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New comment by bobthedino in "Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities"

bobthedino — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:48:36 +0000

Other operating systems… including what was running on the Mac in 1984?

UK tech industry pushing up salaries – but UI devs out of luck (May 2023)

bobthedino — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:54:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/31/uk_tech_roles_sees_sustained/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37088151

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New comment by bobthedino in "Looped Square Or ⌘"

bobthedino — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 08:40:21 +0000

In the UK, Mac keyboards generally seem to have "command" written on the key in addition to "⌘".

New comment by bobthedino in "Casio F91 smart watch reboot"

bobthedino — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:14:10 +0000

Yes, in fact Casio uses MIP displays in some of its recent watches, e.g. this Bluetooth connected watch has a 2 year battery life: https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/gshock/product.GBD-200-1/

New comment by bobthedino in "New language features since Java 8 to 17"

bobthedino — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 18:10:06 +0000

I also recently found this site, which for example can show you an API diff between Java 8 and 17: https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/17/apidiff/8/

New comment by bobthedino in "OpenAI Codex"

bobthedino — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 09:22:37 +0000

Well, to be fair none of the things mentioned are specific to operating systems programming. I think that not understanding the things mentioned is one of the reasons software runs so slowly these days even on computers than are orders of magnitude more powerful than just twenty years ago.

New comment by bobthedino in "SIMD for C++ Developers [pdf]"

bobthedino — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:11:58 +0000

SIMD support is also currently in development for Java: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338

New comment by bobthedino in "A chain cuts through a capsized cargo ship filled with cars"

bobthedino — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:53:39 +0000

"My god, it's full of cars!"

New comment by bobthedino in "Mac keyboard shortcuts"

bobthedino — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 12:26:42 +0000

But on Unix and Linux pressing Ctrl-C in a terminal will send SIGINT (unless special measures are taken by your terminal emulator).

I think this another benefit of the Mac using Command-C for copy: when the UNIX-based Mac OS X was introduced you could copy from termainl windows without accidentally stopping the running program!

New comment by bobthedino in "Mac keyboard shortcuts"

bobthedino — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 12:05:16 +0000

Further to other comments, looking here it seems that C, X, V for Copy, Cut, Paste were first used by Apple in the Lisa in 1983 and then later adopted by Microsoft for Windows:

"The IBM Common User Access (CUA) standard also uses combinations of the Insert, Del, Shift and Control keys. Early versions of Windows used the IBM standard. Microsoft later also adopted the Apple key combinations with the introduction of Windows, using the control key as modifier key. For users migrating to Windows from MS-DOS this was a big change as MS-DOS users used the "copy" and "move" commands."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste#Populariz...

New comment by bobthedino in "Mac keyboard shortcuts"

bobthedino — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:01:28 +0000

Hard to see Apple changing this, since the Mac has been using the Command key for shortcuts since 1984. You could even argue that the "standard" you mention of using the Control key actually came along after the Mac!

New comment by bobthedino in "Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?"

bobthedino — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 09:13:24 +0000

I also have floaters, which are visible against a white background regardless of screen brightness, and so I also prefer dark modes for that reason.

New comment by bobthedino in "A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild"

bobthedino — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 08:55:39 +0000

A step in the right direction: Apple recently announced that next year security researchers will have access to special iPhones: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20756629/apple-iphone-secu...

New comment by bobthedino in "HyperCard Stack: Douglas Adams' Megapode Nest Volume Calculator (1991)"

bobthedino — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 15:33:42 +0000

Am not sure that doing too much of either of those two things is possible...!

New comment by bobthedino in "My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8"

bobthedino — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:56:35 +0000

Fair enough!

New comment by bobthedino in "My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answering 8.8.8.8"

bobthedino — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:38:34 +0000

Not sure what you meant by "1337 hacker skills" (sounds sarcastic to me) but the guy in question helped create the Domain Name System!

New comment by bobthedino in "Firefox 64 Released"

bobthedino — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:01:26 +0000

I've found the "h264ify" extension to be helpful with YouTube: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify-firefox

New comment by bobthedino in "British Airways: Suspect code that hacked fliers ‘found’"

bobthedino — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:39:02 +0000

Although this comment in RisqIQ's report (https://www.riskiq.com/blog/labs/magecart-british-airways-br...) is even worse - it suggests that LetsEncrypt certs are less "legitimate" than paid ones: "Interestingly, they decided to go with a paid certificate from Comodo instead of a free LetsEncrypt certificate, likely to make it appear like a legitimate server"

New comment by bobthedino in "Firefox about:config privacy settings"

bobthedino — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:00:58 +0000

Am pleased to discover the "network.IDN_show_punycode" option and wonder why it doesn't default to true, given the way other browsers seem to handle this.

New comment by bobthedino in "Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops"

bobthedino — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:41:57 +0000

I think it's amusing to remember that ARM started off in fancy 32-bit high-performance desktop machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes