice from Mary's c
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
The Finder has an interesting take on this: copy a file with ⌘C, then move it somewhere with ⌥⌘V. This is much nicer than the Windows Explorer's CTRL+X and CTRL+V, where the user is unsure what happens when they never paste the file.
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by Cockbrand 2mo ago
The Mac now has a clipboard history as well, it's just a bit awkward. You can open Spotlight with ⌘Space, and within Spotlight open the clipboard manager with ⌘4.
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
I remember that there had been a discussion about providing free Interrail tickets to all EU citizens at some age (18 or 19 maybe?), which I found a brilliant idea. I don't know whether this actually ever materialized, though.
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by Cockbrand 3mo ago
This is how I learned cursive in school, and it never occurred to me that this may interrupt my writing flow. I agree that doing the backtracks after writing the entire word would add to my mental load, but that's probably because I&#x

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