Scapeghost

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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Where did that come from? Apart from games that were obviously optimized for Windows first then ported to macOS, has that claim been measured? Because macOS has always certainly FELT faster than Windows.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Ah I thought the parent comment meant that only humans dreamt.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Google's info box for giant octopus confirms right away that, yes, they too live for 3-5 years.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Their documentation still encourages unnamed parameters: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.drawing.r...
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
"Reading" code in this sense doesn't just mean explicit review by different people, but also as in reading it subconsciously as you scroll through your own code. If I see a chain of numbers like 1, 2, 3, 4 my brain has to rec
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
That verbosity isn't even a big deal as you write once, but read many times. One of the first things about Swift that I fell in love with was the difference between things like DrawRect(10, 20, 30, 40) in languages like C#, and DrawRec
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Because genocide would cause corresponding repercussions, of course. :) If you eliminate a radial intelligence somewhere they eliminate an axial intelligence somewhere. Roundabout hindering them is clearly allowed. It may even have been a c
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
So octopuses are very intelligent, and very alien. Anyone who has even casually read or watched videos about them will know this. But their potential is cut short by their incredibly short lives (like 5? years at the higher end) which seem
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
What? I am pretty sure many other animals dream, as would anyone who has pets or observes animals.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
I don't mean just literal garbage, but more like side-effects of "exotic" technology that messes with the fabric of space and stuff like that. Like was it The Three Body Problem or some other story where an alien species’ fas
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
> - definitive sink to send all of our nuclear waste (it would be the /dev/null of the Solar System) Now, black holes probably aren't known to be gateways to other locations, but that comment made me wonder what if they ar
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
> I usually do chflags schg instead of chmod 000. Thank you. This was the best tip to come out of this whole discussion. I'll identify every location Google apps write to, and lock them out with this.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
The Mac App Store updates automatically. You see a download bar on app icons in the Dock and Finder while they are updating, then a badge (blue dot prefix before the name) on recently updated apps. Rarely (i.e. on new user accounts) it may
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
> Last excuse I saw was "we need to scan for subtitles". Yeah, right. Yeah, that's not even a valid excuse! Once a user manually selects a file, the macOS sandbox also gives an app access to any "associated" file
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
I would change that to just /Library/Google/ to prevent Google from putting ANYthing outside its .app bundle or the normal user preferences folders.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
@norberg or any other Google Chrome/Keystone engineers: WHY can you not make Chrome update like every other sane, well-behaved app? Update notification -> User confirmation (or an OPTION for auto-updating) -> Download status. Why
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Yes, it's one of the first things that befuddled/frustrated me on macOS after coming from Windows (not that that was much better). Dropbox apparently also used to show you a fake system password dialog which saved your administrat
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
iCloud mail + the default Apple Mail app has worked fine enough for me for a decade. What does Gmail offer that you can't get on other services? (honest question) Gmail's mandatory phone number requirement upon registration and in
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Shouldn't the title be "Are the Saudis lying about their oil production?" or remove the ?
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
I've always hated that "service" (more like malware given this news) like everything else that installs itself into the autolaunch sequence without permission, and remove* it whenever I notice/remember it, but it keeps c
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
There's another category: 5. The culture generally has no concept of placing monetary value upon intellectual property. I'm from a "third world" country, and throughout my life, I have almost never known or seen anyone p
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Is there any facet of human society that hasn't been subverted by the relentless pursuit of profit? Other than heavy-handed regulation (like verifying each and every account as unique), some form of guaranteed minimum income may be the