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I just had one of those rare moments where a UI makes me happy.
I've updated my mac and iPad to the latest and greatest so I could play with Universal Control. This is where you use your mac's keyboard and mouse to control the iPad (or other mac). The iPad essentially becomes an extension of the screen.
The ballet behind all this must be impressive and, I imagine, an absolute 'mare to debug and get right. Determining the location of hardware through the wireless signal, authentication, latency, the event messages, the data passed around as part of a file drag and drop. So many things to go wrong.
But what blew me away was the setup: you bring the iPad close. You drag your mouse to the side of your mac's screen, and then keep dragging, and then...it appears on the iPad as though it's behind a flexible barrier. You drag a little more and it pops out and you have a cursor on the iPad.
It was fun. It was creepy too, but it just worked and was so, so cool.
Anyway, serious kudos to the person who agreed to pay for the developer time to add that wonderful setup experience.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: I've updated my mac and iPad to
I updated my AmigaOS and an equal amount of people cared.
..but yes, this year is going to be when Maccy goes desktop, right? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Confusing scan ? I imagine (9)
Confusing = enigmatic and also an anagram indicator
Scan ? = CT mixed with I imagine
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And to top it all off the clue itself is the clue!
Basically a CCC tautology!
Well done!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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pkfox wrote: CT mixed with I imagine
is 10 letters.
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It is I should have said CT and imagine - well spotted.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My manager ("M") and I are at Subway today enjoying our usual Friday lunch when this guy steps out of the store carrying two platters. The bottom platter is a tray of subs and the top platter is a tray of wraps. The guy takes one step out of the door when the top platter goes flying and lands behind M.
In my minds eye I see the wraps all over the footpath. But no, a miracle has happened. The platter has done a flip and has landed upside down, all the wraps are in one piece (nothing out of place, nothing unravelled) sitting perfectly in the lid.
So the guy puts the platter of subs down on a nearby table and picks up the base which now became the lid, puts it on the what was originally the lid, picks it all up and takes one step . . .
At this point M says "Oh boy, were you lucky" and exactly the moment these words were uttered, the guy dropped the platter again. This time they went everywhere. There was absolutely no chance of salvage this time.
I didn't laugh I felt so sorry for the guy, all I said to M was that it was his fault for jinxing him.
I know I'll go to hell because I've 'lol' when I told my workmates (they all said it was M's fault) and when I told my wife and son (they both said it was M's fault as well).
To give the guy full credit, he was very stoic about. No swearing or no carry-on, just cleaned it up and went about his way with his one platter.
Please don't judge me, I can't help but wonder if he dropped that as well when he got back to the office. I honestly do feel bad for the guy (it's usually me that this sort of thing happens to).
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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If first you succeed, try, try again?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The universe figured there was something wrong with the luck he got the first time and quickly made the necessary corrections.
Seems about right to me.
And yeah, I would feel sorry for the guy but would not miss the chance later on to tell the tale and laugh about it.
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Confusing scan ? I imagine (9)
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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All I can come up with is REFLECTOR, with "CT" for "SCAN ?"
And I'm pretty sure that's wrong.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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At least you came up with something!
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You are on the right track ! what can you make of CT I imagine ?
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 20-May-22 7:47am.
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Nope, no idea. What's the answer?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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enigmatic (anagram of ct + imagine)
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what about the third "i"?
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Filler so the clue doesn't read like nonsense.
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Ah, Ok. Is that what the "?" indicates, the author is being misleading or an misdirection is in play?
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I'm guessing the ? was because the definition was doubling as an anagram indicator.
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Correct but too late 
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Not just late, but I wouldn't have gotten it without your comment to Griff.
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Well done!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 335 X/6
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Couldn't make it today.
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Wordle 335 5/6
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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Wordle 335 4/6
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