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by dwaite 2y ago
Apple is odd in other ways. For example: Calculator on iPad. Once they had a few iPad releases without a calculator, they needed a sufficient _reason_ to release a calculator app for iPad. The product was gated by the narrative. There was a
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by dwaite 2y ago
I'll always slightly regret not getting a Mini, but 2020 was a really bad year for it to launch (when I didn't feel like the extra work needed to see one in person) and 2021 I actually needed a better camera. In retrospect though,
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by dwaite 2y ago
I'm confused. My understanding is that they didn't drop support for all Intel Macs in Sequoia. My 2018 MBP for example is still supported. The last Intel Mac Pro in your example is also still supported. My MBP hasn't hasn&#x2
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by dwaite 2y ago
> And they give it to governments upon request. So in other words, "companies operating within a nation are expected to abide by the laws of that nation"? Apple structures their systems to limit the data they can turn over by
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by dwaite 2y ago
> Apple is very intrusive. Macos phones home all the time. The platform is heavily internet-integrated, and I would expect it to periodically hit Apple servers. There are a lot of people claiming to be security researchers reporting what
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by dwaite 2y ago
The attestation on (FIDO certified) security keys is a batch attestation, and meant to correspond to a a batch size of at least 100,000. So they were effectively asking for the make and model. There are non-certified authenticators which ma
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by dwaite 2y ago
> Google pulled out of China over hacking and subsequently refused to censor My impression is that they had little chance to survive in a Chinese market, competing with a severely limited product against state-sponsored search products w
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by dwaite 2y ago
> they're silently managing an ads-funded cash cow, with billions of dollars that go directly to the bottom line, as pure profit Advertising isn't anti-privacy. Apple's fight was with tracking by third parties without user
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by dwaite 2y ago
You can by having an attestation of the signed software components up from the secure boot process, and having the client device validate said attestation corresponds to the known public version of each component, and randomize client conne
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by dwaite 2y ago
> Does anyone really think this is not already the case? I don't think this is already the case, and I think the article is an example of safeguards being put into place (in this particular scenario) to prevent it.
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by dwaite 2y ago
You may be able to make a case that Apple's model has less parameters or performs worse than other models on standardized tests. Thats far from being "inferior" when you are talking about tuning for specific tasks, let alone
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by dwaite 2y ago
I found a diet which is more carb-rich got my body used to wanting immediate energy from carbs. Capping carbs with a high (low PUFA) fat diet is a much easier ramp (for me) to keto, fasting, intermittent or omad.
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by dwaite 2y ago
You are as likely to have an Apple engineer create a bug report for you on Apple's forums as you are here. http://feedbackassistant.apple.com is where you file such requests. Just keep in mind that the wall they have betwee
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by dwaite 2y ago
This is a common storage vs bandwidth trade-off.
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by dwaite 2y ago
You may find the judge isn't willing to entertain a game of semantics. My understanding is it is as simple as the following: Google was ordered to retain information, and afterward specifically changed their policies such that the info
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by dwaite 2y ago
Is your corp under court order to preserve written communications? That may be an important difference between them and Google.
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by dwaite 2y ago
They were under order from the court to preserve communications, and changed their corporate policy to use channels that auto-deleted communications when talking about things that they might not want the court to see.
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by dwaite 2y ago
The words they said did not and could not capture your perception of the former Apple CEO. They are different things.
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by dwaite 2y ago
Even ignoring the software side, the current hardware leverages several sized components to get proper fit / focal length. I don't think it is really marketable as multi-user unless you can have it adjust to a face/head witho
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by dwaite 2y ago
The biggest impact is on generic code - you don't want supplying Foo? as T rather than Foo to mean that there are side effects where successful returns and error cases are both represented by null.
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by dwaite 2y ago
Probably. A case I see more often is a dictionary with nullable values. A T? return can't distinguish key missing or key present with null value. Which leads to a bit of an argument - nesting gives poor ergonomics, while collapsing imp
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by dwaite 2y ago
The primary advantages of passkeys are phishing resistance, uniqueness per site, and breach resistance. Phishing resistance is improved over what a good password manager can provide (unique passwords per site, checking web origin before pro
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by dwaite 3y ago
It is highly unlikely that iPads or AVP will ever natively run Mac apps. At best, you would be able to run MacOS as a VM with some clever maintenance/windowing/storage tweaks.
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by dwaite 3y ago
I don't think they ignored gaming; they just knew they would fail if they designed a gaming-first device. Their best bet to bootstrap the platform is to make it computing-first around the iPad platform, and that means leading with mult
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by dwaite 3y ago
Back in the day I read an article on HashLife in Dr Dobbs, which had a bit of an effect on me in terms of software architecture in terms of a set of new approaches, tightly coupled, providing astounding results. Are there other interesting
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by dwaite 3y ago
IMHO that is because the argument is generally about free vs open source, when really what people often want is more of an open and reciprocating community. The ability for multiple vendors to coexist as peers is a strong signal that it is
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by dwaite 3y ago
The other way to look at it - China's regulators give Apple explicit instructions, vs Europe complaining that things weren't done in the 'spirit' of the request.
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by dwaite 3y ago
Generally you don't use reference types until you encounter a need for something to be a reference type, such as being a reference to a particular resource, or for usage compatibility with an external system. For example, there are som
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by dwaite 3y ago
I'm very surprised they didn't do this over a decade ago.
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by dwaite 3y ago
> One thing about Apple is things can make sense for them to explore that don't make sense for others to. They have a big enough ecosystem, enough cash to do R&D on an idea for decades, and a culture of killing things that aren&

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