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by rbrtl 6y ago
Apple's terminal environment is POSIX-like. PowerShell was always a bit of a lame duck, or Microsoft wouldn't have bothered with WSL to get real power users to stick with their platform.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Why don't you buy an iPad and run a terminal/VNC app?
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by rbrtl 6y ago
So... don't buy it? Unless you think it's the best hardware on the market at the best price point. And what makes you so important that every hardware provider has to bend to your will? I can't run Shor's Algorithm on my
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by rbrtl 6y ago
How will Apple take away your options? That's what's difficult to understand. Either the FOSS/DIY approach has merit and will continue to thrive, or it'll die because it becomes impractical, neither of those courses have
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I think the reactionaries in any of these conversations are the ones advocating that Apple not improve security, i.e. that they don't make progress in protecting their users. There are many reactive voices speaking out in support of Ap
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Security is the antithesis of convenience. Would you rather they send every unit out with Frontier Law levels of user protections? Every graphics artist, musician, businessperson, student, and Joe Bloggs who buys a Mac needs to study the im
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by rbrtl 6y ago
And that would be the difference between a CS curriculum and a Software Engineering course that someone might attend anywhere other than a Top 100 university. They are discrete curricula and the criteria to get on to SE tend to set a lower
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by rbrtl 6y ago
It was changed after the event and is now 12 hours. Which is probably more appropriate considering that most people don't restart their applications every few minutes.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
In answer to the first: Because the information is unreliable without more invasive technologies ensuring that the local file is up to date. To the second: Perhaps not, but if the information on bad actors (app distributors in this instan
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by rbrtl 6y ago
We're talking about the ads in apps here? It's hilarious: most of the journalism I'm finding via DDG search is anti-Apple from the advertisers perspective. All these bloggers and Forbes writers decrying the fact that Apple ke
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by rbrtl 6y ago
To which ad network are you referring? They have a couple: https://searchads.apple.com , https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/adguide/apda0878bbd9/i... . They cover ads in Apple News, the App
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I shortened the TLDR: TL;DR: don't click ads
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by rbrtl 6y ago
> I just want to encourage better ways of writing, thinking, and publishing. You could use more encouraging language. Phrases like "I don't care" and "[don't] have time for bullshit" make it seem exactly lik
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by rbrtl 6y ago
> one can purchase a similarly spec'd laptop for a fraction of the cost of a MBP Is this true? Do you have a spec sheet? My own research suggests for about the last 5 years Apple hardware has been pretty competitive.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
http://gcfp.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/BailoutsV12.p...
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by rbrtl 6y ago
MIT Distinguished Professor of Finance, Deborah J. Lucas, who is also the director of the Golub Center for Finance and Policy would disagree with you: http://gcfp.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Bailou
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by rbrtl 6y ago
How was the manager a good manager here? They didn't "sense" anything, they just asked you to show them some stats on a dashboard. They didn't approach the person for an explanation or conversation. This manager totally
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by rbrtl 6y ago
We monitor just about every aspect of the machines and JVMs that we own. When the Heap graph climbs steadily over days/weeks at a time, i.e. each GC still results in considerably more overall memory usage.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
I don't think we can compare feudalism with financial crime. One was the system of governance for millennia, the other was enabled by the naivety of a failed ruling class who handed the power of states to the fraudsters of global finan
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by rbrtl 6y ago
We have had app teams whose Spring Boot application leaks memory at a rate that meant we needed to do app restarts once a month, even once a fortnight on occasion. Investigation is then hampered by half of the conversations we have being al
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Rather depends on your definition of willing.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Not to mention the drugs. One has to feel some sympathy for the street level thugs. They're body-men for the elite organisers, of whom we seem to only catch one every 10 years, and they often get off lightly and/or escape.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
The pen is mightier than the sword. It's great news that these crims have had their just desserts. It's even better the quantity of drugs taken out of circulation, and hopefully the decimation of the network. I'm well grasped
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Yeah, any VPN that doesn't mind paying YouTubers to advertise I run far away from.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Pah, these guys are petty thieves compared to Wirecard...
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Heh dammit. Dragged under by a troll. Ah well: play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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by rbrtl 6y ago
It increases the distance between the developer and the actual, deployable executable that they output. It's like all these JS libraries that allow you to spin up an app in 20 lines. It's meaningless garbage unless you understand
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by rbrtl 6y ago
Or perhaps the $100 Developer account fee
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by rbrtl 6y ago
As you "program" in React Native, are you really qualified to speak on who "at least half" of the issues are attributed to? What do you mean when you say that the problem is half Apple's fault? Or, like every other
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by rbrtl 6y ago
> one of the primary reasons computers were created was to cross reference data. that is nearly impossible in most software now. Because the data became the hotly-guarded commodity of the "software" companies.

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