Hi Rod,

I know nothing about astrophotography, but while reading your article I wondered: what happens when a truck passes your house while you're taking these shots, don't the vibrations mess up with the results?

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Why couldn't they just've called it Macbook, instead of Macbook Neo?

"- yeah I have a macbook" "- what, an air?" "- no a macbook" "- ..?" "- the one in colors, not the one-port 12 inch one from 2015 but you know it just released!"

This already happened in 2015, they probably don't want for it to happen again.

To stop comparison to the old 12” 1 port MacBook?

If you were to align the MacBook line with iPhone line logically this would be an ‘e’ class device, the Air would just become the MacBook, pro remains pro, and there would be a nice gap for a new ultra light MacBook Air, a modern Apple silicon version of the 12” MacBook - expensive, small and fast, analogous to iPhone Air.

Also new names are fun. This name is a fun name. Nice to see some playfulness from Apple.

It might be helpful to have a modifier on all the models. It's a bit awkward (not that the naming geniuses at Apple have ever cared about how awkward it's to talk about their products, witness "Apple Watch Edition" and Max Macs) to talk about iPads, because one of them lacks a modifier. "Which iPad" "The iPad iPad", etc.

Because it's the new Macbook.

So in a couple of years we will have de MacBook Neo Neo?

I think they got just cheaper marketing since jobs died. No focus or brand protection.

Especially with things like: will my pencil work with this iPad.

Was about to comment the same. It's a common mistake/gotcha.

Possibly dumb question, but does that still hold inside p5js?

p5 is just a wrapper that adds the setup() and draw() functions, so yes

Then just use a small cup to scoop out some screws.

He needs 6 screws at a time, and the goal is to save time compared to counting manually. I'd guess that 7 would probably be fine occasionally -- maybe even 8 from time to time if the process is fast enough. I'd further guess that 9 screws is a non-starter (screws are inexpensive, but 9 represents 50% waste, which is quite a lot).

The lower limit is hard-set at 6 because the kits that he's producing and selling require exactly 6 of these screws for end-user assembly.

A small cup that would reliably scoop out at least 6 screws and no more than 7 or 8 screws sounds like a simple and elegant concept.

What does this cup look like? Is it faster to use this cup than counting by hand is? (Is it faster than the reproducible screw counter that he's already built?)

I hope you will too escape from your echo chamber.

I wonder how much of their own guidelines they violated with MacOS Tahoe.

As they should. There are fundamental differences in hardware and capability between 1992 and 2026.

The most immediate are pull-down menus at the top of the screen. They work good on a 9 inch screen, they are awful with 27 inch displays.

Another related change are modal dialog boxes. When you have a 9 inch screen you're fundamentally looking at one document in one app at a time. When you got 2 27's that's not true anymore.

I'm assuming/hoping those original guidelines would have prevented the window resizing frustration we have now, along with the other usability downgrades in the support of eyecandy. https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-...

I love the example of trying to grab the plate - it really makes the point hit home.

You don't have it "now" unless you didn't upgrade to 26.3.

But yes. The only way you can resize windows through System 7 is the resize widget. You cannot grab anywhere else and drag. They couldn't afford the extra chrome pixels, again, on a 512 x 342 screen.

It's still a "known issue" in 26.3 (Though I haven't upgraded to Tahoe at all yet so maybe the release notes are wrong? But everything I've read indicates apple said they fixed it then changed to say they didn't.) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...

There was a study which menus work better, on a screen edge or context menus that appear right under a mouse pointer. One might think that the second kind would win, because they are so close. No, the first kind was faster. Apparently the stability and the fixed location also play a role. People basically just use them almost without looking, while context menus always require a conscious choice.

Correct, my ex couldn't even be bothered to update the notification settings on her iPhone, let alone she'd be generating and deploying an app using an LLM. Most people just don't want to have anything to do with tech, they just want it to work and get out of their way.

I did the same with my car, technically I could do maintenance myself and troubleshoot and what not, but I just couldn't be arsed, so I outsource it at a premium price.

So...30% of the people at Rapidata are LLM bots?