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by xenadu02 6y ago
I am going to over-explain in detail in my reply. You may already know this but I know we have a lot of neuro-divergent folks, people who have difficulty understanding social interactions, and similar on HN so perhaps it will be of benefit.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
If you want Finder to show dot files and system directories: defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles 1 Also note that shortcuts like ⌘⇧ G also work in standard open/save dialogs.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
My dentist simply put me on toothpaste with high fluoride (IIRC 8%?). Two caries remineralized over the span of about a year and I didn't need fillings. Unfortunately high fluoride toothpastes require an RX.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Haven't they fired most of their engineers and outsourced development?
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by xenadu02 6y ago
You don't see a difference between the state removing your literal freedom vs not being allowed to be on a committee or a board? It seems like any reasonable person should understand that, making such arguments deliberately disingenuou
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Modern drive heads are constantly reading the calibration data next to the user data and adjusting on the fly - an absolute necessity at current densities since minor temperature fluctuations would effectively destroy the ability to read or
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by xenadu02 6y ago
The only thing I will say is that I encourage you to get involved with hardware engineering. You will quickly find that small personal electronics have extreme design constraints that are quite unlike a custom-built PC (it's like compl
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by xenadu02 6y ago
> Since the release of the 2nd iPad Pro Apple has forced audio processing onto the slower low power CPU core What makes you believe this?
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Free speech as a "prescriptive social norm" has never been unlimited or free of consequences though. Discourse within the "acceptable" range has been true free speech certainly, but step outside those boundaries and thro
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Modern systems are even more interesting in how they boot. There is chipset initialization, DRAM configuration, etc that needs to be done. But how do you execute when there is no DRAM? It turns out modern CPUs have a decent amount of cache
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by xenadu02 6y ago
While the bug is unfortunate it is also easily avoided: always delete a volume group together. Don't leave some volumes from the group laying around.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
M1 Macs do not have a T2 coprocessor like Intel Macs. The Touch Bar on M1 systems is run by macOS directly. macOS also handles talking to the Secure Enclave.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Texas has taken a very "free market" approach to regulating electricity. I lived there during de-regulation and whatever else happened it didn't lower the price of electricity very much. In my opinion it was an excuse to line
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by xenadu02 6y ago
There is a field like that; movies. And we see this to an even greater degree there. A big name star can literally boost the number of people who will go see the movie. Studios are some of the most unethical money-grubbing cheats. They woul
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Not really. Dallas is an example of a metro area that has extended sprawl as far as it can go. A ton of new highways have been built out but growth in car usage and population have eaten back all the gains. There will never be enough land t
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by xenadu02 6y ago
YOU felt like you owned your computer because you're a tech nerd, software developer, or similar. That is not the feeling a "Wild West" environment gives to 99% of people using these devices. It is much closer to Russian Roul
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by xenadu02 6y ago
You think eTrade, owned by Morgan Stanley, had liquidity problems?? That's so outrageous it beggars belief. There was absolutely some kind of coordinated manipulation happening. It is telling that the SEC's statement seems to have
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by xenadu02 6y ago
These used to be more common in the US and some still exist but the big telcos have all stopped upgrading their equipment which deliberately chokes the available bandwidth at those locations. They also deliberately don't on-board any n
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by xenadu02 6y ago
Well I'll be able to see the Irving project from my house so that makes me not just a resident but a member of the neighborhood. And I completely agree with the person you're replying to and I plan on attending planning meetings t
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by xenadu02 6y ago
The time-tested model for a situation like this that benefits everyone is big company offering X as a service hires/funds N developers in proportion to the popularity of that service on their platform. That helps ensure the project is
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by xenadu02 6y ago
I didn't mean to imply the result is always ideal or even good. That's one of the dangers of revolutions and suppression of dissent. I'm saying there is no reason to be surprised when you're asking platforms to ignore Tr
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by xenadu02 6y ago
A "riot" to eject a dictator vs a "riot" to stop Congress from certifying the winner of the election/install Trump as dictator are - to my eyes - entirely different in character. People do what it takes to survive.
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by xenadu02 6y ago
What you are calling "censorship" is a free market business transaction. There are many cloud services, colo facilities, etc. If Amazon chooses not to do business with you there are certainly other options. This certainly happens
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by xenadu02 6y ago
What amazes me is how cheaply he built this. Less than $200k with an expected break-even of 42 months. Think about that for a minute... ATT, Comcast, et al can't be bothered to invest in infrastructure that would pay itself back in 3-4
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by xenadu02 6y ago
It seems self-evident there is an excess of capital seeking yield at the moment. Productivity is way up but wages haven't kept pace. That's the whole problem: if everything is just labor arbitrage and owners take all the surplus w
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by xenadu02 6y ago
You can talk about things you worked on after they ship and are publicly known. It's important to remember people who really love their job and do well don't tend to leave so you almost always get stories from people who don'
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by xenadu02 6y ago
There just isn't nearly as much money in any alternatives. At its root money is required to maintain cartel power. Sure they aren't going to disappear overnight. But cutting out their most profitable product lines would make a hug
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by xenadu02 6y ago
How late was it that there was still wide disagreement or variance in spelling? Even when the printing press arrived and dictionaries were published most people who knew how to read/write outside high society, monks, scholars, etc woul
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by xenadu02 6y ago
If Trump had said "I'M DECLARING WAR ON COVID!! Lockdown is necessary, WEAR YOUR FREEDOM MASK WE WILL WIN!" what would have been the outcome? I am fairly certain there wouldn't be any of this hand-wringing about "tr
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by xenadu02 6y ago
If by "involve everyone" you mean "ignore the many many companies that said the current GPLv3 is a non-starter and will entirely end our involvement" then sure. They decided to pick an ideological bone on purpose. That&#

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