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revscaton macOS Sequoia is available today

The macOS behavior has been the way it is for I believe 30 years, perhaps longer. Im not sure where your expectation of changing this comes from.

revscaton Artifacts are now generally available

For me it's that the ChatGPT mobile app can hook into the system microphone. I will turn it on, lock my device, then go for a walk/drive and talk to ChatGPT about whatever I'm curious about that day. Its knowledge is encyclopedic, not contemporary, but it's still pretty cool.

revscaton Manjaro Immutable out now for community testing

What is this.

revscaton America’s Transit Exceptionalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...

1. United States

2. Russia

revscaton America’s Transit Exceptionalism

It is helpful to remember that America is the world’s largest petrostate.

revscaton Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say

This would never happen. Apple is terrified to the core (apologies) of breasts and panties and cursing and such. The thought of someone being caught doing those things means the chances of this happening is less than zero.

revscaton The 'pay phone bandit' who baffled the FBI in the '80s

If they each give the correct answer in the same number of steps then there’s no reason to prefer one over the other.

revscaton How to generate realistic people in Stable Diffusion

You seem to be equating nudity with pornography, though. I tend to generate images that are nudes first in order to get aspects such as lighting and environment correct. Then i is may or may not add clothing.

Is this process objectionable to you? If so, why?

It’s also possible I’m simply misunderstanding what you’re objecting to.

revscaton How to generate realistic people in Stable Diffusion

Why would you do this?

revscaton Yupana: The Fibonacci number grid-based calculator of the Incas (2019)

Do any of the citation links work? I tried half a dozen of them and they each failed with a browser error.

revscaton React 19 almost made the internet slower

No one is saying that. People are starting to realize is that JavaScript frameworks are an unnecessary complexity to web application development. People have been seriously turned off by things like angular and react, and with good reason. With the advent of things like hotwire and htmx those JS frameworks are no longer strictly necessary, and many people welcome the news that their importance is fading away.

I’m one of them.

revscaton Apple is shipping WebXR on Safari for Vision Pro [video]

I don’t believe this is true. The government and businesses of India and China are both notoriously sexually conservative. That’s a majority of humanity right there.

revscaton Apple is shipping WebXR on Safari for Vision Pro [video]

It is puzzling to me why the international default is to ban anything which causes people to feel horny, or which helps to release those feelings. Horny is a taboo feeling in most, if not all, mainstream contexts.

revscaton Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models

> With this set of optimizations, on iPhone 15 Pro we are able to reach time-to-first-token latency of about 0.6 millisecond per prompt token, and a generation rate of 30 tokens per second. Notably, this performance is attained before employing token speculation techniques, from which we see further enhancement on the token generation rate.

This seems impressive. Is it, really? I don’t know enough about the subject to judge.

revscaton Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)

> Live for yourself and not for others

That makes for a very lonely life.

> surprised to find

The surprise has come because what they are thinking is, in fact that expressions of joy make them respect you less. They hide it, but only for so long.

You don’t get to express joy to family or friends or partners. They will have less respect for you.

You do not get to be an adult man and feel joy about anything. You certainly don’t get to express it.

revscaton Understanding the neuroscience behind burnout (2022)

Maybe on a market/profit level. On an interpersonal level, though, joy is not valued. If someone feels that you are expressing joy they are very likely to view you less than they did before. We find the expression of joy to be distasteful and childish, and culturally are disdainful towards it. Only cynicism and stoicism are acceptable.

revscaton WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing

The market shifted, and two decades passed. Most importantly the courts have been packed with jurists from the Federalist society, who are libertarian. As a result there are far more judges willing and able to throw out consumer protection cases such as what happened in the 90’s with Microsoft and IE.

revscaton IRS Plans to Make Free Tax Filing Permanent

> Next year, the IRS plans to open the program to some taxpayers in all states and Washington, DC.

This is great, which means it covers states with income tax as well.

revscaton macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions

No one is fully trustworthy.

revscaton The fishy death of Red Lobster

Private equity seems to have a high rate of taking something beloved and successful, and then killing it.

revscaton State of the Terminal

> There is more to shells and text interfaces than working within constraints set 50 years ago.

Of course.

With some minor changes, you could make the same argument many, many technologies we use every day, from IPv4 to SQL to C.

Then there is the old saw -- likely apocryphal -- about how railroads are the width they are because they evolved from standards around Roman roads. Even if it is a fairy tale, the moral of that story strikes true: existing tools are built on top of old ones, because it was better to have a standard then even if we may know better now.

revscaton State of the Terminal

You're getting downvoted but you're not wrong. Using TERM=xterm-* should be deprecated, and in this case in particular that likely means stepping on some toes.

revscaton Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO

Please no. They make good, beloved products that are fairly high quality.

revscaton Veo

I’m sure part of the reason, beyond those given already, is that they want to avoid the debate around nudity.

revscaton Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

> There's definitely a religious element to their beliefs.

Such as? I haven’t seen this attitude you’re claiming to exist.

revscaton Jimmy Carter UFO Incident

I see this frequently asserted, but rarely substantiated.

revscaton Metaprogramming in Ruby: It's All About the Self (2009)

Thank you for this. Very helpful.

revscaton Metaprogramming in Ruby: It's All About the Self (2009)

Let me ask you something: is there a good source on how to debug in Ruby? I keep running into issues when I dive into it outside of Rails.

For example, yesterday I ran into an issue with bundler where a gem was failing to install and needed to step through the process. I set a binding.b in the gem’s extconf.rb, but when that breakpoint got hit the program just stopped without allowing input, I.e. there was no debug prompt presented.

Is bundler running inside a trap context similar to what you mention above?

revscaton U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS

Profit for those who can afford to protect themselves at the expense of others. At that point money is largely used for political power.

revscaton US court blocks EPA order to eliminate PFAS in plastic containers

There are forces which actively seek to prohibit government from functioning. The 5th Circuit Court is notorious for this, but is far and away not the only one.