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Deeply unsatifying, and 100% true at the same time.

I had cancer, it came back twice in 5 years, but now I'm 10 years out from the last time and my odds are good. Just mentioning it, in case it's helpful to hear a positive anecdote.…

I'm doing work with fairly complicated cryptographic algorithms and math. I'm finding Fable 5 to be a significant stop better than Opus 4.8, but that Opus occasionally comes up wit…

"The final major downside is having to switch apps out of navigation to control music then switch back". That's no longer true for CarPlay. It now has a mode where you see Maps and…

The icons in menu items is one of the reasons I'm still on Sequoia. This settles it; I'll just stay on Sequoia until Golden Gate is released. I can't say the following for sure, bu…

For what it's worth: I had an idea for a special reminder app I wanted for myself. It's complicated enough that it comes to 9,000+ lines of code. I wanted to write it using the C++…

I get that effect while walking, but also from multi-hour highway (not local) driving when the road isn't crowded. Somehow, having my body do something that takes only a slight amo…

This goes back a LONG way for me. I really enjoyed his Notes From The Field column in InfoWorld, which was both reliably funny and reliably interesting, from around 1987-1995.

The software isn't so good these days, even while the hardware has been the best in the world. Now that the guy responsible for the hardware will be CEO, maybe quality will come ba…

I wrote a lot of APL for my undergraduate Senior Project in 1978/1979. I really enjoyed it because it was fun. You could do an incredible amount of work in a single line of code. T…

It may have been, I never used it, but it was also a very early, innovative (at the time) product made by a company called Vermeer. There is a truly fascinating, and even inspiring…

I used it when I was in college for my Senior Project. That would have been 1978/1979. I had a keyboard with the APL symbols molded onto the keypad.

"If you delete your account, we will delete your data within 30 days, except we may retain a limited set of data for longer where required or permitted by law." "where required"...…

I'm 70. Most of my high school and college friends are on Facebook, and some other friends. So I use it (including its Messenger component) a lot to keep in touch! I know it's a ge…

With external SSDs plugged directly into a USB port, it's worked 100% fine for me and saved my butt a few times. But, I haven't installed Tahoe. I may skip it entirely, hoping that…

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Took a look at inkjet. It looks quite nice. I'm going to give it a try!

> Whether any one country should be global police or not is a very difficult question to answer, but at the same time I could easily see situations where some of these could be ben…

> I'm not aware of a single cynic who successfully predicted how things actually ended up turning out. Let's change that here and now! :) I was one of the optimists in the very ear…

It seems like the antivaxxers, and many people in general, seem to just think that whatever they hear from their friends and family and favorite TV talking heads, whether it has an…