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Pretty damn hot, hence the vent holes (aka 'speed holes') they had to add to the front of the case. This machine was at the tail end of the G4 CPU lifecycle, which started at 350 or 400 Mhz, iirc.
Designed and implemented a complex system to interact with the user's desktop session on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms to help manage documents and detect changes to files. Jack was already knowledgeable, enthusiastic, hard-working, and an all-around great guy when we started working together, but he had something more that has allowed him to become a wonderful writer, as well. Perhaps it's an ineffable, yet undefinable Nutting-ness. Whatever it is, Jack has become a genuine superstar of Apple and iOS development. The Mac may indeed keep going forever, as Apple executive Phil Schiller once notably opined, and though macOS may change, it remains the fundamental element that makes a Mac a Mac. Like the ship of Theseus, the elements that go inside a Mac may have changed—the hardware, the user interface, the design—over the last two decades, but the Mac.
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This is an essay on Brian Z. Tamanaha's Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law (2006).
For all but the most unflinching consequentialist, 'instrumentalism' tends to draw mixed reviews. So it does from Brian Tamanaha. His book, Law as a Means to an End: Threat to the Rule of Law, documents with measured diffidence the ascendancy and current reign of 'legal instrumentalism,' so entrenched an understanding of law that it is 'taken for granted in the United States, almost a part of the air we breathe.' Professor Tamanaha shows that in our legal theorizing, our approaches to legal education, our understanding of legal practice, and our perception of judges, legislators, and legal administrators, law is widely believed to be 'an empty vessel' that is 'open with respect to content and ends.' Often, Tamanaha seems to make the stronger claim that noninstrumental views of law strike our modern sensibilities as unreasonable.
Should this be of any concern? While Tamanaha intends this book as a warning against the peril that creeping legal instrumentalism poses for the rule of law, his criticism is tempered. On the one hand, he believes that we have already traveled a fair distance toward a purely instrumental view of law and that 'intellectual developments and the logic of the situation portend a worsening ... nightmarish scenario.' He aims to offer a 'diagnosis of our worrisome time.' On the other hand, he cautions the reader not to take his admonitions categorically: Instrumental views of law are often sound, and '[m]ore to the point, . . . here to stay'—a fixture of the 'modern condition.' Non-instrumental conceptions of law trade on 'large mythical components' that are 'patently implausible' today. Tamanaha concludes on an equivocal note, reaffirming his skepticism about non-instrumental theories and opting for circumspection, if not hopefulness, about the future trajectory of legal instrumentalism.
This tension runs throughout and is understandable; after all, one comes across as either unprincipled or insufferably out of touch by weighing in too heavily on either side. But it often leaves the reader wondering what Tamanaha is about in this book. As a work tracing the development of legal instrumentalism in the United States over the past two centuries in 211 pages, the book is readable, nuanced, and persuasive. But the book's remaining thirty-nine pages are less effective in explaining why Tamanaha seems so fretful about the rule of law or what accounts for the seemingly ineliminable impulse to affirm a non-instrumentalist view in the face of the contrary march of history.
This Essay speculates about an answer to these questions. It argues that one source of resistance to the inexorable progress of legal instrumentalism lies in the belief that the rules that guide our lives deserve our allegiance because they represent a structure of meaning that transcends our own finitude. Our opposition to legal instrumentalism reflects faith in the rule of law, the belief that the law bestows worth and possibility to its adherents beyond their historical context. Faith in the rule of law exists outside of what Mircea Eliade has called 'profane' time: the 'evanescent duration' of time linked to an individual's own life. Whether the law in fact possesses these spiritual dimensions is unknowable, so there is no way to test this faith. But the value of faith in the rule of law lies in enabling the believer to affirm an ineffable commitment to the law when rational grounds, though often available, are insufficiently powerful to sustain it.
This Essay uses Tamanaha's discussion of the rise of legal instrumentalism as well as his earlier treatment of the rule of law as a framework for examining the nature and strength of belief in the rule of law. It explains the significance of what Tamanaha repeatedly emphasizes is the crucial dangerous inability to believe that the law is anything but an instrument—by reinterpreting it as loss of faith in the rule of law. The Essay concludes by considering briefly whether there is inherent value in faith in the rule of law and what that value might be.
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Okay, that was… weird. Both more 'courageous' and conservative than what I expected, and a lot to take in, but here are some quick thoughts on the WWDC keynote and what it means for the Mac.
That New Look
The new look for macOS makes it seem like Catalyst is the new design language, and it makes me sad because I actually like the way macOS looks now, and the tradition behind some of it–after all, a few of those icons have been around (like me, really) since the NeXT days.
And I'm not alone in that. Because, you see, there is a visual identity to current macOS that is… Timeless. One of my kids, who uses an iPad daily and has recently started using a Mac for school, cried 'They are ruining the Mac!'
He never used a pre-Mojave Mac, and missed out on System 6, 7, 9, and the entirety of the Cocoa Wars.
And yet, he intuitively acknowledges that the Mac, as we know it today, is going to stop being its own thing and lose something ineffable. Much faster than what we expected, really, after so many years of being… the Mac.
Beneath The Glossy Bits
My biggest fear, however, is that staples like Mail.app will be broken beyond recognition (and usability), and that Big Sur will turn into an even bigger bugfest than 'Craptalina' (hence the title of this piece, which is not a typo).
That said, Rosetta 2 (and the promise of sustained performance that came with those demos), another Universal format, explicit mention of Docker (and a full-on virtualization demo), which imply a good degree of support for 'sideloaded' binaries, should go a fair way toward lessening the impact of the transition for most 'Pros' who are simultaneously 'non-Apple' developers (like myself).
But long(ish)-term support for Intel Macs for a few more years and the ability to run anyiOS app on a Mac (effectively rendering moot any qualms about the size of the ecosystem for ARM Macs, if there were still any) makes me somewhat excited for the Mac's future.
But for the moment, I must confess I'm still mostly terrified. And, in the upcoming years (especially with the siren song of AMD Ryzen CPUs and the ability to have a very powerful Linux/Windows machine for development–and for many people, for 'normal' gaming), it will all boil down to bang for the buck on the desktop.
That, of course, is the real question in terms of sustainability for the platform: whether or not an ARM mini or iMac will command the same kind of price premium that they've enjoyed so far, and whether we'll still be paying extra for less effective performance than mainstream machines.
Nobody really knows, but hey, we're finally getting browser extensions back, and maybe, just maybe, all Maps features will come to the rest of Europe in the meantime…
The Middle Kingdom
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Although the prospect of a much better Air (or 'MacBook darling') is attractive, I'm much more likely to invest in another iPad in the near future.
And in that regard, I like the idea of having proper first-party handwriting recognition (as would be expected if you read my piece on the Pencil).
Plus, of course, a decent UX for Siri (and phone calls) and Spotlight as it was meant to be (although I really wish it worked properly on macOS).
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First, what every red-blooded geek was really excited about: Foundation! Maybe it will keep me on Apple TV Plus, let's see.
The rest was… predictable, really, and widely leaked. Guess what, iOS now looks more like Android. Or like Windows Phone. Or (shudder) Vodafone 360, the grandaddy of Active Tiles.
Take your pick, but it's all good (especially on-device dictation and being able to pick default apps) except that:
- I couldn't care less about Messages. Really.
- I feel a little sad that they're effectively Sherlocking all the sleep tracking apps.
- I suspect they still have no clue about 'proper' Portuguese translations.
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But that's par for the course after all these years.
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Update: Apparently Shortcuts is going to come 'back' to WatchOS, restoring (at least some of) the functionality I loved from the first day I installed the Workflow third-party app and which was uncerimoniously removed two years ago.
