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OK the line from his mom equating the bends with diarrhea really made me chuckle. Sounded like something my mom would have said.

They used non-square pixels and none of the demos have been stretched appropriately.

“Folks, we built a road along this really tall mountain and are letting you drive on it, but there are no guard rails yet. And we’re not sure how to build them exactly. But 1,000 people can go first. Step right up!”

Seems to be trying to explain why the rollout is going to be very focused and rather small at first so they can build the proper safeguards.

But it is a surprising read, you're absolutely right.

I'm really nostalgic for the era of Apple computing and overall product design shown in the photos.

Why is this written in such a way to only target cancer patients?

This is likely going to look really cool and feel even better on iOS and iPadOS. The phones haven't changed visually (hardware or software) a ton in a decade because, frankly, they are a really mature and solid product. There's a reason not many iPhone 15 users upgraded to 16. With Liquid Glass, for once in a long while iPhone users will look down and instantly see drastic change. Remember iOS 7? That took a long time to iron out all the "oof!" as well. But it slowly did improve.

On MacOS, though, I really do worry it's going to take several iterations before things make a lot of sense. God forbid this new UI layer hurts performance, too, on these exceptionally fast machines.

Good news is things are still in beta. Some ideas can always be walked back.

And you fire in the color!

As a kid I enjoyed his mentor, too: Bill Alexander.

Yes, indeed. Likely a parallel-port version unless that machine has a SCSI card.

I wish when I uploaded a photo for analysis, and the app identifies my bird, that I could keep MY photo and not the generic one in their database. It's great at building a checklist, but not so much for making it feel like my own.

The A500 came with a Kickstart ROM. The A1K required a floppy disk. The 500 could also use a 1MB Agnus chip and one could easily update trapdoor RAM. It wasn't light-years advanced over the A1K but it was a good step in the right direction and vastly more affordable. Hence why it was the best-selling Amiga and the A1K "did OK" but didn't set any sales records. "Not a single technical improvement" is ridiculous.

Can't help being a little nitpicky, but the CDTV was an A500, not A1000. So it was 1987 tech inside a stereo box + CD player, not 1985.

But at the end of the day it really didn't matter. I remember seeing a CDTV at a store and it wasn't even in the computer section. It was in the stereo department sitting in the middle of the sales floor in just a stack of boxes. You had to know what it was all about when you saw it. The sales guys didn't know what to do with it, sadly.

This is a dupe of an earlier submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811864

Let us not forget green peas, so we don’t have to eat them.

There are also a lot of older Windows users, and users of failed platforms from the 80s and 90s, that absolutely hold deep seated anger at Apple and Steve Jobs. There were similar attitudes about Microsoft and Bill Gates in the 90s. After Gates left Microsoft a lot of that vitriol seemed to have dissipated, but some still aim it at Apple. The anger seems to usually be economically rooted, i.e. in terms of how Apple charges high prices for their hardware.

People on HN are human beings, and there are definitely Apple tribes and non-Apple tribes.

Gruber also posts more now than in recent memory political observations and commentary. As he's gotten older his blog has expanded beyond just the Apple scene.

While I've always felt DF got insta-banned by fanbois of other tribes regardless of the content of his posts (which should be discouraged here in some way imo) it's quite possible he's got folks on The Other Aisle that insta-flag him simply because they don't like his political views.

If that's what's happening, or it's due to a decades-long disagreement with his taste and views regardless of the posts being submitted, that feels like unwarranted censorship that goes against the grain of HN's guidelines.

100%. But if Gruber/Daringfireball are even shown for a split second, there's a kneejerk reaction to flag it before the flagger even often reads it. It's a shame.

> And hence some people will flag his articles reflexively or post reflexive dismissals.

Prophetic. The Flagaroons have attacked.

My goodness my eyes really must suck. Had to zoom into that article multiple times in order to read it (especially the photo captions).

> This article is so tilted towards the American market and that's fine.

The author is from the US and is relating his experience that what he saw around him at the time. Every article I read about the Amiga from someone in the UK or EU is also "tilted" based on their experiences. There was no global experience when it came to the Amiga, other than it started in the US first and died in the UK/EU. By the time the 1200 made a big splash overseas, the US was well down another path - the road that ultimately became everyone's. So there's a time-shift at play and a regional one. How that played into the PC/Mac market in their respective regions is really up to economics at the time.

>I do wish Commodore would have released the A1200 in the A600's package if they had. I probably would not have been able to buy it.

Agree about wishing AGA was way too little, way too late. I wish they'd released it no later than 1990 rather than the end of 1992. Maybe then Commodore could have kept the massive US market's interest longer than they did. The choices Commodore made, well... it's no wonder what happened, happened.

The way I think about it is if I buy a Max chip I'm getting the performance of the generation that will be released a year later now in the current form factor, and then some.

For example, I got the M1 Max when it was new. A year later the M2 came out. Spec-wise, the M1 Max was still a bit better than the M2 Pro in many regards. To me, getting a Max buys you some future proofing if you or your company can afford it (and you need that kind of performance). I use the Max with a lot of video work, and it's been fantastic.

People with the 2023 lattice Mac Pro be like... can I upgrade mine?

I think it's AWS or something similar related. Seems to be specific to some but not all locations.

He straight-up ate someone else's salad?

"But the distribution is bimodal here because the massive upside is countered by a massive downside: You need to evade detection. Will you hide in the bathroom? Pretend you ordered the same thing? Eat it at your desk? Either way, you need to be prepared."

Pro health tip: Don't eat where you perform waste removal functions.

After having just returned from Paris and visiting the Louvre, seems I should be body surfing over hordes of museum attendees all taking photos of art with their cellphones at some level.

Clicking on each piece in the museum for a close-up is brilliant.

Prepare to qualify...

It is so unnecessary and distracting. I quit reading after the first scroll as my eyes were pulled away from the text.

Title of this article is total b.s (although so was flagging this on HN).

However, the tool it mentions is pretty cool and frankly I'm surprised it even works considering Twitter shut down APIs a while back. I just tried it out and it helped me connect with over 200 folks on Bluesky that I'd been following on Twitter that I didn't know had migrated. Pretty handy... while it lasts.

The textual web is going the way of cable TV - pay to enter. And now streaming. "Alms for the poor..."

But, like on OTA TV, you can get all the shopping channels you want.