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by marbletiles 2y ago
A lot of PS 1.0's UI (2-col toolbox on the left etc) owes its heritage to MacPaint, which was a launch app for the Mac. Even the iPad shares keyboard shortcuts set by the original Mac, though has considerably broken away in other aspec
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by marbletiles 2y ago
is the failed attempts by Quark Xpress to update their product in the late 90s/early 00s There were a number of factors here - outsourcing engineering leading to a disastrously buggy 4.0, then failing to move to OS X for years after
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by marbletiles 2y ago
The distinction can matter because the core purposes of the two are different. A "Labor" union is one that represents one side of the relationship between capital and the workforce: that is, the side that has a portion of the valu
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by marbletiles 2y ago
Because often you can’t easily get back “in less than a second” as a tab is the culmination of a large stack of combined thought+browsing. I keep it open because I can more conveniently context-switch back to it when I need to, rather than
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by marbletiles 3y ago
Curious that the story doesn't mention he died of Covid – an infection that, you'd expect someone with his condition to be extremely keen to avoid, and who should have been able to, given reasonable precautions from his visitors.
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by marbletiles 3y ago
It’s heartening and gives me hope that the reaction here is so full of scepticism and concern. Sometimes proceeding with caution is warranted.
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by marbletiles 3y ago
The "vapid moralising" is a quote from the person who lead the research. It's in the article because it is the opinion of the person whose work the article is about. Did you want the author to try and create false balance by
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by marbletiles 3y ago
There's no contact in your profile so I'll say it here: Thank you! That work had a big impact on me when I was getting started and I still think of the B incredibly fondly.
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by marbletiles 3y ago
> It's not quite the full system. You're right about the ROM, but parent is talking about something else: the built-in bootable system that came in ROM on the Classics. Cmd-opt-x-o at startup would boot you straight into 6.0.3,
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by marbletiles 3y ago
News that affects the news industry always has a priority for news outlets, obviously. The fact that it's a tiny percentage of the staff is neither here nor there: if Apple laid off a few dozens from its core hardware design team, that
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by marbletiles 3y ago
Member-only story, fyi
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by marbletiles 3y ago
There is a long history in literature of ignoring author’s wishes: for example, we wouldn’t know of Kafka if Max Brod hadn’t ignored his instructions to destroy the manuscripts of The Castle, the Trial and others. (I’m not saying this makes
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by marbletiles 3y ago
That’s my thought: if you’re not doing it to be compliant, why do it at all? Seems pointless.
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by marbletiles 3y ago
Site has a cookie permission box where “Deny” takes you to Wikipedia, which is both non compliant and pointless
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by marbletiles 3y ago
I see this point often - and similar ones about entitlement - but my reaction at the time to both Mark and _why was one of concern: they were people whose work I absolutely appreciated, and who I therefore appreciated as people. When they v
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by marbletiles 3y ago
My main challenge with navigating large threads is seeing what's new when I return to them. If there was a view that helped with that, I'd be sold
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by marbletiles 3y ago
Defence in depth helps make the situation less catastrophic. Right now, with just an iPhone passcode, you can take complete control of the Apple ID [including wiping the user’s other devices], any apps protected by Face ID (even those with
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by marbletiles 3y ago
Muggers in the UK are now demanding the phone passcode on threat of violence. Having to give up the phone passcode (which also unlocks FaceID-gated apps like banking!) shouldn’t make your entire life vulnerable. There are currently insuffic
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by marbletiles 4y ago
Same but YC, and the game was Microdot. I used to scrutinise every line of those magazines, now I can barely scroll to the bottom of a single link without switching apps twice.
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by marbletiles 4y ago
It's somehow managing to get worse in this area. You were once able to say "not this version" and it would try a different version of the same song. Now it just replies "I found some results on the web, but I can't
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by marbletiles 4y ago
This is a deeply strange line of thought to follow. Do you think broadcasters would go to the trouble and expense if there was no value for people in it? If subtitles were equal value or even “good enough”, they’d be used exclusively. That
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by marbletiles 4y ago
And you’re seeing this nuance while simultaneously reading subtitles? From a speaker at a distance? GP is correct, sign is a fully expressive language, far richer than subtitles.
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by marbletiles 4y ago
Nothing you say is necessarily the case, and is dependent on implementation. Take "value is just always equal to true", well, no, not if your key is a predicate. "Color:red" is more powerful than "#red" or &quo
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by marbletiles 4y ago
I think you're thinking of the Amiga, which had support for ColorFonts – the Kara collection was made famous by Deluxe Paint
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by marbletiles 4y ago
One of Apple's cultural touchstones has been that it can focus ; that it knows when to say "no", even to could-be-great ideas that genuinely excite them ([1] example of Jony Ive retelling how Steve Jobs taught him this). The
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by marbletiles 4y ago
I see a few mentions of beginner-level books that have struck a chord with people here and I empathise, as by far the computer book with the most formative impact on me was the Macintosh Bible 4th ed. Certainly quirky, it was also one of th
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by marbletiles 4y ago
Not the OP, but I think there's something in what they're saying. Technically, you can get close to the embedding that the Claris apps used to support with Word/Excel (although there's no separate vector/bitmap tool
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by marbletiles 4y ago
It's not "you have money we didn't know about", it's "you have an amount of money that requires explanation". It's more like "we see a lot of smoke coming out of your house, satisfy us there isn&
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by marbletiles 4y ago
Cars are increasingly moving to a more-or-less rental model, with lots of finance and little eventual ownership. But this doesn't solve the "less garbage parked" problem; for that you need short-term rentals and although ZipC
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by marbletiles 4y ago
Easy is hard. That is, to make something easy for users , you have to work hard to build great tools for them. Helix appears to be punting on that. Examples: > Helix dynamically renders HTML via Markdown that is generated from the conte

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