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ddeville
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About ddeville
Previously at Realmac Software, UCL alumnus.
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ddeville; my proof: https://keybase.io/ddeville/sigs/bcKVcmEbNuqRreGZ667YM68NMrd9hrskphi2TDazXWM ]
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Comment #39271099
Maybe I’m too boring but what about using preprocessor defines: stick it as a -D flag in CPPFLAGS in your makefile from and env var or wherever that info comes from and read it in …
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Comment #33693666
Carmack himself describes it well in the recent interview with Lex Fridman https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4?t=8961
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Comment #28507778
The actual book on Amazon: Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China https://www.amazon.com/dp/1982156155
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Comment #26303955
> Significant performance improvements to completion of the available commands (#7153), especially on macOS Big Sur where there was a significant regression (#7365, #7511). This is…
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Comment #25363589
Not sure that is what they meant but in some European countries (France being an example), college means middle school rather than university.
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Comment #22946692
Rome, Jerusalem, Athens, maybe Istanbul.
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Comment #22913235
From their about page: > The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.
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Comment #20407872
Looks like the ZoomOpener app is still present on my machine but it’s not running anymore and it shows as unticked in the Login Items preferences.
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Comment #20407861
They ship a pkg installer package that pretty much always elevates, even if it doesn’t actually need it. While it could in theory install as the user, I don’t even think the Instal…
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Comment #12469748
You can disable the Finder integration in the preferences, same for the badge.
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Comment #10072376
Thanks for the tips! I had never thought of using a snapshot as a quick way to return to the state before a panic instead of rebooting. This is genius, I'll definitely use it a lot…
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