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I wonder this will impact the "just walk out" booze stores at T-Mobile Park (MLB)? Those seem pretty successful.

OK I think all pasture raised cows should be given nice little wooden brooms going forward.

I've often found it's bare bone utilitarian and efficient design a breath of fresh air compared to most of what's online today. That, and their philosophy of being donation based to keep the lights on.

That egg scramble plate GIF is pure gold.

If you're not familiar, Hoffman is also a supremely talented musician as well (often inspired by and/or made on an Amiga).

His track "Eon" here is from a very famous and artistically beautiful demo. https://hoffman.bandcamp.com/album/the-cave-sessions

Didn't need the click-bait title. I would have read it regardless (and did). I wish there had been a PRG or D64 included for the non-programmers. Fun read!

"Page last updated: Nov 26, 2001."

That page even looks a tad dated for 2001!

Sure https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q75jbezh5tm2jhj2yyzsgfeo/po...

I had the honor and pleasure of meeting her in 2018 at PRGE (Portland Retro Gaming Expo). She was sitting at a signing table after being on a panel. When it got to be my turn, I asked her if I could get a photo instead of a signature. She quickly said yes and I bent down to get into the frame. She was extremely kind and always cracking jokes. What I didn't know until I got my phone back and later looked closely was that she'd given me rabbit ears in the picture.

RIP, Becky.

Would be cool to decouple Apple Watches from iPhones, too.

I very much relate to the author's sour mood and frustration. I also host a small hobby forum and have experienced the same attacks constantly, and it has gotten especially bad the last couple of years with the rise of AI.

In the early days I put Google Analytics on the site so I could observe traffic trends. Then, we were all forced to start adding certificates to our sites to keep them "safe".

While I think we're all doomed to continue that annual practice or get blocked by browsers, I have often considered removing Google Analytics. Ever since their redesign it is essentially unusable for me now. What benefit does it bring if I can't understand the product anymore?

Last year, in a fit of desperation, I added Cloudflare. This has a brute force "under attack" mode that seems to stop all bots from accessing the site. It puts up a silly "hang on a second, are you human" page before the site loads, but it does seem to work. It is great UX? No, but at least the site isn't getting hammered by various locations in Asia. Cloudflare also let me block entire countries, although that seems to be easily fooled.

I also don't think a lot of the bots/AI crawlers honor the rules set in the robots.txt. It's all an honor system anyway, and they are completely lacking in it.

There need to be some hard and fast rules put in place, somehow, to stop the madness.

My god, for that price...

Imagine the cost if it was a pair of pants! Apple pants™

Works for me. 26.0.1 (25A362)

The fix is to disable Glass. In a terminal: defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES

This gets rid of the slow animations, inconsistent window cornering, and other annoyances.

Then (so menus aren't transparent and unreadable): System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Reduce Transparency

If you do those two things your machine should look and feel normal again. I've been running an M1 Max since 2021 and Tahoe was simply a disaster. Removing the glass layer made everything feel good again.

If for some reason you ever want the bad performance and glass back, you change the YES to NO in the Terminal command. Maybe someday it won't suck.

I almost knee-jerk downvoted you as a baseball fan when I read "has lost all passion" but then I immediately stopped when I read, "Go A's."

As a Cubs fan, I still read that and thought, "So say we all."

OK the line from his mom equating the bends with diarrhea really made me chuckle. Sounded like something my mom would have said.

They used non-square pixels and none of the demos have been stretched appropriately.

“Folks, we built a road along this really tall mountain and are letting you drive on it, but there are no guard rails yet. And we’re not sure how to build them exactly. But 1,000 people can go first. Step right up!”

Seems to be trying to explain why the rollout is going to be very focused and rather small at first so they can build the proper safeguards.

But it is a surprising read, you're absolutely right.

I'm really nostalgic for the era of Apple computing and overall product design shown in the photos.

Why is this written in such a way to only target cancer patients?

This is likely going to look really cool and feel even better on iOS and iPadOS. The phones haven't changed visually (hardware or software) a ton in a decade because, frankly, they are a really mature and solid product. There's a reason not many iPhone 15 users upgraded to 16. With Liquid Glass, for once in a long while iPhone users will look down and instantly see drastic change. Remember iOS 7? That took a long time to iron out all the "oof!" as well. But it slowly did improve.

On MacOS, though, I really do worry it's going to take several iterations before things make a lot of sense. God forbid this new UI layer hurts performance, too, on these exceptionally fast machines.

Good news is things are still in beta. Some ideas can always be walked back.

And you fire in the color!

As a kid I enjoyed his mentor, too: Bill Alexander.

Yes, indeed. Likely a parallel-port version unless that machine has a SCSI card.

I wish when I uploaded a photo for analysis, and the app identifies my bird, that I could keep MY photo and not the generic one in their database. It's great at building a checklist, but not so much for making it feel like my own.

The A500 came with a Kickstart ROM. The A1K required a floppy disk. The 500 could also use a 1MB Agnus chip and one could easily update trapdoor RAM. It wasn't light-years advanced over the A1K but it was a good step in the right direction and vastly more affordable. Hence why it was the best-selling Amiga and the A1K "did OK" but didn't set any sales records. "Not a single technical improvement" is ridiculous.

Can't help being a little nitpicky, but the CDTV was an A500, not A1000. So it was 1987 tech inside a stereo box + CD player, not 1985.

But at the end of the day it really didn't matter. I remember seeing a CDTV at a store and it wasn't even in the computer section. It was in the stereo department sitting in the middle of the sales floor in just a stack of boxes. You had to know what it was all about when you saw it. The sales guys didn't know what to do with it, sadly.

This is a dupe of an earlier submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811864

Let us not forget green peas, so we don’t have to eat them.