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by snazz 6y ago
Apple’s in-house cloud stuff is mostly Java on commodity Linux servers. I don’t think they are looking to have macOS compete with Linux. Most of the special sauce from GCP and AWS is the integrated software services anyway.
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by snazz 6y ago
The “crab bucket mentality” is a pretty common idiom.
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by snazz 6y ago
Yes, especially in more densely populated places. I can pick up a few open networks from where I’m sitting in a moderately-populated American suburb.
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by snazz 6y ago
I read about Samsung (?) smart TVs connecting to nearby unsecured Wi-Fi networks and others containing LTE hardware with a data SIM.
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by snazz 6y ago
Google Docs (and modern versions of Microsoft 365) offers a much nicer experience for a lot of writing work, so I can see why the author would prefer it to an offline solution—especially for creative writing. I like being able to write on m
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by snazz 6y ago
Low odds, but he has suggested that he might: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-snowden/trum...
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by snazz 6y ago
The Photos icon on macOS Catalina and iOS (I haven't taken a look at the Big Sur redesign yet) looks like literal candy—it's a great example of this phenomenon, in my opinion. I love how the colors blend together and overlap with
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by snazz 6y ago
> Aside from international travel, Covid now has basically zero impact on my day to day life. Because there is effectly 0 chance of communitry transmission at the moment, life has essentially returned to normal. Bars, restaurants, etc ar
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by snazz 6y ago
https://www.sqlite.org/draft/howtocompile.html There's some tcl involved.
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by snazz 6y ago
Apple's website scrolls much more smoothly for me as well (although that might be since I'm using Safari).
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by snazz 6y ago
DEP allows you to clear Activation Lock with your MDM: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202804
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by snazz 6y ago
If you're a potential customer for this product, then Cloudflare already sits in front of your traffic anyway. I doubt that this product is going to be used by many people who weren't already Cloudflare customers.
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by snazz 6y ago
True, although it gives you a pretty prominent notice that Zsh is now the preferred shell when you start Terminal for the first time after updating to Catalina.
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by snazz 6y ago
Immediate mode makes accessibility difficult, in my experience. That's certainly something worth considering.
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by snazz 6y ago
You can press ^E to complete the current autocompletion, or keep typing a little more to disambiguate if needed. edit: this originally said ^D, which is EOF, not autocomplete :)
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by snazz 6y ago
Bash is definitely seen as the "Linux shell", but most users of non-Linux Unixes and Unix-likes don't use Bash. macOS, for instance, now uses Zsh out of the box (although most Bash one-liners still run unmodified in Zsh). But
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by snazz 6y ago
Although it works on desktop Safari, there's no way to tell that you should be able to hover over it.
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by snazz 6y ago
Yeah, but above all it should be fun at that age. It shouldn't be a chore that 90% of the students abhor like math. Students should learn basic concepts, but the primary focus should be to inspire a genuine interest in learning about c
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by snazz 6y ago
I can confirm that Pages works with LaTeX, but Pages is not really a good alternative to Notability or GoodNotes.
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by snazz 6y ago
Notability is pretty good. It's not too fancy, but it's very fast and Ginger Labs has continually added new features.
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by snazz 6y ago
So if it doesn't exist in regular Linux or ChromeOS, then it must be an Android feature that was accidentally enabled in non-Android builds.
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by snazz 6y ago
Type inference is the usual tradeoff for being able to write statically-typed code efficiently. I think it's better than MyType something = new MyType(...); like in old-school Java, is it not? IDEs and LSP-enabled editors are p
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by snazz 6y ago
Inter is and feels much more similar to SF Pro than Helvetica (rounding, the R, dots on lowercase I, design for screen vs. print). That said, they're both great fonts.
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by snazz 6y ago
This is how Discord works and it’s really great there. Anyone can start chatting with just an invite link.
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by snazz 6y ago
The amazing thing about Emacs is that you can run a snippet of elisp from anywhere at any time. I never found this to be a major advantage of Emacs for my own workflow, but if it matters to you, editors like VS Code won't cut it. The m
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by snazz 6y ago
> In the mean time I have actual work I need to get done. That's probably how most VS Code users feel about learning Emacs after reading about it on HN :)
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by snazz 6y ago
One of the greatest parts about owning my own domain is using different email addresses for these random websites that want to blast me with newsletters. That way, I can just redirect spambotscrapinghn@snazz.xyz to the trash if they sold my
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by snazz 6y ago
Yeah, to an extent I agree. If you're just using your text editor as a text editor—and you're willing to have fairly limited support for integrations and other stuff like that—worrying about market share is unnecessary. If you rel
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by snazz 6y ago
In the macOS User Guide, it says "Font smoothing reduces jagged edges for some fonts. When text smoothing (or “antialiasing”) is on, smaller fonts may be harder to read." That seems misleading, though, because there is clearly som
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by snazz 6y ago
> (When you wrote “sub pixel hinting”, I’m presuming you actually meant subpixel antialiasing, though feel free to correct me; but hinting and antialiasing are entirely different things, and “subpixel hinting”, which I imagine would mean

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