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by snazz 6y ago
Linux would have to be extremely good for most people to take the effort to switch. Switching to Wikipedia doesn't require reformatting your hard drive and installing a new operating system—a completely foreign concept for 98% of the
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by snazz 6y ago
Many PC builders just don't activate Windows at all—other than a few occasional nags, Microsoft doesn't really enforce Windows activation anymore. It's just like how Apple doesn't crack down on Hackintoshing. Both the bu
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by snazz 6y ago
Thanks for sharing! That article is very good food for thought as a current student.
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by snazz 6y ago
Hmm. That’s a valid point. I wasn’t thinking from that perspective, but your thoughts make sense. I came at it from the angle of arguing your own side in a disagreement with someone—that’s what I associate with perspective-taking. But the i
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by snazz 6y ago
FYI: Your email isn’t visible to other users (except moderators) right now—it has to be in the About field to be visible to everyone else.
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by snazz 6y ago
"Sharecropper programmers" might be an accurate way of describing developers for Apple platforms, but that's not what is happening when people use GitHub and Discord to work on open-source software. They can easily move their
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by snazz 6y ago
Humans are pretty good at taking our own perspectives. If everyone did that instead of empathizing with others, our conversations would all run in circles and we would be an even more polarized society.
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by snazz 6y ago
There are at least a few different "OSS scenes" that have different priorities. More principled, idealistic developers fall under a different category than more pragmatic ones, so it should be no surprise that they use different t
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by snazz 6y ago
The long lines significantly harm readability. Luckily, it's a very easy site for Reader View to parse (at least in Safari). I'm fine with this type of site, although a simple max-width would make it much easier to read without Re
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by snazz 6y ago
Hasn't there been a fair bit of evidence that covid spreads in an airborne manner some of the time?
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by snazz 6y ago
To play the devil's advocate, the line of reasoning you used in your comment isn't very useful. Just because more than zero 5- to 14-year-olds have died from covid does not negate the fact that their risk is minuscule compared to
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by snazz 6y ago
The first issue I've definitely seen (I think it's because it's secretly loading a webpage in the background with your search results) and I haven't seen the second issue (except when playing a radio station, in which ca
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by snazz 6y ago
The legendary crack marketing team better get on another drug-fueled minibus-driven vision quest!
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by snazz 6y ago
I tried downloading with wget and still had the same issues, so I think it's because Apple's CDN is having trouble. https://developer.apple.com is also down. Edit: here's my wget command line: wget --continue
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by snazz 6y ago
The big memory leak where https://sb.music.apple.com (the web frame part of the Apple Music desktop app) would use multiple gigabytes of memory seems to have been fixed, either in 10.15.7 or the following Supplemental Update. Th
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by snazz 6y ago
Apple uses Akamai for Apple Music, so I wonder why that doesn't work for macOS updates. I guess they never felt the need to invest in serious CDN infrastructure for Mac updates since it's a smaller user base?
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by snazz 6y ago
Android apps already run on Chromebooks, so maybe this situation has already come up? The performance is certainly better on M1 Macs, but the same situation is possible.
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by snazz 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that Music is not a Catalyst app, although Podcasts is. If somebody has other information, I'd be happy to be corrected. Stocks and News were the first-generation Catalyst apps, and those have very different UIs an
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by snazz 6y ago
In my experience, Apple Configurator 2 is the better tool for iOS device management anyway.
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The JetStream, MotionMark, and Speedometer benchmarks are fairly "grounded in reality", don't you think? That's where the speed claims come from on this page: https://www.apple.com/safari/
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by snazz 6y ago
He already worked at Google from 2005 to 2012, although they might be interested in having him back.
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by snazz 6y ago
Any of the other FAANGs or unicorns. I doubt that the paycheck is his primary motivation, but I could be wrong.
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by snazz 6y ago
It does a bad job of dealing with versioning conflicts and multiple projects, so Python developers resort to hacks like virtual environments to get work done. Compared to Cargo or even Go modules, it's not a great solution. It's a
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by snazz 6y ago
To be pedantic, it sure is possible to run Linux (and Android) on an iPhone 7, although it requires some security vulnerabilities: https://projectsandcastle.org
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by snazz 6y ago
> May be only then Apple could afford to offer a MacBook 12" at $799. And educational price at $699. Although I am not sure if that is enough, Chrome Book in many classes are going at $299. Apple doesn't have to compete dollar
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by snazz 6y ago
Unless it’s HTTPS-only, which is most sites these days.... (I’m definitely not arguing that that’s a bad thing; it just makes Telnet more annoying)
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by snazz 6y ago
Yes. If you run vm_stat in the Terminal, you can see how few pages of RAM are actually left free at any given time. Modern operating systems aggressively cache files in RAM to improve performance. The green/yellow/red graph in the
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by snazz 6y ago
I don’t do any tab-hoarding in Chrome (that’s the job of Safari on my machine), but I’m pretty sure that it will suspend tabs long before you run out of RAM. 8 GB is still plenty for web browsing.
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by snazz 6y ago
Agreed. Comparing them does a disservice to both languages—they're tools with separate niches. It's fair to compare their package management strategies or communities, but the languages themselves are too different.
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A separation between root/Administrator and your normal user account is useful. On Windows, you often can't help but run semi-trusted proprietary software, so multi-user security technology (especially when combined with some type

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