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by comex 5y ago
Read the letter again. Epic is saying that Apple changes the rules, it will resubmit Fortnite for iOS; if not, it will only resubmit Fortnite for Mac and use the account to internally test Fortnite for iOS; either way, it will follow the r
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by comex 5y ago
What in MSL is based on Objective-C?
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by comex 5y ago
The grandparent comment is misleading. To quote the Microsoft post (and I checked, it didn't change in the last few hours): > Beginning today, you can now completely remove the password from your Microsoft account. Use the Microsof
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by comex 5y ago
Splitting debug symbols into separate packages is expected. Splitting them into a separate repository is a bit surprising but no big deal. The problem with NixOS is that it doesn’t ship debug symbols at all. Nix does at least make it easy
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by comex 5y ago
I bet it’s for legal reasons. With “Linux Subsystem for Windows”, the owner of the Linux trademark could hypothetically sue Microsoft arguing that consumers could misinterpret the name as meaning a part of Linux, or an official Linux produc
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by comex 5y ago
Rust also has panics as a separate feature from errors-as-values, same as Go…
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by comex 5y ago
> So the notion that someone would put a video camera feed on the internet was at the time completely uninteresting. This is the most “future is already here – just not very evenly distributed” quote I’ve ever seen. :)
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by comex 5y ago
> This means no checking for OpenBSD specifically but instead feature sniffing for their presence. Indeed it sniffs for any functions named pledge() and unveil() that exist in any library loaded into the process… and then assumes that,
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by comex 5y ago
When it comes to Python on macOS, the only version that’s installed by default is the deprecated copy of Python 2.7 that’s slated to be removed in the future. For Python 3, you need to install the developer tools. (/usr/bin&#x2F
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by comex 5y ago
> Imagine instead that each program controls a special area under /proc/(pid)/ which behave like tmpfs to that program: named interfaces are subdirectories, messages are files. This is basically how Plan 9 works (or so I’v
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by comex 5y ago
> Huh, does python not have a way to flock a file itself? It does. ( https://docs.python.org/3/library/fcntl.html#fcntl.flock )
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by comex 5y ago
> But if they don't agree, then no legal mechanism exists to keep the "customer" from getting those shapes from someone who doesn't impose a contract, since anyone can peddle the same letterforms without violating cop
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by comex 5y ago
> Once a typeset character sequence is printed or rasterized and flashed on the screen, any license that a foundry cooks up trying to control that use would be unenforceable. That's not true. Distributing letterforms wouldn't
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by comex 5y ago
Back to the Future has what looks like a TARDIS as well. Although… so does The Matrix , for some reason. Phone booths did play a minor role in that movie, but I kind of doubt that’s the reason. It would be interesting to see the exact
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by comex 5y ago
Google and Apple's engines are open source (and Microsoft now contributes to Google's). What would be the benefit of a separate reference implementation of this standard? I suppose it would be easier to port to other browsers if
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by comex 5y ago
> And as it has now been widely reported, vaccinated can not only catch covid, they have the same viral load as unvaccinated and can infect others. They have the same viral load if they get infected. But the mRNA vaccines still reduce t
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by comex 5y ago
This is not how macOS's code signing system works; e.g. it does not use .cire files. I tried installing two of those applications and I can't reproduce the error myself, but I can see the "Error loading the application. Conta
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by comex 5y ago
More nits: - In Fig. 6 (Scenario 787-08), lines 2-4 appear to be truncated. [edit: I see you already responded to this elsewhere in the thread.] - The layout of the figure labels is confusing; at first glance it looks more like they're
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by comex 5y ago
One thing parallel can do better than xargs is collect output. If you use `xargs -P`, all processes share the same stdout and output may be mixed arbitrarily between them. (If the program being executed uses line buffering, lines usually
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by comex 5y ago
That quote from the Post article completely mischaracterizes what the judge actually wrote ( https://a.qoid.us/uv6f2a9c1458eb949d.pdf ): > If Section 7465 had not been included, the Legislature could amend Proposition 22 b
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by comex 5y ago
Read the ruling: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0cX7qwGAjt1KIb8JSCUUKLqDA... In short, California’s Constitution says that the Legislature has “plenary power, unlimited by any provision of this Constitution, to cre
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by comex 5y ago
Note that, although it was published recently, this article covers macOS 11 (Big Sur) which released last year, not macOS 12 (Monterey) which is in beta.
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by comex 5y ago
Which mitigations exactly? macOS has enforced W^X in most cases for many years. As for the two mitigations mentioned in the article: NO_SMT seems to be equivalent to Linux's "core scheduling" feature, which landed recently [1
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by comex 5y ago
No, because the second hash is only performed after the first hash has already matched, and so, using the threshold secret sharing crypto, the server has learned the escrowed encryption key for the image. (Well, for its “visual derivative”
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by comex 5y ago
It doesn't. Indeed, when it comes to libc and other system libraries (or really most C libraries in general), the Rust ecosystem relies on hardcoding the ABI of every supported platform. It's theoretically possible to use bindge
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by comex 5y ago
The number of vaccine breakthrough cases leading to deaths is rather low, but not zero. There have been hundreds of them in the US: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/us/covid-brea...
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by comex 5y ago
At least browser extensions will be a thing as of iOS 15.
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by comex 5y ago
Here's my version, which has one loop for increasing sequences, and another loop for decreasing sequences. I think that makes it easier to understand what's going on. It properly handles runs of equal elements, and it handles ne
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by comex 5y ago
For some definition of “working on”. The RFC was accepted several years ago, but nobody has stepped forward to actually implement it.
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by comex 5y ago
> Usability is so much more important than using extra 300MB of memory being electron. I don't know if it's more important, but certainly, Electron apps' poor usability is another reason to avoid them. While there are exce

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