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New comment by mrkpdl in "Hokusai and Tesselations"

mrkpdl — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:54:56 +0000

You can download a full resolution pdf of the book at the original posts’s link, which is much better quality than the one on Wikimedia.

I used safari’s built in translate feature to translate the page from Japanese to English, scroll down for download options.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Apple's New CEO Has a Background in VR, but Is Reportedly Bearish on Vision Pro"

mrkpdl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:30:47 +0000

I’ve always doubted this take, if you look at the history of Apple software design you will see that they regularly pull visual ideas across from one platform to another just because they’re fond of them at the time. I think that this is like that, they decided it was time for a refresh.

New comment by mrkpdl in "ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce"

mrkpdl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:20:07 +0000

What a shame, I use a remarkable pro at work for all of my note taking and to help organise my days/weeks. I’m really fond of it, because of its minimal functionality. I think spatially and it’s just the right feature set to organise my thoughts.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

mrkpdl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:14:12 +0000

It was a different time. Less nerdy people already had phones and iPods. And were already keen for better versions of those things. The Internet communicator part was more abstract, it wasn’t clear to a non-technical person why they would even want such a thing. The iphone showed them why by first putting a better phone and iPod in their hands…

New comment by mrkpdl in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

mrkpdl — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:05:18 +0000

I use it on an ultrawide at work, never really noticed it.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

mrkpdl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:10:10 +0000

But… why would I put the effort into getting an llm to make me an app when a there’s an existing app that I don’t have to maintain? I don’t want to have to make every app I use?

New comment by mrkpdl in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

mrkpdl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:38:58 +0000

I use spaces constantly, and I’ve never thought about the animation - I don’t think I’d ever noticed it to be honest. So it’s really interesting to read all the comments here about how frustrated people are with it. This is not a defence of it just genuine interest - I bet there are totally different parts of the OS that bother me that don’t bother others also.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

mrkpdl — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:35:16 +0000

For me, I use spaces constantly to help me organise/compartmentalise what I’m doing. It lets you group related windows, where command tab only brings you one window at a time.

One example would be if I’m working on a document that draws on others I have written. Put all three in a space and that piece of work is nicely organised.

When I have all my windows in one space I find it messy and stressful and it’s harder to find what I want.

Overall spaces are more compatible with the way I think than command tab.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

mrkpdl — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:30:21 +0000

The 2019 Mac Pro’s main purpose was to provide much needed reassurance that Apple cared about the Mac. In prior years the quality of the Macs had fallen over all product lines. And the question of does Apple care about the Mac at all was a legitimate one.

This Mac Pro was about resetting and giving a clear signal that Apple was willing to invest in the Mac far more than it was about ‘slots’.

Today, Mac hardware is the best it has ever been, and no one is reasonably questioning apple’s commitment to a Mac hardware.

So it makes sense for the Mac Pro to make a graceful exit.

New comment by mrkpdl in "50 Years of Thinking Different"

mrkpdl — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:24:11 +0000

I really hope they do something bigger than this to mark the occasion. I know that culturally they don’t like to look backwards. But there is a lot to look back on and this is the time to do it. 50 years of Apple is 50 years of personal computing after all…

New comment by mrkpdl in "Nobody finishes reading my books"

mrkpdl — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:57:20 +0000

Fantastic article, I particularly liked the fist 15 percent of it.

New comment by mrkpdl in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

mrkpdl — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:24:52 +0000

I’d say it says more about the flexibility of the Mac as a general purpose computing platform. It’s a sign of the health of the platform.

New comment by mrkpdl in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

mrkpdl — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:10:57 +0000

Great info!

New comment by mrkpdl in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

mrkpdl — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:06:18 +0000

Add to this that the Apple IIe had two keys with the Apple logo on them. One just an outline ‘open Apple’ and one a silhouette ‘closed Apple’. These two keys did different things to each other!

New comment by mrkpdl in "MacBook Neo"

mrkpdl — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:17:10 +0000

Just to clarify, my point was that the construction usage is not niche.

But anyway if you continue along your path of reasoning and discount all use cases one by one you end up with no product at all… or maybe a photo/video player and messaging device. But as proven by the construction and many other use cases the iPad is more than that.

New comment by mrkpdl in "Uber CEO on culture: expects weekend email replies, will push out non-performers"

mrkpdl — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:47:53 +0000

What a loser

New comment by mrkpdl in "MacBook Neo"

mrkpdl — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:02:50 +0000

Construction and illustration are hardly niche industries

New comment by mrkpdl in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

mrkpdl — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:52:36 +0000

That sounds like the existing Magic Keyboard for the current iPad airs and pros, can you explain the difference a bit more?

New comment by mrkpdl in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"

mrkpdl — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:40:10 +0000

Agreed, I used and loved both.

Blender iPad App Development Halted as Android Tablets Get Priority

mrkpdl — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:35:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/27/blender-ipad-pro-app-development-halted/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202686

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