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by wux 2y ago
Yeah, I can see why someone might assume that the activation lock would be disabled in that scenario. But on the other hand, I can also see why someone would absolutely expect that it wouldn't be. I might want (and have wanted) to rein
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by wux 3y ago
I think they've got a fair point, though, that a number of those issues with the eSIM reflect reliance on factors outside their control (for example, whether or not one's carrier has competent backend systems) where before swappin
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by wux 4y ago
Engineering the virus doesn’t mean making gain-of-function mutations. “Function” has a specific meaning and it’s not a synonym for “does anything.” Instead, in broad strokes, think of “function” as referring to biological activities that gi
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by wux 4y ago
Apple has confirmed to the media that as of December 2022 that they are not pursuing on-device CSAM scanning: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/9/23500838/apple-csam-plans... macOS Ventura exposes new obj
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Swift Evolution (SE)-0382: Expression Macros(forums.swift.org)
1 points by wux 4y ago|0 comments
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by wux 4y ago
I don’t use dictation often, but I’ve not had any issues on iOS 16 (US English, iPhone 12). One caveat is that I’d been using the betas, so I didn’t upgrade straight from iOS 15 to 16.0 as released, but I really haven’t encountered any diff
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by wux 4y ago
Contra (preposition): 1: AGAINST — used chiefly in the phrase pro and contra 2: in opposition or contrast to (Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contra ) Wirecutter: https://www.nytimes.com&#x
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by wux 5y ago
The Cochrane Reviews are regarded as one of the preeminent collections of systematic reviews in medicine. They conclude that “overall, the reliable evidence available does not support the use of ivermectin for treatment or prevention of COV
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by wux 5y ago
You can use the 'man' command in Terminal to pull up the man page (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page ) for 'powerd' (that is, by typing 'man powerd'). By doing so, you'll see
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by wux 6y ago
This report worried me, but it was timely because I was literally in the process of upgrading to macOS 11.2.3. So, while the update was downloading, I changed my firewall settings specifically to allow built-in software to receive incoming
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Proposal for async/await accepted for Swift(forums.swift.org)
7 points by wux 6y ago|1 comments
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Some system processes bypassing NetworkExtensions in macOS is a bug(twitter.com)
3 points by wux 6y ago|0 comments
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by wux 6y ago
There’s much that can be said about Twitter’s moderation policies, but entirely orthogonal to that, this quotation should be mighty upsetting to anyone who hews to the basic tenets of American constitutionalism regardless of your political
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by wux 6y ago
It may just be jargon specific to the Swift community: https://www.google.com/search?q=swift+evolution+%22currency+...
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by wux 6y ago
The term "currency type" is used here to mean a type that is commonly used. For example, although there are a variety of range types in the Swift standard library ('Range', 'ClosedRange', 'PartialRangeFrom
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by wux 6y ago
I'm curious what your results would be with the stock Terminal. Do you have the settings that others have talked about under "Security > Privacy > Developer Tools" with Terminal.app listed? If so, and the results are be
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by wux 7y ago
Last I heard, my employer (large hospital in New York) is looking to buy. If you could reach out by email, I will pass it along to the relevant people. Thanks!
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by wux 7y ago
It's OK to be scared. You're not alone in that. It can be helpful to have someone to talk to. Even as we're trying to keep our physical distance, know that it's OK to reach out for help. And it's also OK to step awa
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Swift Soars Ever Higher(forums.swift.org)
25 points by wux 7y ago|8 comments
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Swift/Win32 Programming(forums.swift.org)
4 points by wux 8y ago|0 comments
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A language server for Swift and C-family languages(forums.swift.org)
3 points by wux 8y ago|0 comments
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by wux 8y ago
The problem, of course, is that elsewhere in the chain there was in fact too much checking and too little trust. In this case, it started with not trusting the physician to enter a known dose and requiring an unnecessary conversion, which k
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Notes on numerics in Swift(numerics.diploid.ca)
2 points by wux 8y ago|0 comments
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by wux 8y ago
This is an interesting demonstration of a hard edge of the language. It's not because Swift holds some sort of grudge against dynamic dispatch, but rather because it's trying to reconcile some subtly incompatible design goals: 1.
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by wux 8y ago
Fun anecdote: Born in China, given a Chinese name, then naturalized in Canada. My name was spelled out phonetically on Canadian documents, unsurprisingly. When I return to China now, the name shown on all documents is LASTNAMEFIRSTNAME, not
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by wux 8y ago
2300 EUR in 2014 was ~3151 USD, as you say. At today's exchange rate, 3151 USD is approximately 2710 EUR. In January 2017, 3151 USD was approximately 2993 EUR. Apple will give themselves a cushion to prevent undesirable pricing discrep
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by wux 8y ago
In July 2014, the U.S. dollar was worth around 0.73 euros; today, it is worth about 0.86 euros. In January of last year, it was worth about 0.95 euros, and Apple obviously has an incentive to account for possible short-term exchange fluctua
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by wux 8y ago
Before 1931, the so-called Imperial Parliament had the power to legislate for Canada, and any legislation they passed had supremacy over colonial legislation under the Colonial Laws Validity Act, 1865. Between 1931 and 1982, the UK Parliame
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by wux 9y ago
Actually, according to comments on one of the Bugzilla reports about this issue (#1424977), the original bug implementing the feature is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423003 As you'll see, this bug is
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by wux 9y ago
There are some misconceptions to be tackled here: > The key phrase being "that meets the modern standard of care", as opposed to most current available knowledge. Aka "good enough". This is a gross mischaracterization

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