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alwillis
3y ago
I’d look at https://eclecticlight.co/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon/
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Apple Grabs the Top Spot in the Smartphone Market in 2023 According to IDC
(businesswire.com)
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3y ago
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Apple asks its San Diego Siri quality control team to relocate to Texas
(theverge.com)
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Apple Announces February 2 Launch Date for Vision Pro Headset
(macrumors.com)
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alwillis
3y ago
It shipped in Safari nearly 3 years ago [1] so it’s not that new. [1]: https://webkit.org/blog/11648/new-webkit-features-in-safari-...
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alwillis
3y ago
> Fortunately, it's easy to solve: just use an SSH CA Sure, you could use SSH certificates, but that does mean deploying user certificates to your users and server certificates to your servers, etc. And for some use cases, this woul
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MIT scientists are working on a vibrating obesity pill
(techcrunch.com)
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alwillis
3y ago
Oh yes—I remember it too. I also remember using UCSD Pascal on a 64K Apple ][ with dual 5¼ floppy drives.
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alwillis
3y ago
> The registrar controls your keys. I've been managing domains with DNSSEC for several years and I've always had control of my keys. Clarification of who controls what keys [1]: The TLD zone's private keys are manage
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3y ago
> Almost every time anyone mentions DNSSEC here on HN, you pop up like a jack-in-the-box to claim that nobody is using it and that it is dead. And it’s always you, nobody else. Yup. > You might have some valid criticism about the cryp
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From Shell to Plate: Savor the Zest of Fish
(github.com)
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alwillis
3y ago
> How is history recording in fish? I'd say it's pretty good; history gets saved in a human-readable format (YAML) in $XDG_DATA_HOME, which is configurable. A feature I really like: when retrieving completions from history, Fis
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3y ago
> explain what Fish does differently to zsh or bash Fish adds a bunch of features that, when you think about it, should have been standard a long time ago… like creating auto-completions from man pages, syntax highlighting on the command
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alwillis
3y ago
ProDOS was the first hierarchical file system I ever used… all the rest made sense afterwards.
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alwillis
3y ago
Just checked; macOS comes with Dash in addition to Bourne shell (sh) and Bash.
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alwillis
3y ago
It's not going to take 5 years… seems like a natural addition to the existing Time Machine feature.
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alwillis
3y ago
> What does vim support inside a block editor means? Users who care deeply about note taking want don't want to learn a new set of keyboard shortcuts and movements. Apps like Logseq and Obsidian (and many others) either support Vim-
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3y ago
> We live in a world where for every language there are build tools that know far, far more about the needs of that language environment than make, and thus are far better suited. Languages don't exist in a vacuum. A big reason for
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alwillis
3y ago
All I can say about these critiques: I learned make a few years ago and it wasn't nearly as bad as it was made out to be. As someone who cares about the aesthetics of code, I thought I would hate using make but I ended up enjoying writ
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alwillis
3y ago
> What’s the point of using another tool to manage your shell scripts though? Why not just use shell scripts. When you create a Makefile, you're describing a dependency graph of what depends on what and the order tasks need to take
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3y ago
> I wonder if anyone else other than me was insane enough to try and use GNU Make to manage dotfiles? Not a bad idea IMHO… thanks for the blog post. I'm tempted to try something similar.
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3y ago
Out of the box with no configuration, Fish shell provides target completions for a Makefile in the current directory [1]. [1]: https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html
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3y ago
> But make is widespread, ancient and eternal. It isn't going anywhere, despite decades of new tools trying to take its place. It does many jobs relatively well. Agreed--make is eternal. One thing that'll probably be true: in
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3y ago
> Make's core purpose is to execute commands, isn't it? How was it not designed to execute commands? Some people on HN believe that if you use make primarily as a task runner that you're doing it wrong and should use som
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After learning BASIC in high school, as a CS student in the early 80's, my intro to computer science classes were taught in Pascal. In college, we used DECWriter paper-based terminals and IBM 3270 terminals to write code. Our programs
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3y ago
Long before I could afford a computer of my own, I bought computer magazines… probably a few hundred after it was all said and done. Before the internet, before BBSes and before floppy disks, magazines were the way programs were distributed
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Fedora Linux available for all Apple Silicon Macs but one
(9to5mac.com)
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alwillis
3y ago
That’s a web developer problem, not a Safari problem.
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3y ago
Apple’s installed base is so large (around 2 billion devices) that if 0.1% of them verified their keys, that’s still a useful deterrent.
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SSH protects the most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker
(arstechnica.com)
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