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by pwinnski 4y ago
2016 Macs are not "unmaintained" yet. They should receive security updates for at least two more years, which will make them eight years old at that point.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It is not enough to explain it simply, one should also explain it accurately. They are still supporting Intel chips from the Haswell generation and later, although as plorkyeran points out, they can now assume AVX2 chip instructions are ava
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by pwinnski 4y ago
If something goes wrong with your machine and you've used OpenCore Legacy Patcher, then oh well, something has gone wrong. If something goes wrong with your machine and you've used the official update channel, then Apple has screw
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Quite the (wrong) assumptions, in service to a preconceived narrative. What you term "socialistic" countries handle government services via taxes more than levies on employers. It looks like the employer cost in China is 40.92%[0]
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Brother laser printers are life-changing. Set it and forget it, it just works, apparently forever.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
If the only advantage is for SaaS initial load time, then there are other solutions available for developers on a single domain (admittedly more complicated than "link rel=prefetch"). Meanwhile, the downsides and potential for abu
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sometimes duplicate or wasteful features[0], but hey, Chrome's got those features! Meanwhile, on interoperability[1], Firefox and Safari are currently at 84, while Chrome is at... 75. Once they update with this new release, Safari shou
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Indeed, RealPage is an acquisitive beast. Their Wikipedia page[0], as I write this, is largely a list of companies they've acquired. I know a lot of HN posters live in hope of developing something that will be acquired by a FAANG, but
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by pwinnski 4y ago
People get older and retire or die, and their knowledge is lost. So it has always been, and so it shall ever be. Somehow, we survive. Can we now build buildings that will last as the Coliseum in Rome lasts? Probably not. The people who knew
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Most of the plastic in the oceans is fishing nets[0]. Plastic isn't being shipped around the world to be dumped in the ocean, it's being dumped in the ocean by people fishing on the ocean. To reduce plastic in the ocean, stop eati
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sounds like your milkshake shouldn't be served in a clear plastic cup. Maybe take that up with the milkshake provider? Sounds like you've got a bad habit of throwing away reusable bags. Perhaps you need to reflect on how the first
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I love my bamboo straws, too!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This deserves a call-out: > On the other hand, simpler words and sentence structure give the reader the false impression that you're being more honest than you actually are. Demagogues (especially of the right-wing variety) have kno
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by pwinnski 4y ago
There is a good idea in here somewhere, but "write like you talk" is horrific advice that very few people should follow. "Write casually for a wider audience" might work. "Avoid complicated sentence structure and un
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by pwinnski 4y ago
My iPhone X served me faithfully for five years without issue until I replaced it with an iPhone 14 Pro. A lemon? They seem to have sold 63 million[0] of just that model alone, which was introduced the same year as the normal iPhone 8, so i
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I often think that Apple's real innovation with iPhone was how they contracted with Cingular before they were acquired by AT&T, and managed to completely bypass almost everything that was horrible at the time about phones. I think
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Apple goes to great lengths to make their case, absolutely. And yet still, even leaving aside your comment which seems to attribute the perception of difference to marketing rather than actual quality, still we get this response: "This
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by pwinnski 4y ago
"Thanks to [a lack of subtitles on all of my videos], I [choose] to delete my websites" rather than add subtitles.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
His videos aren't subtitled, and are required to include subtitles.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sure, that, among other reasons. If the goal is to always have the best thought-out and least-fragile solution for any given code operation, then the trade-offs are that it's possible the library solution is going to not fit quite as
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think you're demonstrating why libraries are slower.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
They can release an app, no problem.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Myles @ WebKit seems to raise some excellent points, but I'm not up on browser internals. The criticism seem very much in line with my understanding of motives and incentives within Google, which leads to much duplication of effort. Th
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by pwinnski 4y ago
"Nabla is currently only supported in Chrome." Oh yay, another Google invention for the web that others now have to support or be accused of holding the web back. Is it Thursday already?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think you're demonstrating why libraries are slower. For the specific use-case the OP had, the sorts of comparisons you're doing are unnecessary, so a custom-tuned compare is faster.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You missed the part about the support of the international community. At the time the US invaded Iraq, they (we) unfortunately had widespread support in the general sense, even if some countries were less supportive on the specifics. Intern
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm trying to resist a "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." response, but iOS already does voice-to-text, so it's hard to see what value-add this offers. I think the comment which inspired you was from an Androi
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm curious, if an arbitrary GitHub repo suddenly started attracting hundreds of terabytes of egress, violating GitHub's ToS, would GitHub manage traffic in coordination with the repo's owner, or would they disable the repo a
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You're halfway there. Now consider: why are people paying to put themselves in a light-security prison?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
At some point iOS added AI-driven "smart charging," and the first time I woke up to an 80%-charged phone, I disabled that feature.

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