Well I only use alphanumeric US keyboard standards ever since I found out, that certain characters unique to a language different from yours causes you lock out or massive headaches on a used keyboard with almost no print ink left on the keyboard in a Internet cafe in an other country around 2002.
Be aware of characters not passwords. I feel bad for the guy but not really blame Apple here.
English is my second language and ANSI etc is following a basic character usage. Everything must boil down to 0 and 1 in the end or American English.
It is a de facto standard and maybe knowing about it is as crucial as recognizing the difference between the imperial and metric system before heading for the moon. It is a life saver.
I agree with the recommendation, but it's absurd to not blame Apple here. There is absolutely nothing acceptable about what Apple did in this case, it's a major fuck-up to break password input in this way, and for no reason whatsoever.
Wonderful gift, even though I gave it a pass and saved on the sound card.
Mine was the 486 DX 2/66.
The trouble with the 486 SX 25 was IMO that a fast 386 easily beat it. I was part of the demo scene back then and wanted to compete with the likes of Dust, Future Crew.
And: Doom! It could be displayed and run in 800x600 if I remember correctly on a DX 2/66.
I side with you but on the other hand: this is how it works to get attention by those who aren't affiliated with computer science and AI.
I am totally annoyed as well and put any buzzwords in my personal bs filter. Java was revolutionary, the Apple I etc. ;)
On the other hand I see progress! AI enriched press releases balance buzzwords and information way better than marketing of large companies did before AI.
I remember throwing away an instruction for an electronic toothbrush away because - I won't mention the name but have a look at the upper tier - instead of putting something like "Turn toothbrush on, choose mode by pressing..." it read "Take your super awesome premium masterpiece using patented technology for the first time in human life now available to you by us. Move your finger over to the innovative sensory surface, that uses material from rocket scientists and world leading designers".
No joke. These were text blocks and repeated - 30 pages for one compact one.
The toothbrush is top notch, except for the instructions.
Who would have guessed that afortable prices for an Apple product would create a blockbuster if it actually delivers better quality than the rest of the market that utilizes Windows etc.?
I believe that Apple targets Google, not Windows. It is Android and the Chrome Book Apple is taking on, not Windows machines.
I feel sorry about the Neo. To me Tim Cook is the one that evolved Apple into a luxury brand. The pricing doesn't really appeal to device power, but luxury tiers.
I only buy Apple because I use them for work and can write them off. I bet Apple factored this into their strategy.
And of course with the the lastest UI update, let's not talk about quality.
I hope that the Neo doesn't evolve into Apple's black sheep, but makes them reconsidering their pricing. I have a very bad feeling, that the Neo may paradoxically cause a price hike, in order to keep its image as luxury brand.
Why?
Because we already had the low cost line called SE, that now is called "e".
So Apple might introduce a new line with an iPhone Neo, iPad Neo and so on.
I am curious whether the Neo actually is bought as a second device or first time device. I hope for the later.
And to make it clear: I dislike Apple's pricing. Did I mention the subscription on top...?
Since the Monkeys we all know, there won't be another Elvis Presley - I advise you to look him up, it is massively impressive, what this guy achieved and what records he holds.
Or put another way: what is music? What ain't artificial in music? Is a drum already artificial? Or an e guitar? Playback? Studio music?
The divide between a band and a song writer?
People trashed techno music in Germany during the early 90th as being "machine music without a soul, totally artificial, a computer is doing everything". Kraftwerk on the other hand, was quite the opposite. It is mind blowing, that they had to construct the hardware they were getting their sound of.
But no matter what, techno of the 90th appear to be true craftsmanship in comparison to todays music. Like the 30th Big Bands vs 60th Rock music. I don't imply to say "Everything used to be better." Nothing could be further from the truth. The thing is, some things actually never change except for the medium.
I stopped caring. We are all victim and perpetrator at the same time. You use AI - oh well, cheater I would say.
Women painting their faces - well...
Ever since people went un-natural to be civilized to paraphrase Karl Popper.
I made a cut off regarding literature. I mainly read the classics where no AI was available - but only an editor.
It is tougher than ever but I stopped being judgmental. I try to do, what is expressed with "The bait must appeal to the fish, not the angler." Mundus vult decipi.
We called out WWF for being scripted entertainment while going to the cinema expecting that the hero would actually really die during the first dramatic 5 minutes in the movie - oh well...
Enjoy! If it sounds good, who cares? If someones earns a buck, so what? We pay for Naked Canon etc. just to let lose. :)
Sadly, there is a rift now since quite a few hackers are left leaning and therefore are by definition activists.
80th, 90th were the last time were hacking was a means to an end. C64 and Amiga scene had skindheads showing up at copy parties but no one cared really.
Some were a bit unsure but the moment they talked about their craft there was no divide but hacker spirit.
In recent years this would be unimaginable. And guess what? Talking to each other made the skins disappear.
It was more of a niche expression without doing harm. Popper, Goths, Ted’s, Rockers - in comparison to today there was more unity than today.
Hooligans were the same. Many local groups that fought each other due to political stances befriended each other later because it was more of a ritual than ideology.
It is a bit sad because politics doesn’t belong to hacking, and never did.
Hacking is Boolean only in the sense of it either works or it doesn’t. Or does a computer care about left or right?
And BtW that’s why I find local attempts in Europe for “Go EU” pathetic. It is about ideology, not improvement.
Computers don't care whether they are used for good or for evil. I would rather have a culture that encourages using computers for good, and there is nothing sad about such culture existing. Computers are already used for evil on a much larger scale by meta, palantir, etc.
What constitutes a Wordpress Site? The 3 page hobby site or the 100th of pages of a large company?
There is a reason why Wordpress is (open source!) dominating the space ever since or more precisely, many niches.
To be honest, I had my fair share of "You might not need Wordpress" but in the end, nothing beats its versatility, its rights management and options. There is always a plugin for that.
I see no conntenter. Astro has its merits and use case - so have plenty of others (remember Hugo etc.?).
At a certain time you will hit a threshold or problems that are easy to solve using WP you usually disregard at the beginning.
I usually start out "No, WP isn't needed, just to regret it afterwards." There is a dilemma because customers only start to really utilize their website the moment it is setup. And it always went from "Just 5 pages" to "Can I add a marketplace?" to ballooning content as well as timed postings and social media integration.
I stopped questioning WP, because I really don't see alternatives in certain spaces.
Security is a concern, yes, but nevertheless, let's not talk about NodeJS in this regard.
Wordpress isn't a paradigm, it just works and while it seems to be some 20 years old odd code, quite many of the CMS in the React space struggled hard to getting to terms with the lastest paradigm shifts.
Wordpress is the reliable dude who looks boringly normal, but on the other hand never gets you into trouble.
So paraphrase IBM: No one gets fires for using WordPress.
And I would not say this about any other CMS. They are incredible hard, you have to get a lot of stuff right. But I won't implement my own CMS again. At a certain time everybody will come to this realization, most likely, when you have a deadline and miss out features that are hard to implement.
This is my opinion and I love playing and toying around with CMS ever since, even forums (phpBB?) or DIGG clones like Pligg back then. Great stuff, but I stick to WP.
Wordpress gets you into trouble all the time imo. There are better solutions out there. Every headless cms I’ve used has been much less of a headache compared to Wordpress. I wish I could share your optimism on it, but man, it’s a real pain.
Perhaps what keeps it so dominate in the space is its plugin ecosystem. You can pretty much do anything with it with off the shelf plugins, and a metric fuckton of duct tape. Headless options are way better, but you need to implement stuff yourself. Which of course is a massive barrier in many cases, but when you have the ability to do so, it’s almost always better to do so.
> Wordpress is the reliable dude who looks boringly normal, but on the other hand never gets you into trouble.
Sorry, but... what ? I could literaly start a business called "Wordpress Rescue Team" and make a living with this if I wanted to get my hands this dirty. The number of times I had to clean the mistakes users do when given an admin panel...
The dude is right and I strongly side with him however, what is missing is that I oscillate like the TV megahertz that powered the first commercial Pang games between states and this open the space for more grey in between altered states like “Ok, will fix later. Let’s put a #TODO and ship it.”
So instead of criticizing the gentleman for its dichotomy I feel like adding more states to it to complete the picture. And I mean it, this is not making fun of someone it means I tamed myself in stopping to do premature optimization knowing Gigahertz won’t care about me saving a cycle and might even hinder the masterfully crafted compilers from optimizing even more.
3. Partly awesome, partly not so much but don’t need to be awesome.
4. Myself has to understand this masterpiece of human thinking in six months and more from here and after a 20 hour stint I myself marvel at the result so better comment before committing the code into oblivion.
5. Embarrassing, but people are delighted.
6. This made headlines years ago, but some code doesn’t age well.
7. OMG, OOP might looks right, but a new paradigm rushes me into refactoring frenzy and makes the code look better without breaking any features!
8. I used tool to check for bottlenecks and it runs well, but looks crap. So what do I do?
9. Loop unrolling is still a thing or not? Do compilers have headaches just like I do? Do they really care or simply follow orders or adjust to the target platform and settings?
Memory Masters draw me to it, and I found some super normal niche Streamers showing what to do.
Juggling is some sort of meditation.
Enjoy!
reply