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by memco 5y ago
One thing that was slightly confusing in the initial announcement was that it was said to be released on a day when no OS update was happening[0]. I've been unable to find details of how the rollout was supposed to happen, but if no OS
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by memco 5y ago
Amethyst is another option, but doesn't require disabling SIP: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst . Does require accessibility permissions though.
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by memco 5y ago
I would love a more detailed change log of the actual OS level changes because sometimes there’s useful tidbits but you often have to be watching the WWDC content in order to see what will be in the upcoming OS. There have been some under t
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by memco 5y ago
ImageOptim was a favorite of mine. They have a standalone mac app and a webservice. It combines several of these tools into a single GUI.
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by memco 5y ago
For me the price of RAM and SSD were the downers. I was hoping that after over 7 years I'd be able to buy a new computer with more RAM and drive space without paying that much more, but to upgrade I'd need to spend $600. The RAM i
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by memco 5y ago
Quite! The article doesn't start off on a great note: > Fast forward to today. I have never worn my Target blouse. What had started out as ordinary now holds a special place in my closet, and no occasion feels quite worthy of my wea
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by memco 5y ago
Every time I hear an abundance of acronyms it makes think of this scene from Rocketman: https://youtu.be/ndj_dS4jImA?t=217
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by memco 5y ago
If you're interested in implementing languages in Python, I've been enjoying watching the development of Porth[0], a stack-based, forth-like* language on Twitch. * See readme disclaimer that there's no actual connection to Fo
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by memco 5y ago
I found this video on the topic very compelling: Intro to Empirical Software Engineering: What We Know We Don't Know • Hillel Wayne • GOTO 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WELBnE33dpY
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by memco 5y ago
I haven't made any moves away from Apple yet, but I'm cautious about upgrading because it isn't clear to me where the code for the scanning is in the current releases. They announced they were going to start scanning one day
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by memco 5y ago
> the classes they teach are easily the equal of the most interesting college courses I took at a very well regarded university If they can handle this, then they could take college level classes and get high school credit and college cr
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by memco 5y ago
> Also -- VSCode's shortcuts seem to map 1-to-1 to Sublime's. Is that possible? One difference I know is that putting a cursor at the end of each line is cmd+shift+L on Sublime and opt+shift+I on VSCode: minor, but some things
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by memco 5y ago
Sadly, No. Thanks to the way Python works when installed via homebrew on Mac this is actually very necessary if you want to install system-wide python utilities that do not depend on the system python. Without it you can have these utilitie
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by memco 5y ago
Even more fun is that there’s some receipts where the ink fades/rubs off in a matter of days so even though you have the paper receipt you still have no proof of purchase.
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by memco 5y ago
Does multicast have other uses outside of local network device communication? I’ve seen several apps trigger alerts that they want to access devices on the network if I grant permission and I’ve been saying no since I don’t understand why t
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by memco 5y ago
Use pipx-in-pipx to make it even more robust: https://pypi.org/project/pipx-in-pipx/
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by memco 5y ago
As a counter point: most IDEs come with defaults for many things and offer the ability to customize. Whether it's better to have defaults that you have to override or have no pre-configured tools seems dependent on the user and the too
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by memco 5y ago
When I asked about this on AT&T I was told that prepaid plans do not qualify for some type of peering system that increases coverage and reception by using other carrier's towers: I haven't looked into it more, but if this is
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by memco 5y ago
Apple is apparently still pursuing a copyright claim: https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/17/apple-appeals-corellium...
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by memco 5y ago
Very nice writeup! However, the example did not fully work for me. I could perform CRUD on a single tab, but opening the list in multiple tabs did not replicate the list or actions. Seeing this in the console: [Error] Could not connect
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by memco 5y ago
According to John Gruber this does work on SMS, but is a feature of the app, not the service: > It’s also worth pointing out that it’s a feature of the Messages app, not the iMessage service. For one thing, this means it applies to image
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by memco 5y ago
I heard in some other HN thread that the quality isn't that great on these. Was that an issue for you? I looked into NEC monitors, but they're a bit pricey. Does anyone know of other options?
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by memco 5y ago
> All-You-Can-Eat Broadband: Faster > ... > Indefinite: not worrying about running out of AOL hours, liberated from the tyranny of time metering and (mostly) bandwidth metering Except that some ISPs do have caps and going over re
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by memco 5y ago
> I am curious how that works for iMessage. I don't know the details here, but you can disable iMessage and just send plain SMS, which in theory does not send the data to Apple. But then, part of the point of using iMessage is that
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by memco 5y ago
This is answered in the article: > As an example let’s compare two hexes: > fc94b0c1e5b0987c5843997697ee9fb7 > and > fc94b0c1e5b0937c5843997697ee9fb7 > are they the same? Let’s use the random art to find out. Sometimes hashes
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by memco 5y ago
To me, it's not a checkbox so much as it is a tri-state progress bar: no progress, some progress, complete; and also the outlining of them sounds much like a compressed gantt chart [0]. As for the idea and power of lists, there's
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by memco 5y ago
> And they're digital images that won't fade. They might not fade, but they are augmented by noise filtering algorithms, HDR and other tech that still subtly affects the picture quality and perception.
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by memco 5y ago
One thing I didn't see mentioned is profiling. I'm really interested in the recently released Scalene tool: https://pypi.org/project/scalene/ , which seems to be a top contender to replace all the previou
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by memco 5y ago
I like to check smhasher for comparison of many hash implementations: https://github.com/rurban/smhasher . It’s a bit clunky to search for the exact items you want to compare, but there’s lots of data and a good summary
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by memco 5y ago
Why use the pool at all if you already have useful examples of inflow and outflow of money or another or the queue at the grocery store? Someone of age to understand flow rates of liquid would likely be able to understand money enough to be

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