Hackbraten

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   by Hackbraten 8y ago

   You may know it already but as a PSA: you can usually avoid source builds on `brew install` and `brew upgrade` if you do it without options (such as `--with-lldb`). Unless you customize your installation using options, Homebrew will install
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   by Hackbraten 8y ago

   Unless the user sets specific build options, or runs `brew install --build-from-source`, Homebrew installs core packages from a bottle hosted on Bintray by default. While I agree in that building from source is somewhat at Homebrew’s core (
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   by Hackbraten 8y ago

   Homebrew builds individual binary bottles per package and per macOS version, but not per target architecture. In other words: at bottle creation time (server-side), Homebrew tells the compiler to output code that runs on older CPUs. The dow
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   by Hackbraten 8y ago

   From https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/5383 : > This would have avoided Homebrew/homebrew-core#34754 which links to: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/
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   by Hackbraten 8y ago

   Alternative URL for readers getting paywalled by ft.com: https://google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www...
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   by Hackbraten 8y ago

   I’m not terribly afraid of Apple doing that move. With Core Storage, Apple already has abstracted away low level storage access years ago. Even if Core Storage was mandatory (which it isn’t), O3X runs perfectly fine on top of Core Storage e
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   by Hackbraten 8y ago

   If Facebook’s developer teams have faster build times, they can create more horrible, unethical, revenue generating features per hour. FB could have kept Buck for themselves but chose not to.
8. 1748.▲
   by Hackbraten 8y ago

   https://github.com/facebook/buck You’re welcome.
9. 1749.▲
   by Hackbraten 8y ago

   I agree. For me, APFS still lacks essential features, such as data integrity checks and advanced control over snapshots.
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    by Hackbraten 8y ago

    A standard developer certificate won’t help you for drivers (except for drivers that purely run in user space, such as FUSE filesystems). Anything that is a kext (kernel extension) requires a special kernel signing developer certificate so
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    by Hackbraten 8y ago

    Shitty geoblocking. Here’s a Wayback Machine link if you’re in the EU: https://web.archive.org/web/20181031154730/https://www.vox.c...