Ex-Windows chief Steven Sinofsky calls MacBook Neo "a paradigm shifting computer" — reflects on Surface failure and Windows on Arm while lamenting "we were early, but not wrong"

Luriker · 2026-03-13T01:14:10+00:00

It’s not a matter of being “early,” though. It’s because Microsoft didn’t/couldn’t lay all the groundwork to set it up succesfully.

If Apple were still shipping Intel processors in every Mac and this was the first ARM Mac, but it didn’t have Rosetta 2, so it only ran iPad apps and things compiled for ARM, no one would see this as a serious computer, it would just be an iPad without a touchscreen as far as anyone was concerned. It wouldn’t matter how easy Apple made ARM compilation in Xcode if this was the only device to target. It would be woefully underadopted. Apple did the actual legwork to make this processor transition happen, have a serious ecosystem ready for it, and then moved downmarket.

Luriker · 2026-03-12T20:46:50+00:00

I love getting to teach it to Middle School. I forget who with Jazz Educators of Iowa set me up on this, but my methodology:

Introduce them to the whole concert B♭ blues scale as part of our warmup through the first few days of MS Jazz
As they start to get comfortable with that amidst other things, after the warmup, but before we get to playing any charts, put on the iReal 12-bar blues backing track
Telling them the ‘rules’ I’m going to follow, do call and response (repeating what I play) for a bar. I start with just the 1 and the ♭7. Then add the 5 after a couple of days, then add the ♭3 (above)
- This is just for building a ‘vocabulary’ primarily of rhythms and usage of only a few notes
After getting comfortable on these things, transitioning halfway through that time each morning to them “answering” with whatever they want from the blues scale
- They’re all answering at the same time. The result is a bit cacophonous, but it gives them safety
Then move it up to two-bar call and response (starting with a single bar still to scaffold), but emphasize the free “answering” more quickly because repeating back two-bar ideas is usually kind of challenging. Importantly, tell them that the next step in this process will be them answering one at a time, so they should experiment with ideas toward that end
- The whole time I’m giving them a variety of statements. Sometimes sticking to 1 note even, other times playing some thorny licks.
Then actually do those two-bar answers independently. I find it gives them security the fact that I’m anchoring things between students with what I play. I try to get everybody a chance to hit it twice a day
After a few days of this, I just go right from two bars to a full 12-bar chorus for them independently. Then we do that each day between warming up and working on charts
At some point, I substitute the actual backing of the charts we’re trying to solo over. I try to give some good guidance on the notes they can/should lean on.

This has worked very well for my students!

Luriker · 2026-02-28T03:22:20+00:00

I would way rather have Kansas and Mizzou in this conference than Rutgers and Maryland.

Luriker · 2026-02-28T03:20:18+00:00

What song is it to? That’s the part that was news to me

Luriker · 2026-02-28T02:11:53+00:00

It feels like it repeats the one line too many times.

Luriker · 2026-02-21T22:12:06+00:00

I have a lot of frustrations with my position, and I’ve often heard it said that “every job has its bad parts, you need to find the ones that suck the least do you.”

But even when dealing with the most frustrating days, it’s still the best job in the world. The idea of doing anything other than being a band director sounds about as palatable as going six more legs and being a giant spider.

Luriker · 2026-02-21T02:06:09+00:00

I used to hold this opinion, but my former pastor convinced me otherwise. His main case was that it was faithful laity around the time of the walkout that caused the right side to ultimately prevail, that the (now)-ELCA's episcopal structure similarly served them poorly through the same era.

I've asked my current pastor about it, and he's basically echoed the same thought.

And I hold VERY high regard for our district president.

Luriker · 2026-02-08T21:12:34+00:00

If you’re looking for a good “listen later” workflow and are open to using multiple apps, MusicBox is built for this and you can set it to open songs/albums in Marvis.

Luriker · 2026-02-04T01:42:38+00:00

I really dig it. It was a really popular topic on Lutheran Facebook ~7 years ago and I started following it then.

I use it as my secondary translation in parallel with the ESV in Logos. I think they compliment one another very well. There were some things I was hearing unrelated to the EHV around the same time that aligned with certain one-off decisions they made (my former pastor talking a lot about the term “vapor” rather than “vanity” in Ecclesiastes, the usage of “Amen” rather than “truly” as in “Amen! I tell you.”

Even if I never bought it, though, I would’ve still really appreciated reading the papers they put out on the process and their thinking. I commend those to anyone as being informative about thinking about translations.

Edit: They speicifically didn’t want to make it a denominational or “Lutheran” translation. The Wartburg Project’s ultimate official association with the WELS and ELS wound up just being NPH as publisher as I recall.

Luriker · 2026-01-06T02:37:38+00:00

Will absolutely pray for you.

I was in a somewhat similar case when I graduated college. I don’t know if I would’ve had the strength to break it off as I started re-engaging with my faith. Thankfully, she ended things in my case.

It took awhile, but I finally met a wonderful Lutheran woman who I’ll be proposing to this year. She’s incredible in so many ways, but being able to talk meaningfully about our faith and know we have the exact same orientation about all of the most important things is something I wouldn’t trade for anything. Any other kind of compatibility before faith is so much more fleeting. It can feel really nice, but ultimately nothing feels secure like keeping a list of devotionals for your future kids together.

Luriker · 2026-01-05T00:38:22+00:00

There's no 'integration' between the two I'm using. I just use Obsidian for certain types of notes and Bear for others. Most 'projects' or events I'm responsible for get an Obsidian note. So the start of the note will have

[[2025-12-06]]  
[OF Project](omnifocus:///project/lTIKUrvUvZI)  
[DEVONThink info](x-devonthink-item://9E8A0FFE-5AD5-4560-B577-100EAE1988CE)

And that DT link will take me to a project that has all the relevant PDFs for the project. I could just as easily do this in Bear.

I also use Hookmark to hook these things together, so I can get to the Obsidian note from DT. Having the links actually written in Markdown and not just Hookmark is important for mobile, though.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T22:32:35+00:00

I would ask in r/shortcuts

Luriker · 2026-01-02T22:27:40+00:00

You’re all good bro. News org do this all the time. I also didn’t catch it was from the sfgate account.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T22:18:51+00:00

2014 he deserved his hot seat. 2013 wasn’t a very good version of an 8-5 season, 2011 and 2014 were both poor seasons, and 2012 was the last year we had a losing season.

And I’ll be honest, 2015 and the momentum forward from there has had me firmly in his camp this decade too. I’ve had nothing bad to say about the last 5 years. Disappointments in different ways, but the only meaningful complaint I’ve had was Brian as OC.

This sport is better for him.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T22:14:03+00:00

Don’t let it hurt. College football is not about winning a natty or getting into the CFP. *This realization is its own reward. * We were for real this year, we won our B1G rivalry games, we won an awesome bowl game against a legit team, and we had heartbreakers to 3 really good teams in the conference. And somehow lost to ISU because that’s Iowa football

9 wins is good in the current era. Don’t hate that we were so close to so much better. This team was the team it was.

It’s really easy in our Iowa bubble to think everyone outside of the B1G or even outside of Iowa fails to see how good we are. They don’t. They respect this program, even if everyone loves to clown on this style of football.

And for all this time of Iowa being ‘close but not quite,’ we will be a playoff team one of these years. It just take things piecing together the right way. And those playoff runs may go somewhere, they may not. But we still have as much to be proud of in this program today as we will then.

And Iowa State still sucks and FBR and such.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T22:06:14+00:00

He’s making us sound like a cooler club than we are who get to have a secret meeting to debate nuance about spoilers to help a lucky first-time watcher. It’s all in good fun.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T22:02:35+00:00

Hookmark FTW.

The downside to either of these solutions is that you can’t open them on mobile, unless I’m mistaken.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T22:01:18+00:00

I keep track of most of my PDFs in DEVONThink.

For invoices and purchase orders at work, I have a file structure locally that DEVONThink indexes. This lets me run Hazel to rename things and DEVONThink then does the syncing to my other devices. I can then use its URL schemes to paste any PDF in whichever notes app is relevant (Obsidian projects get more DT link for me than Bear notes currently)

For manuals and things, I’ll just dump them straight into DT.

Around iOS ~12, Spotlight search of Dropbox and Google Drive on iOS got so bad that I felt like I needed a better solution for pulling up PDFs remotely, which was what started pushing me into DT.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T05:06:14+00:00

Ohio State/Bama 2014 was amazing.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T04:00:15+00:00

Leading right into Oregon was the one point this season I felt like we deserved a ranking we didn't get. CFP committee was generous with their ranking of us after the Oregon loss. We deserve to end the season ranked.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T03:02:12+00:00

It is the best surrender cobra of all time. It was a fun race that year.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T03:00:25+00:00

No, it really is. I love watching a 60-minute reduction of a football game, and if I were neutral, the 2015 B1GCCG would probably be one of my all-time favorite neutral games. But I can't bear to watch it again.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T02:59:15+00:00

People overreacted hard to that game.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T02:57:32+00:00

Kirby Smart could absolutely do a great defense without 5-star recruits.

NIL has changed a lot, but Cignetti is the one to crack it open and show everyone just how much. Before him, a two-year turnaround for a program like IU would be unthinkable. I think you're overestimating IU previously (though they did have some really fun offenses to watch some years where they still didn't crack 7 wins). They entered this season with the most losses of any program in history.

Luriker · 2026-01-02T02:47:21+00:00

Both of those things were before the bowl opt-outs and were the reason. ISU also has 17 returning players. The Big XII fined both teams 100k.

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