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While hinting is disabled for most fonts, there are some fonts that require hinting to render correctly. We have to support hinting for those fonts, and it was easier to make it se…

If you want to help improve the security of OS software through the magic of memory safe languages, the team that did this work is hiring: https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?searc…

Liron is an incredible photographer. Well worth checking out his instagram at https://www.instagram.com/liron_gertsman_photography He and another photographer recently did a projec…

The names of some birds still reflect this. For example, the ring-necked duck has a ring around its neck that’s almost impossible to see a on a live bird.

Apple | Software Engineer | Cupertino, CA/San Diego, CA/Portland, OR/Austin, TX | Onsite We’re the team that designs and develops the operating system for the Secure Enclave used i…

Apple | Software Engineer | Cupertino, CA/San Diego, CA/Portland, OR/Austin, TX | Onsite We’re the team that designs and develops the operating system for the Secure Enclave used i…

Apple | Software Engineer | Cupertino, CA/San Diego, CA/Portland, OR/Austin, TX | Onsite We’re the team that designs and develops the operating system for the Secure Enclave used i…

You may be right about the averaging. From rereading the accident report, the Pilot Flying took back control of the plane after the Pilot Not Flying engaged his controls and tried …

Part of the issue may have been that the plane had slowed down so much that the stall warning stopped (it disengages below a certain airspeed apparently). When he stopped pulling u…

AF 447 wasn’t all that different from this situation. One of the co-pilots was trying to pitch the nose down to recover from the stall. The other was panicking and trying to pitch …

I used to work in the industrial controls industry. The systems are often designed by application engineers working for the industrial control equipment’s manufacturer or distribut…

I'm not seeing how it's unpredictable and inconvenient. It's predictable if the stack address can be leaked (via a frame pointer leak, for example). It doesn't seem that inconvenie…

I feel like I’m missing something here. An infoleak is required to successfully ROP against ASLR (otherwise the attacker doesn’t know what to overwrite the return address with). On…

I believe they're Zigbee Home Automation, not ZLL. Either that or they're improperly reporting that they support ZHA instead of ZLL, which causes issues for 3rd party bridges like …

If you find yourself starting a comment with “not to sound rude”, you might consider whether skipping the comment altogether is the best way to not be rude.

Their theory is spelled out pretty clearly in the article. There are 1800 taxicabs permitted to operate in the city and many more Ubers/Lyfts. The fact that people who use Uber and…

Yes, the treatment of their employees in the workplace is very much Google's business. Accomodating LGBT employees is not only the right thing to do, it's also supported by many of…

But see also: > In particular, I’m still conflicted about whether all those type system extensions were warranted. Certainly immutability helped with things far beyond safe concurr…

The proposal was to allow for as-of-right development if the development adhered to local zoning ordinances. That means no variances. As soon as a developer wanted a variance, they…

I think you’re missing the fact that "There are a lot of rules you need to be aware of that are not naturally-occurring results of the fundamentals."

Not that I’m speaking for everyone on HN, but the problem is generally with wide-ranging surveillance of the entire populace in the hopes that they can data-mine their way to victo…

Which is a perfect example of why their approach is better. Less arithmetic to get right with their approach.

This is a remarkably content-free posting. > People become corporate do-nothings because it’s easy to become disconnected from the act of creating when you’re at a big company. Eve…

That's the point. Paris is the second-lowest on that list. The other places listed are all Parisian suburbs. "Because they exiled all future high rises to some far neighborhood lik…