MBCook

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by MBCook 4mo ago
Same people who thought text on translucent glass over text looked good. Who thought that and lots of floating buttons was “getting out of the way of my content”. Who thought sidebars should look like windows with mirrored content under the
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Oh I’m sure that’s why they did it. It’s not a good reason. It’s like saying all the food you eat should be beige. Sure it’s more consistent, but at what cost? You lose all the benefits. It’s like Chesterton’s Fence, except it has a big sig
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by MBCook 4mo ago
You can’t. “Squircle jail” is a real thing. If your icon isn’t the right shape Apple puts it inside one for you .
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by MBCook 4mo ago
No they were better . Whether someone likes the style better or not (I do) they were FAR more visually distinct from each other which made it much easier to find the program you wanted to use. Right now my dock is a soup of squircles. I ha
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by MBCook 4mo ago
So what? Thats not MacOS. I think things are fine on iOS. I don’t mind the rectangles, they fit the grid. That’s how it’s always been. I don’t care about VisionOS. Circles are odd, whatever. But the Mac shouldn’t be forced to lose great des
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Why has there been such an obvious repeating price cycle in the last 20 years? Is that due to node sizes or generations or fabs coming online or what?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I thought they would but not this fast.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I’d say they’re subsidizing them with the rest but the computers and iPads don’t sell much compared to phones so that doesn’t make a lot of sense. I happened to buy an iPad 2 days ago, dang I got lucky. I thought they’d announce before the
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Oh I forgot about the concept of bitplanes. Yeah that would make it easy.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Given you would have to do all the display stuff through bit math on the framebuffer I imagine interactive use would be horribly slow. You could certainly use it to display other pages of a spreadsheet or something but I don’t think I’d w
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by MBCook 4mo ago
That’s right. Whenever a company does something that seems good let’s just start being mean. If they’ve ever done something we don’t like we’re not allowed to celebrate anything. Might send the wrong message.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I think the Sherlock thing was in the OS 8 or OS 9 days whereas Spotlight didn’t come around until sometime in macOS X, maybe 10.4 or so?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
The problem is the things going up are core. It’s not like the cameras are getting more expensive, it’s the RAM and processors and storage. Which all the phones have to have. If anything the percentage increase is probably higher on the low
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I suspect you’re right, but if they don’t do it until the new stuff is announced I suspect the price hike would drown out the news of all the new stuff. And I really don’t think Apple wants that. If they announce it on, to pick a date, July
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I remember seeing reports a few years ago about some TV that would constantly complain if it wasn’t connected. I don’t know what brand it was.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Why should they? It’s an absolute cutthroat business with next to no profit margin. All you gotta do is add an Apple TV and you got everything they would give you. And they make nice margins. Apple seems to have next to no interest in maki
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Oh was it? I remember some rumors but not that one. Yeah I probably wasn’t going to then.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Plus support and packaging. Can you make your own PC of equivalent specs in that size case? Would it have swappable face plates you’ll probably be able to buy on Amazon?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Yeah. But they’re only other choices to just sit on it for a few more years, which point they would need to put different hardware in and it would just increase costs. This may be the best option of a couple of terrible ones.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Plus GPU prices. They absolutely got screwed by their launch timing, unfortunately. And they’re not big enough to negotiate better terms though that probably isn’t really an option right now anyway. I’m not sure I’d want this at $550, but m
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by MBCook 4mo ago
The fact this works on other OSes is a good differentiator too.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
And higher level languages that works. But what do you do when you get down to low level C or assembly? You basically end up with null/0 don’t you?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
A lot of them are strings coming from or going to user space right? So wouldn’t you have to do constant conversions?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Golden Gate has a built in command to run Apple models, don’t know if you need developer tools installed. I think the command might just be `fm` but I’m not sure as I’m not on the beta.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
From my read of the article line 3 is a syntax error. All fields in value types are final. No, there’s no way to know from those four lines that will happen, but we have that problem today. If Point was a record the same thing would happe
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by MBCook 4mo ago
When the first paragraph starts out by insulting people for not using the exact jargon you want them to, it really doesn’t make me want to read the rest.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
My company recently switched from Google Suite to Office 365. Both are web apps. It’s NIGHT AND DAY. Google did everything instantly . Outlook doesn’t. This morning Outlook decided to spin for 30+ seconds (at which point I gave up) showing
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by MBCook 4mo ago
What’s the use case for that?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
It makes total sense. It’s just kind of ironic.
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The Rivian R2's Radio Needs Cell Signal the Wilderness Doesn't Have(carscoops.com)
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