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rcoilliot commented on Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Simulate a Shadow of the Pen Being Emulated   threads.net/@snazzyq/post... · Posted by u/latexr
jiehong · 2 years ago
Indeed!

The cool animation when bringing phones close together to share contact and data?

Well, work 10% of the time for airdrop, but often doesn’t do anything…

rcoilliot · 2 years ago
Talking about airdrop…
rcoilliot commented on Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Simulate a Shadow of the Pen Being Emulated   threads.net/@snazzyq/post... · Posted by u/latexr
gumby · 2 years ago
Can't you just drag it into place? Am I missing something?

But sadly I find Apple's attention to detail in its UX to be typically rather low. MacOS in particular is littered with broken interactions.

The underpinnings -- the stuff users don't see -- suffers from this much less, and if there were a choice of where to have attention to detail, that would be the right choice. But Apple is big enough not to have to make this choice.

rcoilliot · 2 years ago
It’s actually impossible to attach pictures, they always are displayed in the mail. Also, when you drop a file into the message it’s not “attached” in a “attachment box” but their icon is actually floating anywhere you dropped it in the message.
rcoilliot commented on Apple Pencil Pro and iPad Simulate a Shadow of the Pen Being Emulated   threads.net/@snazzyq/post... · Posted by u/latexr
rcoilliot · 2 years ago
Again the “insane attention to details” while in 2024 attaching a picture or a file to a message in Apple Mail.app macOS is an absolute nightmare. One example amongst many many others. It’s cool, very cool, but I wouldn’t call Apple this way while there’s so much awkward choices to be fixed in their software.
rcoilliot commented on SteerMouse   plentycom.jp/en/steermous... · Posted by u/mzehrer
rcoilliot · 2 years ago
I’ve been using it for many years, I think it’s one of the oldest alternative mouse driver for Mac. Highly recommended to those who want to avoid the bloated (and now AI powered, for whatever it means) Logitech software.
rcoilliot commented on Apple iPhone sales fall in nearly all countries   bbc.com/news/articles/c99... · Posted by u/testrun
999900000999 · 2 years ago
At some point isn't it natural for people to just hold on to the phones they already have ?

I probably average a new phone ever 18 months or so, but I'm a tech enthusiast. No normal person needs a new phone that often. At a point you saturate your market.

rcoilliot · 2 years ago
I’m also a tech enthusiast but I change my iPhone every 4 or 5 years. And it may be the issue here, there’s not that much incentive to switch from an iPhone to the next one except if you are an Apple fan boy, thanks to the awesome upgrades support. Hope they won’t “fix” it.

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rcoilliot commented on They want you to forget what a film looks like   aftermath.site/true-lies-... · Posted by u/zer00eyz
yardie · 2 years ago
I rip my physical media into my digital library and I know right away when I’m dealing with a film transfer, compression goes to shit. All the grain and noise inherent to film doesn’t compress well. So I imagine all these AI upscaled film weren’t done for our benefit but to save streamers a bit of bandwidth.

Also film was expensive, directors shot a tight 90 minute movie and called it a day. Now, we have 2,3,4 hour movies that meander endlessly.

rcoilliot · 2 years ago
rcoilliot commented on France's Bogdanoff Twins Die Days Apart   bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro... · Posted by u/GEBBL
hocuspocus · 4 years ago
> respected by geeks

I don't think that is true at all for "geeks" that witnessed first-hand[1] their manipulative and deceptive attempts at defending their PhDs and scientific papers in early 2000's. After that they doubled down on the intelligent design bullshit, used any opportunity to promote their books (fair enough), while attacking the few journalists that actually tried to expose the fraud.

They should have sticked to sci-fi, but even in their early days they couldn't help but try to vulgarize proper science, even though they weren't really qualified. Good intentions don't make up for peddling pseudoscience, plagiarism, and the constant smoke and mirrors. And it seems they were also facing some pretty serious legal issues in their personal life.

[1] https://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/Discussions/Sciences/topikunik...

rcoilliot · 4 years ago
You are right. I should have specified they were still respected for their contribution to sci-fi in France, but scorned for all their scientific frauds.
rcoilliot commented on France's Bogdanoff Twins Die Days Apart   bbc.co.uk/news/world-euro... · Posted by u/GEBBL
boringg · 4 years ago
Does anyone know if they were liked by the public? I doubt they were much loved in the scientific community based on what I read in the wikipedia entry. Their history seems patchy per wikipedia.

Also I am trying to understand their relevance / importance in the grand scheme. Why is this getting traction?

rcoilliot · 4 years ago
French here. Lately they weren't that much loved by the public and mostly mocked because of their weirdness but they were still pretty famous and respected by geeks because of their successful (and pretty influential) show about sci-fi back in the 80s. I guess they were still benifiting from that golden era of them, but the consensus is that they were freaky.
rcoilliot commented on FreeFileSync: Open-Source File Synchronization and Backup   freefilesync.org/... · Posted by u/rcoilliot
brnt · 4 years ago
This tool is in my essentials toolbox. I use it for everything, backups, comparing snapshots, comparing git branches, external drives, you name it.

Inspecting file tree differences is key to all of those actions, as far as I am concerned, and FreeFileSync does it best, and is multiplatform to boot.

rcoilliot · 4 years ago
It's incredible how it turns all those nightmarish actions into zen and pure satisfaction !

u/rcoilliot

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