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Lack of interest is my guess. That plus someone in Apple imagining that it shouldn’t compete with Adobe Lightroom. Aperture, during its peak, was well liked by users. Many even liked it better than Lightroom. Even the iPhoto of that time (o
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by AnonHP 3y ago
Seems like this is restricted to a few Apple applications. Is there something more generic to run older software? There was a “Swiss Army Knife” application for handling media files (mainly audio and photos? I forget) called Media Rage, by
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> Thanks to O'Reilly for being clueful enough to sell non-DRM versions. Did O’Reilly start selling ebooks again? Directly? Several years ago it stopped doing that and pushed the Safari or O’Reilly subscription as the only way to rea
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> Microsoft is preparing to bring Amazon as a customer for its 365 cloud productivity tools in a deal worth over $1 billion, news site Insider reported on Tuesday, citing an internal document and a person familiar with the matter. > T
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> I worked at Apple years ago in Apple Retail. You haven’t said if you emailed Tim Cook to see if they take it more seriously. I’ve read anecdotes of some people getting their problems solved by writing to some top names at Apple. No gua
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> Not much of anything has changed in the last 6. Not really. It's still basically the iPhone X with a couple of screen size options. Yeah the chips are faster on paper, and the photos have gone from really good to better, but it&#x
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The Mission Life was stated as one lunar daylight period (14 earth days) well before the launch. You can see this in the Wikipedia article [1] and in the citation for it. So yes, it was stated beforehand. [1]: https://en.m.wikipe
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> or depressing the clutch if you have a manual transmission What exactly does depressing the clutch do as compared to not doing it and starting the vehicle in neutral? Is it to reduce the engine load further? Or something else?
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> Stopped reading at first point Reading it and then concluding what it is or who it’s meant for is worth it. I read it long ago and found it interesting.
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> It you eat a ton of salt, it’s likely that the source is food that isn’t healthy for you to begin with. While generally true, I don’t think this holds good everywhere. I recall watching some episodes of “Salt Fat Acid Heat” where the a
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Is the blood pressure increase (with increase in sodium intake) temporary, which implies that the body gets used to the increased sodium and blood pressure drops back to some average/normal level after days or weeks of the new intakes?
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Borg 2 has been in development for nearly a year and a half [1] and may probably be released early next year, i.e., early 2024 (just a guess, seeing that even RC1 is not yet released and seems to have a lot of work to be done). Does anyone
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> Given a person, define “God” to be the mean opinion vector, taken over the members of this person’s tribe. Most people on the planet would have an opinion that “having more money” is a good thing. Does this mean money is god for most p
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> God is, of course, beyond all our understanding, and we can never fully know So why “him”, “he” and other patriarchal references if god is beyond all our understanding? Haven’t you just created god in your image?
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I’d suggest that you lookup and learn keyboard shortcuts. Going up a directory is Cmd + Up Arrow, going to Desktop is Cmd + Shift + D, going to Documents is Cmd + Shift + O, going to Downloads is Cmd + Option + L, Cmd + Shift + G to bring a
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> Why you can’t toggle between different instances of the same app by default is beyond me. I’m not entirely clear on what your requirement here is. Historically, Mac OS X/OS X/macOS has had a different app and windowing model
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The main reason I’ve avoided Hetzner storage box is because they don’t accept loading money into the account as a prepaid credit for a longer period. It’s always a month-by-month payment. Ok, so they do allow it, but only through a bank tra
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Editorialized title on this submission. The year of this article is 2022, which isn’t reflected in the HN title.
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> (sidenote: even if you don't have a dynamically linked program, you still will need dynamic loading - modern statically linked binaries use a feature called Address Space Layout Randomization which (ab)uses the implementation of
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Also (a little tongue in cheek) uninstall MS Teams. It doesn’t work well when there’s enough free memory and brings the system to a crawl if some other applications are using more RAM. Once you do that, get rid of Outlook.
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The complexity with S3 or Backblaze B2 is the granular pricing for various operations on the service. It’s difficult to optimize costs compared to a fixed “$X per GB” pricing that’s easier for people to understand and forecast expenses a bi
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You can get a HN reader’s discount on rsync.net (email them to ask for it or search on HN), bringing the price down to $0.12 / GB, and everything else remains the same.
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It’s meant for people who have a lot of duplicate data and store small files. Anyone who has data that cannot be deduplicated much would be paying tons of money. While on the price, patio11 (Patrick) has written an article about tarsnap’s i
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It’s hard to say what’s a long lasting bubble and what’s not until a lot of time has passed. I think one decade is not enough. I also believe that most of the cryptocurrencies (among the thousands of them) don’t live up to the main claims f
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If you had stopped with your first paragraph, I would’ve agreed with you. The second paragraph is hyperbole, and is no better than what the loudest cryptocurrency enthusiasts would say about your banks and your trust systems. To make bold c
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Thanks for mentioning this, even though it’s not open source. I wanted to check the business model and pricing, and found the FAQ on pricing refreshing to see. [1] Unfortunately, a $5 per user per month kind of fee may be out of reach for p
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I've seen a lot of commenters on HN like Fastmail and have nothing but praise for it. But I disagree with > all come with a modest price tag The price tag may be modest for some people, but is not for everyone. If someone needs one
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HN is not designed well for desktop either. The voting buttons are too small and close to each other. I’m sure every HN user on every platform has clicked wrongly many a times.
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HN is not backed by a large organization/company and does not have money to employ a few people to redesign the site and make some long desired and badly needed improvements. /s While you’re complaining about link sizes, did you n
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> IMO, there isn't much importance to sideloading at personal levels. As someone who has jailbroken iOS devices in the distant past, the conveniences and user interactions supported by Activator and SBSettings more than a decade ago

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