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by agsnu 3mo ago
The study is about 70 year olds. I’m not sure it’s a good idea for the average 70 year old to be engaging in contact sports…
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by agsnu 8mo ago
Huh? Cashback cards on VISA/Mastercard have all but disappeared, I think Lloyds still do one but it has a promo of 1% for the first year then drops to 0.25% after. American Express will give you 0.75% on first 10k spend then 1.25%. 2%
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by agsnu 8mo ago
It's not just the WebKit bit, basically the entire app implementation is actually shipped as a "Private Framework" which lives outside the .app bundle. e.g. on macOS % otool -L /Applications/Safari.app/Contents
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by agsnu 10mo ago
Barely supported by Apple these days - in addition to needing to disable SIP which is a pain, it was broken causing system freezes for several major macOS releases.
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by agsnu 10mo ago
QuickTime for Windows existed long before then, and Apple ported a bunch of the old Classic Mac Toolbox to Windows as part of that. IIRC it was actually this Windows port of Toolbox that in some ways laid the foundation for Carbon - i.e. a
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by agsnu 11mo ago
I wouldn’t hold not being on the Mac App Store against it. The MAS is sort of a failed ecosystem with very low usage/engagement, and all the downsides of the iOS store like potentially lengthy review times (can be a lot longer than the
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by agsnu 1y ago
Huawei seem pretty committed to building their own OS and uncoupling from the Western technology stack in total https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi24
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by agsnu 1y ago
737* :)
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by agsnu 1y ago
Anyone remember Swatch internet time?
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by agsnu 2y ago
Many countries find that imprisonment is an effective remedy.
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by agsnu 2y ago
I think since then it was announced that the alluded to paid gig is script work/research for https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot
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by agsnu 2y ago
3 were critically injured, so not “no casualties” but pretty darned close all things considered
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by agsnu 2y ago
Doesn't help you if the pilot flying is incapacitated by the toxic air in less than a minute, or crash in to mountains, as in the scenario posited in the video. Climbing out to an appropriate height to join the approach, reconfiguring
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by agsnu 2y ago
Tesla parked near me has a bumper sticker to the effect of "I bought this before Elon went crazy, sorry"
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by agsnu 2y ago
Sounds like a bunch of work. I thought the priority was reducing waste of taxpayer dollars?
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by agsnu 2y ago
They were almost certainly both cleared to maintain visual separation.
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by agsnu 2y ago
A significant portion of human structures are located close to the coast (seaborne trade having been a huge enabler of economic development for a few hundred years) and are exposed to flooding from rising sea levels, or built in valleys tha
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by agsnu 2y ago
That’s what I thought at first, but actually this seems to be not the case for Developer ID certificates? https://developer.apple.com/help/account/reference/revoking-...
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by agsnu 2y ago
That is certainly true of Flutter, which has its own rendering pipeline. React native, if you create a Button then on iOS you'll get an actual UIButton instance constructed, etc.
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by agsnu 2y ago
React Native actually constructs a view hierarchy in the platform's UI toolkit, so I'm curious what you mean by "still a webpage"?
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by agsnu 2y ago
IIRC for 1549 there also wasn’t enough time to run the checklist and so they didn’t press the “ditch switch” which closes off a bunch of vents, although given the damage to the aircraft skin it’s not clear whether it would have made a diffe
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by agsnu 2y ago
XPC has been in shipping platforms for more than 13 years... I suppose that is recent compared to NEXTstep :)
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by agsnu 2y ago
Listed as the “new address” in the screenshot…
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by agsnu 2y ago
Excoriated?
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by agsnu 2y ago
The overwhelming majority use ARM Macs these days
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by agsnu 2y ago
The first iPhone ran iPhone OS 1.0
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by agsnu 2y ago
Like the USA?
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by agsnu 2y ago
I've only ever heard "jailbroken" as using exploits to take control of a device that is intended by the vendor to be locked down - hence, breaking out of jail. I've only ever really heard of it being a term on iOS device
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by agsnu 2y ago
There is a famous clip of Jobs trying to demo the ROKR on stage at an Apple press event. His disdain is palpable.
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by agsnu 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40903750

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