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Lex Friedman[0][1][2] (with an “E”) would probably prefer not being confused with Lex Fridman[3][4][5] (without an “E”), the host of the interview linked above.

The More You Know...

[0] <https://lexfriedman.com/> [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Friedman> [2] <https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfriedman>

[3] <https://lexfridman.com/> [4] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Fridman> [5] <https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman>

I remember spending a day in fourth grade during Maryland history reproducing the flag on construction paper. (Admittedly that was many years ago; my children apparently didn’t get this exercise.) The Crossland parts are pretty easy; the Calvert parts are a little harder. The tricky parts are getting the number of pales correct, and coloring in all the countercharges correctly (i.e. where the red goes vs. white, and where the black goes vs. yellow).

It looks like the occasion is the 30th anniversary of Bare Bones Software (the company): <https://www.barebones.com/company/>. Perhaps the original submitter mistakenly interpreted the "30th Anniversary special pricing” text as applying to the BBEdit program itself.

I believe it is Bare Bones Software (the company) that is having its 30th anniversary this month <https://www.barebones.com/company/>, rather than BBEdit (the program).

As of just now, that link redirects to the "Apple Music Classical" press release page.

Re the Dock: it may not be easily discoverable, but you can resize the Dock by hovering over a vertical bar between icon groups, then dragging up and down. Hold down the Option key to snap to (what I presume is one of a number of) unscaled icon sizes.

One of the first things I do on a new install (as well as turning on the Finder status bar) is option-clicking on the Dock and shrinking it down by one step (or maybe two on a 13" MacBook).

From the same comment thread:

> I know what you're asking yourself and the answer is YES. #Android communicates with #Google services outside an active VPN connection, even with the options "Always-on" and "Block Connections without VPN."

Not saying that makes it right, but perhaps the discussion should be not be focused on Apple specifically.

...which suggests that the notion that some designer at Apple subtly decreased the contrast on green bubbles to make them look "gross" is ridiculous -- if they really wanted to make SMS messages look bad, they could be much less subtle about it...

At the time the green/blue distinction appeared in Messages, it was widely reported that the green color for SMS messages represented the fact that most cellular plans in the US at the time charged a fee for each SMS message sent, or had a higher monthly rate for "unlimited" texts. It would seem that very few people remember the days before "unlimited data/text/minutes".

(US currency is typically associated with the color green in a way that probably doesn't apply elsewhere in the world. Also, the actual color of green on US paper currency is quite different from the green bubbles... but I digress.)

Two such companies: Feral Interactive as well.

"Ventura Highway, in the sunshine..." [0]

I may be dating myself somewhat here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventura_Highway

Since they moved macOS off version 10.x (finally), "Apple's crack marketing team" left the desert (Mojave) for the Pacific coast. Unfortunately, they didn't plan the trip carefully, so they started at Big Sur with macOS 11, went north to Monterey for macOS 12, then turned around and headed back south to Ventura for macOS 13. At least those locations are in alphabetical order -- but with Ventura they seem to have painted themselves into a corner.

So will macOS 14 be further south (Carlsbad?) or back north (Eureka?) -- stay tuned...

How about getting a MacBook Air and using your iPad Pro as a second display (using SideCar) on which you can also draw with your Apple Pencil? Possibly more flexible than a Wacom tablet.

No; if you give a shell script the .command extension (and make it executable), then you can double-click it in the Finder to open and run it in the Terminal application.

Written by the author of this article (Arika Okrent).

President Clinton was briefly given this power by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 [1], but "its effect was brief as the act was soon [in 1998] ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court".

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Item_Veto_Act_of_1996>

$49 in the US for iPhone SE (1st and 2nd gen), 6s, 7, 8; $69 for iPhone X and later:

https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/service/battery-powe...

(Straying a little off topic to provide the following hint:)

There's a setting for this in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard. My recollection is that this was previously a checkbox that toggled the "double-Fn to invoke Siri" function on and off, but as of Big Sur (at least) this is now a popup menu control, where the choices are "Change Input Source", "Show Emoji & Symbols", "Start Dictation (Press Fn Twice)", and "Do Nothing".

My test M1 machine was set up from scratch last year (i.e. no account migration) and has "Do Nothing" selected here, so I can't confirm that "Change Input Source" is the default for new users, but its position as the first item on the menu is suggestive.

> Why can’t I view two code windows side-by-side?

You can: in general, pressing option will open a new code editor (the exact behavior is configurable in Preferences > Navigation > "Optional Navigation"). For example, option-click a file in the Project Navigator to open it in the "next" editor; this will open a second editor if only one is open.

In exchange, I'd genuinely like to know how to open more than one solution at a time in Visual Studio for Mac. I know about the checkbox in the Options panel of the Open dialog, but if you don't remember to turn that off every time it closes your existing solution. Also, it's documented that holding the Control key when choosing from Recent Solutions has this effect, but that has never worked for me.

It was a deliberate design choice for Lightspeed C (the original name of THINK C) to not perform error recovery in the parser, and thus to stop compilation on the first syntax error. This made the compiler both smaller (important when running on a machine with 512K RAM) and faster (since the logic needed to implement error recovery simply didn't exist).

Early Macintosh development (before Apple's Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) was done on a Lisa running a version of the UCSD Pascal environment. It was a big deal when Lightspeed C and its competitors (in both Pascal and C) made it feasible to develop software directly on a Mac, though of course there were tradeoffs due to limitations of the early Mac hardware. (Now, with the recent release of Swift Playgrounds 4, which allows apps to be developed and submitted to the App Store on an iPad, we've come full circle...)

Apple avoids GPLv3-licensed software, which may explain why they continue to ship an older version of bash (3.2, the last GPLv2 version). Eventually they must have decided that was too outdated to keep as the default shell and switched to zsh, which has an MIT-derived license.

The initial price target for the Macintosh was $1495, but with the addition of new technology like the Sony 400K floppy disk drive, the team realized it would have to sell for a higher price like $1995.

Three months before the release, John Sculley decided to raise the price to $2495 and use the extra profits for marketing. Steve Jobs was upset at this but eventually gave in. I've often wondered how different things would have been if Steve had won that argument... probably not very, to be honest.

Source: Andy Hertzfeld <https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...>

Yes, that article is nearly four years old. Since then, Swift has evolved considerably.

Steve Troughton-Smith has tweeted recently about his work in converting all of his apps to Swift over the last year [1]. "I will remember ObjC and the times we had together fondly, but after a year of being Swift-only I prefer making apps with it" [2]. "I also wouldn’t change the timeline in which I adopted Swift ... I don’t feel I lost out on anything positive by waiting" [3].

[1] https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/14392341761636638... [2] https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/14216157982091100... [3] https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/14216193780265820...

Marco Arment has talked about using Swift in new development for Overcast, although I don't believe he's rewriting existing code. He seems more open to Swift these days than when that article was written. (Can't find a quotable source at present)

Marcel Weiher has continued working on a language now called Objective-S, which sounds like the "more Smalltalk-y" language that other commenters have wished for: "Objective-S includes an Objective-C compatible runtime model, but using a much simpler and consistent Smalltalk-based syntax." [4]

[4] http://objective.st/About

So I don't know whether you've noticed, but there's this thing that's been going around that makes some people want to keep their distance from other people, even if they might otherwise want to converse with them?

More seriously: my father, who is about to turn 94, lives 500+ miles away from me, and I haven't seen him face-to-face for a long time. It would be nice to be able to watch a baseball game "together", for instance. I hope I can talk him through setting up FaceTime...

To each their own, I guess; in case anyone else is wondering:

"keyboard shortcut": Command-Shift-period

"terminal command": defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles yes

Shouldn't your window manager just handle this for you, by moving the windows to the builtin display when the external monitor is detached, and moving them back again when it's reattached? (Like my Mac has been doing for I don't know how long?)

Sure; I don't disagree (and perhaps my previous post was less clear about this) that "personal computer" was definitely in common use, particular in advertising aimed at "regular consumers" rather than hobbyists, and well before the IBM PC.

I do disagree with the suggestion that the initialism "PC" was understood to mean "personal computer" in general before the release of the IBM PC. If that's overly pedantic, well, I'm a computer nerd; what can I say...

Also shell (edit: as noted elsewhere):

$ say "Your build is done."

As I recall, the most widely used term early on was "microcomputer", to distinguish the small home computers from the larger "minicomputers" (e.g. the DEC PDP-11 of blessed memory). The term "personal computer" was also in use, but the use of "PC" was not common until after the introduction of the IBM model 5150 (whose actual product name was the "IBM Personal Computer").

Since then, you might refer to any of a variety of machines as "personal computers", but "PCs" only meant "IBM PCs" (or later "IBM PC-compatible machines"). In other words, I would argue that the term "PC" derives specifically from the "IBM Personal Computer", and not generically from "personal computer".

Source: I was there. :-) I haven't done the research, but I bet if you did search through Byte and similar magazines of the time, you'd find plenty of supporting evidence. (I do have a memo cube from the early '80s with the slogan "Apple II -- The Personal Computer", but I suspect that was Apple Marketing trying to fight an ultimately losing battle.)

You might want to look into [Turbo Boost Switch](http://tbswitcher.rugarciap.com), which in my experience does a pretty good job of keeping the CPU cool enough that the fans stay pretty quiet, with a minor impact on performance. (It's easy to turn it on and off from the menu bar, in case you need to turn the knob up to 11 and are willing to hear the fans again.)