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Johanna Stern blogs about her first impressions of the new Mac Book

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Johanna Stern blogs about her first impressions of the new Mac Book:

We don’t need all those other ports, Apple says. We are living in a wireless world now, where we can connect most of our peripherals without cords. Except every morning I plug my Air into a Thunderbolt display, and every afternoon I plug my iPhone into my Air to charge it. Of course, Apple will sell dongles—overpriced, naturally—that allow you to do those things.

There’s also no fingerprint reader, like the iPhone and iPad’s TouchID.

But when I opened up the lid and gazed at the 2304×1440-pixel Retina 12-inch screen, those issues faded away. The edge-to-edge display is crisp and bright—a huge improvement over the current MacBook Air.

I’m highly anticipating actual reviews of this thing. My gut feeling1, that undoubtably has been wrong a lot before, tells me that in five years laptops like this one will be the new default, much like the MacBook Air/Ultrabook is the default right now. But just lite the original Air on its first launch, this will not in itself be a compelling product to that many people. It is certainly not the right laptop for my needs.

  1. Based on just reading about it. I didn’t watch the livestream yesterday. ↩
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Pinsamt av högern att låtsas som att det är något dåligt när en diktatur protesterar mot vår utrikesminister, eftersom hon kritiserat dem för deras vidriga behandling av sina medborgare. All heder åt Wallström i det här fallet.

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Now this is my kind of smart watch. A couple of swiss watch manufacturers have agreed on a technical platform for slowly incorporating some ”smartness” inte their timepieces and the result is beautiful.

I’d much rather have a beautiful ”traditional” watch with some smarts added to it than the pocket computers styled as a watches that Apple, Googlorola and Samsung tries to sell.1

  1. Keep in mind that this is published less than twelve hours before Apple’s watch event. Maybe my opinion has changed dramatically by this time tonight. ↩
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Det pratas mycket om att internetaccess borde vara en mänsklig rättighet, lika självklar som tillgång till exempelvis vatten. I så fall borde en attack mot internet, t.ex. en DDoS-attack mot en webbhost, en DNS-provider eller liknande likställas med en motsvarande attack mot människors vattenförsörjning.

Människor som begår sådana brott borde eftersökas med stora resurser och straffas hårt.

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Låt oss göra ett tankeexperiment…

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Låt oss göra ett tankeexperiment att om Veckans Boss inte gjordes av fina Sveriges Radios P3 utan av någon av hatsajterna som kallat det för humor och satir, och att föremålet för trashtalket hade varit en Alice, säg kulturminister Alice Bah Kunke från Miljöpartiet som hade kallats för husblatte, jämförts med lasermannen och att man läst upp sexuella omdömen från en Flashbacktråd så skulle mediestormen ha varit bedövande.

– Patrik Oksanen, 2015. Husblatteattacken mot Teodorescu, dt.se

Bra skrivet om hur P3s taskiga värdegrund när det gäller hur man behandlar människor. Det mesta verkar vara okej, bara den man förnedrar är ”höger”.

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Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 216, Bret Easton Ellis

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On the surface, like Patrick Bateman, I had everything a young man could possibly want to be “happy” and yet I wasn’t. I think Fight Club is about this, too—this idea that men are sold a bill of goods about what they have to be in order to feel good about themselves, or feel important. No one can really live up to these ideals, so there’s an immense amount of dissatisfaction roiling through the collective male psyche.

Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 216, Bret Easton Ellis

Really interesting interview with Bret Easton Ellis. I like that he draws this comparison to Fight Club, especially since I read it and American Psycho in quick succession and thought they both sort of hammered on the same notes. I did, however, like Fight Club a lot more than American Psycho.

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My biggest annoyance with iOS

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I’m a big fan of a lot of things in iOS, but there are some things that annoy me. My single biggest annoyance is the way the automatic quitting of background apps sometimes messes with audio-playing applications.

Most of the time when I listen to stuff on my iPhone it is a podcast and my podcast listening has always been via a third-party app1. Since background audio was allowed the listening itself is not a problem. The problem is when I pause and some time passes before I want to resume playback. If the podcast app has been quit by the os during this pause, when I hit the play button nothing happens. Or, even worse, the Music app starts playing what it thinks I last listened to which might be a song that I listened to a month ago.

  1. Up until two days ago it was Downcast, but now it’s Overcast. ↩
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Ogrundade känsloargument för att stoppa valfriheten

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Det är ju den ideologi som de står för. Den stora goda staten, som ensam vet råd för att lösa medborgarnas problem.

Det vore bra om de vore ärliga nog att säga det rakt ut, i stället för att låtsas tala om kvalitet för kvalitetsargumentet håller inte.

– Sara Telde, 2015. Ogrundade känsloargument för att stoppa valfriheten. Dalarnas Tidningar

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Här har ni en bra lista på företag att ha så lite att göra med som möjligt

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Ett helt gäng svenska företagare har publicerat en debattartikel i DN där de argumenterar för fortsatta handelsförbindelser med Saudiarabien. Ingenstans i artikeln tar de upp vapenexporten som är vad debatten egentligen handlar om.

Det här är alltså en bra lista på företag att ha så lite att göra med som möjligt.

Era jävla idioter, fattar ni inte att det är sådana som ni och sådana här artiklar som försvårar för oss som verkligen vill se en global fri marknad?

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Playing through *Majora’s Mask 3D*, third three-day cycle

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This is not to be considered a walkthrough of Majora’s Mask 3D. There are plenty of other great resources for that online. Instead it’s a ”journal” of sort for me while I play through the game. I wanted to document it for myself and figured, ”why not put it on the blog? It helps keep the lights on here”.

This was a pure ”collection run”. I didn’t make any attempt at anything that furthered my main objective in the game. Instead I started by going to the Swamp Shooting Gallery and winning first price; a Big Quiver.

I then spent my time searching for some pieces of hearts. I found one on top of a tree just outside the Swamp Shooting Gallery area. I then headed north of Clocktown and found a hole in the ground. Inside it I faced two Dodongos and after beating them I was rewarded with another (my seventh) heart-piece.

Once night fell I found Kamaro, the ghost dancer north of Clocktown and had him teach me his dance and giving me his mask. I then used the mask to teach the Rosa Sisters from the Gorman Troupe his dance and was rewarded with yet another piece of heart.

During the first night I also headed to North Clocktown and helped the old lady who sells bombs to fend off a thief. This resulted in me acquiring the Blast Mask.

Later I once again went to the Astral Observatory and found a Moon Tear that I traded with the Deku Scrub infront of the clocktower for a Land title deed which I then used during the second night inside the Stock Pot Inn. I mysterious hand reaches out of the bottom of the bathroom asking for paper. I handed it the Title deed and was given yet another piece of heart in return.

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During the second night I also listened to Guru-Guru’s confession at the Laundry Pool and was rewarded with the Bremen Mask. During the last day of this run I then headed to Romani Ranch and used the Bremen Mask to help Grog’s cuccoos grow. For this he gave me the Bunny Hood Mask which I’ve used a lot since then as it enables me to run faster.

Lastly I headed back to Woodfall Temple and killed the boss again so so I could retry following the butler in the Deku Shrine. With the help of the Bunny Hood Mask, this was no problem at all. Once I came to the finish line he gave me the Mask of Scent.

Finally I went to the Tourist Center to enter my pictograph of the Deku King in the contest but was told the competition was over, once again. The boat hag offered me another competition instead; target-shooting. I won that competition and was given a Bottle as a reward.

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