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Long time Fastmail customer. Let it learn a bit about your inbox. I barely see any spam these days that’s not been caught. Except LinkedIn, that somehow goes through

> technical failure during migration Showing my age when the first thing that came to mind was ' but ma.gnolia was more of a social bookmarking...'

Everything after Win 2000 was a bad idea. Enterprise or not.

I dont/didn't use Jack at all, straight into pipewire, which makes for a super unintuitive way to select 'audio device' in Reaper (iirc, something like select ALSA and 'default's f…

I used this site as a reference earlier this year quite often, as I attempted to establish some baseline for a Linux DAW. I use Mac for serious audio stuff, but 'what if' (since I …

Isn't Apple taking UK gov't to court over this, and the reason they have abandoned encryption for everybody is to avoid being forced to provide backdoors. On this you should be on …

You can run your own software, but if asked by UK authorities to provide the keys/password and you don't comply you face prison time.

Or if you work in trading, IOC made it a very confusing title

Macintosh has always been application-centric, instead of window-centric desktop. Hence the top application menu that controls the 'application'. There is nothing inherently wrong …

Remember when OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 was released with 'zero new features' and with focus on fixing bugs and improving things? Good times.

There are a lot of small companies / single devs working in very technical, pro-oriented, industries. They still thrive in the days of browsers and javascripts and what not, writin…

A lot of this stuff has been investigated in Mr Alexandrescu's ironically named book Modern C++. Typelists (before variadic templates) recursive templates and componenet-like assem…

Thread devolved into petty politics quicker than expected.

It's not about programming, it's about the domain it's applied in.

> the main insight was that rather than wait for market signals to then decide what to do, you can precalculate your responses up to and including the actual message to be sent to …

Indeed. Although I don't know what precisions are required in crypto products, in traditional trading an 8 byte double is quite enough - the price submitted will have to be rounded…

Used to that... but once I accumulated a heap of AU plugins I just couldn't bear the thought of spending a weekend reinstalling all that again (plus most of them won't work with th…

Don't know if it counts, but RME Audio are now providing drivers for their pro audio gear via DriverKit instead of the ole kext. Installed yesterday, works just fine (modulo checki…

Thanks for that! I remember reading something on the subject years ago and scrolled through comments hoping someone would dig it up! Kudos! (But there was another, similar article,…

_Our_ politicians are not like _their_ politicians.

> There is no reason to pay the money I am paying here if I can get better food, climate and general quality of life for the same (or even less!) money elsewhere in Europe Sure. An…

UK government bodies are not known for speedy infrastructure installations/upgrades, which is why the UK has always been at the arse end of broadband speeds in Europe (let alone co…

UK: hold my beer while I show you our ANPR that's literally everywhere

Truth to be told, A* over navmeshes and path smoothing ('string pulling' by eliminating points with LoS) with adding occupancy/weight to individual triangles (or polygons? Not sure…

I remember the Knight Cap event, I was working on order routing at the time. Things have changed a lot since 2012, and at the same time haven’t. Circuit breakers and position monit…