PlunderBunny

Everyone should read the above. Cringely had so many stories where he seemed to be part of, or present to witness, significant events in the computer industry - after a while you become suspicious that one person could really do/see all these things. Like he was a 'Forrest Gump' of technology.

Didn’t Apple do something with triangulation of known WiFi hotspots in the days before the iPhone had GPS?

“If your Naomi is Klein, then it’s green…”

It’s (slightly) easier to type www than web.

I figured out that, in the early versions of Realmz for the Mac, there was an enchanted item (a helm?) that added a few points to the wearer’s stats when equipped, but when removed it took away more than it added (i.e. left you worse off). It only took a few seconds for my programmer brain to start me furiously equipping and then un-equipping it, and sure enough, when that stat went to -127, one more equip-and-unequip was sufficient to give me a +128 bonus for that stat.

I never understood how that particular bit of logic could have been coded that way - it seemed so unnatural.

Sounds like a third-party keyboard opportunity: “Just like the standard Apple keyboard but not ML”.

I’m sure I’m not the only programmer that developed a habit of resting my finger on the F5 key at a certain point in my workflow, and then had to unlearn it just because of the stupid touch-bar (Still using my 2019 Intel MBP with stupid touch-bar).

Haha - the number of times I’ve accidentally hit F1 and ended up looking at some variation of ‘page not found’ in Edge…

The only winning move is not to play.

I wonder why it has 'photomaxmix' just sitting at the end of the 11th paragraph?

In a shared source, I wonder if it would be useful to make a theme that used brighter colours for segments of code that were more ‘contentious’, I.e. had a lot of changes? I guess it doesn’t work because a lot of contentious code is re-written (deleted and re-created).

Or maybe newer code could be brighter, and older code (not touched for a long time) could fade?

Maybe you can two-finger pinch to shrink the web page to the grid view, then close the page from there?

Sure, but I can imagine the more expensive airlines worrying that the ‘optics’ of spraying your passengers down aren’t great (to be clear - I’m not objecting and I’d rather they do it). I wasn’t suggesting they retrofit to existing aircraft of the period, but rather just build it in as they design the next generation airflow system. Or do you think it would still be way too expensive even then?