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by alwillis 11mo ago
> these agents are not up to the task of writing production level code at any meaningful scale This is obviously not true, starting with the AI companies themselves. It's like the old saying "half of all advertising doesn'
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> I don't think so: JPEG 2000, as far as I know, isn't generally supported for web use in web browsers, but it is supported in PDF. Safari supported JPEG 2000 since 2010 but removed support last year [1]. [1]: https:/&#x2
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by alwillis 11mo ago
I'd like the aggregated feed. Thanks for considering it.
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by alwillis 11mo ago
Could you add an RSS feed?
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> Actual HDR needs at least 10 bits per channel and a modern display with peak brightness far in excess of traditional monitors. Ideally over 1,000 nits compared to typical LCD brightness of about 200. In the Apple Silicon era, the MacBo
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by alwillis 11mo ago
Yes, Cook was the COO during Jobs’ tenure. Before Cook, Apple’s supply chain and manufacturing was a mess—too many of some products and not enough of others. Back in the day, it was a running joke trying to buy products as an organization—t
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by alwillis 11mo ago
The P.A. Semi acquisition was huge of course but we shouldn’t forget during Steve’s absence, Apple used ARM processors in the Newton in the’90s.
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Apple Silicon Has a Real Problem: It's Just Too Good(inc.com)
9 points by alwillis 11mo ago|1 comments
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by alwillis 11mo ago
In what way is a non-profit such as Lets Encrypt attempting to monetize their customer relationships? They've issued more 700 million certificates at no cost. While I don't get the cynicism in this case, you would agree supporting
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by alwillis 11mo ago
BTW, all the recent certificate shenanigans have invovled for-profit CAs [1]. [1]: https://sslmate.com/resources/certificate_authority_failures
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by alwillis 11mo ago
> I worry that the CA is somehow compromised (state actor holding private keys, etc). "Somehow" is doing a lot work in that sentence. Operationally, there's no difference between the security procedures and requirements th
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by alwillis 11mo ago
SNAP recipients (about 42 million people) receive between $6-$10 per day in food assistance. $42 to $70 per week for groceries doesn't go very far in today's economy.
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The App Store Mini Apps Partner Program(developer.apple.com)
4 points by alwillis 1y ago|0 comments
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by alwillis 1y ago
Because computers don't boot the way they used to in the commodity BIOS era. The boot loader has to cryptographically check that it's valid operating system it's attempting to boot.
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by alwillis 1y ago
Just FYI: macOS has been a BSD-derived operating system from the beginning, using stuff from FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD on a Mach kernel. It’s a certified UNIX™ operating system. And because GPLv3 is incompatible with how Apple operates, t
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by alwillis 1y ago
> Apple loves to change which tools they ship, too, it at least have for the last few years as system updates were routinely breaking our build scripts at work, mostly when Apple would replace a GNU tool with a BSD tool without warning i
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by alwillis 1y ago
> Apple Silicon cannot boot Windows ARM That's totally up to Microsoft… they could done a licensing deal with Apple years ago to enable Windows ARM to run natively on Apple Silicon hardware.
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by alwillis 1y ago
Sure.
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by alwillis 1y ago
Casks save so much time compared to the normal way of installing Mac apps regardless of any background services.
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by alwillis 1y ago
> Most people I know are not installing too many casks I did a wipe and install of Tahoe like 2–3 weeks ago and used a Brewfile [1] I've had for years to install ~30 casks via Homebrew, including from the App Store, not to mention 5
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by alwillis 1y ago
pushing the terminal further while maintaining compatibility, performance and avoiding a terminal war with incompatible protocols is going to be a struggle. Unless someone creates a cross-platform, open source, modern and standards compli
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by alwillis 1y ago
> After years of using git I got back to svn You get the best of both worlds--a sane set of commands and a distributed version control system--by using Mercurial [1]. Checking Status: SVN: svn status Mercurial: hg status Adding Files: SV
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by alwillis 1y ago
> Am I the only one who simply doesn't mind Git's CLI? No, but by definition, Git's CLI doesn't scale for complex use cases. No one would voluntarily use the CLI for doing a complex 3-way merge if they could avoid it.
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by alwillis 1y ago
I’m not concerned; we’ve been here before with iPod Socks [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Socks
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by alwillis 1y ago
There are several really good Git clients for macOS: 1. Fork: https://git-fork.com 2. Kaleidoscope: https://kaleidoscope.app 3. GitUp: https://gitup.co 4. Tower: https://www.git-tower.com/
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Five Years of Apple Silicon: M1 to M5 Performance Comparison(macrumors.com)
30 points by alwillis 1y ago|11 comments
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by alwillis 1y ago
> I've seen lots of TUIs lately, why is that? What is the renewed interest? A few reasons: - for the most part TUI apps are cross-platform: macOS, Linux, BSD, Windows - they cut down on context switching. If you're already in t
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by alwillis 1y ago
You can have an i3-like window manager for macOS today if you wanted to [1]. [1]: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
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by alwillis 1y ago
> People should try Gitless first because it's compatible with Git. Thanks for the tip! Looks very well thought out.
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by alwillis 1y ago
Yes! Hoping I can get Neomutt to render HTML email without resorting to launching a browser. Since URLs are clickable in iTerm, you have the option to view a webpage in the terminal.

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