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APFS doesn’t “prefer” anything - it it will not change the bytes passed to NFC or NFD. The bytes passed for creation are stored as is ( HFS will store the NFD form on disk if you p…

USB4 is essentially a branding strategy around the USB C connector which with tunneling various standards (USB 3.2 , thunderbolt ) and speeds. Some are required and some are option…

>It was a GC via marriage though, rules ma be different for employer sponsored GCs Rules are indeed different for Employment based green cards. Marriage based green cards don't hav…

i love how everyone’s idea of what Steve Jobs would do is what they would they would like to see happen :-)

HFS+ sparse files - now that’s a contradiction in terms.

Space shared APFS volumes inside a container give you the “table partitioning” you want. You can even set them up to have different case sensitivity options. All your dev work in a…

Well, APFS is much better suited to this kind of workflow. Create a space shared logical volume inside your container and turn spotlight off on that particular volume (and if you’d…

There’s some interesting pricing games being played by Apple. For all new models, The 256GB price is the same, the 128GB and 32GB have been eliminated and in their place a single 6…

The "chilling series of messages" takes you to a link which details how File sharing through iTunes on Windows specifically was affected and that a similar file transfer product on…

>from APFS-normalization-preserving to APFS-native-normalization. The developer documentation at [1] seems to suggest that "native" normalization is normalization preserving as wel…

>Imagine any non-English speaking person entering a non-ascii name for their document You mean there are people in Europe, China, Japan, India running into widespread problems when…

FreeBSD, Linux ... every UNIX kernel codebase ?

That's only true of GPL'ed components shipped as part of Mac OS X/ OS X / macOS. A vast majority isn't - some are BSD and most are Apple originated software under an Apple Open Sou…

If you closely enough at the spec, it is unclear if this actually a violation. Also, according to the developer, this same behavior was present from 10.3 to 10.9 ( Apple was certif…

From the 2nd edition of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" ZFS, Pg 549 " However it is not designed for or well suited to run on resource constrained s…

>and this adds to the overall support overhead of all operating systems that want to be compatible with Apple devices. What operating systems describe tremselves as being "compatib…

what sold me on retina was the Terminal :). I mean yeah websites and stuff look nice too but the terminal.app is where I live.

look carefully at the 2nd command, it's NOT copy (cmd-c) and paste (cmd-v)

>There's standard, normalized ways immigrants have come to the US for a long time now Just out of curiosity, what are the "standard, normalized ways " that people immigrate to the …

You can put a different SIM in it. The device (in this case the iPad) itself isn't locked to a carrier. The Apple SIM was only an additional convenience in that you didn't even hav…

Contrary to speculation ( there are whole articles which "explain" the secure enclave to be ARM trustzone) secure enclave is documented ( only very recently) to be a _seperate_ chi…

>And added things that existed in Linux since 1985 has Linux existed since 1985 :-) ?

You're right about this being a iOS 8 bug, i haven't tried your keyboard yet but have swype installed and it frequently fails to show up in things ( mainly spotlight for me )

launchd makes heavy use of Mach IPC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel) ) which makes a port to any other non Mach derived OS a non trivial effort. There was apparently an…

well, you still need an Apple device to sign up for an iCloud account :)