Sidnicious

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by Sidnicious 9y ago
I ran into the same UTF-8 decoder that you did ( http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/ ) and tried to better understand why it was fast. In the process, I wrote a naive UTF-8 parser that turned out to b
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
I would summarize the memo in one (long) line as: "Non-discriminatory [against men] ways to increase women's representation in tech include making engineering people-oriented (rather than systems-oriented), disincentivizing compet
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
I would guess that it’s given that capacity, but the memory is allocated lazily.
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
0x0 (since this thread has hit the reply depth limit): The filesystem on iOS isn’t exposed to users, so I would guess that Apple considers it a strictly developer-facing change.
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
iOS does that too — on-device! — but as a result may not identify as many obscure objects. Seems to handle common ones well, though.
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
I don't believe that the role of an OS maintainer includes blocking users from running any software. (It's OK to make malware difficult to run.)
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
Sorry, I wasn't thinking of the App Store. I read the original text as meaning that they might block cracked versions of Panic apps from running on Macs entirely.
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
> …breeze right through an in-retrospect-sketchy authentication dialog… I can't blame them for this. A surprising number of apps ask for root (inc. Adobe installers and Chrome). As far as I know, it's to make updates more relia
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
> And more importantly, the right people at Apple are now standing by to quickly shut down any stolen/malware-infested versions of our apps that we may discover. The "stolen" part bugs me — even though it would be incredib
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
Here are some options that I have experience with: - Time Machine with offline disks: Since Time Machine supports multiple backup destinations, you can use a Time Capsule or hard drive that's always connected to your Mac, and also have
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
I believe that the button is disabled because it's too easy to click by mistake. You can mute a tab in the right click menu without turning on any flags.
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
What luck! My dad's been keeping our PowerBook 180c in a closet for a special occasion. It looks like Apple, Amazon, etc. all sell electronic copies, it's just that they can only be read on approved devices, and only for as long a
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Does anyone know where I can buy this an an e-book without DRM?
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
It's not Night Shift — this seems to be fixed in 10.12.4. I filed a bug with Apple on it, and in November of last year they duped it to rdar://22180778 and said to expect a fix in 10.12.4… so I've been waiting eagerly fo
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
I've worked with Auto Layout a bit. - The GUI built into Xcode is usable once you learn its quirks (e.g. how to swap the relationship in a constraint so that it doesn't say that the right edge of some button needs to be -5pt from
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
iOS doesn't have UI to delete networks unless they're currently in range (except a big "Reset Network Settings" button). The only workaround I know of is to sync your networks with iCloud Keychain and use a computer to d
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
This is a troll/unhelpful comment… but I genuinely like the reminder.
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Side question: the last time I watched broadcasts coming out of my unassociated iPhone, it was specifically asking for certain SSIDs. The set seemed somewhat random (I've joined all of them, but not recently), and I don't think an
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
The whole client is open source: https://github.com/keybase/client As far as I know, it asks for root because the Keybase filesystem runs on Fuse, and the menu bar app can be quit from its menu. It's hard to balan
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
There seems to be a bug that affects Mac trackpads with momentum scrolling — when I scroll quickly zoom speed slows to a crawl, then gets faster as the momentum runs out. Otherwise, it's incredibly smooth!
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
The issue is that programs will behave unexpectedly unless they know and respect the filesystem's rules for case insensitivity (which might be tricky when you go beyond ASCII): $ touch Open $ ls open* ls: open*: No such f
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Here's the recording: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8151-dissecting_modern_3g_4g_cel... (I prefer media.ccc.de over YouTube because it lets you download the video in at least a couple of formats, and sometimes offer
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
How do you subclass an ObjC class from Rust — say, to create a delegate for a UI element? How is type safety handled? It looks like msg_send itself isn't type safe, but there are hand-written bindings… is that right?
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
I do the same (but installed to ~/.homebrew). No issues so far — if anyone knows why this isn't the default, I'd be interested to know.
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Hi Brian, I paid for Instapaper so that it could run in the interest of its users. If it's fully supported by Pinterest, then its value to users is secondary to the value of its data and technology to Pinterest. Why can't I keep g
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
I was going to say that it signals launchd's process group — every process spawned by launchd, which always runs with PID 1. However, the `kill` manpage confirms your hunch: -1 If superuser, broadcast the signal to all process
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
Definitely — Chrome sandboxes its renderer processes, for example. The tools are all there, it would just be cool if something glued them together.
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
I'd love a to be able to download a single file representing an app, double-click to install it (it doesn't matter where it lives on disk, as long as it's predictable) and then have the system facilitate sandboxing, permissio
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
No standard update mechanism, no standard uninstall mechanism, and going from "I have this .dmg/.zip file in my downloads folder" to "I'm running this app from my Applications folder and don't have any leftover
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by Sidnicious 10y ago
What's happening isn't what you think is happening. The parser creates an empty head element when it sees the <body> start tag, the second <head> start tag is ignored, and the <script> is treated as part of the

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