plorkyeran

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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
Yes. Apple's not going to come after you for running too many VMs on your personal machine, but if you're running a commercial enterprise involving macOS VMs they do care.
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
AI company marketing is pretty overwhelmingly "we're going to take away your job and leave to you starve on the streets". People concluding that the public face of this is their enemy who must be stopped is just a really unsu
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
> Apple Community #250867747: macOS Catalina — "New TCP connections can not establish." New connections enter SYN_SENT then immediately close. Existing connections unaffected. Only a reboot fixes it. This is a weird thing to ci
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by plorkyeran 6mo ago
Oats are 1/8 protein. Dismissing "extra nutrients" as just more carbs is how you get scurvy.
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
If you can’t get volunteers for a defensive war then that says a lot about how much the people living in your country value its continued existence.
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
Anthropic owns Bun, so they presumably did not directly pay for anything.
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
As is noted in the article, selling band shirts was not yet common practice when the Ramones starting doing it. Until Napster came along tours were marketing for albums, which were the primary revenue source.
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
That specific Macbook Pro model is famously bad to the extent that people have tried to suggest Apple made that generation intentionally bad to make the m1 look more revolutionary. The Neo's still not going to be better performance whe
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
Are you saying that when you tell uv to install a package you aren't asking it to make outbound connections to download the package from PyPI? The telemetry in question is just setting an appropriate User-Agent header with only sligh
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
Bad security UX that results in users bypassing security mechanisms entirely is probably the single biggest source of real-world security problems.
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
It's not as bad because it's a much faster fade in, but I still find it incredibly obnoxious.
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
I also notice that in the very first graph bank teller jobs were growing rapidly until ATMs started to be deployed, and then switched to growing very slowly. That sure suggests to me that if ATMs didn't exist bank teller growth would h
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
He is not getting options. ISOs have some interesting tax properties that are completely irrelevant to this.
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
Google invented the basis of LLMs, but under Pai failed to come up with the idea of ChatGPT. Getting Gemini into a workable state required the return of Page and Brin. It seems to be working out for Google, but how they got here is a very b
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by plorkyeran 7mo ago
Getting a lump-sum payment at the end of three years is worse than getting paid incrementally, and is sort of the opposite of how insurance companies make money (which is taking frontloaded payments for long-term liabilities and investing
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
Everyone who has put serious effort into analyzing crash reports en mass has made similar discoveries that some portion of their crashes are best explained by faulty hardware. What percent that is mostly comes down to how stable your softwa
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
Other than a brief huge burst of interest at the launch of WoW classic, retail WoW has consistently been significantly larger than Classic. Classic WoW has been a success, but killing the modern game in favor of something more like Classic
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
That lawsuit happened in response to Window 2.0, and the fact that they adopted overlapping windows in 2.0 strongly suggests that Microsoft did not think that the change would lead to legal action and was taken by surprise.
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
That one's been there since the very early days of Netscape Navigator. It's been a few decades since I last clicked on it, but that's mostly because I haven't set my desktop wallpaper in a few decades and I suspect using
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
Link "cleaning" will sometimes just break a link entirely since it's a heuristic-based thing that removes query parameters that appear to be nonfunctional tracking parameters. Doing it by default would be setting up users for
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
At least 40 years, since it was already present in Windows 1.0 (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-SuAaYDZIk for an example).
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
Limiting the supply of migrant labor drives costs up , not down, and the ICE raids have had a significant negative effect on businesses reliant on illegal immigrants.
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
The one really funny feature of Objective-C++ is that it lets you write C++ using modern C features that haven't been pulled into C++, and you don't have to actually use the Objective part. Designated initializers before C++ got t
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
nonnull doesn't really do anything in pure objc. It warns if you assign the nil literal to a nonnull pointer and that's it. The annotation is almost entirely for the sake of Swift interop (where it determines if the pointer is bri
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
The primary hard part is testing the old versions. Xcode has decent backdeploy support (Xcode 26 supports targeting iOS 15, the final version to run on the 6S), but there's no way to actually verify that it works other than on an older
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
I touch JS that uses var heavily on a daily basis and I would be incredibly surprised to find out that I am alone in that.
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
This is exactly the sort of error that a human with a slightly incorrect mental model for something makes all the time.
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
It’s not LLM-generated, just simple plagiarism and bad editing. Click through to the quoted tweet at the start of the article and you’ll get the article with less awkward English and without the bolted-on conclusion. In the original tweet t
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
That was not at all the universal response to the iphone. http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone is a (nsfw) contemporary article that I agreed with at the time, and I knew a decent number of people who got
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by plorkyeran 8mo ago
I've worked on software where we had multiple maintained release branches and we always just worked off master and then cut long-lived release branches from master at some point. Once a branch was cut we'd never merge master into

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