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by _rend 4y ago
My gut feeling is that there's a nontrivial chance that the moment 3rd-party app stores are available on iOS, Meta will immediately move their apps to one to work around privacy limitations the App Store currently imposes on them. I al
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It depends entirely on the size and quality of the candidate pool, but I'd say very roughly: * Initial candidate screening reduces the pool by 85–95% (leaving 5–15% of the initial pool) * Interview #1 reduces the pool further by 50–6
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by _rend 4y ago
Oh, for sure, that would be nuts. 0.1–1% of applicants .
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by _rend 4y ago
It depends entirely on priorities and circumstance. Some folks are willing and able to wait to work somewhere they feel is a perfect fit for them, or special in some other way; others may be interested in transitioning to new work ASAP (or
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by _rend 4y ago
I've found their apps to be (subjectively) higher quality than most OpenVPN clients on platforms I care about (macOS, iOS, Windows). It's nice to have a consistent UI, and not have to think or care about specific profiles — it&#x2
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by _rend 5y ago
> two years should have been enough for the producers to ramp up the production Along with what Kliment said about not investing in building capacity, I don't think this specific statement is necessarily true. Many of the original f
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by _rend 5y ago
This is far from a complete answer, and not unique to the chip shortage, but some context about some markets and industries in general for those wondering about "how could this be related to COVID?" It's important to unders
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by _rend 5y ago
Boring answer: macOS on my work and personal laptops (though personal doesn't see much use these days), Windows for desktop (mostly internet browsing + gaming).
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by _rend 5y ago
I agree entirely with your second paragraph, but regarding this: > hex string (which is entirely ASCII) My point is that JSON doesn't need to be UTF-8 or a superset of ASCII to be valid. It can be any representation of Unicode, in
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by _rend 5y ago
> Parsing this out of utf-8 encoding requires no knowledge of unicode or even utf-8. If you have valid UTF-8 already, then yes, the task is a lot easier. But depending on the level at which you're parsing, this might not be the case
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by _rend 5y ago
JSON[1], for instance, specifies: 1. "JSON syntax describes a sequence of Unicode code points. JSON also depends on Unicode in the hex numbers used in the \u escapement notation." 2. "A JSON text is a sequence of tokens forme
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by _rend 5y ago
IMO, Swift is a language that gets it right, by exposing an interface which feels to very closely match how "humans" understand text — the default String interface is a collection of grapheme clusters, while `.utf8View`, `.utf16Vi
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by _rend 5y ago
Would also highly recommend Tresorit for a similar E2EE service. (Not affiliated, just a happy customer)
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by _rend 5y ago
> 2. Length in terms of number of visible characters is the number of grapheme clusters. There's a fun subtlety in this case too: a single grapheme cluster need not draw as a single "visible character" (or glyph) on-screen
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by _rend 5y ago
Not sure how to feel about this. I will say that at least, as someone who already owns a reMarkable 2 who had access to these features already, I'll still have access to them: > If you bought your reMarkable before 12.10.21, we want
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by _rend 5y ago
Totally fair and reasonable! Too many banks here in the US too that both make it against TOS to get external access to your data and also refuse to offer anything secure like OAuth — extremely frustrating :/ At best you can try to pres
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by _rend 5y ago
FWIW, YNAB never receives or touches your bank credentials — sign-in happens through MX and Plaid, which hands back a token to YNAB to use[1]. For banks that support it, the process goes through OAuth and you sign in directly with your bank
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by _rend 6y ago
Not anymore, right? I've noticed that recently, many formula which don't longer require `/usr/local` specifically actually install from bottles, which has been neat.
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by _rend 6y ago
Along with Hackbraten's answer — I don't know if this would be more or less work for you but would a per-user Homebrew installation help? I don't have any multi-user machines but for years I've kept my Homebrew installat
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by _rend 6y ago
No, they only avoid being filtered by per-process filters. They can't bypass packet filters, by design; system-wide VPN connections work the same way, and cannot be bypassed.
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by _rend 6y ago
This already exists. Apple processes can bypass app-specific filters (NEFilterDataProvider), but not system-wide firewalls (like the built-in BPF), VPN configurations, etc.
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by _rend 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise The Three-fifths Compromise was a compromise reached among state delegates during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. Delegates disputed whether and
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by _rend 6y ago
Another good service to check out is Tresorit. I used Sync.com for a few years but switched over to Tresorit because it was cheaper (at the time at least), more stable for me, and has significantly nicer clients (and supports Linux + has gr
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by _rend 6y ago
Indeed, from the article: > About 2 weeks later I was approached by my boss. Someone told him that I had helped a friend with his computer. I told him that yes I had in fact helped a friend with a data transfer (something Apple does fo
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by _rend 6y ago
> Did you receive the Genius Bar contract and training regarding moonlighting. I did not, but if you did, I'd love to know more about what it says that I'm not aware of. If this was explicitly listed in your employment contract
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I mean, I was trained alongside retail employees and went through the same NDA processes and secrecy training. I doubt he made up the story — I fully believe he was fired for this reason, but it seems a lot more likely to me that someone wa
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by _rend 6y ago
As someone who has previously (recently) worked for Apple as a software engineer, I have a feeling there's something more to this story that we don't know about. There's nothing that would indicate to me any sort of conflict
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by _rend 7y ago
Another small screw-up anecdote: I once tried symlinking a file into my home directory, only to realize I had actually symlinked it into my current directory into a file called '~'. I did the only sensible thing I could think of,