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Or, it could just switch the default shell to Z shell. First thing I do on a new Mac, is chsh -> zsh. Ships with an up to date (enough) version of that.

NZ's UFB network has always been FTTH (meaning it terminates inside your house), there is no copper in this picture. This is why, for example, last month people who qualified for 2…

I beg to differ. I had an encrypted USB HDD hooked up to Thunderbolt display, and lost all data on it because it does indeed power down its USB hub :)

I have a Thunderbolt display from Apple, it also powers off the USB devices when it goes to sleep.

Uh, nope. You've just ensured Dropbox will never be installed again on any of my machines or devices. Ever. You fuck up like this, you never earn that trust back.

With non-stock headphones? I'm not so sure.

You forget how much Apple likes to nickel & dime people on storage and memory, it's where a lot of margin comes from. Expect to pay a few times market rate for 1TB SSD.

I am of Dutch descent, but I have never set foot in the Netherlands. Somehow, though, I am much taller (6'1) than my dad and his father, who were both pretty short (5'2).

Some of your neighbours' rights may include not having a 100 floor tower go up next to them blocking all their sun, as an example.

Well, you can still pick up an AR-15 online in NZ if you have a valid firearms license, difference is the police are going to know you have one, and will do a background check as w…

I've transited through the USA a few times. Might be coincidence, but every time I complained on Twitter beforehand about the security theatre, I was "randomly selected" for specia…

It will be interesting to see if Swift Playgrounds on iPad changes the landscape here. Simple intro courses, but it's got real Swift compiler + runtime, and you can call straight i…

Have you tried Iosevka (the Slab variant is serif)? Not a bitmap font, but pretty customisable. With hints of PragmataPro, it's my go-to font at the moment. Looks especially nice w…

$99 is when you want to distribute via App Store. You don't need that to do the development or use the tools.

A similar deal was Naspers buying 45% of Tencent for $34 million (current size of stake is around 34%), worth roughly $70 billion.

Open a file with everything on one line in Atom, and you can bring it to its knees, even if the file is only a couple of kilobytes.

Ask people from Brasil how much they enjoy the high prices they pay for consumer electronics some time.

how is an Apple service provider able to bypass this? if they can, so can an adversary, no?

In the US, perhaps.

After having had my original XBox fail once and XBox 360 needing to be replaced three times, and eventually still dying, with Microsoft refusing to replace the third, I switched to…

Very similar in NZ, except most employees don't have to do a thing, and if you do, you can do it all online using standard HTML app, no plugin. I had do a return once in 12 years -…

New Zealand is a state of Australia, so if you could enable it here too that would be great.

Freight forwarders are how most of us outside of the US get stuff from companies that only ship to the US - There must be a market for such services that ship to Russia too.

The first C++ compiler produced C. I think this qualifies...