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JASON SNELL!!! gonna listen to this episode for sure. I love Jason.
I never use iPadOS split view, I hate stage manager (sometimes I’ll put up with it though), but I like slide over apps. I use FB Messenger & Discord all the time via slide over. I’ve been wanting iPad OS windowing for a while but I’m actually not sure how much I will use it.
I wonder if the new windowing features will finally beat my slide-over muscle memory.
I never knew Siri stemmed from DARPA. And this podcast gave me a jumping off point for that deep dive.
My dad met his sister through 23andme and they now have a really great relationship! She lives in Vancouver though, so they only see each other a few times a year but they talk all the time. I was very skeptical at first, I thought someone was trying to take my dad for a ride (this wasn’t the case)
I’m super against those types of services but basically everyone in my family did it except me so my data is all swept up in it.
When I started at college, I had been using PETs for about 3 years and had had a Commodore VIC=20 at home. On the first day, we were sat in front of PETs and told to write a program to calculate the minimum number of coins to give in change… No manuals, just a test of our knowledge of how to write code, so they could assess our current level of knowledge…
After 10 minutes, I was finished, so I went back and spent the remaining hour writing machine code, using the inverse flag, I drew a border around the screen and split it in two, with the input at the top and the output at the bottom, went from a simple inpur statement to keyboardscan and used inverse spaces again to draw the input value in large 8x8 matrix numbers and small piles of coins at the bottom, with the number of each coin being shown (E.g. 3x10p, 2x2p etc.).
The lecturer looked at my screen and said, “wow, I didn’t know you could do that with a computer!” That put my knowledge ahead of my lecturers’!
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Similar-ish story from me. We had SuperPETs in my high school. On the first night I took the textbook home, read it cover to cover, found three errors, and told the teacher the next class. He made me stand at my desk and explain the errors, and have all the other students correct their textbooks blush
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