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Literally everything is political at some level and always has been.

Never understood why Eno was known first and foremost as an ambient musician. His first four “rock” albums are as good a quartet as any 20th century artist released.

Feeling bad that you’re not using your time to the max is one of the worst ways to use your time.

I've just learned that the would be de facto successor to HyperCard, SuperCard, is still being maintained/updated https://supercard.us

macOS and iOS for one are far more consistent and un-busy than they were from 2000—2014 or so. Apple had poor visual design discipline and deployed multiple styles across their apps and OS, many of them garish and cluttered. Also, you replied to a post yearning for skeuomorphic icons and bemoaning the clean shapes of today, which contradicts your point 2.

Not all of us have held onto our childlike wonder and imagination, so it's nice to have graphics I must admit.

Anyone remember Underware? https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/underware

How does this compare to Tumult Hype? https://tumult.com/hype/

Everyone's stock did that during the pandemic.

Is Blender substantially different/better than, say, Cinema 4D? Or are people more excited about it because it's free/open source?

Agreed, it is as fascinating as it is ineffable. Glad to see someone else finds it interesting.

Yeah, completely bizarre conclusion with no substantiation. What is the agenda there?

Datedness of that speculation aside, was dialing numbers without looking at the keypad something people did a lot? Busy Wall Street types maybe?

"The SS guards demanded the tape be destroyed, but YLE was allowed to keep the tape in a sealed container with the promise that it never be opened again"

How odd and weirdly naive.

Tags vs. Hierarchy are like the WFH vs. Office debate: something people assume has a right answer but is actually personal preference.

As a 7 year old I loved watching the Apple commercials that came on the Apple Multimedia Starter Kit CD-ROM. I still think this is the greatest commercial ever made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1hSU_qz5Es

I read in the book 1493 that the Irish were basically the healthiest Europeans post-potato and pre-famine because potatoes+milk is as nutritionally complete a diet as you could find.

3D modeling with a GUI on 128k of RAM (or maybe it required 512k). People were undaunted by computational restraints!

Why is Microsoft so bad at software for microcomputers? They are truly a testament to the power of compatibility and enterprise sales.

Remember that Google demo of the AI voice making reservations? That was dumb, but what wouldn't be dumb is the same thing but for cancelling subscriptions.

I never considered that there might be a specific origin of the expression, “if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.”

I don't know the technical details of why it wasn't viable, and wouldn't understand them if I did, but every time I see something about A/UX, I say "Apple, you spent a decade trying to come up with a modern successor to System 6/7, and nearly died doing so, and all along you had this in the labs—and shipping?!"

And it only ever meant "floppy disk."

The floppy disk icon never took off in the Apple ecosystem, so every time I see it in Windows world it seems like a bizarre anachronism. Which it is. Emblematic really of Apple’s ethos of plunging forward and Wintel’s backwards compatibility at all costs approach.

I’m always confused when people focus on Apple when it comes to waste. Aside from Apple’s best in class environmental practices, are people aware of the mind bogglingly large amount of crap that gets produced and disposed of every second of every day? Plastic bottles alone.

Does it really need to sit in my menubar?

Me neither. I might say "design sprint" to refer to the same thing.

How do I get some monero? I've only ever bought crypto with the consumer-level apps and know nothing about mining. (Original article isn't loading, in case it has any info in there)

I prefer the question, “why can’t light go faster?”