thought_alarm

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by thought_alarm 5d ago
Try hideturtle or ht.
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by thought_alarm 5d ago
This on-line version of Logo is pretty great: https://www.calormen.com/jslogo/
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by thought_alarm 2mo ago
Or in the case of Superbad, a film based on Seth Rogen's experiences as a Vancouver teenager in the late 90s, Vancouver is a stand-in for Los Angeles, which is a stand-in for Vancouver.
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by thought_alarm 3mo ago
I use the built-in `hidutil` utility to remap F3-F9 to my preferred keys. F3/F4 are remapped to the keyboard backlight brightness. F5-F9 are remapped to be plain old function keys. This post has a lot of great info: https://
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by thought_alarm 3mo ago
iTunes didn't go anywhere. Just about everything I watch or listen to is served from the same iTunes Library I've had for over 20 years. It's more important to me now than it has ever been.
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by thought_alarm 4mo ago
It's always fun when an old relic pops up in ye olde RSS reader. His feed would have been one of the originals I started following 25 years ago or so.
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by thought_alarm 4mo ago
I would really love to see something like EndBASIC built around a Lisp-family language. I've recently been playing around with some of the old Logo implementations from the 80s and I've been really charmed by just how powerful and
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by thought_alarm 6mo ago
Hypothetical question: Let's say that back in 1930s when they were assigning frequencies for the broadcast television channels, they allocated enough extra bandwidth for a future color (chroma) signal, apart from the existing monochrom
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by thought_alarm 7mo ago
I just use some old textbooks to raise the height of the display: - Design Patterns by the Gang of Four - Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu - Code Complete from the Microsoft Press That's enough old paper to raise the display he
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by thought_alarm 8mo ago
Release notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-note... Surprisingly, this version does not require MacOS 26 (Tahoe).
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by thought_alarm 9mo ago
Computer Chronicles and MotorWeek were fixtures of my Saturday afternoons as a young kid in the 80s. 35+ years later both shows became fascinating and priceless time capsules of the era.
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by thought_alarm 10mo ago
That's also why Apple renamed OpenStep to Cocoa. Java was supposed to be the primary development language for Mac OS X (because Java and Cocoa go great together).
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by thought_alarm 10mo ago
When you hear people complaining about Time Machine you can stop listening once they mention their NAS. Time Machine over the network has never been properly supported and is inherently unsafe. Time Machine to a local drive connected via US
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by thought_alarm 1y ago
I'm very surprised it's organized as just a single 162 kB source document instead of being divided into smaller modules to make the code easier to work with, speed up build times, etc. Were PDP-10 text editors of the day able to e
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by thought_alarm 1y ago
Bill Atkinson was a very fascinating guy. His interview with Leo Laporte from 2013 is a great listen. Here's a little 6 minute clip: An acid trip, and the origins of Hypercard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdJKjBHCh
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by thought_alarm 1y ago
Sorry, but none of this correct. While it's true that early production machines had reliability problems, the same was also true for the C64. The machine we got for xmas 1983 was as solid as a tank. The tapes were extremely robust and
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by thought_alarm 1y ago
If that kind of complexity frightens you then you probably want to stay away from C++ entirely.
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by thought_alarm 1y ago
It's not odd at all for a machine that was designed in 1976/77. However, for a machine released in 1983 (the Apple IIe) it is indeed very odd. But the IIe is an odd machine in many ways. The Apple II platform stagnated as Apple p
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by thought_alarm 1y ago
This game achieves its smoothness by synchronizing to the video refresh. That's not a particularly challenging thing to do, but it wasn't a viable option for commercial games back in the day due to uncertainty of how to do it prop
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
I never left RSS. After Google Reader shut down paid for Feedly for a while before switching to self-hosted FreshRSS. ( https://freshrss.org ) I'm not a web guy and I detest all forms of system administration, but I had no tr
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
Flashback to lurking around comp.sys.hp48 looking for downloads. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.hp48/c/BS7c8hRAau0/m/P5...
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
It does not send your photos to be indexed on Apple servers.
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
It sounds like you're arguing against passkeys, two-factor authentication, and password managers. Do you use single, easy-to-remember plain-text passwords for all of your accounts and services? If not, you need to understand what the
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
I wish the same could be said of the Studio Display, which is quite power hungry. If the Mac is running then the display is using minimum 10 Watts of continuous power usage at all times, fan running, with the screen off. I guess it takes 1
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
It needs https. Use https://48calc.org/db48x/index.html
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
It's just a bug. The system save panel (NSSavePanel) is only supposed to infer the file extension when it has been given a list of supported file types/extensions. If the user does not specify a file extension, NSSavePanel will u
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
It's all just an evolution of their existing disk drive technology that started well before the last-minute decision to go with the Sony 3.5" drive. The variable drive speed comes of the development of the "Twiggy" drive
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
> So I wonder why it wasn't added. It wouldn't have been hard, exactly The answer to the question "Why didn't Apple add X/Y/Z to the Apple II?" is that they did add those features, starting with the A
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
> I believe the //e and the //c could generate interrupts on vertical blanking VBlank interrupts were only available through the Mouse Firmware, which was built into the IIc but a rarely-installed option on the IIe.
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by thought_alarm 2y ago
I started learning Obj-C and AppKit in the mid 2000s. During that process I had a moment of zen when I realized that everything I had learned and done with C++ and COM in the late 90s was completely wrong.

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