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rsfinn commented on Mojo is a much better “Objective-C without the C” than Swift ever was blog.metaobject.com/2023/... · Posted by u/mpweiher

kaba0 · 2 years ago

Off topic, but I really can’t stand Friedman. I would much prefer a more intelligent interviewer asking many of those CS giants he interviewed.

(If I hear the randomly brought up, completely unrelated musk hype question again...)

rsfinn · 2 years ago

Lex Friedman[0][1][2] (with an “E”) would probably prefer not being confused with Lex Fridman[3][4][5] (without an “E”), the host of the interview linked above.

The More You Know...

[0] <https://lexfriedman.com/> [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Friedman> [2] <https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfriedman>

[3] <https://lexfridman.com/> [4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman> [5] <https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman>

rsfinn commented on Maryland License Plates Now Inadvertently Advertising Filipino Online Casino vice.com/en/article/4a3xe... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

Larrikin · 2 years ago

To be fair the Maryland flag is easily one of the best state flags. It fails the "Could you easily draw it from memory" test but the design and color scheme more than makes up for that. I'd put it everywhere too.

rsfinn · 2 years ago

I remember spending a day in fourth grade during Maryland history reproducing the flag on construction paper. (Admittedly that was many years ago; my children apparently didn’t get this exercise.) The Crossland parts are pretty easy; the Calvert parts are a little harder. The tricky parts are getting the number of pales correct, and coloring in all the countercharges correctly (i.e. where the red goes vs. white, and where the black goes vs. yellow).

rsfinn commented on BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product barebones.com/store/... · Posted by u/rvense

dang · 2 years ago

Ha, I missed that. Ok, we've incremented its age in the title above. Thanks!

(Submitted title was "BBEdit is 30 years old")

Edit: some people didn't like "BBEdit is 31 years old" so I took another crack at changing it.

Edit edit: never mind.

Edit edit edit: never never mind.

rsfinn · 2 years ago

It looks like the occasion is the 30th anniversary of Bare Bones Software (the company): <https://www.barebones.com/company/>. Perhaps the original submitter mistakenly interpreted the "30th Anniversary special pricing” text as applying to the BBEdit program itself.

rsfinn commented on BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product barebones.com/store/... · Posted by u/rvense

s1mon · 2 years ago

Hmmm. Seems like it's 31+ years old. Here's Gruber on the 30th anniversary: https://daringfireball.net/2022/04/30_years_of_bbedit_not_su...

rsfinn · 2 years ago

I believe it is Bare Bones Software (the company) that is having its 30th anniversary this month <https://www.barebones.com/company/>, rather than BBEdit (the program).

rsfinn commented on Apple Music Classical learn.applemusic.apple/ap... · Posted by u/tosh

cschmidt · 2 years ago

I hadn't looked at Primephonic in a while, but their site is now just a letter on how they're working with Apple:

https://www.primephonic.com/

rsfinn · 2 years ago

As of just now, that link redirects to the "Apple Music Classical" press release page.

rsfinn commented on My next Mac might be the last morrick.me/archives/9667... · Posted by u/pier25

etempleton · 3 years ago

I cannot agree more with this post. I like Apple, probably more than most, but the MacOS UX is not good right now. The author won’t list the issues so I will:

1. Windows Management - Windows should snap to a grid like they do in Windows 11.

2. Fullscreen Mode - It is bad! Do I want to be in full screen mode or not? Some features are nice in fullscreen, but sometimes I can’t do things in fullscreen and that feels bad. And some apps don’t support it and that also feels bad.

3. The Dock - It takes up too much room on modern high resolution displays and if you hide it it is finicky. So you end up using fullscreen and that is finicky too, but then You miss the dock and then go back to it and get frustrated all over again.

4. The Finder - it isn’t really that bad, but it isn’t really that good either. For some reason I always feel like it takes me longer to navigate around in the finder. Maybe someone else knows why I feel this way. Maybe I need to enable the path as another commenter mentioned.

MacOS does a lot of good stuff, but it is all old stuff that it has done well for years, spotlight, command shortcuts, Automator, fonts, animations, OS stability. The newer UX changes are always nice in theorybut cumbersome in practice and some other elements just feel in need of a rethink. I think with modern high resolution and multi monitor displays a tiling windows mode would be interesting where you can save setups.

rsfinn · 3 years ago

Re the Dock: it may not be easily discoverable, but you can resize the Dock by hovering over a vertical bar between icon groups, then dragging up and down. Hold down the Option key to snap to (what I presume is one of a number of) unscaled icon sizes.

One of the first things I do on a new install (as well as turning on the Finder status bar) is option-clicking on the Dock and shrinking it down by one step (or maybe two on a 13" MacBook).

rsfinn commented on We confirm that iOS 16 does communicate with Apple services outside a VPN tunnel twitter.com/mysk_co/statu... · Posted by u/doener

rsfinn · 3 years ago

From the same comment thread:

> I know what you're asking yourself and the answer is YES. #Android communicates with #Google services outside an active VPN connection, even with the options "Always-on" and "Block Connections without VPN."

Not saying that makes it right, but perhaps the discussion should be not be focused on Apple specifically.

rsfinn commented on One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross” uxdesign.cc/how-apple-mak... · Posted by u/allenwhsu

henriquez · 3 years ago

It reminds me how MacOS has the icon for any networked Windows PC as a “blue screen of death” monitor

rsfinn · 3 years ago

...which suggests that the notion that some designer at Apple subtly decreased the contrast on green bubbles to make them look "gross" is ridiculous -- if they really wanted to make SMS messages look bad, they could be much less subtle about it...

rsfinn commented on One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross” uxdesign.cc/how-apple-mak... · Posted by u/allenwhsu

rsfinn · 3 years ago

At the time the green/blue distinction appeared in Messages, it was widely reported that the green color for SMS messages represented the fact that most cellular plans in the US at the time charged a fee for each SMS message sent, or had a higher monthly rate for "unlimited" texts. It would seem that very few people remember the days before "unlimited data/text/minutes".

(US currency is typically associated with the color green in a way that probably doesn't apply elsewhere in the world. Also, the actual color of green on US paper currency is quite different from the green bubbles... but I digress.)

rsfinn commented on Skyrim on Mac When? skyrimonmacwhen.com/... · Posted by u/charliebwrites

chaostheory · 3 years ago

That company has existed for well over a decade now. It’s Aspyr. While they’re still at it, even they know that it’s not going to lead to anything big.

rsfinn · 3 years ago

Two such companies: Feral Interactive as well.