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by xenadu02 6y ago
There is plenty of evidence for earlier pyramid efforts, including much smaller ones and even some botched efforts. You seem to be implying some kind of "aliens did it" conspiracy theory but there is ample evidence that empires la
902.
by xenadu02 6y ago
You're arguing for unbounded trolls, spam, and the complete destruction of all online communities. I don't understand what worldview leads to the conclusion that any moderation of a private platform by a private entity is equivale
903.
by xenadu02 6y ago
That's not quite correct. If network access is unavailable or fails then the exec is allowed. The behavior has been improved over time, putting stricter limits on how long the check is allowed to take before giving up. The Mac remains
904.
by xenadu02 6y ago
You can make the category appear and put Terminal in it with this command: sudo spctl developer-mode enable-terminal
905.
by xenadu02 6y ago
This is the way things worked prior to Catalina but is no longer the case.
906.
by xenadu02 6y ago
That is not correct starting with Catalina.
907.
by xenadu02 6y ago
Xcode (the UI) is able to bypass GateKeeper checks for things it builds. The "Developer Tool" pane in System Prefs, Security, Privacy is the same power. Drag anything into that list you'd like to grant the same privilege (suc
908.
by xenadu02 6y ago
Perhaps we could create an RFC for GIF21? The mistake people make in trying to replace GIF is doing too much, turning it into a wholesale replacement. Take GIF89, add intra-frame compression, lossy mode for frames, and expanded colors. If y
909.
by xenadu02 6y ago
This is all a bit premature. A single physical neuron is equivalent to an entire artificial neural network. We are orders of magnitude away from anything nearly complex enough to start asking whether it it could be conscious at even the mos
910.
by xenadu02 7y ago
This hits the nail on the head. For a strong performer at mid-level stock+bonus should be equal to salary. For a senior equity exceeds salary by six figures. Moving to the Bay area is still one of the best financial decisions Ive ever made.
911.
by xenadu02 7y ago
From a legal point of view it is no different that bribing a member of the jury. You were never in actual jeopardy and the trial is void. You are correct that one could argue that a hung jury is equivalent to acquittal but that isn't c
912.
by xenadu02 7y ago
Apple definitely has blind employees both working in accessibility and in other groups. I only mention that to say don't discount yourself even if you're blind (or deaf, etc). There are plenty of engineering teams at Apple that wo
913.
by xenadu02 7y ago
This is a legacy path in the installer they are abusing. Pre-install scripts are only supposed to do things like check if you have prerequisites installed, eg if your app requires some version of Python or whatever. Instead they are abusing
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by xenadu02 7y ago
> it was because they didn't understand the need for it You keep making this claim but unless the person you knew was on the Keynote team I doubt they had any actual insight into the process. There are a million things you could do.
915.
by xenadu02 7y ago
Healthcare can be the difference between life and death. It is very much unlike any other market good. It is also somewhat unique in that failure to seek early care often leads to much more extensive need of care later, and any imparement i
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by xenadu02 7y ago
Also curious why the kernel can't abandon the thread since the process is dead anyway; set a bit in kernel space so on the walk back from the syscall it bails out instead of trying to return to userspace. That doesn't solve the ke
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by xenadu02 7y ago
Second hand (I wasn't there at the time), but Apple had more than anything a management problem. Managers making a land-grab put everything+kitchen sink into Copland. It was an incoherent mess. Then the VM folks would decide to rewrite
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by xenadu02 7y ago
Having a "password" pasteboard might not be a bad idea. Disallow reading its contents except by built-in system password input fields.
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by xenadu02 7y ago
It's not much different from the Gates Foundation and similar ventures. When you're so rich money doesn't matter philanthropic works are expected. It also doesn't help that the current administration has bungled the test
920.
by xenadu02 7y ago
I strongly favor sticking to DRM-free text-based formats for the web. I remember learning a lot just from looking at the HTML and JS sources from web pages. It's been a great boon for the web up until now. Besides lots of apps already
921.
by xenadu02 7y ago
It's called a "standards process" for a reason. Even if you personally have a different opinion the point of a standard is to get everyone implementing it on-board with that standard. Releasing a standard that a major member
922.
by xenadu02 7y ago
It wasn't just that he suggested an improvement, it was a hardware feature he knew about from previous work (assuming his account is accurate). The tone is dismissive, which is the main problem with the memo.
923.
by xenadu02 7y ago
A user-removable battery imposes a significant cost. As devices get smaller the cost is correspondingly higher. Adding a compartment means extra weight to strengthen the device. Plus a cover strong enough to keep out water. Then the battery
924.
by xenadu02 7y ago
The natural outcome of this line of thought is complete destruction of all online platforms. Without moderation things quickly become a cesspool. Whether spam, or child porn, or scams, or just extremely toxic behavior that scares off 99% of
925.
by xenadu02 7y ago
During early development it did run but a large number of changes to AppKit and other frameworks were required. Over time too many. SwiftUI as embedded in Xcode had more and more divergent behavior when running on Mojave. Serious breaking b
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by xenadu02 7y ago
I wonder why their Mojo system doesn't use mach ports on darwin platforms? You can pass port rights along to another process but they aren't forgeable. Unless the renderer process itself has a right to send messages to the network
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by xenadu02 7y ago
Taking a top-level directory isn't very good form IMHO. I understand wanting a hard-coded path but /opt/nix seems more in keeping with the Unix philosophy.
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by xenadu02 7y ago
I appreciate your dedication to throwing pearls before swine. Those intelligent and unbiased enough to learn something useful will do so. I agree with and/or have learned from almost everything you've posted. Some of those things
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by xenadu02 7y ago
I worked on an enterprise product in the 2010-2014 timeframe. We were a huge enterprise company that got acquired by an even larger one; all of our customers were on the Fortune 500. Our product supported IE7 at the time and let me tell you
930.
by xenadu02 7y ago
I'm a voter in the Bay Area and I disagree. So do many others. The Bay Area isn't even close to full, it's just NIMBYs who hate any change blocking things.

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