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by hyperjeff 1y ago
If anyone is interested in old Mac software and open source projects, I have an archived version of my old OS X listings. While most links are broken these days, it can be a handy for finding things for old Macs. I think the list ended when
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
> Inventing the automobile has clearly made humanity less fit. Should we stop driving? Perhaps an apt analogy. One could argue that the lure of convenience of automobiles led to one of the worst decisions of the 20th century, to restruct
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
That’s so sad that the vast majority of his photos were lost to the 1906 SF earthquake. Amazing photos that were preserved though.
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
I did when I was a kid. Used to spend hours torturing insects. And I did think they probably felt pain in some way. I ended up well-adjusted, but kids are little psychopaths. These days I escort bugs out of the house if they are being bothe
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
Eventually they’ll do a better job than us, so maybe why not. People are very bad at managing themselves and the world. Leave a final prompt to take care of the biosphere, clean up the environment, and manage the humans but let them live ha
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
Very nice! though sometimes the recurring revenue figures seem to be questionable (one in particular that raised $250k on Kickstarter, where that's listed as its yearly income, but is it?). Also, does that iOS book series really make $
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
Yes! A very exciting time. I had a Mac at home and used NeXT at school, and i was able to buy Rhapsody / Mac OS X Server 1.02 for half off as a student. I ran my own web server out of my apartment with it for years on a PowerMac 7500 (
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
For those coding in Swift, there is the Physical[0] package. [0] https://github.com/hyperjeff/Physical
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
Different chips though, and different links. (Also, it’d be nice if we stopped linking directly to social media posts and instead used an intermediary that didn’t require access or accounts just to follow discussions here.)
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
although on multi-monitor setups, xeyes helps me quickly find my pointer location, if i’ve lost track, in an enjoyable way. almost anything can be useful to someone.
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by hyperjeff 2y ago
eech. i don’t want to use a language made by people who take advice from, let alone watch, tiktok influencers.
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by hyperjeff 3y ago
A lot of the app updates are using new APIs that only exist starting with the OS update. Practical way to surface the new OS features.
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by hyperjeff 3y ago
One can create quite sophisticated automator services, definitely living up to the idea of programming. It’s not where I would direct anyone to start learning programming (it’s not meant to do so). It’s easy to underestimate what you can do
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by hyperjeff 3y ago
Magic Leap 2 is roughly same price point ($3300 base, $4100 dev pro), but so far aimed at enterprise only. Android dev environment. Also Unity integration. Looks lighter to wear. Much lower resolution screens. Interesting comparison point g
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by hyperjeff 3y ago
i worked for a company once with a large (10’ sided cube) and very high-quality anechoic chamber and would go in there on lunch breaks to mediate, was fantastic. (never had audio hallucinations.) i was young and had no hearing issues which
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
There’s no helping with your first complaint (UI philosophy difference), but fwiw you can both have focus-follows-mouse (for either the whole OS or just Terminal, both work great) and multiple button support (I use a 4-button trackball with
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
A high say-do ratio would be bad. A high do-say works.
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
> Early mornings are a very special time because no one else is up and it is the quietest and most productive part of the day. For the exact same reason, so also are very late nights (~1 to 5am).
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
Same experience for me. Viewing screens, with their unnatural light and uncanny hyperrealism, rattle my nervous system, and I can feel a subtle internal fight in my brain about what I’m doing. Somehow it’s also easy to get trapped, like you
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
Most physicists have never read them, fwiw, as interesting as they may be for their historical role. Most classic papers go unread, and it’s not a bad thing pedagogically. How things get sorted out is usually a huge mess and following the r
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
There is often a wide gap between a popular opinion, perhaps softly or unspoken, and what is widely accepted and popular expression. Often popular opinions have few protections, and it leads to double-speak and coded or indirect language. A
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
fwiw, arxiv has posted book-length works since it started in the early ‘90s.
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
not sure what you mean by stretching a desktop across multiple monitors, but i’m pretty sure this is a pref you can set in macOS. Also, no need to use a touchpad if you don’t want.
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
Very much an intentional goal of the OS when it came out, the hope being that the concepts of files and folders might never be needed. A bold move to get rid of a mental overhead for using a computer that was never natural or intuitive to n
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
20+ years of Xcode. This advice is ludicrous. Something traumatic must’ve happened 10 years ago to produce this policy. I only ever reboot for system updates and run zillions of things happily along with Xcode and many other full dev enviro
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
If you work with many dedicated workspaces for specific tasks (for me, 16), then a lot of tabs on a machine can mean a perfectly reasonable amount per workspace. At any time I have between ~500 and 1k open across all devices. I've buil
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
Minor note (plz pardon pun) on Bach: While it’s still debated what tuning he used for this work, it’s generally currently thought that he did not use equal temperament. Tons of ink spilled on this topic.
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by hyperjeff 4y ago
A cursory search might even give one the impression that Einstein had an opinion about bees. (Unkillable memes are pretty interesting.)
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by hyperjeff 5y ago
Not sure if you’re just unhappy about the minimalist landing page, but click around from there, lots of nicely done articles.
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by hyperjeff 5y ago
I sorely miss those exciting days. Hotline was so well done. I still have v1.8.4, but sadly remote host refuses connection. Is there no way we can bring such things to life again? Tor isn’t it.

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