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by bsimpson 7mo ago
Flash was an onramp to UX engineering in a way that no current tool compares to. You would start out drawing, get tired of the repetitive parts, and learn to automate them. Eventually, you end up with an FLA file that's just an asset
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by bsimpson 7mo ago
Flutter's authoring environment is a text editor. This is rebuilding the Flash authoring environment. They are not the same. Nobody would author a kid's TV show in Flutter.
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by bsimpson 7mo ago
Kind of funny to imagine installing the mobile Epic store on a Steam device to get access to the mobile apps that you would otherwise need Google Play Services to access. I think Amazon finally killed its app store. I wonder if there are a
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by bsimpson 7mo ago
It's Intel - you could run any Linux. Unfortunately, I don't know that Linux handles the bespoke 5k graphics. Moreover, our corp Linux distribution is only certified for particular devices. Even if the screen worked, you wouldn&#
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by bsimpson 7mo ago
My work monitor is a 4K 27" from LG in 2015. I run it at 2x density, so everything's a bit larger than it would be on an Apple, but it's not as bad as this article's graphs would lead to to believe. I'd certainly
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by bsimpson 7mo ago
Mine's not even broken, but it is corp, so sticking an Aliexpress board in there is ill-advised. Hence, in the market for a 5k when I've had a perfectly good one on my desk since 2017.
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by bsimpson 7mo ago
They recently started a resale program with decommissioned devices.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
That was the one I'd heard of, but I was shocked to see how low the Amazon reviews are (3.8). A highly-rated review said it had horrible clarity, like a greasy phone screen. You haven't had problems, and would buy it again?
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Ultimately, I'm beholden to whatever I can get work to pay for, unless I want to pay out of pocket to subsidize the capex of a multi-trillion dollar conglomerate.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
As long as we're here: What are people's current favorites for a 5K 27" screen that doesn't cost as much as a whole damned computer?
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
You're using the pixels for something different than the target audience. People who want a Studio Display want retina crispness. If you enjoy a 42" 4k, you're more concerned with real estate than image fidelity. I'm ha
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
The iMac Pro is nearly 9 years old at this point. At the time, there was no other option for a retina-quality 27" display, but you could get a 4k 27" for $400. A decade later, it boggles my mind that it's so hard to find a r
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
I recently saw an interview with Anders Hejlsberg of TypeScript (and a long pedigree before that). The interviewer asked him about the role of AI in his work. I believe the context was porting TypeScript's tooling to Go. His trick is
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Nope - they removed that feature, so now come the end of the year, they're all e-waste. It feels really stupid to have to throw away a perfectly capable machine with 64GB of RAM in 2026.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Thanks. I just requested an invite on Luma.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
There was a magical window at Google where you could be issued an iMac Pro 5k. (To this day, the standard issue monitor is still 1440p.) ~9 years later, there are a lot of people still using it as their main machine, waiting until we get k
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Microsoft Edge has some interesting properties for this project: - It's a fork of Chrome. - It has a Linux build. - It has a kiosk mode. - It's probably not the browser that a Linux user would be using for things they care about,
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Is it available to the public? I'm in Brooklyn.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Good luck coordinating that.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
I've never owned one. My dad was at Stanford in 84, when the original Mac was announced. We were a Mac family from even before I was born. I watched Steve Jobs give the Macworld keynotes back before everyday people knew who he was. W
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
I hope so. Resource usage has been on a hedonic treadmill at least since I came online in the 90s. Good things have come from that, of course, but there's also plenty of abstraction/waste that's permitted because "new c
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Connectix was a big deal in its day. RAM Doubler was considered essential software. They also marketed the first webcam, and made emulators mainstream. Their PlayStation emulator is the basis for the case law that says emulators are fair
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Anyone trying it out in NYC? Curious to know what it expects of tomorrow's potential blizzard. Add me to the list of people not excited to pay a subscription to get Dark Sky back, but also bummed I can't yet try it on Android.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Waymo drives better than most people. Tesla Autopilot seems to mostly drive hubris. The fine print says you're still supposed to maintain control. They don't have as sophisticated sensors as competitors because Elon decreed &quo
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Good It seems clear that "autopilot" was a boisterous overclaim of its capabilities that led to people dying. It may be minorly absurd to win founder-IPO-level wealth in a lawsuit, but it's also clear that smaller numbers don
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
My evening hobby this week is getting my old Rock Band Wii instruments working on Linux. Got inspired by seeing a Linux 7 headline that the CRKD guitar is supported. There's a whole kernel module that exposes all the Wiimote accessori
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
Japan was the example that stood out to me. (It's where UNIQLO is from.) I'm 5'11"/180cm with US11/EU45 feet. They didn't sell boots that fit me in Japan. I got a deal on an "XL" jacket that t
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
I forgot the portable variant of the iMac was called the iBook. I thought this was about the book version of the Apple App Store.
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
I wonder how this will be impacted by the Steam Frame et. al. Apple is probably the most mainstream supplier of ARM computers at the moment, but Valve is likely to soon have the most mindshare amongst ARM-shippers who actively support Linux
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by bsimpson 8mo ago
The WebGL renderer won't initialize on my iMac Pro.

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