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by vvhn 5y ago
APFS doesn’t “prefer” anything - it it will not change the bytes passed to NFC or NFD. The bytes passed for creation are stored as is ( HFS will store the NFD form on disk if you pass the NFC form to it). However APFS is normalization insen
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by vvhn 6y ago
USB4 is essentially a branding strategy around the USB C connector which with tunneling various standards (USB 3.2 , thunderbolt ) and speeds. Some are required and some are optional to get branded as USB4.
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by vvhn 6y ago
>It was a GC via marriage though, rules ma be different for employer sponsored GCs Rules are indeed different for Employment based green cards. Marriage based green cards don't have a limit while the number of employment based Green
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by vvhn 8y ago
i love how everyone’s idea of what Steve Jobs would do is what they would they would like to see happen :-)
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by vvhn 8y ago
HFS+ sparse files - now that’s a contradiction in terms.
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by vvhn 9y ago
Space shared APFS volumes inside a container give you the “table partitioning” you want. You can even set them up to have different case sensitivity options. All your dev work in a case sensitive volume for instance and Adobe software on a
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by vvhn 9y ago
Well, APFS is much better suited to this kind of workflow. Create a space shared logical volume inside your container and turn spotlight off on that particular volume (and if you’d like, make that volume case sensitive ). There’s no need to
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by vvhn 9y ago
There’s some interesting pricing games being played by Apple. For all new models, The 256GB price is the same, the 128GB and 32GB have been eliminated and in their place a single 64GB model in between ( 700 ) the price of the 32 ( 649 ) and
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by vvhn 9y ago
The "chilling series of messages" takes you to a link which details how File sharing through iTunes on Windows specifically was affected and that a similar file transfer product on Windows iMazing was able to fix to fix it by simp
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by vvhn 9y ago
>from APFS-normalization-preserving to APFS-native-normalization. The developer documentation at [1] seems to suggest that "native" normalization is normalization preserving as well and that native normalization is based on sto
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by vvhn 9y ago
>Imagine any non-English speaking person entering a non-ascii name for their document You mean there are people in Europe, China, Japan, India running into widespread problems when they create filenames in their own language in iOS 10.3+
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by vvhn 9y ago
FreeBSD, Linux ... every UNIX kernel codebase ?
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by vvhn 10y ago
That's only true of GPL'ed components shipped as part of Mac OS X/ OS X / macOS. A vast majority isn't - some are BSD and most are Apple originated software under an Apple Open Source License (APSL)
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by vvhn 10y ago
If you closely enough at the spec, it is unclear if this actually a violation. Also, according to the developer, this same behavior was present from 10.3 to 10.9 ( Apple was certified to be compliant from 10.5 onwards which tells you that t
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by vvhn 10y ago
From the 2nd edition of "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System" ZFS, Pg 549 " However it is not designed for or well suited to run on resource constrained systems using 32 bit CPUs with less than 8 Gb
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by vvhn 10y ago
>and this adds to the overall support overhead of all operating systems that want to be compatible with Apple devices. What operating systems describe tremselves as being "compatible with Apple devices" > Since the older ver
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by vvhn 10y ago
what sold me on retina was the Terminal :). I mean yeah websites and stuff look nice too but the terminal.app is where I live.
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by vvhn 12y ago
look carefully at the 2nd command, it's NOT copy (cmd-c) and paste (cmd-v)
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by vvhn 12y ago
>There's standard, normalized ways immigrants have come to the US for a long time now Just out of curiosity, what are the "standard, normalized ways " that people immigrate to the US ? If i were to go to the American Embas
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by vvhn 12y ago
You can put a different SIM in it. The device (in this case the iPad) itself isn't locked to a carrier. The Apple SIM was only an additional convenience in that you didn't even have to put in a new SIM in it (i.e. the same SIM cou
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by vvhn 12y ago
Contrary to speculation ( there are whole articles which "explain" the secure enclave to be ARM trustzone) secure enclave is documented ( only very recently) to be a _seperate_ chip inside the A7 chip running it's own L4 base
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by vvhn 12y ago
>And added things that existed in Linux since 1985 has Linux existed since 1985 :-) ?
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by vvhn 12y ago
You're right about this being a iOS 8 bug, i haven't tried your keyboard yet but have swype installed and it frequently fails to show up in things ( mainly spotlight for me )
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by vvhn 12y ago
launchd makes heavy use of Mach IPC ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel) ) which makes a port to any other non Mach derived OS a non trivial effort. There was apparently an effort to port it to FreeBSD - https
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by vvhn 12y ago
well, you still need an Apple device to sign up for an iCloud account :)
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by vvhn 13y ago
if you set up an iOS device, it specifically asks you if you want have a single Apple ID or 2 ids ( one for iTunes/App Store and another one for iCloud/FaceTime/iMessage).
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by vvhn 13y ago
They work in the US ( and perhaps some other "first world" countries ) but in places like India, data for even big cities is practically non existent while Google Maps has everything ( and up to date ).
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by vvhn 13y ago
>And here comes the problem: SCTP is not used, even for projects where those features are needed. sctp's achilles heel is its inability to work with NAT. It was designed to not work with NAT. NAT has since become widespread especia
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by vvhn 13y ago
> (Nexus vs. iPhone, etc). To be completely accurate - Nexus phones are an exception. Even the manufacturer of Nexus phones sells their non Google branded Nexus equivalent models at significantly higher cost. There is nothing else in the
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by vvhn 13y ago
https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/client/en_US/termsAndCondit... *edited - I've only done this with iPhones but my understanding is that it can be done with any phone once out of contract.

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