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agsnu

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    Comment #48731516

    The study is about 70 year olds. I’m not sure it’s a good idea for the average 70 year old to be engaging in contact sports…

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    Comment #46538914

    Huh? Cashback cards on VISA/Mastercard have all but disappeared, I think Lloyds still do one but it has a promo of 1% for the first year then drops to 0.25% after. American Express…

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    Comment #46517383

    It's not just the WebKit bit, basically the entire app implementation is actually shipped as a "Private Framework" which lives outside the .app bundle. e.g. on macOS % otool -L /Ap…

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    Comment #45977823

    Barely supported by Apple these days - in addition to needing to disable SIP which is a pain, it was broken causing system freezes for several major macOS releases.

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    Comment #45855028

    QuickTime for Windows existed long before then, and Apple ported a bunch of the old Classic Mac Toolbox to Windows as part of that. IIRC it was actually this Windows port of Toolbo…

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    Comment #45679400

    I wouldn’t hold not being on the Mac App Store against it. The MAS is sort of a failed ecosystem with very low usage/engagement, and all the downsides of the iOS store like potenti…

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    Comment #45068169

    Huawei seem pretty committed to building their own OS and uncoupling from the Western technology stack in total https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT https://www.usenix.org/…

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    Comment #44146124

    Anyone remember Swatch internet time?

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    Comment #43298682

    Many countries find that imprisonment is an effective remedy.

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    Comment #43228741

    I think since then it was announced that the alluded to paid gig is script work/research for https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot

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    Comment #43087564

    3 were critically injured, so not “no casualties” but pretty darned close all things considered

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    Comment #43023347

    Doesn't help you if the pilot flying is incapacitated by the toxic air in less than a minute, or crash in to mountains, as in the scenario posited in the video. Climbing out to an …

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    Comment #43023268

    Tesla parked near me has a bumper sticker to the effect of "I bought this before Elon went crazy, sorry"

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    Comment #42928842

    Sounds like a bunch of work. I thought the priority was reducing waste of taxpayer dollars?

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    Comment #42875925

    They were almost certainly both cleared to maintain visual separation.

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    Comment #42735451

    A significant portion of human structures are located close to the coast (seaborne trade having been a huge enabler of economic development for a few hundred years) and are exposed…

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    Comment #42724046

    That’s what I thought at first, but actually this seems to be not the case for Developer ID certificates? https://developer.apple.com/help/account/reference/revoking-...

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    Comment #42642845

    That is certainly true of Flutter, which has its own rendering pipeline. React native, if you create a Button then on iOS you'll get an actual UIButton instance constructed, etc.

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    Comment #42639184

    React Native actually constructs a view hierarchy in the platform's UI toolkit, so I'm curious what you mean by "still a webpage"?

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    Comment #42449552

    IIRC for 1549 there also wasn’t enough time to run the checklist and so they didn’t press the “ditch switch” which closes off a bunch of vents, although given the damage to the air…

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    Comment #42093352

    XPC has been in shipping platforms for more than 13 years... I suppose that is recent compared to NEXTstep :)

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    Comment #42036626

    Listed as the “new address” in the screenshot…

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    Comment #41824386

    Excoriated?

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    Comment #41774403

    The overwhelming majority use ARM Macs these days