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100% I spent endless hours playing this on my Mac back in the 90s.

Agreed. He presents the math in a way that illustrates his point without being difficult for non-mathematicians to grasp. A lot of blogs get hung up in the math, even when it is ju…

The "apps" that appear in the menu bar are called Menu Bar Extras. They are supposed to be an optional UI to provide quick access to functions of regular applications that are not …

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The old Unsuck-it page comes pretty close. I’m not a huge fan of the newer page though. https://www.unsuck-it.com/classics

I thought for a moment I was missing something here. I always just use winget for this sort of thing as well. It may kickoff a bunch of things, but it’s pretty low effort and relia…

Check out the scheduler documentation that Apple has in the xnu repo. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/main/doc...

The product I make deals with passwords. We’ve had several bugs over the years that came down to Unicode usernames and passwords containing unexpected characters. Solving them was …

This also reminds me of the situation with my TV antenna. I made an antenna years ago and put it in my attic. Using the old antennaweb service I aligned it with the stations we car…

Back when I had cable internet we had a bizarre problem where the service would often stop working if it was very cold and raining. It had to be that specific combo as well. - Just…

I’m a big fan of their Raw Power app as well that predated Nitro.

Indeed. The home page of the wiki says as much. “Cadova builds on the ideas of OpenSCAD, but replaces its limited language with the power and elegance of Swift. It’s inspired by Sw…

Is this using the new RDMA over Thunderbolt support form macOS 26.2?

I just tried to check the Xbox services status page and it never even loaded.

The more that we find out about Bell Labs the more we all realize how much of our world they built. We really could use a place like that today.

I was surprised at the Photo Booth usage as well. I would have just recorded it with the QuickTime Player as if it were an iOS device.

Why not? Shared USB and a paravirtualized GPU have been on macOS VMs for years now.

The most common ones are for QA testing and CI pipelines.

For a lot of people the benefits show up because they have more devices sharing that connection. Before our kids moved to school we had 5 people on our home connection. Each with m…

Are most of the images on that page missing or is it just me?

Is something supposed to happen when I call a number on the phone? If the number picks up I just have silence until I hang up. Also I made the mistake of resetting the phone in an …

While that was a problem, the larger one was that the cars were too fast for the tires and safety equipment of the time. In a 13 month period there were three fatal accidents that …

I miss all the cool animations and loving touches like this in Apple’s iBooks.

I found out about smishing and vishing from some mandatory security training at work. It’s all just phishing to me, I don’t get the need for all the other terms.