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doctornoble | 3 months ago | on: The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle

Not to dismiss the X-files team, but 16:9 was already around when they started. Just not in the states. Japan started getting 16:9 CRTs in the early 90s, Europe followed in the mid 90s. America lagged another half decade and effectively skipped 16:9 CRTs mostly going straight to plasma/lcd.

doctornoble | 3 months ago | on: Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

I don’t think that’s unintentional or undesired

doctornoble | 1 year ago | on: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

What a reductive position.

doctornoble | 1 year ago | on: JavaScript dates are about to be fixed

Yeah, I’ve been waiting for this for years and not optimistic it’s “near”.

The polyfill is too heavy and the services we deal with seem to cover the whole range of dates and times. Julian, epoch, ISO-8601.

doctornoble | 1 year ago | on: Emigre typography and graphic design magazine (1984–2005)

Exocet had to be the most popular font of the mid-90s for anything vaguely occult/religious/horror/sci-fi/fantasy

doctornoble | 2 years ago | on: Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly

So the most like the disruptor of the mobile duopoly of Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS are Google’s Chrome and Apple’s Safari.

Got it.

doctornoble | 2 years ago | on: California Pizza Huts lay off all delivery drivers ahead of minimum wage increas

Perhaps Yum Brands has the data to back this up, but it seems quite a silly response that feels more political/ideological than based on sound economics.

BIL was COO of a pizza chain. The cost for a large pizza was around $1.50 - even for pricey toppings and gluten free bread. Labor is cheap at ~60 seconds per pie. Biggest costs was rent. A $5 raise could be absorbed across and then some with a 10¢ increase in price or adding an extra $1 delivery fee.

Strategically this makes little sense. A key factor of chain pizza’s business model is convenience & cost rather than quality. When faced with the inconvenience of not having delivery available or the extra cost associated with third party delivery services I wonder how many people will just opt for Dominos, Papa Johns or something else?

doctornoble | 2 years ago | on: Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator

Penpot is pretty great even in production environments. It hews much closer to web standards in for things like layout (flexbox and grid), supports working completely offline and doesn’t use a proprietary file format.

What they don’t have is the inertia of Figma and being as-good-as or maybe a little better isn’t enough to get the traction they need.

doctornoble | 2 years ago | on: How does iCloud work? Plus a new version of Cirrus

Dropbox was fine until they decided they wanted to be more than file syncing. Their app is a terrible resource hog that slows my computer to a crawl. I finally had enough and deleted their app and use Panic’s Transmit to interact Dropbox.

doctornoble | 2 years ago | on: Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro

You can. The Vision Pro supports a primary user that retains settings/user account/AppleID and a secondary user with gets a “guest” account that resets.

doctornoble | 2 years ago | on: GM plans to phase out Apple CarPlay in EVs, with Google's help

This really seems like the opposite direction auto manufacturers should be taking. Lean in hard to a common API design for displays and negotiate with Apple/Google on theming (like Apple Watch where some companies get custom watch faces), but leave the UX to Google/Apple

I was uninterested in CarPlay until my last car had it. Now it’s a requirement for any car purchase. Similarly I was uninterested in wireless CarPlay (how hard is it to connect a Lightning cable) until my next car had it. I’d be a little more lenient on no wireless, but it is really convenient.

doctornoble | 3 years ago | on: Clark Foam’s demise, 10 years later (2015)

If I recall it being right on the creek that led to the ocean probably exacerbated the environmental issues

doctornoble | 4 years ago | on: The Matrix Resurrections estimated to lose Warner Bros $100M

Anecdotally I did. Well for that and Dune - and I’ll probably keep it, I was surprised and impressed with the selection.

doctornoble | 4 years ago | on: Apple proposes adding "model" element to HTML that displays 3D content

WebM support has been added to Safari 15