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by wtallis 6mo ago
Not quite. The steps are revoking permission in the UI (which works as expected), then implicitly granting permission in a way that the UI does not reflect but quietly persists.
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by wtallis 6mo ago
Microsoft's incompetence is certainly reckless at a minimum, and often manifests in ways that come across as misanthropic toward their users. They don't really fit the pattern of mere bumbling fools.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Is the "Desktop & Documents Folders" sync option in iCloud on by default? I've never used that feature, and it's a bit buried so it's hard to enable accidentally, but I haven't set up a new Mac from scratch
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by wtallis 7mo ago
In particular, manually editing the hosts file was a mostly-obsolete practice by the time the first version of Windows shipped, and certainly by the time Windows actually had a built-in networking stack. And it was always a red flag for a l
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by wtallis 7mo ago
I think you failed to correctly apply DeMorgan's laws to the statement you're reacting to.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
It's a bit insulting to assume that having more than a dozen tabs open must be "disorganized", especially in a context where it is likely that the power user in question is using browser extensions. Something like TreeStyleTa
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Thunderbolt is its own protocol, electrically incompatible with PCIe. Its purpose is to encapsulate data traffic from multiple other protocols (PCIe, DisplayPort, USB) and multiplex that over the same wires. It cannot function exactly like
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by wtallis 7mo ago
>> NVMe > Using proprietary connectors. Not for the past decade; it's been no connectors for most products, but standard PCIe connectors for the Mac Pro, and NVMe over Thunderbolt works fine. >> XHCI > Not on Lightn
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> Surely Linux is the subsystem running on Windows? Only in version 2. WSL1 didn't run a Linux kernel, just provided binary compatibility to run Linux userspace programs.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Doesn't Apple support the major standard device categories: NVMe, XHCI, AHCI, and such, like most operating systems do? The challenges are all for hardware that needs a vendor-specific driver instead of conforming to a standard drive
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> Disclosing technical guarded and not publicly known technical know-how - I am ok with those. I would love to see NDAs for trade secrets limited in a way that incentivizes companies to rely on patent protection instead, where the system
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Nobody was trying to equate non-disparagement clauses with slavery. The relevance of slavery here is as an example of the kind of contract terms that everyone should be able to agree are rightly invalid and unenforceable. Any argument in
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by wtallis 7mo ago
That's theoretically possible but a bad idea for a managed switch, because they seldom have enough CPU performance or IO between the CPU and switch silicon to provide respectable routing performance. For an unmanaged switch, it&#x2
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Not exactly, but under US copyright law there is a limitation of exclusive rights that grants the owner of a copy the right to make an adaptation provided "that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utili
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by wtallis 7mo ago
That's missing the aspect where exceptions to the ban can be granted by the DoD or DHS, so in practice the outcome will be that effectively all routers need to appease the national security apparatus before getting FCC approval.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
The spatial Finder was something different: having each folder open a new window, and that particular folder's window always re-opening in the same position on screen, with the same window size and same layout of files inside. Having t
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by wtallis 7mo ago
As a general rule: any SSD benchmark that gives you a result of over 1GB/s is not measuring what's actually most important for day to day interactive use. And anything that's within a factor of two of the SSD's marketing
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by wtallis 7mo ago
The Apple I was a pretty poor predictor of what mainstream mass-market computing was going to end up looking like. I don't think anybody has yet come up with the Apple II of local LLMs, let alone the VisiCalc or Windows 95.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Multiple GPUs was tried , by the whole industry including Apple (most notably with the trash can Mac Pro). Despite significant investment, it was ultimately a failure for consumer workloads like gaming, and was relegated to the datacenter
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by wtallis 7mo ago
For anything that's even somewhat in the consumer space rather than pure workstation/professional, the main reason is that dongles can be used with a laptop but add-in cards can't. When ordinary consumer PCs (or even office P
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by wtallis 7mo ago
> This is a wild and very wrong take. That's what happens when you quote only part of a statement. Taken in context, it was referring to a very real decline in expansion cards. Now that NICs (for WiFi) and SSDs have been moved into
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by wtallis 7mo ago
It's not just the controllers; the Thunderbolt protocol itself imposes different speed limits. The bit rates used by Thunderbolt aren't the same as PCIe, and PCIe traffic gets encapsulated in Thunderbolt packets.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Those are all for Intel Macs, and not even the recent Intel Macs. You can't use a passive adapter to put a NVMe SSD into a current Mac like you could a decade ago, because back then the only thing non-standard about the SSD was the con
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Does it need a huge driver team pushing out big updates in order to be suitable for the kind of Pro use cases it's targeted at? They're explicitly not going after the gaming market so they don't need to be on the treadmil
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by wtallis 7mo ago
This is a chip they've had lying around for a while. It's the same architecture as used in the Arc B580 that launched at the end of 2024; this is just a slightly larger sibling. Intel clearly knew that their larger part wouldn&#x2
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by wtallis 7mo ago
California's law requires that the OS ask the user for their age, and accept the response as-is without doing any verification.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Complete denial that AI/LLMs can produce novel, good things is an indefensible stance at this point. But the large volume of AI slop is still an unsolved problem, and the claim that "AI will still mostly deliver slop" s
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by wtallis 7mo ago
Especially since the announcement provides no information about how the DoD or DHS will be evaluating what to approve, and it's unlikely that they have the resources to do any meaningful security evaluation on that many products.
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by wtallis 7mo ago
I agree; it's important to recognize that there are lots of use cases where computers have long since reached "good enough" and aren't really going obsolete anymore for those use cases . My NAS is about 13 years old, th
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by wtallis 7mo ago
It doesn't matter whether useful economic work can be accomplished with savings of one second per person. Directly inflicting frustration one second at a time is still a bad thing. And obviously, those seconds can add up to meaningful

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