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I enthused like a total nerd about PeakFinder (or PeakVisor) on my first date 10 years ago. She married me because my joy about mountain lore was palpable (maybe other reasons too).
I hope you yield some weddings from rock-nerds too in the future.
That depends on if you are self-employed and having Claude do your labor for you, or if you are a corporate prompt-jockey.
You need two "womps" from a trombone for it to land.
Video Killed the Radio Star.
> Having recently worked at Apple on the software side, my general experience was that it was fiefdom driven, there is no internal standardization on quality or process. Low level teams compete on ideas and careful politicking usually wins over quality or merit.
This 100% describes my experience working there in the core teams of iOS 10+ years ago.
CheckIn IS great, I use it daily since "when are you coming home" is otherwise something I'd be asked.
Infuriatingly though it appears to have zero data saving of preferences. I have to manually type my home address and select driving mode, every single time. It's like 30 taps when it could be 1. I sent them a Radar. I'm sure it will never be looked at.
Just now, I realized I can just vibecode my own version.
I straight up returned my iPhone 18 Pro Max last week. This was infuriating. I was having the baseband lock up and drop to SOS Mode on Verizon, so I got an AT&T eSIM (spent money). Same issue, full loss of connectivity 5 times a day requiring a reboot. So I got a T-Mobile eSIM (spent money). Same issue, full loss of connectivity 5 times a day requiring a reboot.
Then I read online that ONLY the Pro Max uses a Qualcomm modem and the Pro uses Apple C2. My wife's iPhone Air with C2 has great connectivity, better than my 17 Pro Max did before I swapped it for 18.
So I returned the Pro Max, got a Pro, am on T-Mobile full time and my signal strength is good now in buildings that I had 0 or 1 bar before, for years.
Fuck Qualcomm.
It was a 100 level O-Chem lesson for me: We had the physical ball-and-stick models.
I don't think you should infer the radius of the star from the blacked out region. I think they just do that because the luminosity of the star is so intense it would blow away the sensitivity needed to see the planets. So they set everything to zero for a certain zone on the lens/sensor. It's not the physical surface of the star.
Maybe that's when he read about Coruscant, picking up Heir to the Empire in there.
Thank you. If this whole thing isn't fun, it isn't worth doing.
I hate that this is actually perfectly listenable as background coding music I don't focus on.
If your smartwatch's Lithium Ion Battery Pack doesn't explode and amputate your arm in the sauna, it's not hot enough ;)
An employee who doesn't draw a salary is called something else.
If you had done this on a Mac, it would have worked just fine. The failure in your chain is iOS Calendar not being an intent handler for ICS files.
Another way you could have solved it would be to have the Google Workspace connection set up in the backend for Claude and it would write the parsed events to your account directly. Then in iOS you could move the events to the iCloud Family Calendar.
Or again, if you did this on a Real Computer, you could bulk-move them.
In this spirit, I prefer to not read any online news, or daily newspaper, but the weekly Economist in print. It has higher quality writing than all the rest, has a built in capacitor buffer against high frequency low signal bullshit (noise) by virtue of being weekly, and contains all the information about the world that mattered in that time period. Zero engagement bait because it's an expensive subscription.
Well, they are just a manifold, so it's fair for them to view every conceptual thing in geometry.
In case you didn't know, The Register has been deliberately using this kind of language about ALL topics for nearly 30 years. It's part of their appeal and brand, like The Onion. People choose to read The Register because they have this adversarial stance and humorous tone about tech.
I trust a lifelong dedicated Ancient Greek Papyrologist to do a better job here than ChatGPT.
Apple has been doing this since before they were an enormous company. When the iPod Nano was in the works, they bought like 3 years supply outright, to block their competitors.
Pre-iPhone and during the mechanical-disk iPod era, they were a very small and vulnerable entity.
I really enjoy the spirit that moved you to write this comment. I want my AI Agents to adopt this attitude.
PEDANT ALERT:
This is clearly 16 bit.
Devils Advocate:
Switching from ASM to C for videogames defined the 16 bit and 32 bit eras.
Switching to C++ defined the (roughly) Xbox and PS2, PS3 eras.
The broad public did catch on. They just know there is some invisible force out there named The Algorithm that acts like some fickle god they must appease in order to do well on the internet. Nobody can explain The Algorithm to you, because it isn't like what we learn in school or write in C, it's weights.
No, just different. It's not like he had a goatee.
I suspect the specific versions you call out were in that time period for a reason.
Snow Leopard was the first to integrate iOS's CoreAnimation framework. Nearly all animations now are based on that. Before, the CPU manually updated the sizes and positions of things, frame by frame, in a loop. This is how you'd program a Game Engine.
After, with CA, state-change property models are sent to a different process entirely which does its own interpolation to animate the UI at a higher thread-priority than any other process in the operating system. This is fantastic if maintaining 60+ FPS at all times, even on an iPhone 1 or 3G with less power than you'd have in today's AirPod chips, was a central requirement. (And it was, the first iPhones dominated their competitors in terms of input latency and framerate)
But programming CoreAnimation is much more complicated and easy to make mistakes in if you want "every frame perfect". Trust me, I made a lot of the animations that shipped in iOS 7 (the Calendar app is full of them, OS level transitions for the core chome elements of iOS). It took nearly a year of meticulousness to get things looking ok. In the years since I left the company, I've noticed these transitions get more and more janky and buggy and full of artifacts. Clearly, whoever replaced me doesn't have the same eye and sense of craft. Oh well.
Time is entropy unfolding as things with nonzero temperature do what they do.
Psychological time is your own weights being updated in response to stimuli and internal processing.
When there isn't anything interesting happening, no updates are needed, and you don't perceive much time. That's why there's a logarithmic effect on the "density" of time as you age.
Buddy, this tone may be why.
We genuinely don't understand what your post is about. What is this tool? What are these numbers representative? Why are things sorted in that order?
You haven't communicated really anything at all. I am interested, I'd like to understand. Write a more complete post, please.