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   by wwalexander 2y ago

   I hear a lot of complaints about Apple’s generated passwords, but I like them a lot and find them quite easy to memorize for the reasons listed in the article. Safari also (sometimes) can recognize when “special” characters aren’t allowed,
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   by wwalexander 2y ago

   Worth comparing to Swift’s LazySequenceProtocol [0]. Various Sequences have a .lazy property that returns some LazySequenceProtocol<Element>, so you can opt in to this sort of fluent-style method chaining where it makes sense. [0] ht
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   by wwalexander 2y ago

   Whoops, bit of banner blindness there, thank you for the heads-up!
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   by wwalexander 2y ago

   How does this compare with the built-in ffserver? https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/ffserver
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   by wwalexander 2y ago

   > I'd be delighted if someday there's an OS which requires things sent into another program to adhere to an open and well defined data formatting standard, and just one at that Emacs? Jokes aside, I really do think S-exprs woul
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   by wwalexander 2y ago

   Thank you for your work on the library! It really couldn’t be easier to package but thank you <3
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   by wwalexander 2y ago

   Heh, I maintain the MacPorts port for this lib! Like all suckless projects, it’s written in very simple and portable C which makes it a breeze to package. https://ports.macports.org/port/libgrapheme/
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   by wwalexander 2y ago

   mpv has less UI affordances than VLC, but it’s very full-featured and configurable. It’s kind of like the ffmpeg to VLC’s Handbrake. Of course, if you really want to be a purist you could use ffplay.
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   by wwalexander 2y ago

   There are dozens of us!
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    MacPorts is awesome. The PortGroups also make it super easy to make new packages.
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    Indeed. ChatGPT has been extremely valuable for “what’s the right way to glue these two iOS frameworks released a decade apart together” for me.
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    Also semi-related, the (multi -millenial) plot of Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves is kicked off by Kessler sindrome caused by the Moon.
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    The blog post explaining the implementation[0] says the source of the buzzwords was a list “250 Buzzwords We Love To Hate” published on May 13, 2014[1]. [0] https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/ [1] ht
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    Yeah, the genmoji feel like a proper Apple feature, but the full images feel cheap and pointless.
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    Yeah, the image generation felt really…cheap?…tasteless? but everything else was really impressive.
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    I think you’re right about that!
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    This used to exist via QuickTime, but I wasn’t able to get it working recently. > I suspect it will only be useful for emergencies as latency will be terrible, though. If they can make the macOS display feature in visionOS usable, I imag
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    I never thought I’d see the day macOS would get tiling window management. Wonder how it will interact with Stage Manager if at all.
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    One of my biggest feature wishes finally come true. A few updates back they made the Passwords section in Settings one level less deep, and I was very frustrated they realized it should be easily accessible but didn’t bother making it a sta
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    It works on Windows.
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    MacPorts is vital for package management—has many more packages than Homebrew, a more sane implementation, and was co-created by Jordan Hubbard who worked for Apple and also created the FreeBSD ports system. Also pretty straightforward to c
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    The Kolmogorov complexity of an arbitrary string is uncomputable.
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    I’m honestly more curious about the display connector. AFAIK 4K120/8K60 already max out a single modern Thunderbolt/DisplayPort connection’s bandwidth. Is it using 8-9 separate display cables?
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    Are there any consumer GPUs that can push 4K at 1000Hz? And what display connector(s) are being used?
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    Desktop customization is largely the reason I learned Linux and programming. Over time I’ve come to abhor knobs and arbitrary decisions I must make as a user. I find macOS’s opinionated, largely very thoughtful design a relief at this point
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    Any generic use of a ccTLD gives me the ick. It’s one thing to use one for your low-impact personal site, quite another to use one for your email address.
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    That is the beauty of a lossless archive :) makes sense
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    With a setup this bespoke, why not transcode to Opus or AAC or MP3 VBR?
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    My understanding is that the states are conventionally listed in order, so A would be the initial state: > A TM string is in lexical normal form iff the following conditions obtain: …The non-initial active states first occur in ascending
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    by wwalexander 2y ago

    I found this quite helpful: https://nickdrozd.github.io/2020/10/04/turing-machine-notati... Despite a CS undergrad I don’t recall really learning any of these canonical representations of TMs before.