dcohenp

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by dcohenp 7y ago
I bet you're thinking of macOS Server [1], which costs $19.99 (twenty dollars). [1] https://www.apple.com/macos/server/
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by dcohenp 7y ago
> 7. The Apple troubleshooting guides are out of date. They do not note that if you have a firmware password on a T2 Mac, you cannot reset PRAM as expected and therefore cannot resolve screen brightness issues this way. You also cannot r
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by dcohenp 8y ago
"Hey Siri" has in fact been tied to the owner's voice since the iPhone 6s (2015): https://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/11/apples-hey-siri-feature...
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by dcohenp 9y ago
I've seen at least one, but it's proprietary and internal to my bigco. I'm willing to bet there's quite a few more at other bigcos. So lucky for you if you can avoid them, but I'm pretty sure there's many of us
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by dcohenp 10y ago
I do this often, too. Just FYI: all you need to do is tell WhatsApp "Never mind, I'm not actually changing my number" when prompted (which should only happen once per SIM card change). That's it. You'll continue bei
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by dcohenp 10y ago
Car. Nightstand. Kitchen counter while you cook/wash dishes. There's a myriad situations where you want to use your device hands-free. In fact, it's the driver behind an entire new product category (see Amazon Echo, Google Ho
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by dcohenp 10y ago
It looks like they're definitely working on bolting on some of that stuff onto C# and the Runtime in the near term: https://qconnewyork.com/system/files/presentation-slides/csy...
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Apple LZFSE open source reference implementation(github.com)
5 points by dcohenp 10y ago|1 comments
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by dcohenp 10y ago
I'm gonna go with Tony Hoare here and say if I could pick just one it'd be NULL pointers. (Braces though? Really?!?)
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by dcohenp 11y ago
I'm sorry, but this line of argument is not even wrong as it relates to the entire modern infosec field, which is founded on the fact that there is no such thing as "100% security"; that is why concepts such as "threat
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by dcohenp 11y ago
That is indeed what the post you're replying to meant. Note that the pointed-to value is a constant string, yet the pointer itself is being modified. That's a fairly common idiom in C string-handling code, only possible because it
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by dcohenp 11y ago
> No one has ever found an efficient algorithm for an NP-complete problem, and most computer scientists believe no one ever will. I find these kinds of assertions somewhat misleading. There _are_ "efficient" algorithms for, one
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A Tale of Three Safeties(joeduffyblog.com)
3 points by dcohenp 11y ago|0 comments
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by dcohenp 11y ago
Apparently hardware would be under their "More Personal Computing" Segment: https://www.microsoft.com/Investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Ear... They don't break it down per-product, but the whole segmen
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by dcohenp 11y ago
Man, I just spent like 5 minutes looking up "Federal Cast", since it sounded fascinating. Then I just realized, maybe you meant "Federal Case"?
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by dcohenp 11y ago
In fact, I believe they are doing exactly this in El Capitan. Under the umbrella of "Rootless", you will no longer be able to arbitrarily modify [1] some special blessed OS processes, like Finder.app. Some discussion of the politi
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by dcohenp 11y ago
I came in here to make exactly your points 2 and 3. They cannot be overstated: they haven't even gotten the budget math to work out yet. Given unlimited resources, sure, who wouldn't want free universities. But making it work with
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by dcohenp 11y ago
I take it the submission title is a mistranslation. Not "Vulcan", but "volcano".
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by dcohenp 11y ago
This reminds me of the people who, at the dawn of the smartphone age, were proudly boasting of their dumbphone's week-long battery life vs. the nightly recharging required by smartphones. Until they realized they were completely missin
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by dcohenp 11y ago
BTW, starting vim as "view" (through e.g. a symlink) is equivalent to "vim -R", precisely for this use case [0]. [0] http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/starting.html#view
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by dcohenp 12y ago
"Oppressively colossal"? :) https://xkcd.com/1294/
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by dcohenp 12y ago
So, I guess ArchieML is to JSON what Markdown is to HTML?
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LLVM/Clang 3.6 released(lists.cs.uiuc.edu)
2 points by dcohenp 12y ago|0 comments
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Rust-media, a portable media player framework for Rust(github.com)
85 points by dcohenp 12y ago|8 comments
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by dcohenp 12y ago
It's one thing when you plop down a ton of cash for something where you embrace the "silliness" or whatever makes it special (e.g. buying exotic cars with monstruous engines to drive them into traffic). It's another, how
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Why we're rewriting our robotics software in Swift(sunsetlakesoftware.com)
15 points by dcohenp 12y ago|0 comments
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by dcohenp 12y ago
Well, but I guess theoretically it could be doing stuff like setting lower thermal thresholds for throttling. So perhaps not exactly a function of scheduling, but getting the CPU to make itself slower. Still, this to me is the most interest
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by dcohenp 12y ago
I'm a bit surprised at the "computational benchmarks" [1] though. Can anyone confirm these are indeed CPU-bound, and not somehow GPU-assisted? If so, how can the underlying kernel possibly make such a difference? Scheduling?
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by dcohenp 12y ago
No they didn't: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/09/my-coworkers-made-me-us...
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by dcohenp 12y ago
There is some related precedent, with Orbitz charging Mac users more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230445860457748...

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