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by _bxg1 6y ago
Good. This was by far the biggest gaping hole in iOS's privacy surface. It's really egregious compared to everything else.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I wanted to comb through the code without cloning, but can't tell if that's possible with the git web UI they're using. Anybody know if it is?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
You can't automate hunting through forums and applying the incantations found therein, and most of the things you learn by doing so (in this context) are only useful for solving a very narrow subset of adjacent problems; they aren&#x27
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by _bxg1 6y ago
"Making the world more open and connected"
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by _bxg1 6y ago
That's true- and macOS has plenty of things I reconfigure whenever I set up a fresh install too, so I guess you could argue that takes up just as much time. I would say it's a do-once-and-forget thing, but then I'm sure there
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Personally I couldn't care less about either one for gaming; I would never spend money on gaming hardware and then put anything other than Windows on it. I would certainly do Linux over a Hackintosh any day, because for me the entire p
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by _bxg1 6y ago
That's not remotely relevant to what was being asked
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by _bxg1 6y ago
George Zimmerman was not a police officer
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Ironically, I first used it in 2010 It's definitely gotten better over the past decade, and maybe the jab is a little unfair if you're using off-the-shelf Ubuntu on very vanilla hardware. But that's mostly what I do when I
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by _bxg1 6y ago
A highly-granular system can be organized under a simplified, streamlined, user-friendly interface. I fully believe that this could be made to work well.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
And this is what Apple has always been best at: taking technologies that already can work and making them into a product that does work, without hassle, for most people.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Maybe what we need is a granular permissions model for all executables, including those in the terminal. Instead of the binary choice between "this code is allowed to rewrite my operating system if it wants to" and "this code
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> Linux is only free if your time has no value Hah, that's great. I'll have to tuck that one away.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Great in some ways and terribly in other ways. I started off by discovering that social obligations were a huge stressor for me: I often wanted to do things by myself, but I nearly always felt guilty about it, dwelling on all the friendship
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by _bxg1 6y ago
From what I can tell this has nothing to do with that. Anything that could be considered commerce or an exchange for goods (even abstract goods) falls outside of it. This only applies to donations ; it's just that the internet has cre
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by _bxg1 6y ago
That's a strange law. I assume it serves some purpose (or must have served one when it was introduced, at least). What's the argument for it?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> wondered how hard it would be to do a physics engine from scratch It's extremely easy to get started with the basics, and then there's a long ramp of increasingly difficult features you can implement. So if you're doing
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Most toolchains are cross-platform already. Even some that build to native code. Systems programmers may steer clear for a while but they probably already weren't using Macs.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Pretty exciting. I've tried to get into Unreal before due to its graphics system, but gotten scared away by modern C++. This could seriously undercut one of Unity's last major advantages.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> how slow it's been adopted My impression is that basically all web-based games use WebGL or Canvas these days. Now, most WebGL users are really using something higher-level like Three.js or Unity. But I don't see it being und
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The $1M Lord of the Rings Game Pitch That Went Nowhere(kotaku.com)
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It just wouldn't make a shred of sense. iPads have real keyboards now. A crippled macOS wouldn't have a purpose in today's world. It would make more sense to drop the category entirely than to dumb it down, and if they made
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Tip: Cmd + backtick cycles through windows within the current app. Once I learned this I much preferred the Mac's way of grouping windows by app.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
macOS installers exist; I think they were used more commonly before the .app format, but that's how you get the Windows situation where the "uninstall" operation is a crapshoot because relevant files are scattered across your
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I actually feel like I have even more precision on a touchpad because I'm not sliding around a weighted object
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> Simple, useful information. For you and people like you. Those people make up a minority of Apple's audience. It would be stupid for them to alienate everyone else in their marketing materials. But that doesn't mean there isn
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Yeah, the UI refresh they did a few years ago (Yosemite I think?) always felt like a halfway-done, superficial coat of paint to try and eke out some brand unity. Big Sur (I'll never be able to say that with a straight face) seems to be
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I swear they're just trying to see how far they can go with these names until people are unable to say them with a straight face
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The transition plan (dev tools, universal binaries, Rosetta 2, performance under Rosetta) looked really solid if I'm being honest. We'll see how they execute it but I'm optimistic that this will be smooth.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
An often-overlooked quality of any new language is the set of things that you can't do in it. Some features can only be accomplished when certain negative guarantees can be made about programs. And it's really hard to implement

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