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by tolmasky 7y ago
Google shipped their multi-process implementation years before Apple’s huge re-architecture of WebKit (which many forget now but lead to incredibly buggy behavior for years too). They were able to ship earlier, and arguably at all, precisel
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by tolmasky 7y ago
When the Apple TV first launched, you were limited to 200MB of an initial download and 20GB total counting later-downloaded on-demand resources. These on-demand resources in theory automatically get flushed out, so the HD space serves more
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Oh, because people are regularly installing the 7.8GB Xcode update? Aside from the fact that I doubt anyone downloads that many apps, from my understanding Apple TV makes you use on-demand resources for anything above 4GB. That means that o
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by tolmasky 7y ago
From my (admittedly now hazy) understanding, everything in Apple TV land is supposed to be purgeable. So nothing should stop working on a 32 GB Apple TV unless it for whatever reason needs 64 GB of data on disk. This will of course mean tha
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by tolmasky 7y ago
The best is that you can buy the Apple TV in two sizes! 32 GB and 64 GB. Why you ask? Can the bigger one store more stuff? No, everything’s in the cloud! So what’s it for exactly? Who knows! But it’ll cost you an extra $20 and won’t even
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Does the browser at least dedupe these files internally? For example, it goes through the motions of a real download and so forth but afterwards it just stores things in a content-addressable fs. Or will I now have 50 identical copies of Re
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by tolmasky 7y ago
IIRC the flip side is we waste a lot of energy by allocating the hour of sunlight to the morning where many people are still asleep vs. the afternoon when almost everyone is awake and thus needs to turn on lights and heat.
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Setting up your own VPN with something like Streisand should protect against this right?
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by tolmasky 7y ago
macOS' problem ironically enough I think is that it is not a cash cow. Apple stopped charging for it with 10.9, but of course more importantly, the Mac itself does not generate a ton of cash for Apple (which was always the true sourc
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Are they bad at avoiding that though? Or are we greatly extrapolating from one VC in one high profile case: because that is the actual hilarious part of WeWork, it was basically entirely funded by just one VC that kept doing more rounds
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by tolmasky 7y ago
If you just thought about the "false market" like advertising, it wouldn't seem so perverse. Coca-Cola "wastes" millions on advertising, something that doesn't directly generate profits. From a cash flow pers
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by tolmasky 7y ago
So I guess my question is why will Desktop Linux only ever support Level 3? If its the equivalent hardware that a Windows device would support L1 (or does that not exist?), then wouldn't, say, an Android device in para-virtualization b
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by tolmasky 7y ago
So, at least from my basic research, the levels seem to be switched in this post: L1 is the highest level, not L3. So if Android and Desktop Linuxes support L1, that should not be an issue. Perhaps its is a minor error and he meant L3. That
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by tolmasky 7y ago
If its true that this includes Chromebooks, it could definitely affect a lot of people.
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Right, but I’m outside their house, asking others who are standing on the sidewalk with me, why they think they have these rules.
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Sure, I’m just saying that it’s really weird that this is referred as no moving parts when things clearly move. I guess my point is that haptic without movement still feels “uncanny valley” (like on the phone), but with movement (or whateve
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Sure, but why ? If the rules clearly said "no chess games", one could say "that ends the discussion of why chess games are denied", or you could further ask "but why are no chess games allowed?". Is it because
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by tolmasky 7y ago
> Not sure why you're so confident with this when most people I tell are surprised that their new Macbook touchpad is entirely haptic and not actually moving. I'm not really sure I understand this, I remember a fair amount of d
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Does "with" 1 billion mean they made 1 billion in income that year, or does it mean they have accumulated a billion over some longer previous period of time, meaning they probably conservatively(?) paid close to 500 million in tax
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Off topic, but this blog loads an ad that disguises itself as a star-rating and comments indicator, which when clicked on takes you to this Mac security phishing site (at least on Safari).
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I attempted to put the complete title but it was 35 characters too long. I have no personal take on this and am not attempting to editorialize the title, if the mods have a different opinion on what the proper shortening of the original tit
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Quantum computers: amazing progress, but probably false supremacy claims(gilkalai.wordpress.com)
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I wish they would just open source Cocoa (AppKit) if they're going to just abandon it. There were some really good ideas in there, and I think it could possibly develop an active community to continue experimenting with them. IMO the p
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Let's be clear about something, the threats from exposing our information are not hypothetical, the last 10 years of repeated hacks into banks and services that expose people's financial and personal information (CC numbers, SSN n
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I'm not a "Republican Techie" (I would classify myself as "left"-leaning), and I am suspicious of this because of that . For me, I look at analogous examples where we have tried to build technical expertise in the
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by tolmasky 7y ago
I think there might have been some sort of misunderstanding in my post. I’m explaining a phenomenon I see: people aren’t generally angry with their bank over identity fraud, and that makes holding them accountable difficult. I don’t disagre
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by tolmasky 7y ago
The problem with what you're proposing is that, as far as I understand, the real "consequences" for things like identity theft end up being intangibles like "time" and "annoyance" or "credit score&quo
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Yes, it wasn’t clear from my post, but once Chrome got this feature I switched.
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by tolmasky 7y ago
Apparently as part of the "desktop class" browser experience in iPad OS, Safari lost its ability to double-tap to zoom. This is a feature I use on basically every single webpage, including when I am browsing on an actual desktop c
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by tolmasky 7y ago
China's GDP per capita is behind Brazil's and 73rd overall, so I think there can be strong arguments to label it a developing country (and arguably, strong arguments for why "developing country" shouldn't be the met

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