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macOS Catalina upgrade notes
just upgraded my MacMini (late 2014) from high sierra to Catalina. (skipping majove) the upgrade is smooth. Takes about 50 min. so far, no problem, except brave browser crashing (prob fix by tomorrow).
MacOS since version version 10.14 (aka macOS Mojave) released in 2018, now changes your disk format from HFS Plus to the new APFS Apple File System . APFS is new in 2017.
uBlockOrigin lost on the Mac. https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/issues/158 soon gone on Google Chrome too. while Firefox is donating to antifa, n sell your data. uBlock adBlock etc were open source now malware. (the story of open source) Faak the open source fsf skums that got us this situation.
Note that the default shell is zsh. Apple stopped using bash because its license is GPLv3, which is control freak license from FSF. (for the same reason, the emacs bundled with Mac is 10 years old version) So, Apple simply switched to zsh. Which is actually a better shell.
so apple now has MacOS, iOS and iPadOS. i think Microsoft's better, just 1 win OS.
minor corrections. thanks to “and hi”
old linux rant, on monitor color calibration. written in 2013-02-12
linux, desktop. So, this poor sob got a new monitor. The monitor shines in vivid colors, like, red is more red, and skins is a glowing pink. So, this poor sob wanna calibrate his monitor. O, i'm on the great linux desktop. After some web search, i forgot such tools are buildin in Mac and Windows, as the search results kept reminding me.
After a while, stack-overflow-ubuntu 'n' all, i found this thing called
gnome-color-manager. Great, since i'm expert unix master so i went apt-get
and quickly installed it. (searching for the right package name and all
i won't bog you down with). But how do i run the thing? xfce control panel's
doing a no show. My nice bash name-completion system showed gcm-view, gcm-calibrate,
etc, but they don't work. Man pages are on the quite side when you need
them to talk. More Gooogle skynet, i'm glad the right answer is gcm-prefs
--verbose to launch the nice GUI we are un-dying for. But gcm-prefs
don't exist here.
Thank you linux, for, i've decided not to do anything about this. You are my time saver today! If i were on a Mac or Windows, i'd doubtless wasted hours for useless appearance things.
Understand Cell Phone Tech
electromagnetic spectrum. important to understand modern tech around us.
[lessons learned from guile, the ancient ＆ spry By Andy Wingo. At https://wingolog.org/archives/2020/02/07/lessons-learned-from-guile-the-ancient-spry ]
incoming! coding spam
xah programing spam of the day
SGI Logo Visual Illusion
new addendum at bottom, on SGI logo 3d demo.
tip of the day
ad blocker collateral damage euphemism
apparently, adblock or ublockorigin will block a image talking about google ad ban.
goto
Google AdSense Ban on Ancient Asian Goddess Sculpture Page
and the screenshots are not shown. Turn off ad blocker, it shows.
The cause is the image file name. If rename so it doesn't contain “google adsense”, then it works.
faak google and open source, fsf, fanatics.
well, typically, the open source fsf fanatics, they think ad blocking is way to go. and that is the problem i have here. military euphemism: collateral damage. talking about google ban gets filtered out.
my claim: it is the open source, fsf, fanatics, these idiots, that got us into this condition. Far worse than 20 years ago. not to mention cloud.
i have a article on that! Tech Geekers vs Spammers
by the way, in the process of debugging this, i found
data-dapp-detection
JavaScript.
the idiocy of programers Web Design: Grey Text on White Background
todo
orphaned articles
Intro to COBOL
Intro to COBOL by @Sezen . Truly great intro. turned out well and i learned COBOL.
Jan 18, 2020
Sezen Spessa
i have a article on that! search term of the day: xah lee foo bar!
omg, mixing tabs n spaces r the worst!!!! i have a article on that! search term of the day: xah lee tabs vs space the final say on the matter!
The Unix Pestilence just updated. the unix history you don't know
todo
macOS command line tips
show os version
sw_vers -productVersion
todo
my primary font concerns are, ① it has most math symbols and common chars (printer's symbols ¶ § … • ★ ® ✓ etc) ② distinguish 0 O o 1 l I
- ★ Unicode Bullet • Check Mark ✓ Dagger †, Trade Mark ™☙ Unicode Bullet • Check Mark ✓ Dagger †, Trade Mark ™☙
- ★ Best Unicode Fonts for Programer Best Unicode Fonts for Programer
do we have media experts? should you save the resolution? why or why not?
Clojure = lisp wart
Clojure: Magic Characters ' \ @ ^ # ` ~ .
PERTINENCY
The piping syntax problem is solved by Mathematica 30 years ago
The piping syntax problem is solved by Mathematica 30 years ago 😤
The thing about piping to 2nd 3rd etc args is no good.
When pipe, best to let it juts have 1 arg.
but, for the need to pipe to 2nd arg, you solve it by a generic function notation that has slots for 2nd etc args.
for example, here's a function of x+y, like this
(#1+#2 &)
, parenthesis optional.
for example, to pipe to 2nd arg, we have have this
x | f(3,#)
to pipe to 3rd arg, this
x | f(a,b,#)
ontology of JavaScript python ruby java dot notation vs unix pipe vs function chaining, 2020-01-02
the path to homotopy type theory
got this accolade ♥.
the path to homotopy type theory: group theory, universal algebra, category theory, proof theory. a turbulent path, that reflects chronology too
hacker nerds font and kerning obsession
did you know, ocaml and haskell's syntax came from a nutjob? OCaml Syntax Sucks
of course. i have a article on that. ASCII Characters ␀ ␣ ¶
all you wanna know about sort
julia language uses the “end” keyword. nasty.
Language Syntax: Brackets vs Begin/End vs Indentation for Nesting
programing, logic, proof system. good book?
erlang vs haskell vs ocaml. year 2012
Design Patterns Snake Oil
and there's a story to that article. the article was written in 2001. Someone posted it to hackernews in 2010. Then, same fak at hackernews ban'd xahlee.org detail: Hacker News, Xahlee.org, and What is Politics?
oh the actual article is Ban Xah Lee
macOS Time Machine, HFS+, exFAT, which?
bought a external disk. See External Flash Drive
and
the question is, should i use the Mac's Time Machine for backup?
After some research, the answer is no, because:
To use the Apple Time Machine backup, the disk needs to be formatted in apple's file system HFS Plus. Using HFS Plus means, the disk will be difficult to use in Microsoft Windows or Linux.
So, no.
also, today's interchange disk format is exFAT, which is relatively new (designed in 2006), and very popular. exFAT is also designed with flash drive in mind. It doesn't have the various FAT FAT16 FAT32 format problems or the aged NTFS.
stuck in erlang hell
press control+c twice to exit.
mac homebrew phone home
to turn it off, run
brew analytics off
todo. • write about golang int float division. • write about number to string. • write about string to number.
Xah Talk Show
八雲 紫（やくも ゆかり） Yukari Yakumo, divination, trigram, hexagram, bagua, iching, book of change 2019-12-17
Pointless Programing
oh i have a article What's Point-free Programing? (point-free function syntax)
point-free programing isn't so interesting. it's basically the same with syntax that don't allow args. a higher up interesting is function-level programing
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Hardware Modeled (Von Neumann) Computer Languages and Functional-Level Languages
Xah Talk Show
unicode, ancient/weird alphabets, rune, braille, combinatorics based system, astronomy astrology symbols 2019-12-15
Shen lisp creator Mark Tarver has a new site
http://marktarver.com/thecathedralandthebizarre.html
See also:
elvish langs
fak the elves and fak tokien. the extreme fake complexity of utter uselessness, created by nerd for nerd
barefeet in office
Silicon Valley's newest startup trend? Shoeless office policies.
i wonder what's the origin of bare feet being impolite or not allowed in office i think it's probably because say 100 years ago and before, people don't have clean feet nor clean floor
Compiler Explorer
seems a great tool to play with. It support golang haskell c c++ and others. It takes a source code and dissembes into compiled code.
Raspberry Pi Thwarts Backdoor Chips?
it seems Raspberry Pi and now Paralla is a thing. i was worried about big brother putting things into chips in comp we use. But it seems, Raspberry Pi etc are somewhat a solution
do we generally worry about whether the chips on raspberry has backdoor? i don't think so, right? because it's only few things there, and most buying it are hardware hackers so they'd know.
Windows 10, still have lots old baggage with bitmapped GUI
it's incredible, in Microsoft Windows 10, it's common to see these old gui with bitmapped font.
futter opensource
Richard Stallman on Common Lisp, 1981
Famous Programers on How Common Lisp Sucks
2014-07-06 xah's thoughts extrempore. On a million dollar of digital books vs paper books.
i was just talking to myself in the past hour about digital book vs paper book. One important, critical thing, about paper books that we don't have in digital books of today is the touch-feely perception. Long story short, with paper books, each has different quality, paper material, weight, smell, etc. Which, are integrated with the book's content in our perception system in our brain. Because, we human animals have adopted to the physical world, the nature, and our brain is adopted to such world, and have developed memory and sensory perceptions to all things we touch or near by. Digital books doesn't have that. You read 100 books all with the same cold screen, same smell, same physical appearance.
most people's love of paper book is idiotic. (which i've covered in the past hour when talking to myself, but too long to rehash it out here so i'll elide) But this quality of paper book i'm speaking of in above paragraph, is critical. It is partly why, we feel that paper books make us actually receive info, and i think it's veribly true. Remember the coffee spots on particular page's content? the dog ears of the page? etc. Those, are integerated with the content in our brain. Maybe you don't recall but your brain's memory system does.
so, it dawn'd on me, how can we make digital books do that? Enterprenurs listen: we need to create digital devices that can emit odor. So, different digital book can create different odor when opened in a computer screen. This way, we get back some touchy-feely advantage of paper books. And, after this, we can improve by having the digital device change its screen texture for different books, etc. But for now, need to get odor.
this idea is copyrighted by Xah Lee. All Rights reserved.
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- check hermann's JavaScript
old unix books
my first unix book was Unix for the Impatient, 1995. By Paul Abrahams and others.
then, a good one is Unix Power Tools by Shelley Powers and others.
and Essential Sys Admin, by Aeleen Frisch , very popular, but is no good.
Sesame Street Pinball Number Count
pinpall, amazing, sesame street production
unicode character bad naming
sometimes the naming in tech is really annoying
you ever heard of anyone call ladybug a lady beetle?
and santa clause becomes Father Christmas, what the hell?
kneeling chair
really want to love them, but bought them and used for over 1 year around 1997. Not really good.
the reason i don't like them is because, i often hop around chair with different positions, sometimes sitting with chest on back rest, sometimes squat on chair, sometimes lotus position.
but with the kneeling chair, your legs are fixed. your upper body, is like a joystick, feeling stressful.
nesting limit of different languages in parsing jason. perl python ruby php rust golang nim C C++ haskell
unicode Cuneiform in macOS Google Chrome problem
problem: html page with unicode cuneiform characters displays well on all browsers in Win10, but on macOS, cuneiform characters shows as blank boxes in Google Chrome, but works in Firefox, safari.
copy and paste the following into a file, name it test.html
<!doctype html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>Cuneiform </title> </head> <body> <mark class="unicode" title="U+12001: CUNEIFORM SIGN A TIMES A">𒀁</mark> </body></html>
on MacOS, open it in Chrome. The cuneiform characters doesn't show. try to make it show, by adding CSS.
question: on macOS safari console , how to find out what font is actually used?
goto this page to see http://xahlee.info/comp/unicode_cuneiform.html
major update.
story of sagemath and cocalc
[Should I Resign from My Full Professor Job to Work Fulltime on Cocalc? By William Stein. At http://sagemath.blogspot.com/2019/05/should-i-resign-from-my-full-professor.html ]
every smart phone has a id. IMSI and IMEI
nice video/voice/text chat site
a new lisp: BEL
[a new lisp: BEL By Paul Graham. At http://paulgraham.com/bel.html ]
reading paul graham's bel lang. omg, i find it very silly. Why is paul perpetually enamored with lisp? he's trying to relive 1960s. times has moved on. today we have lots formalism and understanding of logic. i find what he's doing idiotic.
New Researh Shows Microsoft Word Beats Latex
See bottom
Microsoft Bosque Language
golang. join slice of strings to one big string. added to
major interface violation in discord. it should be radio buttons, not checkboxes.
parceljs has very bad doc. unclear how its server start or stop. lots things unexplained. wtf is asset. no explanation on what parcel actually do. now i have to goto 3rd party spam tutorial.
on the other hand, reactjs and yarnjs both have excellent docs.
incorrect English on yarnjs site
[Programming Languages and Lambda Calculi (Utah CS7520 Version) By Matthias Felleisen, Matthew Flatt. At https://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/past-courses/cs7520/public_html/s06/notes.pdf ]
[The Harmful Consequences of Postel's Maxim By Network Working Group, M Thomson, Mozilla. At https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-01.html ]
todo fix golang replace.go printing the find/replace pairs.
golang's type and lowness
golang's type and lowness is starting to get me. whenever you need a list of element that's tuple of diff types, you need to create a type, namely struct.
Golang Tutorial learn Golang in 1 hour
Python 3 Adoption python image lib still no support py3. updated
Combinatorial Unicode Chars
another combinatorial unicode char set is the trigram. Note that, in these MONOGRAM, TRIGRAM, TETRAGRAM, HEXAGRAM, some allows the bar to break into 3 pieces, while other only 2.
ways to order combinatorial patterns
one interesting thing is how do you sort braille? here's 3 possible ways.
Isopsephy puzzle
a=1, b=2, c=3 etc. love = 12+15+22+5=54. find another word that's 54.
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