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Monday, January 30 2023

[01:27:53] Maemo I've missed this "little" phone. In a lot of ways, there still isn't a better phone than the N900; but in many other ways...well, it's a shame there was never real successor.

Thursday, March 12 2020

Timely promotion from Hyatt
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Eligible AAdvantage® Promotion Spend”) between January 15, 2020 and March 15,
2020 (“Promotion Period”).

Thursday, February 20 2020

[01:50:36] Monal-iOS.65 Clara: I wish everything could talk.
me: That would be noisy.
Clara: …and weird.

Saturday, October 27 2018

[13:09:12] benito Apparently, Mobile Safari on the latest iOS has a completely broken datetime-local input type. It thinks all values are not valid dates once selected

Monday, March 19 2018

[17:10:18] Trip I just got a customer service satisfaction eMail from Lowes. For an item I bought in 2013.

Friday, March 9 2018

PST
[01:38:57] benito "What's Next? Your Tesla is currently in production."

I keep forgetting that California is three-days behind the east coast. Estimated end-of-line was 3/5. Promised follow-up on factory tours was 48H from approximately 18:26 EST Monday. Of course, the first ModelX was delayed more than 2y, so maybe I just need to adjust to TeslaTime.

Tuesday, March 6 2018

Tesla eMail
[15:41:05] benito X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,EXTRA_MPART_TYPE,
HTML_MESSAGE,LOTS_OF_MONEY,T_DKIM_INVALID
[22:58:08] benito I give-up generally. I'm not going to work around broken eMail systems. If you want to talk to me, don't break eMail. RFC1855 has not been obsoleted.

Friday, February 9 2018

[15:03:42] Trip Testing done: Commit to production. Nothing broke.

Thursday, February 1 2018

[12:08:31] Trip Ubuntu is returning to X.org: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/30/ubuntu_reverting_to_xorg_in_bionic_beaver/

Now we're just waiting to revert systemd.

Sunday, November 26 2017

Automated censorship is hard
[17:49:53] benito Apple Music's lyrics to Eminem's "Deja Vu" of "Relapse" has the couplet containing "gla** of wine/sound asinine".

Wednesday, November 22 2017

[13:30:23] Trip The only thing scheduled on my calendar today is "Lunch".

Tuesday, September 12 2017

[17:02:06] Trip I've been thinking of switching to an iPhone mobile device, and am watching Apple's event livestreamed, but listening to the song that played as Patrick broke out of the Island makes me ask myself if I'm making the right decision. Am I just trying to be harmonious?

Wednesday, February 15 2017

Amazon Deliveries
[03:09:21] benito Our Experience with Amazon's first-party delivery (as opposed to e.g. UPS):

Ordered diapers, two-day delivery (needed for school Monday). Delivery expected by 6pm. Called at 8pm, told the driver got off to a late start so they should arrive the next day; Amazon still reports by 6pm as the expected Delivery.

Ordered boots and some cleaning supplies. We got a notification that two packages were delivered around 4:30pm. Two other packages (containing more boots) were expected for delivery that day. Amazon chat support at 6pm said to expect delivery by 3am EST.

"Delivered" items arrived between 07:15am and 07:35am (while I was out dropping Clara off at day care). We haven't seen the other boots yet.

Thursday, November 17 2016

[19:51:25] Trip Gone fishin'

Friday, November 11 2016

[13:07:31] Trip How did I­ never realize before, that you could reply to multiple tagged messages at once with mutt!

Wednesday, November 9 2016

[12:14:26] benito It's said, that a great thing about this country, is that any man can grow-up to become President.

Thursday, October 20 2016

[04:01:14] Trip
Cannot move Issue MD-2436 because it has already been moved to MD-2435.

Wednesday, May 4 2016

Thursday, April 14 2016

Finding a use for old Pentiums
[22:09:18] benito Intel may have been ahead of its time with the FDIV feature: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601263/why-a-chip-thats-bad-at-math-can-help-computers-tackle-harder-problems/

(The page only seems ot render if you kill CSS, otherwise it complains about having read too many free articles even if it's your first time there.)

Friday, April 8 2016

[10:19:21] Psi+ Unrelated to using the Apple branded computer, I checked the box to recycle my old computer, and have not received any information on how to do so.

Thursday, April 7 2016

Re: Tell us about your Mac
[10:40:59] Psi+ On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 05:18:58PM +0000, Apple Market Research wrote:
> We love feedback.
>
> Tell us about your experience with Mac.

Creating an Apple ID from the on-device application is broken (you cannot
select the password confirmation box).

Getting on a WPA2 protected (EAP+PAP) network is overly complex compared to
other platforms, requiring downloading a configuration tool through your
application store which has changed its name twice.

Regarding re-installing the OS: there's a catch-22 that you need an
application that's already been used in the Application store. If you've
never used the Application store, this means you can't re-install the OS.
This isn't documented, including in any on-line documentation that I could
find.

It's unclear what the replacements are for basic Unix elements, like
resolv.conf. Generally, documentation seems to be lacking.

The magsafe power connector is a huge improvement over the flimsy and
expensive connector used on the aluminum Powerbook.

Setting-up Xcode with iOS simulators and documentation was a bit annoying,
as it had to be done through the XCode UI, and each install asked for an
administrator's password. Every time I closed my laptop, the downloads
would stop.

Messages (? The app that looks like iChat but which I think was renamed,)
is still a rather shoddy XMPP client. Among other things, it appears to
lack support for Jingle and remote control. (I didn't use it long enough to
check this time, but in the past iChat also handled users logged-in with
multiple resources very poorly.)

Why can't I organize my applications installed by default anymore? Why
can't I delete them? There's so much junk in the default Applications
directory, and most of the included applications are not very good.

Terminal.app is a sub-par terminal emulator. There are graphical glitches
with which I've learned to live (e.g. dividers when using tmux either aren't
shown or are shown across areas where they don't exist). More annoying is
using multiple windows in a workflow. If I have a full-screen emulator, and
need to bring-up a second terminal, I cannot do this on the same workspace:
there's no "maximum-size" now, just full-screen on a dedicated workspace.
XTerms on XQuartz didn't work as a replacement, the experience simply seemed
clunky, and copy-and-paste didn't seem to work right (at all?) even when
fiddling with the options to try and sync the X selection buffer.

Thursday, March 24 2016

[12:42:02] Psi+ I am a little amazed that a package can arrive in Alaska one afternoon and be delivered in the middle of Massachusetts a day later. The most amazing part is that it was scanned at 06:08 in Boston, but sent back on a truck at 06:34 towards the local depot, and made it onto the delivery truck at 07:43. After dealing with both FedEx and UPS being unable to tell me whether a package is on or not on a truck, that level of coördination is astounding.

Tuesday, March 22 2016

Apple talking smack about six-year old machines
[23:18:17] Psi+ Watching the "Loop-in Event" yesterday, Apple had a segment where the speaker made derogatory comment about people who owned computers that were six years old. At the time I was working on an EeePC that was from mid-2008 (about seven years old). It works for me, and frankly computers frive five years ago should work fine for 99% of computer users; but that's not the oddest thing about the statement.

My work laptop is a 15" Macbook, based on an Intel Haswell chip (two generations old) and is from 2013. In nearly three years since it was released (mid-2013), the current model has barely changed (the CPU speeds have changed from a base 2.0GHz to a top 2.6GHz, the currently line starts at 2.2GHz and tops-out at 2.8GHz). That means that buying a brand-new Macbook Pro Retina 15" gets you a three-year old machine right now. The previous model of the Macbook Pro Retina 15" was based on Intel's Sandy Bridge chip, and was essentially unchanged since the Macbook Pro Retina was announced in mid-2012, nearly four years ago. Feeling nostalgic, or simply want to replace your aged nearly six-year-old comptuer with something nearly four-years-old? The good news is that the mid-2012 Macbook is still available new from Apple today for $1099.

In general, Apple's on a 2.5-3 year major upgrade cycle on the Macbook Pro depending on how you define a "major" upgrade (I'm looking essentially at the chipset and processor generation). What a six-year old machine means in Apple-speak is at *most* two generations back. Chances are, a non-Apple PC purchased at that time would be closer to the upcoming generation of Apple computers, so most users with a six-year old computer are on-par with a previous generation Apple computer, or on par with the currently shipping non-Retina Macbook Pro.

Wednesday, March 2 2016

[18:38:23] Trip The day my Polaroid 100 back arrives, is of course the day that FujiFilm announces they're ending production of FP-100C film.