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by pholbrook 6mo ago
If you're running the 4k display at 1440p, I'd agreed. But I run two 4k 60hz displays on a 16" MacBook Pro work laptop at 2880x1440 effective resolution and it looks fine to me. Yes, it doesn't look as good as the Studio
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The Neo cannot scale with macOS behind on the basics(blog.apotenza.com)
71 points by pholbrook 6mo ago|62 comments
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by pholbrook 6mo ago
The author says: "This is my detailed criticism of macOS (in market context of the Neo), and the many paper cuts Apple needs to fix to catch up."
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by pholbrook 1y ago
The opening to John McPhee's essay "Los Angeles Against the Mountains" is part of his book The Control of Nature . This first section of that essay is one of my favorite pieces of writing I've ever read. In Los Angeles
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by pholbrook 2y ago
Are there any sample sections available?
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by pholbrook 3y ago
This is an outstanding paper; one of my favorites in all of computing. Read it and marvel at all that Kay has been part of.
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by pholbrook 3y ago
I don't think I'd ever seen that document. Thank you! I worked on the Basic Workstation team; my part was the desktop and folders code. As I recall, the whole BWS rewrite was the result of Robert Ayers coming along and trying to r
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by pholbrook 3y ago
Federico Viticci of MacStories has created S-GPT, a free shortcut that allows you to submit queries to ChatGPT. The shortcut works on iPhones, iPads, and MacOS devices, and allows integrations with the native device OS. Example: you can ask
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S-GPT, a shortcut for Apple devices that integrates with ChatGPT(macstories.net)
3 points by pholbrook 3y ago|1 comments
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by pholbrook 4y ago
"The G3000 also monitors pilot activity/inactivity and cabin pressure and can automatically engage Autoland or Emergency Descent Mode if no activity is detected." - Arstechnica article. https://arstechnica.com&#x2F
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by pholbrook 5y ago
Yes! When I was a junior or senior in college, I went through the list of PARC reports and made a list of perhaps 20 or more of them I might like. I was very surprised to eventually get a book-sized box full of reports. That lead me to an i
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by pholbrook 5y ago
The writer, Nilay Patel, is editor-in-chief of The Verge.
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by pholbrook 10y ago
"Courage" is a reference to Apple executive Phil Schiller's use of that word to describe Apple's removal of the headphone jack from the iPhone 7 last Fall.
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by pholbrook 10y ago
The current holder of the title of oldest person ever was 123, and even that age is well beyond the current oldest person person at 116. I'm skeptical that they'll be able to independently verify an age of 145, but we'll see.
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by pholbrook 11y ago
Said book - Annals of the Former World - is only $5.99 in Kindle form at Amazon. It's far from my favorite work of McPhee's, but $5.99 is quite a bargain. http://www.amazon.com/Annals-Former-World-John-McPhee-ebook
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by pholbrook 12y ago
Glad to see someone posted this again. This is without a doubt one of the best papers I've ever read. Drives home that Alan Kay is truly brilliant.
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by pholbrook 13y ago
Slides are also available at https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/python-3-dot-3-trust-me-...
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by pholbrook 13y ago
There were in fact at least two GopherCons ('92 and '93) focused on the Gopher protocol. I worked at the time for CICNet, and we hosted one of the conferences in Ann Arbor.
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by pholbrook 15y ago
Ironically, this review is almost unreadable on a third generation iPad: the layout blows the text up far too large to be readable.
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by pholbrook 15y ago
FYI, I heard from someone years ago: it's pronounced Zagat like "Da Cat".
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by pholbrook 15y ago
It's worth mentioning that you can also read the book for free online: http://www.ericsink.com/vcbe/index.html Take a look and decide if it's something you like to have in paper form.
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by pholbrook 15y ago
Whoops! Context lost when I posted that. What I was saying was .. I was a programmer on Star from 82-89. I went straight from college to Xerox - and it was like working in a time machine. Network based file and print servers, email, dir
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by pholbrook 15y ago
This shot - http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screenshots/xerox-star-8... - third row down, second across - is actually a screenshot of XDE, the Xerox Development Environment. The window is Hardy, the XDE mail tool. Note the use '!' to
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by pholbrook 15y ago
I remember I was working on the desktop part of the system, and we were implementing "background copy" - and the hardest part was figuring out what the UI should be for doing a foreground copy vs a background copy. (The Star had tiled wind
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Polar-to-cartesian unwrapping of flower photographs(kottke.org)
1 points by pholbrook 16y ago|0 comments
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Philip Greenspun reviews O'Reilly's "Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time"(philip.greenspun.com)
7 points by pholbrook 16y ago|0 comments
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by pholbrook 17y ago
It's a little hard to tell from those screenshots,but it looks like Oberon's text-based interface could have been influenced by the Xerox PARC Cedar environment or possibly the XDE/Tajo environment that Xerox used internally to develop the
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by pholbrook 18y ago
Ah, that's it - I hadn't noticed that option in the Preferences. But yes, turn on Cutting Edge updates in the Updates preference, and now I get offered 1496.
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by pholbrook 18y ago
Payne says "My only hesitation was that TextMate was getting to be practically (although hyperbolically) abandonware. Thankfully, this fear was assuaged by a recent update over the Thanksgiving holiday. It lives!" I can't find any reference