I could really really use something that would OCR and classify all the screenshots I take of stuff to remember. Have an enormous folder of the damn things.
Readit Newsbonaldi commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
bonaldi commented on Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26 macrumors.com/2025/06/04/... · Posted by u/danso
> Instead of tapping buttons to bold text or create headers, users could type *bold* or # Header directly into their notes.
Which will be more keystrokes, not fewer – it's faster to get to the formatting buttons than it is the punctuation keyboard on iOS, and even on Mac the shortcut commands are often faster too.
Notes was a fanastic example of a rich-text environment, but if Markdown input helps the die-hards that is great, so long as I don't have to ever see, use or be aware of it.
bonaldi commented on When will M&S take online orders again? moneyweek.com/personal-fi... · Posted by u/fredley
Interestingly Co-Op is so-called because it’s a cooperative business, which vaguely means it’s owned by its employees, and technically means it’s a “Registered Society” [0].
If you check CompaniesHouse [1], which normally has all financial documents for UK corporations, it points you to a separate “Public Register” for the Co-Op [2].
So, your comment has more basis in reality than simply being snark… the fact that “nobody is incentivized to care” is actually by design. That has some positive benefits but in this case we’re seeing how it breaks down for the same reasons nobody in a crowd calls an ambulance for someone hurt… it’s the bystander effect applied to corporate governance with diluted accountability.
[0] https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/company-taxation-ma...
[1] https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
I’m not following your logic. The co-op is designed for everyone to care _more_ because they are part-owners and because the organisation is set up for a larger good than simple profit-making.
In practice the distinction has long been lost both for employees and members (customers), but the intent of the organisational structure was not for nobody to care; quite the opposite
bonaldi commented on Creating Bluey: Tales from the Art Director substack.com/home/post/p-... · Posted by u/cfcfcf
What studios consistently turn a profit?
They have years where they make hundreds of millions, years when they lose hundreds of millions.
It is weird to want the security of a paycheck, participation in unlikely huge successes, and no exposure to much more likely flops.
It’s not weird at all; in other circumstances we call it a bonus.
You get baseline security by trading away the unlimited upside, but you are still incentivised to produce your best work by knowing if you help create a huge success you’ll get additional compensation for it.
Andy Hertzfeld shared the background on why MacBASIC didn't ship with the Mac.
> Apple's original deal with Microsoft for licensing Applesoft Basic had a term of eight years, and it was due to expire in September 1985. Apple still depended on the Apple II for the lion's share of its revenues, and it would be difficult to replace Microsoft Basic without fragmenting the software base. Bill Gates had Apple in a tight squeeze, and, in an early display of his ruthless business acumen, he exploited it to the hilt. He knew that Donn's Basic was way ahead of Microsoft's, so, as a condition for agreeing to renew Applesoft, he demanded that Apple abandon MacBasic, buying it from Apple for the price of $1, and then burying it.
https://folklore.org/MacBasic.html
It was a shame, since MacBASIC allowed users to write software that supported the features of the Mac UI and Microsoft's BASIC did not.
> Benchmarks published in Washington Apple Pi Journal suggested that MacBASIC had better performance as compared to Microsoft's MS BASIC for Macintosh. The language included modern looping control structures, user-defined functions, graphics, and access to the Macintosh Toolbox. The development environment supported multiple programs running simultaneously with symbolic debugging including breakpoints and single-step execution.
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBASIC
However, the late betas were out in the wild with no copy protection, so it was passed around by user groups.
Are any of those late betas available anywhere? Would love to see what that was like
Click “installation guides” > “book not found”.
I’m so tired.
What dialect is he using that has “plus” vs “+” and so on?
bonaldi commented on Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence apple.com/newsroom/2024/1... · Posted by u/diwank
> and not being able to properly dock it at a monitor is a real hinderance
Can you expand on that? It seems to support DisplayPort over USB-C, and there are a number of 1st and 3rd party adapters that have DP out, power in, and a USB2.0 plug for your other devices. What does “properly” docking it look like?
The A-series chips only support screen mirroring; with the M-class iPads you can have stage manager and multiple windows across two displays; and the main display runs at native resolution. It’s a far better (though still flawed) experience.
bonaldi commented on Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence apple.com/newsroom/2024/1... · Posted by u/diwank
The mini is the absolute sweet spot for me - enough portability that I don’t mind the many restrictions of iPad OS. But the A-line chips and low-quality screen are problems, and not being able to properly dock it at a monitor is a real hinderance. None of those are addressed here, unfortunately.
It also presumes that dealing with automated traffic is a solved problem, which with the volumes of LLM scraping going on, is simply not true for more hobbyist setups.