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They cover things like this in the "Developer State of the Union" which is the talk really focused at developers. That's later today.
Where can I stream that?
developer.apple.com @2:30 pst
OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
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Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
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You can't really replace the underlying tools, you'd want to install the new versions in a different folder and update your Environment to point to those executables. EDIT: I'm wrong, didn't realize homebrew-dupes actually is meant to replace the OS X utils.
So effectively, it's only one step better than installing Cygwin on a Windows machine? Can someone please remind me again why the MacBook is such a preffered machine for software development? For years I've been told, " You get a shell! ", and " It's UNIX under the covers ", etc. Except that the shell userspace is antiquated, and the UNIX flavor is BSD rather than Linux. Meaning that I'm just as out-of-sync with my t…
I agree with most of your grumbles.
> Can someone please remind me again why the MacBook is such a preffered machine for software development?
For me, the greatest battery life and trackpad money can buy.
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#333Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. All the other features are Meh. I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work. I can't be sure that all my questions to Siri are not awkward to speak out. Would have been great to have a textual interface though. You know that Keyboard thingy that is always with a Mac?!
> Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. I don't use a Mac or an iPhone, but I applaud this sort of device harmony. That said, I am worried that it would unnecessarily leverage the cloud. My guess is that instead of the two devices directly communicating with one another—that is, instead of leveraging the fact that they are probably on the same local network and should just work in concert—the clipboard dat…
This enables an interesting new kind of attack.
1. Attach an attack device to someone’s account.
2. ‘Poll’ the clipboard by pasting every ~5 seconds.
3. If the contents of the clipboard appear to be ‘secure’ (looks like shellcode, bitcoin address, url, etc), quickly replace the contents with an attack string with same datatype.
If you have an untrusted device attached to your Apple account, your local clipboard can no longer be trusted.
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#334Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. All the other features are Meh. I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work. I can't be sure that all my questions to Siri are not awkward to speak out. Would have been great to have a textual interface though. You know that Keyboard thingy that is always with a Mac?!
Sometimes I copy my private keys to the clipboard.
cat privatekey > pbcopy
Scary if it ends up on my mobile device clipboard.
Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock
#335Auto unlock would be a lot more interesting to me if I hadn't already been using Windows Hello on the Surface Book. I'm honestly more comfortable with that than proximity locking; I can foresee situations like stepping into a coworkers' office next to mine or to the restroom across the hall where I don't want the device to autounlock without me sitting directly in front of it.
MacID is a much safer (and seemingly more powerful, from what I could tell from the keynote) implementation of this idea. I've been using it for a long time and it's really solid.
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I got a Macbook Pro as work machine in late 2014, having used a Thinkpad before. 1. Mac OS is just too unfamiliar. It starts with the keyboard layout, which I reverted to Windows-style after I went crazy trying to find the square brackets. (Which, probably for aesthetics, they didn't bother to print ont he keyboard.) 2. Mac OS's poor multi-monitor support regularly drives me crazy. To their credit, they have ironed o…
> I went crazy trying to find the square brackets. Apple's US keyboards have them in a good place: on dedicated keys to the right of the 'p' key. Scroll down a bit here: http://www.apple.com/magic-accessories/ Like you, I am baffled as to why some of their BSD userland programs are so very out of date.
Apples US keyboards are fine, the problem is their international keyboards are usually bizarre hybrids of the local layout and US layout.
Standard UK layout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_Kingdom.svg
Apple "UK" layout: http://i.imgur.com/pIGiilv.jpg (@€#@|\`~ are all wrong)
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I am getting progressively more fed up with Apple with every new iteration of OS X, but unfortunately, none of the things I need to run will work on Linux yet. Hopefully that changes, because I don't know how much longer I can hold out. Even their hardware isn't that good anymore -- they haven't updated the Mac Pro since 2013, for instance.
Makes me wonder what they're doing with all that cash...saving it for the Apple Car? I'm with you, getting progressively more annoyed at the lack of hardware updates.
They're sitting on it and letting it invest. So pretty much nothing, except some stock buy back.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-isnt-really-sitting-o...
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Metal is a proprietary 3D technology ported from iOS. Apple chose to do another closed tech instead of adopting Vulkan or fixing their slow OpenGL implementation. If you look at the numbers, you'll see that Metal is about 30% faster than OpenGL on OS X, which is interesting because OpenGL is about 30% slower on OS X than on Windows. Which means they're forcing developers to use their proprietary API to get comparable…
To be fair (regarding "closed tech"), Apple was hardly the only one to release a propriety Vulkan alternative (there's also Mantle and DX12) and Apple released Metal to developers almost two years before Vulkan 1.0 was released.
You know, I really think this line of argument on HN is getting old and needs to be relegated to the dustbin of intellectual discussion.
Saying "Well, but X did $similarthing" as a loose form of justification of whatever Z is doing, like some strange variation of the "not as bad" fallacy. (Though I understand you're point about industry modus operandi)
a cookie if anyone knows the actual fallacy this falls under
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If you use the say command in the Terminal you get the definitive answer.
Its rules for pronouncing "X" are also distinct in these cases: say "Malcolm X" say "Louis X"
Hah, it does roman numerals up to 49
say Louis XLIX = Louis the 49th say Louis L = Louis L