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by SloopJon 23d ago
These Macs are reportedly shipping with macOS 27 Golden Gate. You'd have two incompatible constraints: Macs don't like to run a version older than what they shipped with, and Golden Gate doesn't support the Intel iMac. You mi
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by SloopJon 24d ago
I happily booted and ran an Intel Mac mini using a 4TB drive in a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure, and I do the same for an M4 Max Mac Studio using an 8TB drive in a USB4v2 enclosure (OWC Express 1M2 80G). You'll just have to be careful to mat
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by SloopJon 2mo ago
I'm probably preaching to the choir in a story about guitars, but if you're looking for some good 12-string music, Leo Kottke's 6 and 12 String Guitar is a good start. If you haven't heard (or seen) Michael Hedges play a
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by SloopJon 5mo ago
I built a PC this year in a Meshroom S V2[1]. The NF-A14x25 G2 fans I used for the AIO didn't seem so expensive when I was spending $600 on RAM, and I was happy that they were available in black. Not every quiet PC is built in a dense
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by SloopJon 6mo ago
I held my nose and bought an RTX 5070 Ti for $100 over MSRP in January. The very next week the same model was up $200. It turns out that NVIDIA had been subsidizing retail graphics cards with its Open Pricing Program. Not the whole story, b
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by SloopJon 7mo ago
An editor that tries to be layout agnostic is almost certainly going to be a nightmare for people like me who set the layout in the keyboard itself. I downloaded the editor (I'm on Windows at the moment), and tried it with my keyboard
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by SloopJon 8mo ago
The article links to a YouTube mini-review of USB enclosures from UGreen and Acasis, neither of which he loves.[1] I've been happy with the OWC 1M2 as a boot drive on a Mac Studio with Thunderbolt 5 ports.[2] I just noticed that there
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by SloopJon 1y ago
The article links to the opinion[1], which notes more than once that "the quoted language does not appear anywhere in the opinion," and " Goldstine appears to be a fabricated case." I don't know whether it's e
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by SloopJon 1y ago
The blog post announcing the PSP Security Protocol as open source: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/ann... HN discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by SloopJon 1y ago
I found the idea of a password generator appealing, mainly due to vault anxiety. I didn't (and still don't) like the idea that I can't access a resource without this precious vault. If I'm home with my tools, great. Othe
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by SloopJon 1y ago
I don't see anything in the post or the linked tutorial that gives a flavor of the user experience when you supply an invalid option. I tried running the example, but I've forgotten too much about Node and TypeScript to make it wo
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Pixel Watch 4(blog.google)
5 points by SloopJon 1y ago|0 comments
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by SloopJon 1y ago
Gemini says: pressing Option on the Swinsian menu changes the "Check For Updates..." menu option to "Check For Updates (Beta)..." I don't have specific complaints about the current version, but I'm going to giv
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by SloopJon 1y ago
Petrichor shows my albums as a single track. CUE sheet support is a must. I also have a hard time seeing myself using a desktop music player without an iTunes-style column-mode browser.
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by SloopJon 1y ago
I don't think it's that it's not stripping "e.g.", but that the search criteria are empty. The empty result set is prefaced by "Search results for:". I actually like that the example is a complete, standal
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by SloopJon 1y ago
Although this is characterized as 1.0, it is governed by the Terms of Use for Early-Access, which are quite limiting, including: "You may use the Service solely for noncommercial purposes."
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by SloopJon 1y ago
The video on Steam shows both first- and third-person perspectives. Speaking of LLMs, Gemini says: "Hypercharge: Unboxed is both a first-person and third-person shooter. You can switch between perspectives based on your preference.&quo
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by SloopJon 1y ago
> The thesis is predicated on the idea that people claim this is the result of some study. I’ve never once heard it presented that way. It's a rule of thumb. Code Complete cites eight sources to support the claim that the average
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by SloopJon 1y ago
The product appears to be similar to Microsoft's embattled Recall feature. In order to remember your digital life it takes frequent screenshots.
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by SloopJon 1y ago
The obvious question is, what does free mean? Here's the license: https://gsap.com/community/standard-license/ Basically freeware with express prohibitions on competing with Webflow.
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by SloopJon 1y ago
This is a better link for the actual feature, as opposed to the process that led to its prioritization: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-tab-groups/
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by SloopJon 1y ago
Personally, I don't know what you mean about Rust being too massive. One thing I am wary of is using a truly massive language like C++ on a multi-programmer project without consensus on which features to use and how to use them. Mayb
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by SloopJon 1y ago
When I read SQL for Dummies almost thirty years ago, it made a point of distinguishing "sequel" as a historical predecessor to standard "SQL." As I recall, the author even asserted that SQL is not an acronym/init
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by SloopJon 1y ago
For a while I used dired-sidebar-show-sidebar and dired-omit-mode to give me a list of files in a narrow window on the left. I kept messing it up with C-x 1, though.
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I played around with the calculator source code from the Android Open Source Project after a previous submission[1]. I think Google moved it from AOSP to the Google Play Services several years ago, but the old source is still available. It
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by SloopJon 2y ago
This is a long rant that covers a lot of ground, a lot of which will inevitably be ignored because the letters "C++" trigger people, myself included sometimes. (Skip ahead to "It's Not All Puppies and Butterflies" f
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by SloopJon 2y ago
I searched for Mac Studio SSD upgrades, and I do indeed see modules that look just like the one in the picture. Not cheap.
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by SloopJon 2y ago
The picture shows a 2230-ish drive. I would be somewhat surprised if the 8TB option in the M4 Pro is on that module. The different chips may do storage differently.
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by SloopJon 2y ago
Google turns up a CNET article from 2007 (probably because eEye was "pumping press releases left and right"):[1] > Researchers at eEye used a standard process of code auditing in discovering the vulnerabilities, [eEye CEO Ross]
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by SloopJon 2y ago
The color for the Wikimedia image looks way off on my computer. Is it possible that it's tagged with the wrong color profile?

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