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by danieldk 8y ago
It seems that Apple is working to add support for hardware tokens. It is all a bit vague, but the latest Safari Preview notes state [1]: Added support for CTAP HID authenticators on macOS It also gives me "Web Authentication" un
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by danieldk 8y ago
A big fine is nice. But until some high-level executives go to jail, they will do it over and over again. A fine is just an operational cost.
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by danieldk 8y ago
It is surprising how well it works. I tried a massive compiled Prolog TK application that has been developed since the '90ies. It worked perfectly without much effort. https://danieldk.eu/Posts/2017-01-10-Alpino-Wi
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by danieldk 8y ago
Overall Windows would become much more stable, they might be able to get some Mac users to switch and they could put more people on getting the UI right. Like a lot of my bolder predictions on each years list I got it way wrong. Why would
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by danieldk 8y ago
I literally go "Oh, OATH, never mind." Same here. But then I also started skipping Medium links for their obnoxious 'let's make it official' sheets. And as far as I understand, Oath is indeed not compliant with th
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by danieldk 8y ago
Note that for Rust programs, there is also cargo-asm : https://github.com/gnzlbg/cargo-asm (I frequently use Godbolt though, it's so nice for comparing across languages.)
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by danieldk 8y ago
Which gives (except for pdf.js) more PDF readers written in C, some with a long history of CVEs, and typically not sandboxed by default. Since many people are using a PDF reader to read PDFs from relatively untrusted sources, do yourself a
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by danieldk 8y ago
Maybe fewer cache misses in pointer-heavy data structures?
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by danieldk 8y ago
There was Veertu Desktop, which used Hypervisor.framework, but they have pivoted into CI for iOS. At some point it was open sourced, but it seems to have disappeared from their GitHub account. At least someone seems to have made a copy befo
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by danieldk 8y ago
How old? I have a Southern Islands card (GCN 1.0, FirePro W2100) and it works very well with the amdgpu driver. GCN 1.0 is from 2011.
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by danieldk 8y ago
Indeed. And on my NixOS machines I can even boot into any version of the OS that I haven't garbage collected. Also, I have found it easier to make reproducible environments everywhere in Unices. Nowadays, I just check out a git repo, r
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by danieldk 8y ago
What major laptops actually sell without a headphone jack? Apple, killer of the 3.5mm jack, still ships with a 3.5mm jack on all MacBook models.
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by danieldk 8y ago
I just converted one smaller crate and it was only about 5 minutes of work with cargo fix --edition . Especially because it does not matter that all the dependencies are still in Rust 2015. Besides NLL, I really like the changes in the mod
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by danieldk 8y ago
Given that running a Hackintosh often still requires using random unverified kexts from the net, I find it somewhat irresponsible to push applications built on such a system to your customers/users. How can you be certain that none of
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by danieldk 8y ago
Last time I tried, Chrome has to be on a wireless network and the computer on the same network. The access point also shouldn't isolate clients. Apple TV works with Wi-Fi Direct (P2P airplay) Edit: ah Chromecast guest mode works differ
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by danieldk 8y ago
I think they refer to conference room display: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202618 It's a mode where the Apple TV display instructions on how to connect with airplay and a pin code for authentication. It&#x27
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by danieldk 8y ago
They also have an extension (which is the default version on Linux/Chromebooks) that does not require the 1Password application. I have used it since the betas in Linux and it works nicely. Also, this thread seems to imply that having
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by danieldk 8y ago
The 142008 is to be expected. The page has 71003 code points, 2 bytes per code point (I guess that zh.wikipedia.org is simplified Chinese and normally only uses characters from the BMP) gives 142006 bytes. I'd guess that the two remain
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by danieldk 8y ago
I think it's also more space efficient when dealing with foreign languages primarily. For plain text, yes. UTF-16 covers the Basic Multilingual Plane in 2 bytes per character, UTF-8 covers the BMP in at most 3 bytes per character. Ho
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by danieldk 8y ago
By product differentiation. People who do not want or cannot spend a lot of money buy an older generation (currently iPhone 7 and iPhone 8), people who can spend more buy the latest iteration. With the watch there is also a lot of different
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by danieldk 8y ago
Indeed, and Apple's services revenue is also growing quite a bit. So, they'll want chunks of the market where it is also likely that people will be purchasing paid apps, iCloud storage, Apple Music, movies, etc.
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by danieldk 8y ago
Note that the grandparent said: Have any hardware companies ever written good accompanying software? I think this should be read as an existential quantification. Sure, not all Apple software is great, but for a hardware company Apple has
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by danieldk 8y ago
Not outside the US. E.g., in our apartment, we can subscribe to fiber, cable, and DSL. On fiber and DSL, there are many ISPs to pick from. However, the prices are still similar to the US (you just get a lot more bandwidth for the same price
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by danieldk 8y ago
If you are in the Groningen region for a longer period, I can highly recommended taking Frank Brokken's C++ course [1]. I took the course over ten years ago and benefitted from it many years thereafter. He is also a great and very ent
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by danieldk 8y ago
Not only macOS itself, but also many applications. OmniGraffle, Little Snitch, the Affinity apps, Alfred/Launchbar, Arq, Tweetbot, Paprika, Deckset, etc. (I use both macOS and Linux on the desktop.)
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by danieldk 8y ago
My personal computer is a 2015 and my work is a 2017, and there are zero features from the 2017 that I prefer. 4k@60Hz. The MacBook Pro 2015 with Intel Iris (I don't know about the Radeon GPU) only supports 4k@30Hz, which is terrible
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by danieldk 8y ago
Rust binaries include jemalloc. However, jemalloc is removed in nightly and by default Rust will use the system allocator: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/jemalloc-was-just-removed-... This should reduce binary sizes
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by danieldk 8y ago
I have some projects of that size (ballpark), typically using some Boost (but not heavy on meta programming), Qt, and the likes. A fresh non-incremental compile usually takes less than a minute. I have Rust projects that are many times smal
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by danieldk 8y ago
I think it depends a bit on which in part of the ecosystem you work. I do not do web applications at all, but use Rust for machine learning. Things like ndarray , petgraph , and the Tensorflow bindings have been very stable for me. The on
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by danieldk 8y ago
There are a lot of differences (improved camera, edge-to-edge display, Face ID, much better SoC). However, SoCs and cameras are already so good that the average consumer does not notice the gaps as they did with e.g iPhone 3G -> iPhone 5

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