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I bet you're thinking of macOS Server [1], which costs $19.99 (twenty dollars). [1] https://www.apple.com/macos/server/

> 7. The Apple troubleshooting guides are out of date. They do not note that if you have a firmware password on a T2 Mac, you cannot reset PRAM as expected and therefore cannot res…

"Hey Siri" has in fact been tied to the owner's voice since the iPhone 6s (2015): https://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/11/apples-hey-siri-feature...

I've seen at least one, but it's proprietary and internal to my bigco. I'm willing to bet there's quite a few more at other bigcos. So lucky for you if you can avoid them, but I'm …

I do this often, too. Just FYI: all you need to do is tell WhatsApp "Never mind, I'm not actually changing my number" when prompted (which should only happen once per SIM card chan…

Car. Nightstand. Kitchen counter while you cook/wash dishes. There's a myriad situations where you want to use your device hands-free. In fact, it's the driver behind an entire new…

It looks like they're definitely working on bolting on some of that stuff onto C# and the Runtime in the near term: https://qconnewyork.com/system/files/presentation-slides/csy...

I'm gonna go with Tony Hoare here and say if I could pick just one it'd be NULL pointers. (Braces though? Really?!?)

I'm sorry, but this line of argument is not even wrong as it relates to the entire modern infosec field, which is founded on the fact that there is no such thing as "100% security"…

That is indeed what the post you're replying to meant. Note that the pointed-to value is a constant string, yet the pointer itself is being modified. That's a fairly common idiom i…

> No one has ever found an efficient algorithm for an NP-complete problem, and most computer scientists believe no one ever will. I find these kinds of assertions somewhat misleadi…

Apparently hardware would be under their "More Personal Computing" Segment: https://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Ear... They don't break it down per-product, bu…

Man, I just spent like 5 minutes looking up "Federal Cast", since it sounded fascinating. Then I just realized, maybe you meant "Federal Case"?

In fact, I believe they are doing exactly this in El Capitan. Under the umbrella of "Rootless", you will no longer be able to arbitrarily modify [1] some special blessed OS process…

I came in here to make exactly your points 2 and 3. They cannot be overstated: they haven't even gotten the budget math to work out yet. Given unlimited resources, sure, who wouldn…

I take it the submission title is a mistranslation. Not "Vulcan", but "volcano".

This reminds me of the people who, at the dawn of the smartphone age, were proudly boasting of their dumbphone's week-long battery life vs. the nightly recharging required by smart…

BTW, starting vim as "view" (through e.g. a symlink) is equivalent to "vim -R", precisely for this use case [0]. [0] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/starting.html#view

"Oppressively colossal"? :) https://xkcd.com/1294/

So, I guess ArchieML is to JSON what Markdown is to HTML?