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I have an MBP M1 Max and the only time I really feel like I need more oomph is when I'm doing live previews and/or rendering in After Effects. I find myself having to clear the cache constantly.

Other than that it cruises across all other applications. Hard to justify an upgrade purely for that one issue when everything else is so solid. But it does make the eyes wander...

I honestly forgot about Tootsie. For me she's always one of the bright stars from Young Frankenstein and Mr Mom.

You’d enjoy the Amtrak from Seattle to Vancouver along the water at sunset. You can buy a glass of wine and enjoy the majestic views.

Can we not put lines in our robots.txt files to block being crawled?

It sincerely pleases me to see the Amiga so rightfully discussed in this article. In the 1980s, Amiga was a magical computer years ahead of so many of its peers (including the PC by miles). Sadly, the video capabilities that made it so special eventually became its Achilles heel.

Amazing concept. I also really love the almost Apple Newton/Palm Pilot vibes of the UI, too.

It's like when your joystick seems to be on the fritz, yet you keep going for way too long before deciding to do something else entirely.

After reading the subtitle 100% agreed.

Geraldo Rivera would like to live-stream entering it for the very first time during prime time for all the world to see.

Anantech was the high watermark in tech journalism and the only place I'd go to look at in-depth (sometimes beyond belief) reviews of Apple hardware test results not found anywhere else on the web. Page after page after page of detailed tests and results.

Hard to imagine that type of content being lucrative from a display-ad point of view if they used traditional ad networks, but the effort was absolutely appreciated and respected by readers.

A sad day but considering how the online ad market has tried to force publishers to focus on video content an understandable one for printed-word journalists. It's awful.

:( oh? That’s a shame.

Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41329713

If you click the little icon in the upper-left corner of the UI, you can change 'skins' as well. Very cool

I bought one of these years ago when my 2015 Macbook Pro was still my primary computer, which I used until the M1 Max was released. However, the thing sat on a shelf unused. I still have DVDs and CD-ROMs in the house with what I consider to be important data/files, or movies you simply can't stream, but life always got in the way.

Last weekend, with the wife away on a trip, I pulled a DVD I'd been given last year after the death of a relative. It was filled with movie files an uncle had recorded when he'd visited during the birth of my first child 17 years ago. Since the SuperDrive is USB-A, I pulled out my old 2015 MBP (still a great machine) and popped in the disk. After a few moments I was looking at AVI clips that felt as if I had stepped through time. Seeing relatives now gone, other relatives so young - all of us were. And my daughter, just a couple days old looking like a sleeping grub worm in a blanket.

After that experience I moved everything to cloud storage and started looking for more discs. Makes me think I should get a Mac Mini and use the SuperDrive as an old-school video/audio media machine.

I wish more places were like this.

I'll be riding my bike in a designated a bike lane (which is sometimes shared with pedestrians, dogs, etc.) with clearly marked speed limit signs of 15mph. That's plenty fast in general, but even more so in busy spots. And suddenly a near-silent e-bike will go flying past me (no "On your left," by the way) at speeds close to 30mph. Happens all of the time and is bafflingly reckless and arrogant.

The way folks ride class 3 e-bikes they really should be treated as mopeds: put them on the roads like other motorized vehicles and licensed and (hopefully) forced to obey the rules of the road. Just my opinion, but they seem to break the spirit of being in the bike lane. The touristy day-cruiser eBikes like Lime bikes are fine.

I love this. Her little site really takes me back to the age of the internet I often miss.

Back in the 90s, fresh out of art school I knew I needed to create a portfolio website of some sort. I went to a Borders Books and got a book about 4 or 5 inches think about HTML and how to craft a site using a tool built into Netscape Navigator. Over the course of a week or so I created a site very similar in function to the one in the OP. The main difference was the content.

On my homepage I featured one of my drawings - a color pencil rendering of a very large/wide man in a jock strap looking at the viewer with a cunning smile. Yes, I was very mature. You had click on his belly to enter the site. This was where I learned to make an image map for the first time. When you clicked it he said, "Ooh, that tickles" and then you were in where the portfolio and navigation was presented.

It was all HTML 4, no javascript, no cookies or forms - all very basic stuff.

And that site got me my first real job in the design world (at an Adobe competitor called Micrografx, which later imploded). The rest is history! Thanks, Netscape.

Is this based in Texas? As in, was this named after Ladybird Johnson? Having lived in Texas almost half my life, and having thought of Mrs. Johnson every time the wildflowers bloom alongside the highways, I have to wonder...

What an intriguing name for a web browser.

Amazing post. Surprised and happy to see something like this here.

And yet I'm so distracted by the unnecessary fade-in content it torques my jaw.

They have a basement filled with hundreds if not thousands of computer donations stockpiled like the warehouse scene from Indiana Jones.

Also, it's "LCM" not "LHM".

You get to see Leonard Nimoy in a whole new way, too.

I think it’s safe to say Siri and Alexa are officially dead. They look like dusty storefront mannequins next to Battlestar replicants at this point.

Here we go again. Someone flagging a post they don't like without rhyme or reason. A post that the community is obviously passionate about and enjoying to share their experiences and recollections. How annoying.

By the early 90s the design and graphics-focused software for color Macintosh systems was light years better than Amiga. And the high-end video modes on Macs simply worked out of the box. If you needed a Gen-locked system for your local TV station, sure - get an Amiga. Ironically the custom chips that made the Amiga so special and a natural fit for broadcast design is also what killed its ability to use interlaced video modes that didn't make your eyes bleed or require special hardware. Most folks by then didn't want to learn how to make the Amiga "do all the same things". They wanted to go to the store, buy a computer that worked like the ones at school or work and use it. Period.

I have a Quadra 700 (same era as the Amiga 3000, which I also have) that can run circles around the 3000 with far less power or needed upgrades. For example by adding a decent video card the Q700 can output to dual monitors, each running their own resolutions and color depths - while multi-tasking. I can install triple-A CD-based software titles (like Photoshop or Illustrator or Pagemaker or MS Word) and on and on. The tools on Amiga pale in comparison even while the hardware was cool. In the 80s the Amiga was magical. By 1992 the way it seemingly just stood still was tragic.

As previously stated, high-quality print had become a "killer app" and Amiga simply didn't get the same support. And a lot of this had to do with their native video modes.

I can throw video cards and processor cards at the Amiga and make it a much more technically impressive machine. But if I want to run A+ professional software on it I basically need to run a Mac emulator.

As the video points out, the gaming market by '92 was moving on in the US. For 2D the SNES and Genesis took over. For 3D the PC arms race had begun, and there was no looking back.

I had no idea Excel was even capable of something like this. Incredible!

Man I miss Hitchens something fierce.

There is a constant drumbeat of excellent new releases for both C64 and Amiga games as well. It's... amazing.

I can't stand the randomness of how posts seem to be getting flagged more and more on HN. Seems like if a post is flagged and killed a reason should be given somewhere on the page by the flagger. Educate us on why our discussions should be off-limits, please. It would also be interesting to see if certain topics are always flagged by the same individuals and patterns emerge.

That name had been taken... https://65site.de/emulator.php

I have one of those, actually. Looks like someone put a cigarette out on my arm there.

I'm still waiting for Star Trek's hypospray. That, and the medical tricorder so I never need another needle-based biopsy procedure ever\ again.