MBCook

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by MBCook 3mo ago
This is the kind of stuff that helped me fall in love with Apple stuff. I miss it so much.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Before you get excited this isn’t the legendary port that was made internally before Apple decided on PPC, it’s vibe coded.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Any decent password manager can handle all of those. Apple does. I’d expect the same of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and 1Password but don’t personally use any of them. Why not just set yourself up to be able to access her password vault? Why is c
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by MBCook 3mo ago
There’s far more than that.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
The forms don’t. The browser does. There’s a set of heuristics. The problem with autofill is it doesn’t help if the person keeps screwing up their passwords, changing them, or ends up with 5 different passwords in the password manager for t
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by MBCook 3mo ago
I will never understand how a small group of tech savvy people are heavily confused and against a simple and more secure system. You want anecdotes? Ok. I’ve had elderly adult relatives who aren’t good with their devices tell me unprompted
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Things that feel useful instead of are useful. We're not allowed to use data or experts. They’re untrustworthy and out to trick us.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Did planes take off in Flight Control? I don’t remember. That was one of my most played games of all time. SO PERFECT for the iPhone and on the go play.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Oh sure, Apple has TONS of mistakes if we look overall. I was only talking about CPU transitions.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Plus you can point it at actual software or tests with known results and tell it to keep going until it gets it.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
The walled garden is an advantage of some sort, but they’ve also never made a bad call on switching architectures. We don’t know what it would look like if Apple had chosen something that ended up like Itanium. It’s quite possible they don’
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Right. PPC was significantly faster than m68k. Intel was significantly faster again. Finally ARM was yet again. (ARM and Intel especially on laptops) They could pay the emulation price and still come out equal or usually on top. Even when e
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Tesla Robotaxis: 22 Collisions in 12 Months(bradmunchen.substack.com)
3 points by MBCook 3mo ago|0 comments
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by MBCook 3mo ago
You put one sentence in saying it was good, then the rest of the (admittedly short) ent complaining about behavior from 30 years ago. Why does it matter to today? It just makes your first sentence feel like a backhanded compliment.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
In my mind it had mostly come and gone by then. I don’t think it was ever very popular. But I remember it fondly.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
No kidding. “After we get through round 3 what’s our exit strategy?” “Exit strategy? It’s a tiki head on IRC. No one is paying us anything. Just enjoy it.”
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Why is it every time some company people hate does anything good, no matter how trivial, people have to trash it? Someone at MS made a fun IRC client. Thats it. It’s a WILDLY different world than 30 years ago and MS is a different company.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Wow just about to hit 10k comics too. No shade on the author intended, as someone with no artistic talent this is a great idea for a way you could make them.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
I think it was my introduction to IRC. If not it would have been shortly after.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Also the author is testing a game engine. It’s possible that Gnome/KDE/whatever has wildly different latencies on X11 vs Wayland. I’d be interested in seeing that test. But it’s great to know the difference is so small here, which
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Impressive. Apple said they improved the models in 27 didn’t they? It would be interesting to see the numbers the beta turns in.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
There’s a reason they were used as a poster child of a bad actor when the FTC rule was made a few years ago, before the current administration shredded it.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
They know my US address. I have an American eShop account. Why would EU rules apply? Nintendo is just a decent company compared to most others.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
If you’re trying to compare three runtimes, what’s the point of using completely different frameworks on each of them? How do I know that all the differences aren’t because of that?
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by MBCook 3mo ago
Heh. Yeah. My memory (also unreliable) is that people weren’t churning out blog spam articles for the Adsense when I found DI, or at least maybe only on obviously popular topics like cars or whatever. It hasn’t ruined the fun stuff yet.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
You can do the same thing without them, others have, though I can’t remember any off the top of my head. I think the model is a good one but I’m fully on board without wanting to risk being beholden to them or maybe patreon or others.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
DI basically predates blog spam doesn’t it? I’m not surprised people steal your stuff.
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by MBCook 3mo ago
As a small example of this stupidity, I’ve enjoyed Apple Arcade. Every time I play a game I get a big Apple Arcade splash screen. Ok. Well now (possibly 27 beta “feature”) I now also get a little dynamic island pop-up at the same time, show
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by MBCook 3mo ago
That explains why it’s so rare for a new episode to appear. I’ve been reading (then listening) to DI forever. Not the full 20 years, because I remember reading through the entire back catalog when I first found it, but a very long time. Hap
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Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release(osnews.com)
60 points by MBCook 3mo ago|16 comments

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