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قبل 4 أيامdiscuss

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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الشهر الماضيdiscuss

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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35555475

This is the mapping I use on an M1 MacBook:

    hidutil property --set '{
      "UserKeyMapping":[
        {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000FF0100000010,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x00FF00000009},
        {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c00000221,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x00FF00000008},
        {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c000000cf,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x00070000003e},
        {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x000000010000009b,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x00070000003f},
        {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c000000b4,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x000700000040},
        {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c000000cd,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x000700000041},
        {"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingSrc":0x0000000c000000b3,"HIDKeyboardModifierMappingDst":0x000700000042}
      ]
     }'

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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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قبل شهرينdiscuss

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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قبل شهرينdiscuss

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 elegant that language can be once you've wrapped your head around it. It makes BASIC look barbaric by comparison.

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قبل 4 أشهرdiscuss

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 monochrome (luma) signal.

If the bandwidth was available, would it have been possible to include separate chroma and luma components in the broadcast signal without the two interfering with each other, thereby producing a much cleaner color image while maintaining backward compatibility with the original B&W TV sets?

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قبل 4 أشهرdiscuss

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 height to a comfortable level.

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قبل 5 أشهرdiscuss

Release notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-note...

Surprisingly, this version does not require MacOS 26 (Tahoe).

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قبل 6 أشهرdiscuss

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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قبل 7 أشهرdiscuss

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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قبل 8 أشهرdiscuss

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 USB is great.

If you want to backup over the network you will have to find another solution.

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قبل 10 أشهرdiscuss

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 easily work with such large documents? And how long would it typically take to assemble all of that code in one go?

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