mindajar

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by mindajar 2y ago
Terminal.app seems in no hurry to add truecolor support, which is really nice for editor color schemes and other things once you’ve gotten used to it.
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by mindajar 3y ago
bzr lost because it was poorly-architected, infuriatingly slow, and kept changing its repository storage format trying (and failing) to narrow the gap with Mercurial and Git performance. Or, at least that's why I gave up on it, well be
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by mindajar 5y ago
I don't think it's a hardware problem. After a few days/weeks of uptime, coreaudiod sometimes gets into a state where, regardless of output volume, it glitches and pops periodically until you force-quit it. It's like the
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by mindajar 6y ago
Yeah. To me it looks like macOS goes so deep into sleep it disconnects the external display. On wake, the system rediscovers the external and resizes the desktop across both displays. With a bunch of apps/windows open, half your apps s
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by mindajar 6y ago
The original Rosetta was also a licensed technology that (presumably) cost Apple a pretty penny. If Rosetta 2 is all in-house tech, that probably bodes well for sticking around longer than the original.
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by mindajar 6y ago
In clamshell mode it only has to drive one display, so it demands a lower baseline of memory, CPU, GPU, ...
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by mindajar 7y ago
Which means Reddit is almost certainly going to break all of them, eventually.
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by mindajar 7y ago
It already does, in the T2. It seems to me like future T* chips will run more and more of the system, leaving the x86 to become something like the MBP’s discrete GPU option. And then, like discrete GPUs, eventually an x86 CPU is only availa
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by mindajar 7y ago
If TM detects an I/O error while writing to a networked backup volume, it aborts the backup and forces a filesystem check on the remote disk image at the start of the next backup. This fails, because the filesystem actually is corrupt
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by mindajar 7y ago
If there's an example of getting great game performance with a GC language, Unity isn't it. Lots of Unity games get stuttery, and even when they don't, they seem to use a lot of RAM relative to game complexity. Kerbal Space P
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by mindajar 7y ago
Device backups are handled by Finder in the post-iTunes world, at least on the Mac. I think iTunes is still a thing on Windows?
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by mindajar 7y ago
APFS is “optimized for SSD”, so performance is miserable on hard disks. For awhile Apple held off upgrading the system disk if it was an HDD, but that’s no longer an option if you want to run the latest OS.
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by mindajar 7y ago
That makes it suck slightly less, but TM can pretty much never be "fast" the way it works now, with the number of files we all have these days. In the best case, if a folder doesn't change, TM can hardlink to the previous bac
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by mindajar 7y ago
Just a block
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by mindajar 10y ago
I think the point is that if Apple had to remove DTrace for legal reasons, the impact to Apple's business and customers would be minimal. If a hypothetical AppleZFS shipped on a billion devices and then Apple lost a patent lawsuit, App
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by mindajar 10y ago
Today you can verify backups on OS X with "tmutil verifychecksums", at least on 10.11. The UI to this could be improved, but user data checksums don't necessarily need to be a filesystem feature. On a single-disk device, the
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by mindajar 10y ago
It was a stealthy feature addition that went totally unannounced, but as of 10.11, Time Machine stores file checksums in the backup. See 'tmutil verifyChecksums'.
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by mindajar 10y ago
Do checksums actually need to be in the filesystem, though? It does seem like an important feature, but couldn't they be done at a higher level, like the way Spotlight indexing works on the Mac today?
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by mindajar 10y ago
If you assume Apple cares about having a disk format in common with other platforms, sure, I'd agree that's probably possible. But I don't think they do; they seem to care a lot more about things like a unified codebase acros
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by mindajar 10y ago
Is moving data between computers that way a thing that non-technical people do often? FAT-formatted USB sticks seem to be good enough for that, but e-mail/Dropbox/file sharing/cloud sharing/AirDrop have much better UX fo
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by mindajar 10y ago
Classic comic, but I don't think it applies. APFS looks intended to solve Apple's product problems really well, and it doesn't even try to be a filesystem for everyone. Apple has said from time to time that they're all a
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by mindajar 10y ago
If you poke around in the the APFS kernel extension, it's not a very big binary, given the feature set. (It's a 550K extension, compared to the 2.5MB zfs.ko on FreeBSD.) I haven't disassembled it yet, but I'd wager that
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by mindajar 12y ago
And everyone will think they're secure anyway, since Google got lots of press for announcing they'll encrypt everything. Win-win for Google!
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by mindajar 12y ago
Re: 2), there are significant parts of OS X that seem to either check for HFS+ or rely on its implementation and bugs, and those things don't work properly on other filesystems. OpenZFS, for instance, still doesn't work with Spotl
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by mindajar 12y ago
HFS+ is an oddball filesystem among FSes that anyone actually uses. Since the earliest days of the Mac, it's been able to e.g. track file identity even as a file is moved around, and the metadata to support this lives in a volume-wide
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by mindajar 12y ago
ZFS works a lot better if you dedicate lots of memory to it, yes. Apple sells far more iOS devices than Macs these days, and the iOS filesystem is case-sensitive HFS+. It's hard to imagine Apple doing something new in filesystems that
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by mindajar 12y ago
Yeah, unmaintained indeed. sshuttle doesn't work at all on OS X anymore, as it expects to find ipfw, and doesn't support 10.10's pf firewall. Just as well, really; ipfw was deprecated for awhile, and sshuttle was a pretty goo
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by mindajar 12y ago
Yeah, regardless of transparency settings, WindowServer seems to get really slow after it's been running for awhile (days? hours? it depends.) Restarting the login session or doing a full reboot seems to fix it ... for a little while.
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by mindajar 12y ago
I read it as "you're not as anonymous as you think you are, troll."
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by mindajar 12y ago
daemon(3) isn't part of POSIX, and the OS X man page says "the use of this API is discouraged in favor of using launchd(8)", so who knows what might happen here in the future. If you don't care about portability, it&#x27

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