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The Apple Platform Security[1] white paper describes the secure boot process for Apple silicon. The Mac boot process is significantly more configurable than the iOS boot process, a…

>They think the process is “senior make ticket, anyone implement ticket, unga bunga”. The fact that you just summarized about an hour worth of argumentation from my last annual pla…

Somewhat agree and disagree. I bucket people's style into two camps, stressing over the former is largely unproductive, but stressing over the latter is crucial to writing high-qua…

> In my case: I am near physically incapable of doing things that I "need" to do, with the more I "need" to do something, the harder by brain and body will rebel against doing it. …

I remember e-mailing a guy for some iPad app and having a similar moment. The important context is the app had its own custom keyboard. I used the app personally, and recommended i…

I wouldn't be so sure about that. If you had said this before my most recent hire I would have agreed - but my junior writes stuff that looks like this or worse. I'm always reviewi…

I'm curious what makes you think the MBA is a more "full experience?" The MBA is permanently affixed to its keyboard: so it can't easily be used for consumption (in bed, on the cou…

I was able to get up to 35-37 Gbps between my host-guest with a virtio NIC with the outdated iperf3.exe, which I did indeed acquire from the site mentioned in the article. That see…

Wonder if there's been a quite hardware-rev and they can't/don't want to update the firmware on the old units. I ran into that once on Spectrum - I bought the "same" modem to repla…

>I disagree. You can mess with odometer as much as you like. Trying to sell it off with a different amount of miles than have actually been put on it is called fraud. For a long ti…

>Pretty much every single company I've worked for with AD has broken this rule. It's a lot better now. Ever since companies started moving from on-prem Exchange to O365 in droves I…

Not sure I share this opinion, I game on a combination of Linux w/ a Windows 11 VM every day. I'm only really aware of two titles that are actively user-hostile with anti-cheat: Ra…

>After too many years of Windows, I finally bit the bullet and installed Linux on my desktop. Use Linux at home since 2020, and have recently switched to a Mac for work. Windows is…

I agree with your definition, and I also believe it's an important distinction and a _better definition_ than the article author's. However I'm not sure I agree with your self-asse…

>If anyone has an idea for how to monetize yet another database client library, I'm all ears. I just need to eat, pay rent, and buy dog kibble FWIW jOOQ's model worked great from a…

I read this blog post[1] a while back about the Windows memory subsystem performing pathologically bad due to an application (Google Chrome) asking the OS to employ memory throttli…

My city does this, as well as preventing right clicks, as a "copy protection mechanism", complete with an `alert()` shaming you every time you have the audacity to try and cut and …

Holy crap. Seeing Kai's Super GOO sure takes me back. I used to vandalize the family scrapbook w/ that program. One of the edits (in which I made my little sister appear _very bald…

>How can you draw a thing without visualizing it? Speaking personally: my hand just moves. A top hat is roughly an elliptical base with a smaller cylinder affixed to it on-center, …

Someone beat you to that punch a long time ago. Here is a whole calendar replete with holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordian_calendar for your viewing pleasure.

I did a vanilla playthrough w/ no console commands to get my fair share of achievements.[1] That base is from beta, and doesn't really function correctly anymore.[2] At this point …

I did three installs of Pro this year. Two of them required hacks to force local account creation because the motherboard (Asus) ships with a _literal rootkit_ that injects a wirel…

Yes, I have a desktop calculator primarily because I like using RPN, and there are very few software RPN calculators _that aren't just HP emulators._ In a pinch I will use PCalc in…

I built a new PC for a friend, and getting the AM5 platform stable was ridiculously challenging, so there were several reinstallations of Windows involved. He didn't use a password…

You emulate the abandonware, old OS and all. She kicked the habit recently, but my sister preferred Word 5.1 for Mac for a long time. That was a 68k program, which she dutifully us…