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by astrange 1y ago
The main reason Google doesn't find good search results anymore is there are no good search results anymore because there are no websites anymore. You can't do it much better.
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by astrange 1y ago
You can get plenty of CC on a $20/month plan.
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by astrange 1y ago
No one said you had to leave the FS itself unencrypted.
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by astrange 1y ago
> Encrypted filesystems typically encrypt contents of each file separately - that way you don't need to read / write the whole disk to read it write any individual file contents. Ah, that's not true of "full disk encr
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by astrange 1y ago
That's better than what it usually is, teenagers asking "women, what's the sexiest sex you've ever sexed?" once a week.
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by astrange 1y ago
There are some reasons you'd want to encrypt even without a secret key. One is it makes it easier to erase data (just erase the key). It also makes bit flip errors a lot more obvious, which is another way of saying harder to ignore, so
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by astrange 1y ago
There's nothing necessarily interesting about quantum effects in the brain. Hard drives and other parts of a computer use quantum effects too, but it doesn't make them quantum computers. Penrose is just another person who thinks &
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by astrange 1y ago
The Deep Research mode is on rails, but they're much more generous with it than anyone else. You run out of Claude usage almost instantly if you use theirs. ChatGPT gives you a decent number but then locks you out for a month after tha
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by astrange 1y ago
You can limit them with IOMMUs. It's reduced to the power of a hostile process. Well, that's still bad if you're booted off it.
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by astrange 1y ago
That's not necessarily a good idea. Small vector uses rely on having nearly no overhead to be faster, so they can't use a generic system.
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by astrange 1y ago
The competition is grocery delivery, which is a lot cheaper.
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by astrange 1y ago
> Do you complain that Windows doesn’t have a bash or that Linux doesn’t support ACLs easily? Don't both of those exist now? The reason the Mac is more "app-centric" is Conway's law; developers own apps so it's t
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by astrange 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539633
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by astrange 1y ago
It's still there. They like saying things and not doing them. https://directfile.irs.gov So it's always possible they'll just forget to shut it off.
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by astrange 1y ago
Model training data already contains all the text there is[0], so they can already answer questions like this (especially with web search), but they aren't good at tax calculations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16126
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by astrange 1y ago
It's an implementation of the typeclass Monad, which happens to come with a special "do" keyword.
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by astrange 1y ago
> Apple had the money to support it, we both know that. Not possible without forking the OS. No amount of money can make software development faster forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month Espe
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by astrange 1y ago
The only Unix security boundary is between users. There isn't a standard boundary between "a web browser tab" and "the file with your credit card info in it".
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by astrange 1y ago
You can't start a second instance of an app. Or rather you can (run the app binary from the Terminal) but apps are not required to expect you to do this, and it would probably lead to data corruption from them writing to shared files.
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by astrange 1y ago
Also most mobile games written in C# use a conservative GC (Boehm).
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by astrange 1y ago
"I lose work when the power goes out" is not a feature. Neither is "I can't apply security updates because I can't restart". Speaking of security it didn't have app sandboxing either.
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by astrange 1y ago
It's impossible to care about video games if you live in SV because the weather is too nice. You can feel the desire to do any indoor activity just fade away when you move there. This is somehow true even though there's absolutely
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by astrange 1y ago
They can't do Khronos things because they don't get along with Khronos. Same reason they stopped having NVidia GPUs forever ago.
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by astrange 1y ago
> As a 'Pro' user my first expectation is options, options in everything I do , which MacOS lacks severely. It's a bad idea to add an option entirely for the purpose of making the product not work anymore. https:/&#x
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by astrange 1y ago
It does hibernate. It just takes a long time to do it because the experience of waking up from it is bad.
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by astrange 1y ago
OFDMA also makes it more useful, but I don't know if vendors actually use that in practice.
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by astrange 1y ago
It should not be slower. File a report in Feedback Assistant.
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by astrange 1y ago
The one who buys the Mac Pros is not the big spender; that would be the one who won't stop talking about his vacation homes and mechanical watch collection.
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by astrange 1y ago
Contacts should work best of all (lens inserts make the space a bit cramped in there), but if it matters you need distance correction instead of nearsighted correction, or whatever the term is.
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by astrange 1y ago
If Apple sold an Ouija board you could capture it after they're gone too.

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