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NathanOsullivan

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NathanOsullivan··on Filesystem devs should aim to make “badly written” app code “just work” (2009)
(2009)
NathanOsullivan··on iPhone 11 has the fastest single-core performance of any Apple computer
I don't know the answer to your question, but as a moderately frequent geekbench user I do know that even within x86 the Linux version outscores the windows version.

On this basis alone I would be extremely dubious comparing between platforms

NathanOsullivan··on UK consumer spending growth in 2019 to be slowest in six years
Is growth is below inflation, then in real terms consumer spending has contracted which is generally a bad sign
NathanOsullivan··on Apple replaces bash with zsh as the default shell in macOS Catalina
It's worth pointing out they use dash for scripts that do not explicitly require bash .

The default interactive shell is still bash

NathanOsullivan··on QEMU v4.0.0 released
Note that the versioning has changed to time-based, v4.0 denotes that this is the first release of 2019.
NathanOsullivan··on The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it’s dead
Apple iPhone XS Max Sony Xperia Z1 Compact

Seems the same to me

NathanOsullivan··on How a Diablo expansion led to behind-the-scenes trouble
Diablo 3 does not have a recurring fee so it is not relevant how many active players it has; the only relevant metric is units sold.
NathanOsullivan··on User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints
You are describing a particular way of creating a UUID ("Version 1").

Another method, "Version 4", is simply a 122-bit random number.

NathanOsullivan··on Apple’s HomePod Isn’t a Hot Seller
Google home works as an audio Chromecast target, so you can play MP3 from any app that supports Chromecast audio playback.

Personally I use Plex.

NathanOsullivan··on Apple now faces 45 lawsuits surrounding “Batterygate”
It's derived from the Watergate scandal
NathanOsullivan··on Google ditches Ubuntu for Debian for internal engineering environment
dist-upgrade is discouraged on Ubuntu for switching releases because there is a supported tool for the same purpose called "do-release-upgrade".
NathanOsullivan··on Intel has released new CPU microcode for download
Supermoto bios updates: https://www.supermicro.com/support/security_Intel-SA-00088.c...
NathanOsullivan··on Amazon’s Australian Launch Brings Excitement, Dread and Defiance
I'm not sure where you are looking but there are Australian VPS providers with comparable pricing to overseas vendors. A$20 will get you 2GB memory easily enough.
NathanOsullivan··on Lscpu for OpenBSD/FreeBSD
What is the BSD way to get this information ?
NathanOsullivan··on Microsoft Paint Is Deprecated in Fall Creators Update
The website is trash but the program itself is great.

Install from chocolatey.org or ninite.com

NathanOsullivan··on Customer's 20-year-old email account shut down over unusual address
The parent is quoting EastLink's justification from the article
NathanOsullivan··on Pruning spaces from strings quickly on ARM processors
> Most of the benefit from this approach would come if you can often expect streams of 16 bytes to contain no white space character. This seems like a good guess in many applications.

The average word length in English is substantially less than 16, so it is hard to see how this would help.

NathanOsullivan··on The 2017 iPad Pros
Gruber is a well known Apple shill.
NathanOsullivan··on Adventures in /usr/bin and the likes
There's a command line switch -E for sed that gives you what we think of as "normal" regex escaping.
NathanOsullivan··on Gartner Says 2016 Marked Fifth Consecutive Year of Worldwide PC Shipment Decline
Not only that - Dell, HP and Lenovo sales also grew YoY in 4Q16 with Dell and HP both having higher increase in both %age and absolute terms than Apple.
NathanOsullivan··on 4 open source alternatives to Trello that you can self-host
Conversely, what is with the "how to $thing on digital ocean" articles getting upvoted here recently.

These are articles on how to install the software period, it has nothing to do with a specific provider.

NathanOsullivan··on Micron Announces 5100 Series Enterprise SATA SSDs with 3D TLC NAND
In general enterprise SSDs are not using SAS, they are either NVME or SATA. For example, intel's datacenter range https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/au/en/solid-state-driv... has no SAS drives.
NathanOsullivan··on What Mailchimp does to make sure emails get delivered
Yes, hotmail will in some instances accept mail at SMTP level and then silently discard it. You cannot even request de-listing.
NathanOsullivan··on Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout
In Australia you are permitted to either vote early in person, or submit your vote by post if you are unable to vote on polling day due to work.
NathanOsullivan··on Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets
A project in a similar vein is websockify ( https://github.com/kanaka/websockify ) , which makes an existing app with a TCP endpoint available over websockets.
NathanOsullivan··on [dead]
Confirmed. Its back up from my location now.
NathanOsullivan··on CubeSlam
I challenged a co-worker, but for some reason the game requires you to have a webcam to play another human.

Otherwise, well done.

NathanOsullivan··on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
I really don't get the intention with the default visual style Ubuntu has settled on. I'm sure a lot of work has gone into it but it's just not attractive.

I previously thought it was growing pains and they would eventually land on a great style that was still "theirs", but at this point it feels like a lost cause. Personally I've stopped recommending Ubuntu on the desktop because I already know what the initial reaction to a fresh install is going to be.

NathanOsullivan··on Programming paradigms that change how you think about coding
Came here to say the same thing. Learning about Inversion of Control utterly changed how I program on a day-to-day basis.

It may not be a language feature, but the things in the article seem rather academic by comparison.

NathanOsullivan··on Minecraft creator says he’s canceled talks for Oculus Rift version
"The FB deal" is likely an intentional euphemism intended to suggest its a partnership.

This is not a "deal". Facebook will own the company and can (rightfully) be expected to do whatever they want with it.

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