savoytruffle

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by savoytruffle 7y ago
A Mac will keep creating virtual memory swap up to some limit (some multiple of the amount of physical RAM — can't quite remember, possibly 5x) and then it will produce a kind of vague dialog box saying "You've run out of app
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by savoytruffle 7y ago
In my kitchen cupboards right now, I have all of these things packaged in plastic and I've never seen an alternative except sometimes milk in returnable glass jugs that nobody in the store knows how to ring up to get the deposit back.
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by savoytruffle 7y ago
Why do you say that? Everybody in the world is desperate to escape or evade Qualcomm's predatory monopoly.
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by savoytruffle 7y ago
It keeps expanding to more and older MacBooks
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by savoytruffle 7y ago
There will be Apple Authorized Service Providers in Poland, although nowadays Apple makes it hard to search for somebody else. https://locate.apple.com
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by savoytruffle 7y ago
All of Safari syncing is possible on Windows with the (recent) iCloud client on the Windows Store. In fact, with more browsers than on Mac or iOS! https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283 It is true, on Linux no joy.
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by savoytruffle 7y ago
Is it still a quarter in Canada? Even if it is, they can look forward to using loonies and toonies in the future while dollar coins never seem to take hold in USA … Surely a lot of people don't mind losing USD25¢ to toss the Aldi shopp
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by savoytruffle 8y ago
It is pretty aggravating the Switch still doesn't support bluetooth audio, since it seems like it is a software limitation.
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by savoytruffle 8y ago
Even today if you look at the headers in a message to or from an iCloud email account, it indicates "Oracle Communications Messaging Server" and years ago it was the same, but replace Oracle with Sun. I think they may well have be
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by savoytruffle 8y ago
But surely they arrive as separate files, and not interspersed in the main video. So it's implausible they'd ever be watched.
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by savoytruffle 8y ago
It's a native Mac application. Why shouldn't it be "optimized"?
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by savoytruffle 8y ago
While Heathrow to Austin did start on a 787, as seemed appropriate, it has become so successful that it upgraded to 777 and now actually a 747, amazing as that is. http://www.austintexas.gov/news/british-airways’-747-be
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
allegedly "machine learning" was the reason behind the unicode nonsense text replacement on iOS six months ago.
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
PowerPC Macs never had "integrated" GPU's. If they didn't have a discrete chip they just had a dumb frame buffer.
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
Some data stored on iCloud (like iCloud Keychain) is commingled (not quite the right word, but the right word escapes me — mixed up with) with passcodes and hardware keys from the local device. https://support.apple.com/en-u
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
When Snow Leopard 10.6 came out in August 2009, it only supported Intel Macs, which were at earliest from January 2006, about three and a half years earlier. Typical Mac OS X releases up to El Capitan (september 2015) supported 10 years of
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
ALAC did show up at the same time as the first AirPort Express in 2004, and it is the format used to transport audio over AirPlay (first called AirTunes). That may have been the original impetus.
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
Out of curiosity, why is this still something people desire in a link? Can't any modern browser pretty much open a PDF as quickly easily as a web page?
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
irrelevant points are "moot", not "mute"
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
That's a strange claim since even with Old World ROM, any Extension in the startup chain could replace any part of the ROM without limit. System 7 and beyond were essentially cobbled together that way.
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
Switching from 68k to PPC, the emulator was good enough to emulate mixed sections of the actual operating system. Viruses weren't foiled that way.
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
Here's a remarkable official USAF film from 1974 about the air-launched Minuteman. Really amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b8LLcdBaQc
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
Siri was only available on new iPhones from then on, but it's now available on regular Macintoshes going back like 7-8 years.
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by savoytruffle 9y ago
Webkit was open-source long before anticipating killing Flash. I think, like Darwin, it was originally open-source because it had to be, due to its origin in an existing open-source project that required derivatives also be open-source.
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by savoytruffle 10y ago
I think he's also credited as the father of the add-on filesystem journaling that was enabled on consumer OS X 10.2.2 back in fall 2002, and many of the shims and patches that have kept HFS+ going to this day.
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by savoytruffle 10y ago
The older version of the iWork apps (which they eventually abandoned in favor of unifying the Mac and iOS versions) used to support LaTeX and MathML via an external 3rd party app. Circa 2010-ish I think
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by savoytruffle 10y ago
Another interesting biological result at Chernobyl is not mutation, but simply natural selection: Radiotrophic Fungus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus Fungus that is essentially using "photosynth
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by savoytruffle 10y ago
2nd avenue subway is muuuuch deeper than most of the 100 year old stations in manhattan, for just this very reason. And also because no one would stand for cut and cover anymore.
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by savoytruffle 10y ago
A different version of that comment is often attributed to Alan Shepard (first American in space). Any connection to Glenn seems to be apocryphal from shortly after 9/11 http://www.snopes.com/rumors/glenn.asp
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by savoytruffle 10y ago
The only natural enemy of the hole is the pile.

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