bobthedino

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by bobthedino 2y ago
Other operating systems… including what was running on the Mac in 1984?
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UK tech industry pushing up salaries – but UI devs out of luck (May 2023)(theregister.com)
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by bobthedino 4y ago
In the UK, Mac keyboards generally seem to have "command" written on the key in addition to "⌘".
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by bobthedino 4y ago
Yes, in fact Casio uses MIP displays in some of its recent watches, e.g. this Bluetooth connected watch has a 2 year battery life: https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/gshock/product.GBD-200-1/
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by bobthedino 5y ago
I also recently found this site, which for example can show you an API diff between Java 8 and 17: https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/17/apidiff/8/
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by bobthedino 5y ago
Well, to be fair none of the things mentioned are specific to operating systems programming. I think that not understanding the things mentioned is one of the reasons software runs so slowly these days even on computers than are orders of m
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by bobthedino 5y ago
SIMD support is also currently in development for Java: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338
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by bobthedino 6y ago
"My god, it's full of cars!"
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by bobthedino 6y ago
But on Unix and Linux pressing Ctrl-C in a terminal will send SIGINT (unless special measures are taken by your terminal emulator). I think this another benefit of the Mac using Command-C for copy: when the UNIX-based Mac OS X was introduce
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by bobthedino 6y ago
Further to other comments, looking here it seems that C, X, V for Copy, Cut, Paste were first used by Apple in the Lisa in 1983 and then later adopted by Microsoft for Windows: "The IBM Common User Access (CUA) standard also uses combi
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by bobthedino 6y ago
Hard to see Apple changing this, since the Mac has been using the Command key for shortcuts since 1984. You could even argue that the "standard" you mention of using the Control key actually came along after the Mac!
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by bobthedino 6y ago
I also have floaters, which are visible against a white background regardless of screen brightness, and so I also prefer dark modes for that reason.
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by bobthedino 7y ago
A step in the right direction: Apple recently announced that next year security researchers will have access to special iPhones: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20756629/apple-iphone-secu...
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by bobthedino 7y ago
Am not sure that doing too much of either of those two things is possible...!
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by bobthedino 8y ago
Fair enough!
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by bobthedino 8y ago
Not sure what you meant by "1337 hacker skills" (sounds sarcastic to me) but the guy in question helped create the Domain Name System!
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by bobthedino 8y ago
I've found the "h264ify" extension to be helpful with YouTube: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify-firefox
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by bobthedino 8y ago
Although this comment in RisqIQ's report ( https://www.riskiq.com/blog/labs/magecart-british-airways-br... ) is even worse - it suggests that LetsEncrypt certs are less "legitimate" than paid ones: &
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by bobthedino 8y ago
Am pleased to discover the "network.IDN_show_punycode" option and wonder why it doesn't default to true, given the way other browsers seem to handle this.
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by bobthedino 8y ago
I think it's amusing to remember that ARM started off in fancy 32-bit high-performance desktop machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
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by bobthedino 8y ago
Agreed! Although would an Amiga owner really have a picture of an Atari ST on the wall?!
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by bobthedino 8y ago
Same here, if I'm watching YouTube on my 2015 rMBP I have to use Safari rather than Firefox if I don't want the fans to spin up.
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by bobthedino 9y ago
Wondering if you could clarify what you mean here? All current Macs that have discrete graphics use AMD GPUs, so they are definitely supported by macOS - or are you talking about Hackintoshes?
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by bobthedino 9y ago
Also the people who buy business apps are often not the people who actually have to use them every day. So UI/UX ends up being a much lower priority than say cost.
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by bobthedino 9y ago
I'm curious: can you suggest a source for this statistic?
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by bobthedino 9y ago
I did exactly this, upgraded from 24-inch 1920x1200 to 27-inch 2560x1440. The aspect ratio change hasn't bothered me, precisely because of the increase in space. Much easier to have two files side-by-side now, for example.
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by bobthedino 9y ago
There was even briefly a version of IE for HP-UX and Solaris.
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by bobthedino 9y ago
> There is a mechanism for a paid update, which is to simply state end of life for an app and release a new one This is really a workaround to the problem that Apple doesn't support paid updates - deleting the old version and buying
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by bobthedino 9y ago
Layout management: I do wonder sometimes how much awareness the HTML/CSS/JS community has about how layout management is handled in things like Java's Swing or Apple's Auto Layout - or do people think that "desktop
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by bobthedino 10y ago
There are sensors for battery temperature: my 2011 MacBook Pro appears to have two battery temperature sensors and a battery charger temperature sensor. It's quite possible that in this case the System Management Controller detected th

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