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Comment · 2 months ago
Looks like it supports macOS and Linux as well.
Comment · 3 months ago
It was a long time ago so I can't say for certain, but she and I both remember it being the Kendall Sq. cinema.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'd heard from my wife who worked at TMs that they did this so engineers would stop "wasting" time programming animations on those lights.
Comment · 3 months ago
My wife worked for Thinking Machines back then. I remember that they'd asked Cray to loan them a supercomputer for the film because that's the computer used in the book. Cray brushed them off, so they turned to Thinking Machines who were happy to do it.

To thank them, the producers rented a theater in Cambridge, MA to screen the film just for Thinking Machines and I was also able to attend. By far the biggest reactions from the audience that night were when the CM-5 was shown for the first time and then when the young actress says, "It's a Unix system. I know this"

Comment · 3 months ago
Speaking of Victorian... I was in a fire department museum in Boston this past weekend and learned that the fire boxes around the city with the levers that one would pull in case of fire would communicate their location to one of the city's central fire control rooms via a spring wound Morse code transmitter inside the box. When the firemen arrived they'd also communicate with the control rooms with a Morse code keyer and audio device inside the fire box. So firemen, or at least some of them on each brigade, had to know Morse code to get the job.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
I’ve had the same issues. Bifocals are definitely better, though I now have progressives for general around town or driving purposes because I was talked into them by the saleswoman. “Oh, they’re so much better now than they used to be”. Maybe, but they’re still not great. For reading, computer and other generally fixed focal length purposes I have different, single prescription glasses.
Comment · 5 months ago
Yes, exactly. Or some simple text to overlay at the top of the card, it's a very easy problem to solve as far as I can tell.
Comment · 1 year ago
> They're really, really big

I remember an interview with a basketball player while he was in Chicago for a game in which he said something like, "Chicago is so beautiful right here on the ocean"

Comment · 1 year ago
How so? Seriously asking because it works fine for me.
Comment · 1 year ago
I backed up and upgraded to Tahoe earlier today so I could fully immerse myself in the disaster of a release that is being reported here today. After a half day with Tahoe I simply cannot understand all the drama.

It's fine. Maybe a bit more of a departure UI wise and not as polished as the previous release but whatever, I don't see how this would cause anyone to throw in the towel on Apple and move to Linux. I've used both for years and would never chose to use Linux exclusively or even primarily.

Comment · 1 year ago
The only thing I can think of is that emails accumulate that that means more storage must be added at the data centres, requiring more electricity use. This seems trivial compared to AI power demands to me.
Comment · 1 year ago
Who’s screen though? Does everyone on the project code on the same size screen? What if someone has a 30” monitor and someone else wants to code on their laptop?
Comment · 1 year ago
The op was referring to the highly ungrammatical sentence, "Can we fix it back", not the possibility of fixing the tilt.
Comment · 1 year ago
To add to this, Erlang is a very simple language that you can learn in just a few days. I don't know Elixir but I assume that, as is the case with Erlang, the more difficult thing to learn is OTP and not the language itself.

For me Erlang was worth learning because it's so interestingly different to many other languages because of its Prolog roots.

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