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by sjwright 7y ago
I thought the article was going to be about these until I clicked on it.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Agreed, but "tuning" is an understatement. Capitalism worked well when most businesses were local and being a large, successful company meant employing a lot of people from the same communities as your customers. This proximity is
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by sjwright 7y ago
Please, be serious for a moment. It would have to be an amount of money to be worth the risk and therefore show up in quarterlies. Also there would have to be a buyer. And there would have to be a bunch of companies Apple shopped their data
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by sjwright 7y ago
Yep, that's what we keep telling ourselves.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Excluding conferences^ and events there's nothing special about the HN audience (other than affluence) that makes them particularly likely—relative to people in a hundred other industries—to need to travel to the USA. ^ ...which are mo
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by sjwright 7y ago
Like editorial cartoons have done for over a century, changing the context lets the viewer observe whether their surface beliefs are consistent with their intuitions and principles. I tend to find the degree of depth in South Park is entire
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by sjwright 7y ago
Maybe—and the UI could be little more than a script that does exactly what you described. The point of making it a UI is, first and foremost, to get people thinking about this question. And it gives people the option to acheive what you jus
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by sjwright 7y ago
Backup means that if it takes me 6 months to realise that the 2014 finances folder had been accidentally deleted, I can still recover it. I'd love to see BackBlaze offer the option to select "mission critical" folders that ha
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by sjwright 7y ago
On the contrary, there has been plenty of innovation around how to make games more addictive and profitable.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Please, the debate skit was as bad as anything they've done. Cheap caricatures of the media's caricatures of the candidates. The only redeeming aspect of the skit were the cameo performances, particularly the portrayal of Harris—a
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by sjwright 7y ago
I want to love SNL but a lot of the current political skits are just cast members mimicking news events mostly verbatim while pulling funny faces. (E.g. The Kavenaugh hearings: “I like beer! I like beer!”) Or taking a serious matter and tur
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by sjwright 7y ago
Too late for what?
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by sjwright 7y ago
Don't worry, endlessly escalating software complexity will keep us all busy. I love current MacOS but my perception it's never been quite as bug-free as it was in the Snow Leopard era. And I attribute that to increasing complexity
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by sjwright 7y ago
I don't know how Catalina works specifically, but if I was designing for this contingency I'd have it so that any software compiled locally by a user with sudo rights would be automatically notarized against a localhost certificat
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by sjwright 7y ago
That's perfect. Best of both worlds.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Please limit your criticism to what Apple is actually doing, not what your imagination speculates they might do in future.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Worry about the slippery slope when the slippery slope actually slips. For now there's good reasoning behind what Apple has done and I applaud their active concern for badware.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Sure, if you accept the feel-good corporatist double-speak that is "owning copies" of intellectual property.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I for one welcome our notarizing overlords. Running a terminal command to disable it is a very minor inconvenience for us nerds... in return we'll get fewer tedious house calls from family and friends asking why their computer is doing
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by sjwright 7y ago
I can't speak to that particular method as I haven't personally played with Catalina, but you are correct. $ sudo spctl --master-disable definitely works.
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by sjwright 7y ago
The parent post is factually false. The $99/year developer account fee is not a prerequisite for notarizing macOS apps.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Correct. And that's almost universally true for any software program and operating system you didn't personally write. You don't "own" any software on your computer, including your favourite Linux & GNU distribu
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by sjwright 7y ago
No, Apple doesn't require a paid developer account for you to receive a notarizing certificate.
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by sjwright 7y ago
If insane is a new word for nonexistent
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by sjwright 7y ago
And Dark Castle, possibly the first game ever to use the now-standard WASD key layout.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Thwarting denial of service attacks isn’t a bug. You seem to be confused about what your rights are around website availability. Hint: you have no rights. Absent specific coercion by government, the owner of the website had all the rights.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Apps aren't required to be notarized and it trivial for any vaguely competent person to dismiss the one-time warnings about unsigned apps. So it's only a big deal if you choose to make it one. To be perfectly honest, if you can&#x
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by sjwright 7y ago
What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh for heaven sake mankind it’s only four light years away! I’m sorry but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that’s your own regard.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Normalisation of guns is part of the problem.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I was being serious. I don’t have a problem with responsible gun ownership. Switzerland is a good model. The NRA loves to point at rates of Swiss gun ownership. If the USA implemented all of Switzerland’s gun laws I think you’d be okay.

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