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by bestham 6mo ago
Like the cube user switcher in MacOS?
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by bestham 7mo ago
“Well actually” in System 1 and later Classic macOS the puzzle and the calculator are ”Desk Accessories” that is applications that can run simultaneously as other apps, even though the operating system does not support multitasking. The rou
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by bestham 7mo ago
I recently switched from an iPhone 16 to an Air and my experience is the opposite. I type way more accurate on the Air (even when both dictionaries are reset and have no screen protector what could make the touch less sensitive). I do not k
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by bestham 7mo ago
The banks did not block it. The Swedish state did not want to spend 50-100 kr per citizen to distribute the secure element. They instead opted for aligning with the one set of institutions that already had somewhat good customer knowledge a
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by bestham 8mo ago
This was also confirmed by a Valve developer recently about a bug in HL2: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589925206309168
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by bestham 8mo ago
The definition of a complex system is the qualifier for the quote. Many systems that are designed, implemented and found working are not complex systems. They may be complicated systems. To paraphrase Dr. Richard I. Cook’s ”How Complex Syst
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by bestham 8mo ago
Touché, that is what we humans are doing to some degree as well.
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by bestham 8mo ago
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to s
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by bestham 8mo ago
The service is freemium, so they had a limited account. Decided to pay for a premium account. And apparently can’t downgrade and get back what they once had.
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by bestham 8mo ago
It says in the read me that X11 is required for clipboard functionality.
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by bestham 11mo ago
IIRC Apple dropped sub pixel antialiasing in Mojave or Sonoma (I hate these names). It makes no sense when Macs are meant to be used with retina class displays.
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by bestham 11mo ago
SCSI had a reputation of being very stable and yet very finicky. Stable in the sense that not using the CPU for transfers yielded good performance and reliability. The finicky part was the quality of equipment (connectors, adapters, cables
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by bestham 11mo ago
Like everything else in engineering it is a matter of trade offs. The setup you chose to run really hampers the usefulness of having a checksuming file system, since it cannot simply get the correct data from another drive. As a peer pointe
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by bestham 1y ago
Azure can only be sovereign to the USA.[1] [2] [1]: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366629871/Microsoft-refu... [2]: https://lcrdc.co.uk/industry-news/microsoft-admits-no-guaran...
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by bestham 1y ago
The Project Looking Glass UI != The Project Looking Glass They are talking about the UI which could have inspired Stage Manager. Apple also had the purple window button before Project Looking Glass so there is that.
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by bestham 1y ago
No, it was not Steve that found the Symbol but Susan Kare the Macintosh graphics artist. https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html
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by bestham 1y ago
IMO that is not your call to make, it is the reviews call to make. It is the reviewers resources you are spending to learn more quickly. You are consuming a “free” resource for personal gain because you feel that it is justified in your par
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by bestham 1y ago
I can see what you are getting at. Reminds me a bit of their GTK theme Nimbus for the Gnome based Java Desktop System but also Bluecurve of Gnome 2 with Bitstream Vera. Perhaps it just looks dated?
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by bestham 1y ago
That is a question for those that did not make that small (free?) script, not Rogue Amoeba that solved the problem with a paid for app.
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by bestham 1y ago
If you read his boks or others stories about Woz you would know that he was like this long before he had fortune in business. He spent a lot of time and money on setting up a quite popular answering machine service for delivering jokes and
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by bestham 1y ago
The Register called this in 2007 [1] when they claimed that the Psion 5MX was the last computer to be fully developed by one team (hardware, software and design). [1]: https://www.theregister.com/2007/06/26/ps
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by bestham 1y ago
On an adjacent theme there has been a large debate in Sweden if a car that has mandated automatic eCall over 2G or 3G is faulty and thus not roadworthy if the 2G and 3G networks are turned off. The eCall feature was introduced broadly in 20
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by bestham 1y ago
The point is that before the AMD Ryzen Al Max+ 395 chip there was only Apple that offered something comparable for the desktop / laptop that could do these AI relate tasks. Were else could you find a GPU with 64-128 memory?
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by bestham 1y ago
Here you go. Statistics from Swedish Insurance company Länsförsäkringar : https://www-lansforsakringar-se.translate.goog/stockholm/pri...
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by bestham 1y ago
Aryx.s3m 21 kiB of magic.
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by bestham 1y ago
I’m for a Awesome ACM in the style of the original https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
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by bestham 1y ago
For me more about 2000 than XP. 2000 still felt like a Workstation OS and it was very responsive. XP themeing was the first thing I removed once I could not continue on 2000.
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by bestham 1y ago
I love my JDM Oceanus S100. It is one of only a few watch movements where all hands are individually controllable by their own motor. As you move the crown you select different time zones and the hands spin whatever direction is closest to
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by bestham 1y ago
The “human heater” was literally a mock idea for a competition in the sitcom Silicon Valley. The jury canned it. https://youtu.be/Di3fPj0pUbQ
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by bestham 1y ago
It’s a very interesting take that you are more concerned about the output of these individuals than what this means for their mental health to be present on social media. To have access to the brains of their users before they are legal use

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