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Georg Tuparev
@tuparev@mstdn.social
mastodon 4.7.2Science: Astronomy, Molecular biology, Muscular dystrophies, Renewable energy, accessibility.
Speaker at astronomy and Swift events.
Tech: NeXTSTEP, macOS, iOS, and WebObjects developer.
Politics: Conservative Green party activist for over 30 years (D, NL, BG)
I speak English, German, Bulgarian. Russian, Dutch, and Spanish and I learn Japanese, French, and Vietnamese.
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Joined November 12, 2022
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If you hate the nasty iWork update alert panel like I do, run this in the Terminal app (on macOS).
```
defaults write com.apple.iWork.Pages TSADisableUpdateNotifications -bool yes
defaults write com.apple.iWork.Keynote TSADisableUpdateNotifications -bool yes
defaults write com.apple.iWork.Numbers TSADisableUpdateNotifications -bool yes
```
A moth with a good taste for jasmine…
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Many, many years ago, a colleague of mine and I spent ca. 10 days in Arizona between WWDC and an astronomy conference in Tucson. I am crazy about Sonora and cactus photography. We were driving randomly (no concrete goal) and landed at this beautiful place.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/arizona-border-wall-endangered-species
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@Gator@mamot.fr @bifouba@kolektiva.social
The scholar’s name is Prof. Mirandi, an American born Iranian, who later in his life went to teach in Teheran. A highly respected person in Iran as well as in the West.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
I have the one with the 6 CD slots. The design still feels futuristic!
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@juandesant@mathstodon.xyz @marcoarment@mastodon.social @pxlnv@mastodon.social
The great mistake was that you can buy a software for $0.99 and then expect support for the next 99 years. The original sin of AppStore was not allowing payed upgrades.
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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social
My first one was an Eastern Germany copy of a later model of the IBM 370 😂
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@provuejim @lukaskubanek @iandundas
My stats are not that bad - ca. 30% are taken care of, and in about 5% I am actually contacted personally. But it is a lot of effort to file a Rader as I do, because at least 50% of the cases, I am also trying to submit a complete mini project, that exposes the problem.
Perhaps it heals, that I know few people at Apple too.
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@vanvoorden@mastodon.social @davedelong@mastodon.social
JD could be represented by 64 or 128 bit. If you use instead the JDE (or DT) than most of your headaches will be gone 😂 Of course you might get excited, and use barycentric time or one of the many galactic time coordinate systems. I can guarantee you, that any of them will outlive you.
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BTW, inspired by your time frameworks, I am crafting astronomy & space time calculation package, that one sunny day will swim in the open source ocean.
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@i_martinw @lkundrak
The first computers I did use (as high-school student of a father who wrote his PhD in Freiberg) ware Robotron copycats of IBM 360/370 (mit alles drum und dran). I am still writing source code 😂
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@parents4future@climatejustice.global
Nun wollen die Amerikaner die Infrastruktur von North Stream 2 kaufen und das Gas 30 % teurer an Deutschland verkaufen. Und weil es US-Gas ist, werden die Deutschen es kaufen und bezahlen. Sehr clever!
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
… for the good of our unelected Brussel mafia …
If you want to do something for Europe, stop election madding in Romania!
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@aka_pugs@mastodon.social
Initially, I hated SPARC because my idol, Steve Jobs, hated it 😂
Of course I did own a NeXTStation
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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social
I would add:
- For many mediocre devs, working on well-designed and thought-out Mac and iPad apps is beyond their abilities (it is much simpler to work on iPhone-only apps).
- The big bucks are with the iPhone. Who cares about Mac, iPad, and Vision Pro?
- Mac, iPad, and especially Vision Pro apps shine when they solve complex and hard problems, often requiring multidisciplinary knowledge. Not many devs are capable of working on such projects…
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@tarunuday@mastodon.social
Before OpenStep, there was something called NeXTSTEP 😂
I think I started using TextEdit around 1991, but I am not sure if the original name was the same. It came in source code and compiled.
BTW, are Mike and Ali still around and kicking? I knew Mike since the MiscKit era.
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@tonyarnold@mastodon.social @mergesort@macaw.social
You are absolutely correct! Some small percentage of human being have the urge to perfect the perfection and to outknow the knowledge. These are the people who discovered the fire and the rocket, and chiselled the statue of David. And luckily there are also people who respect this urge. If this was not the case the Swiss watch industry would never exist, and we all would have Casio watches fo $12
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@DazeEnd@mstdn.social
Yes, but it is only 86.400 seconds long and not 24 yards, and you labor and we do not work 😂