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hotdogsladies, to random
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Angus and Malcolm Young hit guitar strings so fucking hard.

AC/DC - "Whole Lotta Rosie" (Live, 1977)

https://youtu.be/CHo2EqDpK7g?si=rHOF31f9oxZ5lJBP&t=20

Gte,
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@gruber @hotdogsladies https://youtu.be/1T5_82U3JVo?si=4Yt8V0duFcCdX5wX

Gte,
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@gruber @hotdogsladies No argument here. I’m with ya. Star Wars was a long time ago and escapes time.

dmoren, to random
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Not going to lie: lately I’ve been wondering if any of my work—podcasting, books, tech writing—is really reaching people. But it’s all worth it on those days when some random listener sends an email out of the blue to tell me just how much I’ve affected them.

Gte,
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@dmoren I like you. Like. Like like you.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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⭐️ I blogged: The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)

https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20240514-The-iPad-Pro-Manifesto-(2024-Edition)

Gte,
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@stroughtonsmith Great piece. Thanks for writing that up. Agree with much of this. One way or the other it is clear that a stagnant iPad OS is hurting the product.

stroughtonsmith, to random
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A $3,000 Mac has the ability to run iPad apps. It shouldn’t be controversial to suggest that a $3,000 iPad should have the ability to run Mac apps

Gte,
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@stroughtonsmith I love macOS. My favourite platform to write for is macOS. I want to continue to use macOS for decades to come.
My feeling on iPad running macOS is that it just squanders what iPad could be. They’ve certainly yet to find their groove. And macOS would unlock the hardware potential in more ways than currently available. But, for me, it’d be a sad day and capitulation. An acknowledgment that they couldn’t come up with a truly new paradigm for the incredible hardware

Gte,
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@stroughtonsmith I guess my position is that I don’t care as much about making the iPad a compelling product. That’s not my department. I want one of the last technology companies in the world with the talent and money to do something entirely new to use the platform to just go for it. Flex their imagination rather than grudgingly adopting the limits of POSIX and stuffing it into a riff on iOS.

siracusa, (edited ) to random
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First, it’s great that @MichaelWhelan is on Mastodon. What an amazing artist.

Second, his recent post featured a spherical alien that I instantly recognized from my childhood. https://mastodon.art/@MichaelWhelan/112428886103083708

It’s from this book, published in 1980, which had a cover image that is also burned into my brain.

Gte,
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@siracusa @MichaelWhelan Gorgeous! I had that book and loved it dearly. Thank you Michael for engaging my imagination so thoroughly as a kid.

bradellis, to random
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I’ve been outta town. Just watched that Apple ad. Kept waiting for it to get bad. Assumed I watched the wrong one. Do y’all not subscribe to hydrolic press TikTok accounts?!
I guess it’s another 4 months of opinion jail for Bradley.

Gte,
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@bradellis You’re sentenced to watching three hours of Dr. Pimplepopper.

Gte, to random
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I love that around 70% of the visible mass of the universe is made out of helium but on Earth it is rare and we use it to inflate balloons and talk like goofballs. If there’s one reason to venture out among the stars it should be to have more floaty balloons and giggle like goofs.

(Yeesh. Screwed this one up a bunch. The mass of hydrogen is bigger than helium and that’s what I was thinking of. Anyway. Balloons and funny voices are fun.)

stroughtonsmith, to random
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The sky is spicy tonight

Gte,
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@stroughtonsmith The first one is The Phoenix Force coming to inhabit the body of Jean Grey.

schwa, to random
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    Gte,
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    @schwa Those things are not quiet at all. Heard them fly over a couple of times this week.

    hotdogsladies, to random
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    "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was Alfred Molina's first movie.

    Not too shabby.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbhHJ9iLrRA

    Gte,
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    @hotdogsladies Jiminy.

    Gte,
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    @hotdogsladies Haha! Sigh.

    Gte,
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    @hotdogsladies Jumps right off the screen at you. I swear I’ve seen that look in his eyes too.

    kjhealy, to random
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    Andrew Huberman has thoughts about the cumulative probability of getting pregnant 😐

    video/mp4

    Gte,
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    @kjhealy 100% chance of dumb.

    Gte, to random
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    Calling it “slop” is polite but I hope that’ll help the term catch on.
    https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112407183487557608

    danielpunkass, to random
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    I agree that Governor Noem's killing of her dog was savage, and her defiance against our judgment is telling. But what if it had been a pig? We have a mixed up moral code about which animals are OK to slaughter, and when.

    Gte,
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    @danielpunkass If it had been as a pet I think you’d still have seen a backlash. Less of one for sure. But the reaction is to the killing of a creature she’d taken into her care. When it didn’t behave the way she wanted she killed it. It is the abdication of a responsibility she took upon herself to care for the life of another that is awful. Even among meat eaters and even farmers.

    Gte,
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    @danielpunkass I get where you’re coming from. And there’s for sure something to think deeply about in terms of how we treat animals. (And you’ve opted out of which is commendable and admirable!). I just she’s got a level of awful that is so fundamentally a betrayal of an innocent creature who put their trust in her that it’s obvious to all.

    Gte, to random
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    Re: the M4 rumours.

    I’ve got it on good authority from every Trekkie that we’re holding out for the M5. The ultimate computer.

    Also, whatever Star Trek movie they’re thinking of making next steal the plot of The Ultimate Computer. It’s timely. It offers The Wrath of Kahn callback vibes. Crazy computer destroys a bunch of Federation ships as the brilliant creator, trying desperately to surpass his greatest success, insists that his creation is perfect.

    Gte, to random
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    Swift question where I sort of expect the answer to be that I’m holding it wrong:

    I’ve got a protocol for a thing I can do. It has “isEnabled” and “invoke()”. (Basically). What I want is for people to be able to conform to this protocol but limit who can call “invoke()”. Basically, I want it isolated. Which feels like I’m answering my own question. This isn’t (yet) a concurrency thing but I’m trying to work towards that goal.

    Am I missing a Swiftish pattern I can adopt?

    Gte,
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    @danielpunkass I want to make it so that invoke() can only be called from one place. Basically, we use these to define things we can do and I want to discourage / enforce passing them into an executor to be run. I’ve a few thoughts but they’re sort of ugly so wanted to check with brainiacs.

    Gte, to random
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    So, Apple had $23.6B in profit this quarter. Their services had a record $23.9B in revenue. A good size chunk (roughly a quarter based on 2022 numbers) of that comes from Google search kickbacks.

    That’s an enormous amount of profit but, yeesh, I kind of wish the company wasn’t so tied to services. I love product company Apple a lot more than I like iCloud storage Apple.

    https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/2024-q1-apple-results-90-8-billion-revenue-services-record/

    Gte, to random
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    I enjoyed a Steve Mould video last night and it was bothering me too that such a simple mechanism didn’t have a short hand way of expressing it. Here’s Dr. Drang on Over Centre mechanical mechanisms. The magic of people is like the seas of Naboo—There’s always a bigger nerd. (Or one with domain knowledge beyond your own. Which is even better.)
    https://fosstodon.org/@drdrang/112367326037152201

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    Really sad if the Kerbal Space Program studio is really being shut down just as they were starting to turn things around. I was looking forward to picking it up once it had more content, but I guess that's unlikely to happen now…

    Gte,
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    @stroughtonsmith Sad News. It feels (to me) of the Microprose of old. Or Origin before EA. Great games beloved by many but not by enough for the boss.

    Gte, to random
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    My friend just got a Mac Studio but doesn’t want to pay a small fortune for the Studio Display. He’s got an LG connected and mounted higher on the wall. That’s for recording/monitoring stuff. He’s looking for a good desktop monitor that’s close to “Apple fidelity”. I’m coming up blank. But I don’t follow PC monitor news much anymore. Anyone got a suggestion?

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