Notices by Nick Lockwood (nicklockwood@mastodon.social), page 2

@inthehands oh ha ha, you beat me to it.

@inthehands flashback to a time I worked on a codebase where we had a data type that was an array of arrays of text labels.

When dealing with the inner array it was usually referred to as "texts" (dubious but bearable), however references to the outer array were named "textss" 😭

@inthehands media/medium; index/indices; criteria/criterion (that one especially).

Alternative take: Anna and Kristoff are the leads, and actually have a fairly conventional story arc.

Elsa is the main *antagonist*, but what makes the story interesting is that instead of being painted as a cartoon villain, we get to witness both her fall from grace and ultimate redemption.

From: @polygon
https://mastodon.social/@polygon/111460581910723679

Physicists: "consider a spherical dog…"

@inthehands (the scary thing is I'm only about 75% confident that wouldn't work)

@inthehands maybe he thinks he can get elected in absentia, then make a glorious return from exile.

@inthehands I think they're suggesting that he'd "stiff them" by skipping bail, in which case he'd only lose his deposit but the bondsman would be on the hook for the whole fee.

@thomasfuchs the real spacial Finder was on MacOS Classic, where windows actually had a defined size and location on screen, which they remembered if you closed and reopened them - none of this "every window is file a browser" garbage.

Bungie: "We're bringing back Marathon, the cerebral '90s Macintosh FPS that inspired the Halo franchise…"

*crowd goes wild*

Bungie: "… as a multiplayer loot shooter"

*deafening silence*

Bungie: "for PC and consoles"

*sounds of pitchforks being sharpened*

https://www.marathonthegame.com

@frankreiff agree. I despair of the multitasking features they've added to iPad that make it so that almost any time you pick it up you make something unexpectedly pop up from a corner or something. It's so much worse for kids and non-tech folks now, while still being a million miles from a laptop replacement for any of the work I do.

@gruber @matt you can placate us pretty easily by just offering a one-off lifetime purchase option (alongside subscriptions) at a price that you've calculated to match the average subscription lifespan (probably 2-3 years).

People who are actually serious about not wanting to pay rent for software (and not just cheap-asses) will happily pay a one-off fee of $50-75 for a quality app, and even if that's only a tiny %, it gives you something you can point at to shut up the others.

@scenario @inthehands @rmondello @bayport "Don't be evil" was really code for "Don't be Microsoft", who everyone saw as the bad guy at the time Google was founded. Google was right to take a stand against Microsoft's predatory pricing, licensing and monopolizing - I just don't think they anticipated at the time that their free search engine would eventually grow into something even worse.

@inthehands @steve @shriramk someone should write a short story about a colony on Mars failing because everybody refuses to comply with water and oxygen rationing even though there's more than enough for everyone.

@steve it's funny how the rise in actual experts voicing concerns about AI are reinforcing the popular narrative that it's getting "too smart" when in fact their concerns are mostly that it's too dumb to be used for anything critical.

It is beyond disgusting to see these massive tech companies are *still* posting healthy profits shortly before firing thousands of people, possibly costing them their homes, visas, or healthcare coverage, just because it's the latest fashion trend for investors.

I don't doubt some of them were over-staffed, but that's only because the same investors decided hiring more people than you need was a good look just a few years ago.

@daniel I'm no fan of Epic but this is disappointing. The last thing Apple needs is to be emboldened further.

I remembered today that Mac Source Ports is a thing: https://macsourceports.com/

All the Mac games from my youth (and the DOS games I was envious of) packaged up as shiny native binaries for Apple Silicon ?

@kenbod it's still available to play on modern Macs: http://www.libsdl.org/projects/Maelstrom/binary.html

No, there is no sense in which Meta joining ActivityPub is a good thing.

Companies like Meta aren't going to join the Fediverse and play nice, they are going to join with the mentality of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Sure, they'll play nice until they have 90% of the entire userbase, then they'll do whatever they like.

Don't want your posts indexed for search? Tough, they'll add it. So you'll Fediblock them? Fine, now you just cut yourself off from 90% the Fediverse, not the other way around.