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by rsfinn 3y ago
Lex Friedman[0][1][2] (with an “E”) would probably prefer not being confused with Lex Fridman[3][4][5] (without an “E”), the host of the interview linked above. The More You Know... [0] < https://lexfriedman.com/ > [1]
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by rsfinn 3y ago
I remember spending a day in fourth grade during Maryland history reproducing the flag on construction paper. (Admittedly that was many years ago; my children apparently didn’t get this exercise.) The Crossland parts are pretty easy; the
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by rsfinn 3y ago
It looks like the occasion is the 30th anniversary of Bare Bones Software (the company): < https://www.barebones.com/company/ >. Perhaps the original submitter mistakenly interpreted the "30th Anniversary spe
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by rsfinn 3y ago
I believe it is Bare Bones Software (the company) that is having its 30th anniversary this month < https://www.barebones.com/company/ >, rather than BBEdit (the program).
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by rsfinn 3y ago
As of just now, that link redirects to the "Apple Music Classical" press release page.
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by rsfinn 4y ago
Re the Dock: it may not be easily discoverable, but you can resize the Dock by hovering over a vertical bar between icon groups, then dragging up and down. Hold down the Option key to snap to (what I presume is one of a number of) unscaled
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by rsfinn 4y ago
From the same comment thread: > I know what you're asking yourself and the answer is YES. #Android communicates with #Google services outside an active VPN connection, even with the options "Always-on" and "Block Conn
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by rsfinn 4y ago
...which suggests that the notion that some designer at Apple subtly decreased the contrast on green bubbles to make them look "gross" is ridiculous -- if they really wanted to make SMS messages look bad, they could be much less s
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by rsfinn 4y ago
At the time the green/blue distinction appeared in Messages, it was widely reported that the green color for SMS messages represented the fact that most cellular plans in the US at the time charged a fee for each SMS message sent, or h
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by rsfinn 4y ago
Two such companies: Feral Interactive as well.
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by rsfinn 4y ago
"Ventura Highway, in the sunshine..." [0] I may be dating myself somewhat here. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura_Highway
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by rsfinn 4y ago
Since they moved macOS off version 10.x (finally), "Apple's crack marketing team" left the desert (Mojave) for the Pacific coast. Unfortunately, they didn't plan the trip carefully, so they started at Big Sur with macOS
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by rsfinn 4y ago
How about getting a MacBook Air and using your iPad Pro as a second display (using SideCar) on which you can also draw with your Apple Pencil? Possibly more flexible than a Wacom tablet.
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by rsfinn 4y ago
No; if you give a shell script the .command extension (and make it executable), then you can double-click it in the Finder to open and run it in the Terminal application.
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by rsfinn 4y ago
Written by the author of this article (Arika Okrent).
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by rsfinn 4y ago
President Clinton was briefly given this power by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 [1], but "its effect was brief as the act was soon [in 1998] ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court". [1] < https://en.wikipedia.or
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by rsfinn 5y ago
$49 in the US for iPhone SE (1st and 2nd gen), 6s, 7, 8; $69 for iPhone X and later: https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...
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by rsfinn 5y ago
(Straying a little off topic to provide the following hint:) There's a setting for this in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard. My recollection is that this was previously a checkbox that toggled the "double-Fn to invok
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by rsfinn 5y ago
> Why can’t I view two code windows side-by-side? You can: in general, pressing option will open a new code editor (the exact behavior is configurable in Preferences > Navigation > "Optional Navigation"). For example, opt
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by rsfinn 5y ago
It was a deliberate design choice for Lightspeed C (the original name of THINK C) to not perform error recovery in the parser, and thus to stop compilation on the first syntax error. This made the compiler both smaller (important when runni
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by rsfinn 5y ago
Apple avoids GPLv3-licensed software, which may explain why they continue to ship an older version of bash (3.2, the last GPLv2 version). Eventually they must have decided that was too outdated to keep as the default shell and switched to z
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by rsfinn 5y ago
The initial price target for the Macintosh was $1495, but with the addition of new technology like the Sony 400K floppy disk drive, the team realized it would have to sell for a higher price like $1995. Three months before the release, John
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by rsfinn 5y ago
Yes, that article is nearly four years old. Since then, Swift has evolved considerably. Steve Troughton-Smith has tweeted recently about his work in converting all of his apps to Swift over the last year [1]. "I will remember ObjC and
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by rsfinn 5y ago
So I don't know whether you've noticed, but there's this thing that's been going around that makes some people want to keep their distance from other people, even if they might otherwise want to converse with them? More
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by rsfinn 5y ago
To each their own, I guess; in case anyone else is wondering: "keyboard shortcut": Command-Shift-period "terminal command": defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles yes
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by rsfinn 5y ago
Shouldn't your window manager just handle this for you, by moving the windows to the builtin display when the external monitor is detached, and moving them back again when it's reattached? (Like my Mac has been doing for I don&#x2
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by rsfinn 5y ago
Sure; I don't disagree (and perhaps my previous post was less clear about this) that "personal computer" was definitely in common use, particular in advertising aimed at "regular consumers" rather than hobbyists, an
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by rsfinn 5y ago
Also shell (edit: as noted elsewhere): $ say "Your build is done."
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by rsfinn 5y ago
As I recall, the most widely used term early on was "microcomputer", to distinguish the small home computers from the larger "minicomputers" (e.g. the DEC PDP-11 of blessed memory). The term "personal computer"
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by rsfinn 5y ago
You might want to look into [Turbo Boost Switch]( http://tbswitcher.rugarciap.com ), which in my experience does a pretty good job of keeping the CPU cool enough that the fans stay pretty quiet, with a minor impact on performance.

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