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I like MacOS.

I spend most of my time in a shell, so MacOS being POSIX compliant is a huge draw for me.

What difficulty do you have browsing the web? I just click Safari and it works. Though I usually have FireFox and un-Googled Chromium running as well... and they work just fine.

I generally use shell commands to manage files, but, dragging works just fine for copying and moving them. Certainly as well as it does in Windows.

Truly, I can't imagine what you experienced that was "unusably bad".

MacOS has some quirks for sure, it's far from perfect. And I'm not a huge fan of a lot of the changes they've made over the years. But I am a big fan of some of them.

On the other hand, despite massive improvements to Windows security and stability over the years, I do like using Windows. (And yes I realized things like WSL exist).
Oh Frontpage. Thanks for that; you’ve made my day.
I wouldn’t go as far as “sad”. Free time is always a finite resource you have to prioritise. I used to tinker, these days I’d much rather spend time with my kids. I’m definitely not sad about it. I’ll have plenty of time for tinkering in the future.
Custom drivers trip some security features and "taint" the kernel.
object.field is implemented as a direct load from the object; if the object turned out to be null, then the resultant signal is caught and turned into a NullPointerException
Well yes but better than Google.

The plugin is open source though

https://github.com/microg/AppleWifiNlpBackend
Today. Hopefully those countries will grow their ecconomy. If you can help that you will do well.
> Tesla pushed into that market with innovation, not mass marketing

it was innovation outside of tesla. If battery capacity/cost wouldn't improve, tesla would still be producing short range roadster for rich people.

There are pivot points in different markets, when some breakthrough happens, and first mover is having huge advantage, but it is rare and unreliable event, since you can invest in area, but break through won't happen.

> I think that's demonstrably not true, and gave examples where I think it's clear that innovation was more important than marketing.

And your examples are not correct, Amazon was not on saturated market, tiktok and iphone were launched by corp with likely significant marketing budgets.

There are likely examples of success and Cinderella stories, but the question is in success rate. On unsaturated markets such rate will be 10%, while it will be 0.01% on saturated markets.

Say, I am lean dev in area of AI, and I am building something innovative, how can I find customers and squeeze through the crowd of hype and tens thousands startups and tools?
Even at .25 play back speed it's still obviously way too fast in some cases.

And yes, it looks kinda normalize when the people walking are walking, not running.
Today I agree that it would make much sense for LoongSon to jump on the RISC-V bandwagon.

However, designing a CPU takes years. Back when they transitioned from MIPS to LoongArch, RISC-V wasn't mature enough to have all the functionality that their MIPS cores did.
There was no ratified Bitmanip extension and it was unclear what kind of vector extension that it would get.
On that note: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39271846
I mean with Hyper-V why even WSL and just run VMs of whatever other OS'es you want? Tinkering with the OS these days is just so much different than it was in the past. Trying to dual boot Win/Linux back in the day was a interesting challenge that might leave your disk corrupt, now it's a question of why do that at all? Hacking smaller platforms like the pi that are cheap seems to get more attention than PCs these days.
Similar to Angelfire, which only inserted ads into the top of .html files, so you just built your entire site as .txt files and rely on the browsers "be lenient in what you accept" to render it as HTML.
Im pretty sure it was fun for everyone involved but the idea of using a patchwork of custom hacks never looked attractive to me.
> The 3A6000 is Loongson’s best and newest and performs between the level of Zen (GloFo 14-12nm) and Zen 2 (TSMC 7nm) but limited to four cores.

Which is fine. For most applications, it's the order of magnitude of performance that matters. Not +10..30% or say, Zen 3 vs. Zen 2 (although gamers & AMD/Intel execs will argue otherwise).

Machines with >10y old cpu's are still perfectly useable for (most) everyday tasks, as long as the software support is there. Especially when coupled with enough RAM, decent gpu, SSD etc.

On the way from "pointless museum piece" to "latest & greatest", this cpu is 9/10s there.
One thing I've been on the hunt for is a good server hypervisor solution for Apple Silicon. I would like to put an Apple Silicon Mac Mini in my rack, and it would be really nice to have a minimally bootstrapped host OS running a handful of macOS VMs for various purposes.

The best I'm aware of currently is UTM which has some scripting capabilities. But that is very far off from the experience with Proxmox.
Huh, TIL, I assumed they used standard OS controls, but looking at some of them that makes sense.
Is it? Currently giving 502 Bad Gateway. Seems like they're having hosting troubles.
This is the classic "money is time, time is money" conundrum. A teenager doesn't have the money to buy a fancy car or computer but they have the time to tweak and experiment to get the most out of it. Meanwhile an adult has the money but not the time, assuming they have a full time job, kids, etc. So they're willing to spend the money to get products that work and would rather spend their limited time with their family instead.

In my teens I had a group of friends who loved to tinker, from hackintoshes to custom ROMs to homelabbing to electronics repair. Now I'm like the only one left who does this stuff :(
It happens all the time in the appropriate phase of sleep.

So just get as much sleep as your body is saying "HEY BITCH!"

Also - you will have more beneficial sleep in fully dark, no-screens (or other magnetic objects (cell phone, under pillow, for example) near head.

make sure you dont have sleep apnia (make sure you have clear deep breathing when sleeping)....
Hey, also wanted to thank you for android-nixpkgs - it's great
JIT compilation can happen at any time. The runtime wants to create a native version of a previously interpreted snippet of code when it is called frequently enough to warrant this.

The article also describes W^X functionality, which means a region of memory is either executable (x)or writable. On macOS 14.4 violating this either-or condition results in a signal that can not be handled by the process.
So what re: workarounds? It’s not Linux, it will never be Linux. Systems are allowed to be different and do different things.
Here’s the YouTube link from Mitchell. I was thinking about doing something similar lately too.

https://youtu.be/ubDMLoWz76U?si=ipmho73-r9FzZpBp
In most serif typefaces, one of the glyphs is significantly thicker than the other, and they don't meet exactly at 50% height. If one rotates the letter X 180 degrees, it would look out of place.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Capitali...
They have lots of monthly payment plan options here in Canada, and probably in the US too. It even used to be zero interest. Not sure about the rest of the world.
> Then when we think of the problems that lead to AR being the solution, it’s almost entirely related to business problems. Surgery, manufacturing, carpentry, construction… all would benefit from a HUD that tells you what to put where. Those are real benefits.

I think you're on to something. Glass was an expensive flop from the word "go" but the second generation did live on in these specialized sectors.

I suspect that - at least for this decade - AR is still going to be the specialized/industry tech and that VR is going to be the consumer oriented tech.
According to itself, it's solving the issue of parsing differentials vulnerabilities: urllib.parse is ad-hoc and pretty crummy, and the headliner function "urlparse" is literally the one you should not use under any circumstance: it follows RFC 1808 (maybe, anyway) which was deprecated by RFC 2396 25 years ago.

The odds that any other parser uses the same broken semantics are basically nil.
I don’t know how Windows users deal with file copying being as bad as it is and has been there for so long.

Linux can have issues here too though, depending on the file manager being used. Some file managers there still have weirdly bad copy/move handling.
> How would that work?

Kinetic bombardment is possible by launching a satellite with (for example, since its a popular description) heavy tungsten rods, that are parked in orbit. The launch can be years ahead, and disguised as a communications hub.

The satellite can “shoot” at targets from orbit. A rod carries no explosives, and is hard to stop.

The speed due to falling/gravity makes the kinetic impacts huge, its basically small asteroids.

They can even be guided, like the landing boosters.

And to go full circle: the concept of aero-flaps on Falcon-9 (and later Starship Booster) was inspired by designs for falling guided bombs, where fins did not perform at the speeds achieved.
EVs Will Soon Be Cheaper to Make Than Gas Cars but Will Cost Much More to Repair
Wow. I don't know what's exactly protected in their patent, but I have a suspicion they shouldn't have gotten it in the first place. Looks like their business model is mostly trolling, or rather keeping everyone else hostage by their overreaching IP.

Also:

> In 2016, Skyhook introduced a range of innovative [sic] products tailored for the advertising technology sector: Retailer Personas, Power Personas, and On-Demand Personas. Leveraging Skyhook's vast processing capabilities handling billions of location data points, these solutions empower marketers to finely tune consumer targeting by analyzing past locations, enabling personalized mobile marketing campaigns.

Lovely.
Investors are interested in ROI. A Nigerian business will tend to have lower costs as well as lower potential income. It may be a smaller investment than a company that’s targeting the US market, but not necessarily a bad one.
Right, but you can add storage without soldering.
It's free in beta right now
compare https://drakonhub.com/en/drakon
Oracle Warns macOS 14.4 Can Cause Java to Terminate Unexpectedly
Writing a new parser in C++ is a mistake IMO. At the very least, you need to write a fuzzer. At best, you should be using one of the many memory safe languages available to you.

I retract my criticism if this project is just for fun.

Edit: downvoters, do you disagree?

Edit2: OK, I may have judged a bit prematurely. Ada itself has fuzzers and tests. They're just not exported to the can_ada project.
Yep, I don’t think I’ve had windows crash in atleast 2-3 years and I do a lot of strange, processor heavy things.
I _think_ I can very easily spot BS. That has its downsides... I very easily get very annoyed with BS.

I know a few people who as good as constantly BS. It's a puzzle to me what drives them, and why it seems like they even don't know they are BSing. Is there some psychological explanation, I'm curious.

I was thinking about giving examples to state my point, but in fact every somewhat sane person must have had those 'WTF are they saying' moments.
Understanding the PostgreSQL Query Planner to Improve Query Performance
It was just posted today: https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2024/03/15/pipewire-camera-ha...
To nitpick a bit, IIRC Windows itself doesn’t support Vulkan, that’s left to GPU vendors.
> I was shopping around for used M1 mac minis and a 16gb model (minimum acceptable imo) was like $500-600 second hand.

That's because a M1 mini with 16gb still has a lot of utility in it that hasn't depreciated significantly in the 2 years since it's been released. My M1 (8gb) is still happily sitting in a media consumption part of my day and is not showing any signs of age. I would be surprised if, for the role that it has, it becomes outdated in another 2 or 3 years... and wouldn't be surprised if it lasts another 2 or 3 beyond that.

If you spent $700 on it in 2020 at release, it is still working as well as it did on the day you bought it.

You may be seeing the premium from when it was bought being attached to the current used price - and there are less expensive ones available now - but the device, for what it was when I got it is still providing value and selling it used would mean I'd need to get a new one... at a similar price as what I'd sell it for.

> sometimes with 16gb already in there with the option to add in 128gb, multiple drive bays, pcie, etc.

I will note that for me, in the spot where it is, the "multiple drive bays, pcie, etc." represents a worse device as it doesn't sit nicely under a monitor on a small desk. Part of the choice of the Mac mini for me for that role was its form factor and quiet running.
If there is any magic bullet, it'll be something biological evolution can't easily jump-to or stumble-upon. Otherwise I think it would have happened already, given the risks of sleep and the rewards of an expanded activity (or at least awareness) cycle.
This is what I do when my job forced me to use a mac. I think the only thing I installed on the mac outside of it was Firefox.

Worked great for years before I changed jobs that let me bring my own hardware finally.
Check out LibreText and OpenStax.
de.vu always rubbed me the wrong way because it kinda looked/sounded like DVU, a far-right political party that eventually merged with the neo-nazi NPD (which, fun fact, recently rebranded itself as Die Heimat - Homeland). To be fair, the party didn't have much political relevance for most of its history but it did manage to win seats in some state (Land) parliaments in 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2007 so it did come up in the news around the time those domains were most popular.

On the other hand, .tk was in my mind mostly associated with German hobbyists and piracy. I think my old StarCraft/CounterStrike clan had a .tk domain at one point.
> On March 3, the team noticed that activity from one part of the flight data system stood out from the rest of the garbled data. While the signal wasn’t in the format the Voyager team is used to when the flight data system is functioning as expected, an engineer with NASA’s Deep Space Network was able to decode it.

Such cool work. Imagine issuing debug commands into your Prod system, waiting 40 hours for an unintelligible reply, then one keen engineer notices a pattern and is able to extract something meaningful from it. It's amazing the expertise on these systems continues to develop and thrive.
those were the days. Nowadays it alls feels same-ish and boring. Can't wait for a new kind of device where not everything has been figured out yet.
I’ll replace my i9 workstations with an ARM equivalent as soon as I can. The power draw on i9 sucks, more so with the A6000 running.
To be fair, this is the kind of breakage I'd expect from macOS, but never from Windows
You have to restart to boot into a new image. You use containers for stuff you don't need into your base distro, like cli tools, and flatpak for any desktop applications.
Interesting! Central rotterdam seems to be experiencing a high-rise appartment building boom, with multiple towers of hundreds of apartments each under
development; close to central station. Some artist impressions: https://www.dehavenloods.nl/nieuws/algemeen/44855/nieuwe-bee...
You're the only person I've ever seen who agrees with me on that. W2K was the perfect windows - more polished than NT4, less bullshit than XP.
Psilocybin therapy alters prefrontal brain circuitry in alcohol use disorder
But more people can certainly afford a second hand mac mini which doesn't cost more than the sum of the parts of a typical hackintosh.
Prediction:

Self-driving cars and their infrastructure are installed in a couple of densely populated places.

Then the reality of the Orwellian tradeoff involved in surrendering that much personal sovereignty sets in, and the adoption falters.
Well that's fine, but Windows isn't Linux but everybody treats it like such, hating on it for not being Linux while people often praise macOS for being "Unix". For macOS, it doesn't have the installer system that Windows has, so solutions like Homebrew are created to try and graft Linux things on it. Usually, the trouble is that Apple has made some asinine decision with the default tooling installed or some other strange limitation.

And because Apple is constantly breaking software, it creates a lot of churn on macOS. From PowerPC to Intel to Arm, from ObjectiveC to Swift, from Cocoa to Metal, etc., they're constantly upheaving the ecosystem and OS. Meanwhile, it provides very little to the end user other than normally increasing the size of Apple's walled garden.
Yes, outage right now.
It is a bit funny, the hacker energy once was there for running OSX on anything, now it is there for running anything else on M1, haha.
I’m fairly unaware of the current state of Linux on Apple M hardware, but I’d want a Linux partition on Apple hardware more than a Mac partition on x86. These days I have two devices though.
> If/when China attempts to invade Taiwan, the US will impose a naval blockade on its shipping (Zeihan claims a "couple destroyers in the Indian Ocean" ... probably a BIT more involved than that) ... China will starve and its economy will stop functioning.

China will not face starvation because it shares a land border with Russia, which has enough food to supply China if necessary. However, this scenario is unlikely to unfold, as it overestimates the power of the US in this conflict. The conflict would predominantly be a naval battle, with US forces engaging with what are essentially forts. Most war games conducted in the US indicate that in an initial battle, the US would be defeated and forced to retreat. You should read the report presented to Congress a few months ago about China's military capabilities.

> the Putin regime will likely collapse from the failures in Ukraine

Based on situation today, lets just hope that Ukraine will not collapse because we are very far from Russia collapsing. See IMF data about their economy and situation on the front.
There are unaccounted externalities in many areas, but energy use of LLMs isn't one of them - people are paying full market price for the energy of training or using LLMs, that energy cost is large enough so that people care a LOT about it, and make intentional tradeoffs about what is worth it.

And if people vote with their wallets that they are willing to pay for a years worth of energy on training LLMs on cat pictures, we should respect their choice that apparently this is what they consider a valuable use of the limited resources they have.
I do hope that they would steer some of their resources from Apple Arcade into cross platform porting toolkits.

I think the fundamental problem still remains that games unlike softwares are media and cannot be substituted with equivalents. By pushing their proprietary tech and neglecting native macOS ecosystem over the years, Apple has willingly pushed themselves in to the same corner as with console makers where they cannot compete with the value proposition of PC because of the overwhelming majority of exclusive titles that only run on PC. It's either all or nothing in terms of game coverage, because that's what ultimately allows consumers to "buy one device for (mostly) everything" for a hobby that takes significant upfront investment unlike netflix and hulu for example.
I assume people would do this to get a powerful machine and not comparable with one of the cheaper Macbooks?
that's the first I've ever heard of "European Union Public License" https://github.com/hedyorg/hedy/blob/main/LICENSE https://spdx.org/licenses/EUPL-1.2.html
Free Speech: When and Why Content-Based Laws Are Presumptively Unconstitutional
> I think a convincing example is to show a heads-up display of what two people last talked about as to enrich the conversation.

Perhaps. It might be a generation or two before the "that's ... creepy" vibes fade. Reminds me a bit of that scene in minority report after the eye swap and the protagonist passes by a billboard and the avatar asks him about how the pants he purchased worked out.

I do something similar to the calendar thing too. I reach out a few days ahead of time so it doesn't seem like I'm just doing it reflexively like an unfeeling robot because facebook prompted me to do so day of.
When's the last time you had a BSOD on Windows? I honestly can't recall.
> doesn't gracefully fall back to just talking to the backend if driver features are unavailable.

Why should it? Apple only supports their own hardware so the software should never run into this problem.
Dobby! :D
I feel like hackintosh virtualization is a better investment of time. Currently it's onerous to run Apple OSes on anything but Apple hardware. Being able to spin up a hackintosh VM in any cloud provider would be pretty sweet. Of course that probably violates Apple OS terms of use so not sure if AWS would shut you down if they discovered people were doing that.

But actually, as others have pointed out, I'm much more interested in Linux running on M chips than Mac OS running on non Apple hardware. There's nothing particularly compelling about Apple's OSes (except maybe their new VR sorry I mean "spacial computing" OS)
What’s wrong with the web. You just use chrome or safari and everything just works.
V'Ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve…
Personal anecdote - I rather enjoyed reading "Name of the rose" as a kid. I don't remember how old I was at the time, maybe somewhere around 11-13. While I obviously didn't understand a lot of the details at the time, I remember vaguely feeling that there was something deeper than just a murder plot. All in all, it was a pretty good experience, and served as my gateway drug into other books by Eco.
Just wanted to say thank you! This extension was critical to a bunch of my research (and now my lab's research as well). Being able to control fine-grained elements of each plan while letting the PG planner "do the rest" has saved me personally probably 100s of hours of work.
I guess the commercial success of the platform has increased the offering in the second hand market.

Also, the MacOs desktop has pretty much stagnated and is behind the competition. What is strong is the seamless integration of the whole Apple ecosystem so it makes sense to run MacOs if you already own iOS devices. I doubt people using iphones and ipads are struggling to finance the purchase of a mac.
For those curious, this was Dave’s Sushi in Bozeman, MT. Very sad and scary. It appears that food storage and handling had a role here.
Apple Card offer this in the US, but you have to get the card. I buy all my Apple gear this way. 0% loans are great.
Also many no interest options in India but the prices are higher here, somewhat so for the Macs but significantly higher for the iPhone as it is such a social status thing here in the north.
> is prevalent in Silicon-Valley-ish tech capitalism

Us VCs and PMs (so called "MBAs") aren't dummies.

This article is moreso about the fact that "Africa" is not a unitary market but in reality an extremely diverse market with multiple different markets.

The kind of GTM needed to go big in Kenya is entirely different from Nigeria which is different from South Africa.

The scene in Nigeria and East Africa reminds me of India and ASEAN in the 1990s-2000s, and ime chatting with some African founders (a couple of whom ended up in YC) the strategies are similar.

There are some legal and historical intricacies that cause this difference that I can elaborate on if there is interest.
> There's not even a built-in way to uninstall programs in macOS. It's bizarre.

You literally just drag the app to the trash can. Properly sandboxed Mac apps are a delight to uninstall.

Yes, some apps are more difficult, but those are usually Windows apps that are crudely ported to MacOS and that's on the developers for not creating proper MacOS apps.