I had no idea this existed and I’m in love. I’ve been using LATEX for more than twenty years and most of my use cases would’ve been covered by this. It’s going to be a fixture for the second half of my life and they can pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

This is extremely interesting because while substantially losing weight and increasing my exercise regimen I’ve noticed my VO2 max mysteriously oscillate between Above Average and High only roughly a 21 day cycle for about the past year, and since that makes very little sense to me, I’ve basically just decided to completely ignore it.

I know this marks me out as a very specific and fairly derided kind of nerd, but I’m really excited to see what new features will be included in Mathematica 15 which is presumed to be launching fairly soon.

Apple Passwords works very well (as somebody who has fully migrated to it for password storage and OTP functionality). There’s a bit of a hassle because Apple has much simpler data structures currently, but you can bet that they’re working to enhance the record types they support because it’s such an easy win.

They’ve added a lot of ‘functionality’ but I use none of it. In December I migrated everything out and into Apple’s native Password manager, and cancelled my subscription to 1Password. Just in time, apparently. Subscription models need to die.

Subscriptions are fine, companies are greedy

I’m absolutely not fine with being a subscriber. Whenever there’s a lifetime license alternative, that goes to the top of my list. I’m not into being somebody’s peon who has to keep paying an unknown fraction of their income to maintain functionality I would’ve broken even on years ago.

Its not a black and white situation for me

Security software? Hosting my data? Sure, I understand there are ongoing costs to provide the service.

One-time licenses tells me the maintainers will not be incentivized to keep my lights on forever. Service will suffer eventually.

See Plex. I paid once a decade ago and it’s not even the same thing anymore. They push live TV, always online features, etc

I still run Excel 2007 because as long as it can read and write .xlsx files that my Mathematica models can ingest and output I’m good with that. Every version of Mathematica has a perennial license, even if a new version comes out every year. I want the cloud service? That’s a monthly extra, and I’m cool with that. Office 365, where they randomly decide to shove Copilot down my throat and I lose all ability to edit documents I created if I don’t pay the monthly tithe? No, I’m not cool with that.

Yeah, I’m old enough to remember buying boxed software. It was a veritable product in every sense.

Your o365 example just shows that even with stodgy old office suite software, we pay rent to be the product. Copilot has to be added everywhere so a VP will get a promotion showing how many new users they have (for features nobody wants but are forced into paying for)

So… we should just pony up the monthly or yearly fee and let that VP get his promotion because he extorted hundreds of millions in exchange for something about we desirable we Clippy and with the mental capacity of Bob?

Looks like I’m going to need a Windows 10 virtual machine on my Apple Silicon. Or maybe I’ll just buy my first Windows machine since 2001.

Oh and… thank you so much for doing this. That game taught me more than you could ever imagine.

Much appreciated.

Tired: De Moivre’s Theorem Wired: The complex number-line Expired: The complex plane

I still have one of the long-sleeved original ones.

So what irked that since my brand-new iPhone uses a Qualcomm “modem chip” (god, the slide of terminology makes my skin crawl) I won’t have access to this feature.