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by rufo 10d ago
Because, as one of the original GUIs, when they conceived of how the Macintosh worked, you used the command keys to perform actions on files, and you could rename the file just by typing. Cmd-O was the shortcut for opening files, which make
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by rufo 23d ago
As positive as I can be without having bought one just yet. The ones I've seen specifically say they "solve the problem that low power devices cannot be powered via C to C", that they support 480Mbps data transmission, and ar
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by rufo 23d ago
As someone with a bunch of "USB-C" devices that do this, I'd wondered for years why nobody sold these. I recently just found them on Aliexpress in a more finished format (nice-looking case and such), so I'm hopeful they&
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by rufo 1mo ago
Gotcha. I look forward to checking it out.
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by rufo 1mo ago
Ooh, is this public anywhere? Definitely an area of interest of mine :)
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by rufo 2mo ago
Seconded. I went in with only a vague awareness of what Bois' thing is and knowing it somehow involved Tims, Als, and oceanic telegraph cables. I was not disappointed.
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by rufo 2mo ago
Ah, interesting - I saved the video but haven’t gotten around to watching it yet. I don’t know if this is touched on, but it certainly does seem like Gabe’s statement could be a nicer-sounding front for what Becky says; if there are fewer u
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by rufo 2mo ago
Apple’s new Foundation model for the 27 OS releases does some interesting things in exactly this area: https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-third...
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by rufo 2mo ago
I was so steamed about this as a teenager back when it happened - pretty sure it was one of the foundational reasons I started to consider building my own gaming PC once I got the money together. As an adult, and with the hindsight of seein
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by rufo 2mo ago
Yes, I mean, that’s also a possibility - or someone didn’t know they needed to screw on the antenna, or it’s otherwise borked. Every PC motherboard (sample size of four, three for me and one for a nephew) I’ve bought in the last five years
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by rufo 2mo ago
Ooh, thanks for the insight, I didn’t realize that - though that makes sense given how they work. My initial reaction is, I like the idea of the pure hardware-locked passkey as you describe it, but I feel like the syncing is a reasonable-is
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by rufo 2mo ago
I recognize the point of your post is more about the lack of clarity and details around passkeys. That's real, and I don't really have an answer for that - other than, I think maybe the quest for making them simple and "just
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by rufo 2mo ago
I have a history of asking incredibly basic questions about the assumptions that are going in to a debugging issue for exactly these kinds of reasons. Something changed somewhere; so have we verified our basic assumptions that things are wh
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by rufo 2mo ago
Given they’ve had several skirmishes with customs and law enforcement agencies around the world, this always struck me as similar to the “don’t talk about installing retail Switch games on the Switch modding Discord” type of deal - everyone
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by rufo 3mo ago
To be clear, while there is _specific_ language around DEI/gender identity, the actual language of parts of this goes far, far further, and essentially codifies giving political appointees explicit discretion over what gets funded and
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The war against 'woke' could end US science as we know it(theverge.com)
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by rufo 3mo ago
I just finished a video game called 1000xResist this afternoon. There's a lot going on, to say the least - a sci-fi story involving an alien virus, intergenerational trauma, what it's like to be an outsider. It's a hell of a
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by rufo 3mo ago
The reasoning tokens are really just there to extend the amount the LLM can "compute" the problem; put another way, the only way a given model can "think" more about a problem is to fill more of its context with predicte
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by rufo 3mo ago
…lots of major mail services do? https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591413-Spa... https://senders.yahooinc.com/smtp-error-codes/ https://www.xfinity.com/su
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by rufo 3mo ago
I would buy this argument if Flash as a browser plugin had been proven to perform well on a mobile device of the time, but it never was, on Android or any other platform. Even AIR apps - think Electron, an application shell for Flash apps -
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by rufo 3mo ago
For the first year, Scott Forstall, the Senior Vice President in charge of the iPhone's software, very directly encouraged companies like Pandora[0] to jailbreak iPhones in order to get a head start on app development, protected that c
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by rufo 3mo ago
re: #2: I'm in this description, and I am anguished by how much I do not like it. (reference: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-in-this-photo-and-i-dont-l... )
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by rufo 4mo ago
My understanding is that the case was flimsy enough that no "hardcore" lawyers wanted to represent him. It's not just a matter of money; their record (and, therefore, future earnings) are on the line.
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by rufo 4mo ago
At least as of when I left the company, GitHub was being deployed to fairly close to once every 60-90 minutes (the frequency of a deploy train/merge queue batch going out) 24 hours a day, at least during weekdays… there are a fair numb
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by rufo 5mo ago
Oh, I completely agree. But I admit I'm a bit of a retro enthusiast and preservationist at heart, so I was curious what "mattered" to a rando HN commenter :P
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by rufo 5mo ago
Wow - I remember that from the System 7 days. I thought that was long gone - how did I not notice that checkbox was still there in Get Info this whole time?
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by rufo 5mo ago
Why doesn’t this project “really matter?”
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by rufo 5mo ago
EDIT: For anyone unfamiliar, the MiSTer is a homebrew FPGA project originally built around a Terasic DE-10 Nano that can emulate in hardware a wide variety of consoles and computers, leading to extremely low latency and (often) higher accur
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by rufo 5mo ago
I just watched the Vertasium video[1] on ASML's EUV lithgoraphy machines over the weekend, and I think the qualifier they used was "most complex machine _you can purchase commercially_". I can't remember if it was an ASM
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by rufo 5mo ago
It's a function of the shape. On a capsule-sized spacecraft, the ionized plasma completely surrounds the craft, so no radio communications can get in or out. For an oblong-shaped spacecraft, like the Space Shuttle or Starship, the desc

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