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by rsfinn 5y ago
In fact, the basic sources used by etymonline.com are mentioned on the site's home page, which also links to this more extensive (complete?) list of primary and secondary sources: https://www.etymonline.com/columns&#x2F
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by rsfinn 5y ago
I'm running 11.4 on a MacBook Pro without a physical escape key, and the escape key remains present in the Touch Bar. I'm genuinely confused as to what the problem is.
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by rsfinn 5y ago
This is a lot of fun. As a resident of Maryland, I was mildly surprised to find that the Chesapeake Bay is treated as part of the Atlantic Ocean, instead of an individual waterway in its own right. I suppose this is probably due to the unde
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by rsfinn 5y ago
1) I wonder if it's a cost-benefit analysis regarding relative market sizes? 2) I'm genuinely curious which countries you perceive as having been "ignored" -- I find 39 different .lproj folders in the /System/L
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by rsfinn 5y ago
It can't run Intel-based OSs or VMs, of course, but the latest version of Parallels Desktop runs ARM-based Linux guests on M1 Macs, as well as the Windows 10 ARM preview. (VMware has implied that the next release of Fusion will suppor
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by rsfinn 5y ago
... which syntax HyperTalk originally supported as a sugaring of `the location of window` ...
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by rsfinn 6y ago
The following suggests a technical solution and expresses no opinion on the policy issues of supporting the Mac App Store: Jason implies that Mac apps that use the Network Extension can only be distributed through the App Store, but this ap
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by rsfinn 6y ago
That does sound like a remarkable tablet. What's it called? (...oh, now I get it: < https://remarkable.com/ >)
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by rsfinn 6y ago
I know I'm probably older than most people here, but the notion that 16 GiB is "a tiny amount of RAM" is tremendously amusing to someone who paid $740 in 1986 (with a developer's discount) for 2 "MB" of RAM (we
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by rsfinn 6y ago
Can I make a suggestion? 1) Before sending your Mac in for repair, use Carbon Copy Cloner [1] or SuperDuper! [2] to make a clone of your system drive to a spare SSD. 2) When your Mac is returned to you, if the system drive has been wiped,
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by rsfinn 6y ago
Virtually every desktop computer today uses a bitmapped display and a pointing device... like the Macintosh. Virtually every mobile device today uses a touch-sensitive display (and a Unix-derived OS)... like the iPhone. Apple Inc. is the mo
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by rsfinn 6y ago
This article by Jacopo Jannone refutes the notion that macOS sends an application's hash to Apple "on every single app open": https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/ Also in that article, th
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by rsfinn 6y ago
This has not been true since 2015, when the various developer programs (Mac, iOS, and Safari) were combined into a single Apple Developer program (for $99/year). Source: I've been a member of the Apple Developer program since at l
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by rsfinn 6y ago
Can I offer an alternate viewpoint? Epic didn't simply implement their own in-app purchase plan; they also remotely updated Fortnite to include it after it had passed app review (because Apple wouldn't have approved it, obviousl
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by rsfinn 6y ago
As I understand it: If the application has been notarized before distribution, it should contain a signed “ticket” which allows the app to run immediately. If not, it will hit a server, but it caches the result on success, so it should not
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by rsfinn 6y ago
Well, you can voice your complaint on the Internet and hope that Apple notices this problem and fixes it in less than 24 hours. I wouldn’t advise betting one’s business on this, but it did work in this case. (Hopefully Apple comes up with a
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by rsfinn 6y ago
I’m very curious to see whether this is still true once Apple starts shipping Pro machines with Apple Silicon processors. What if it’s not? How would that change the balance?
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by rsfinn 6y ago
Crossover 19, released in December 2019, supports running 32-bit applications under Catalina. There was a lot of emphasis on how they would not release version 19 until this difficult problem was solved. For a discussion of why this was so
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by rsfinn 7y ago
In fact, you can get the new entry-level Mac mini plus the Sonnet Breakaway Puck RX 560 [0] for US$1100, now that the eGPU has dropped in price to $300. Whether any given person would be satisfied with that configuration is, of course, open
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by rsfinn 7y ago
Not too approximately: Even numbered buildings are to the east of the central grassy plaza (Killian Court), and odd numbered buildings to the west; the numbers tend to increase moving away from the river. Additionally, buildings outside t
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by rsfinn 7y ago
You should probably let Parallels [1] know this, so they can stop wasting their time advertising Parallel Desktop’s support for DirectX and OpenGL (via Metal) as a way to play Windows games on the Mac. (Disclaimer: I don’t actually use it f
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by rsfinn 7y ago
Technically Swift uses a "modified" version of Timsort that "performs straight merges instead of adopting timsort's galloping strategy" [0]. [0] https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/197
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‘This Game Is My Life’ (Overwatch League Grand Finals)(nytimes.com)
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by rsfinn 7y ago
The Online Etymology Dictionary dates "boner" in the sense of "blunder" to 1912 ( https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=boner ) — "baseball slang, probably [derived] from 'bonehead'".
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by rsfinn 7y ago
You may be thinking of Alan Trammel, the shortstop for the Detroit Tigers whose best years were in the 1980s.
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by rsfinn 7y ago
> Xcode 10's new text editor broke control-T, which has worked correctly in every text field since the earliest days of Mac OS X. I couldn't believe this, so I tried it. To clarify: in Xcode 10.2.1, typing control-T between tw
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by rsfinn 7y ago
Swift support for Windows has apparently been making great strides lately; see, for example, < https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-windows/22458> . They're not quite at the point of announcing "official
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by rsfinn 7y ago
This article dates from 2017. I was hoping to see a more recent status report. Any idea on what Adobe is currently up to in order to move this along?
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by rsfinn 8y ago
Can't tell whether this is sarcasm or not. Perhaps the expectation is that those things will be acquired naturally; certainly I was immersed in both within two weeks of arriving at MIT. (Admittedly that was in the latter half of the
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by rsfinn 8y ago
I'm reading this on a Mac; I clicked on the File menu in Safari, then clicked a menu separator, and the menu remained open. This does not, of course, invalidate your main point in any way. (I also currently have p4v open on another dis

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