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by watersb 3y ago
You can run screen savers on your Mac desktop (wallpaper), buy running the "ScreenSaverEngine" with the "-background" option from the command line. The executable is inside the screen saver application package. cd
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Another o̵f̵f̵e̵n̵s̵i̵v̵e̵ ̵r̵e̵a̵l̵i̵t̵y̵ inconvenient truth is that we have grown physically larger, on average, than the humans of the 1960s, when many airliners now flying were designed. Nearly 20 pounds heavier, per person. https:&#x2
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Meanwhile, the US Navy's V-22 tiltrotor aircraft have been found to be "not operationally suitable", citing ongoing problems with de-icing systems and maintenance to flight-hour ratios exceeding 45%. Having retired its C-2 ca
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I have bumped into some language forms that seem to defy machine translation so far. A friend of mine is from Vanuatu, and usually posts to social media in his native written Bislama. It's quite beyond my ability to understand. Maybe i
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Just taking a short walk each day. It's a good habit, doesn't feel like exercise, and helps the whole body. (My brain found the question perplexing: how does one prevent having parents? How prevent them from getting older? Obviou
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I think they funded development of Clang and LLVM.
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1993, can confirm 40MB was a standard and popular hard disk capacity.
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You might look into CoLima as a way to get started. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima?tab=readme-ov-file Its user interface is Docker-like, using containers. For full desktop, I've only used the commercial app &q
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I could imagine hardware vendors telling the software platform creators to standardize on an image codec. Might be slightly encouraged to pick the image format that matches a video codec that's already widely supported by hardware IP.
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by watersb 3y ago
A great series of deep dives from the 2000s by Jon Stokes: https://arstechnica.com/features/2004/08/ppc-1/ Comparison between the Pentium 4 and the Power PC G4e: https://archive.arstechnica.co
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by watersb 3y ago
PCalc https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pcalc/id284666222 PCalc is a legendary application, started as a kind of "Hello World" non-trivial app on the Classic MacOS platform. Since those early days, ther
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I care very much about ebooks and readability. One stunning failure of current ePub technology is the lack of publication-quality justification and microtypography. Currently, PDF authors are overloading "Tagged PDF" annotations,
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> most consumers’ Windows PCs, and many Macs, are riddled with bad software (privacy invasive, resource hogging, and all sorts of anti-user shenanigans you’d never think of) that App Store policies forbid. I can't confirm "mo
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FINALLY someone notices. Living in a small town with one grocery store, we've seen grocery prices up at least 25% from the Before Times. On a fixed income, this is a very big deal. Some level of food demand is not elastic: you have to
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As I wrote my comment above, I suddenly thought of Nintendo's strategy: sufficient hardware to support a fantastic experience. Nintendo plays like Apple builds. It's clearly a great way to make games. And of course, "casual&
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I love my MacBook Air M1; it's small and lightweight and simple, no moving parts, no dust, and it's fast enough for me. But it clearly lags in 3D gaming performance; the silicon just isn't there to the same degree. It might c
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by watersb 3y ago
A computer catalog at the local Radio Shack set me off in 1978 or '79. I started by reading BYTE Magazine cover to cover, in 1980, when I found it at the local library. It was a foreign language that I acquired, slowly, by immersion. I
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by watersb 3y ago
When I first got into computers, I lived about 30 minutes from his home town. In middle school. I was reading back issues of BYTE magazine, it was all technical jargon noise, but I just kept at it until I got the hang of it. This was back w
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Today I realized that Mike McCue is Flipboard's (co-?) founder. I worked on Netscape NetCaster in 1997, so Mike was my grand-boss. Months later, he provided key testimony in the US Federal anti-trust case against Microsoft. I didn&#x27
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I have two 905p SSDs for ZFS cache devices. A two-way redundant point of failure, but these devices are way more durable than NAND flash storage. A different form factor are the NVMe sticks. Given the relatively small capacity, the 118GB NV
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by watersb 3y ago
> But Intel can probably still reuse lots of their cache coherency logic for external CXL.mem device access. Holy cow, you nailed it: Intel can't get Optane fabrication cost down fast enough, and everyone is moving to CXL anyway,
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On current, macOS Sonoma: > Folks... just do: sudo sysctl iogpu.wired_limit_mb=<mb> from Terminal. You’d have to do it every boot as it’s not sticky, but that seems better than patching your OS and disabling SIP. Earli
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by watersb 3y ago
I don't see any mention of WiFi 6E, for extended radio bandwidth in the 5GHz range. Only "WiFi6".
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while true; do ...; done Is `true` a builtin? I might want to avoid an external process call just to create an unconditional loop.
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I use Termux all the time on my Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. Turns it into a nice console (text) based Linux box. I have gotten it to run GUI programs via Termux/X11 or VNC, but my touchscreen only setup makes that awkward. (I'm run
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Consultation with a fertility doctor.
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SEA LION
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I stopped filing Apple bugs ("rdar") ten years ago. It was pitching a lot of work into a hole: totally opaque.
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> Going back to at least the i432, ... “mainframe envy” Direct quote from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432 """ Intel's iAPX432 was intended to be Intel's major desi
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Ironically, Apple implemented dynamic hardware configuration long before it was a standard feature in PC platforms. I was tempted to jump on the "two video cards" example, but the original IBM PC could support both a CGA (for colo

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