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Aaron2222

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    Comment #47156787

    Radix is the registry for .online, not the registrar they bought the domain from.

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    Comment #47098068

    > The \n won't be interpreted specially by echo unless it gets the -e option. Author's probably using Zsh, which interprets them by default.

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    Comment #46674428

    This loop is similarly suspect: let maxValue = value; for (const externalIndex of AFFECTING_EXTERNAL_INDICES[i]) { maxValue = Math.max(value, externalSamplingVector[externalIndex])…

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    Comment #46507280

    All 14" and 16" MacBook Pros (which is all Apple Silicon MacBook Pros except the 13" ones with base M1 or M2) have an SD card reader.

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    Comment #46484820

    As per the article: Now when trying to activate the OS by attempting to call the phone number for Microsoft Product Activation, an automated voice response says the following: "Sup…

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    Comment #46212774

    A lot of core functionality is implemented as bundled plugins (they ship with the IDE, but can receive updates separately). They can also be independently disabled (and older versi…

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    Comment #46129221

    This trick is something we teach our students when we do 6809 assembly (mainly as a trick to do addition on the index registers). I had no idea it was used as an optimisation in x8…

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    Comment #46030354

    Tinymist in VS Code does this out of the box (and looks like it can be set up in other editors). That or you can configure it to save out a new PDF automatically on save or as you …

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    Comment #45911078

    The loss of the --no-gatekeeper option isn't that big of a deal. It just removed the com.apple.quarantine xattr from the installed cask (which you can easily do yourself, or just a…

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    Comment #45910982

    > Apple Silicon won’t run unsigned apps anyway. Technically true, but misleading. The macOS kernel won't execute an Apple Silicon binary that doesn't have a signature, but as Apple…

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    Comment #45910977

    1. Yes. (Either that or they know something we don't about Apple's future plans.) 2. No, as Gatekeeper checks both for a valid signature from an Apple Developer Program certificate…

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    Comment #45910962

    To clarify, the macOS kernel requires a signature on all Apple Silicon binaries, but this can just be an ad-hoc signature. Ad-hoc signed Apple Silicon applications are treated much…

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    Comment #45910917

    > i can't even just install and run the docker CLI--docker on Mac requires Desktop and commercial use of Desktop requires a license. That's not on Apple. Docker needs the Linux ker…

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    Comment #45910863

    While it is true that macOS requires binaries to have a digital signature, that can just be an ad-hoc signature. Other than that, not much has changed. Gatekeeper (and the ability …

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    Comment #45886988

    So iPod Socks[0], but with a strap? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Socks

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    Comment #45884627

    Apple's had Universal Clipboard since 2016 (so 9 years) with macOS Sierra and iOS 10.

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    Comment #45760292

    ChatGPT is another.

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    Comment #45728228

    Reading the paper[0], they're getting position data at 1s intervals, and ran it for 4h to show repeatable centimetre-level precision over that time period. [0]: https://link.spring…

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    Comment #45718121

    sort | uniq -c | sort -n The second sort is sorting by frequency (the count output by `uniq -c`).

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    Comment #45700513

    So do most package managers...

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    Comment #45700504

    If you're not going to use the web app, you may as well sponsor them through GitHub instead. Also, you get stickers that way.

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    Comment #45700461

    You can fix this with: defaults write -g NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false You can also have apps default to a blank document instead of the open dialog: defaults write…

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    Comment #45000915

    The DEC VT241 from 1984 had colour. https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/DEC_VT240 https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/digital/DECVT240.pdf

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    Comment #44753531

    > There is an open source app, Amphetamine BTW, Amphetamine isn't open source, just freeware.