19 years did make a difference. Download and installation completed in under 5 minutes.
What a joy — everything opens instantly — no lag whatsoever
This environment is about as fast as a Psion Organiser
We have really gone backwards. Can your current system do this as quickly? Probably not — raw performance did not matter because just the transitions would have slowed everything down — our modern systems are bloated.
The latest Word for Mac takes 8 seconds to launch — Excel for Mac takes roughly the same amount of time — you’d think that everything should launch immediately given the progress over these years!!
Now, some may say the performance boost was from running old software on old hardware so it was unfair.
But look, do you remember? Old software on old hardware. A better world was possible.
OLE you say? Was it invented by Microsoft? 😏
Will show this next time
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What a novel way to troll your friends and enemies! Seriously, Shortcuts have been enhanced greatly in iOS 14 and this is going to be great.
This is even better as you can create a shortcut to open an app when exiting the same app. Infinite loop alive and well. Lock/unlock immune. Apple please don’t fix. 😈
The dot-com bust happened because there was usually no viable business model and speculators were bidding based on future expectations (delusions). But ultimately it was the central bank which deflated the bubble. We are now dealing with survivors of the bubble.
This is not to say that another crash can’t happen (in fact, recent conditions have created an excellent exit opportunity), but rather that there is no further capacity remaining in the system to deal with the potential fallout of such abrupt deflation.
It is more likely in my opinion that the central banks will attempt to keep the whole charade going as long as they are able. In other words, they are going down with the boat.
Can’t fathom why they moved the power cable and removed ability to adjust GPU height at will. The 2020 version looks like a big fat compromise. Won’t be ordering.
Zoom Thoughts 1/n: Yes there are institutional bans and individuals might drop it for Facebook Messenger, Houseparty, or plain old FaceTime. But small businesses made America what it is today. If we come out the other end it will be due to these small businesses.
2/n: Take a good look at what sorts of additives, artificial sweeteners and other unholy ingredients your packaged foods contain. The small print that permeates every corner of society. Then think again about whether average folks give two craps about security.
3/n: I am convinced there are deeper security issues that are architectural. The offshore guys, who are underpaid, could be coerced to insert backdoors. The risk profile will be forever unacceptable to larger companies, but SMEs do not give a toss.
Porting Life observer to ex_curses for an expected flicker free experience.
Update: Having issues with windows 30 rows or higher not refreshing and rendering properly, but only when IEx is using the same TTY.
👌 — Switched to ratatouille + ex_termbox and the solution looks smooth so far (in iTerm 2; there are still some smoothness issues in Apple’s Terminal). Will update some videos later.