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Re:Apple Music 404 Not Found on Friday October 23, 2026 @07:31PM (#50216803)
https://music.apple.com/includes/ipod/web-music-ipod.esm.js

They're all in regards to design choices or why something is needed when it's not obvious. And such a level of polish in the interface isn't something you attain through prompting. Not AI.

Re:Don't Put Tilde In Your Path on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:48AM (#50053888)
That’s called a “portable filename” in POSIX: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1...
Re:hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:01PM (#49403272)
Similarly, launchctl has long-deprecated subcommands. I initially tried using the new subcommands, ran into issues, and told myself I should have known the “deprecated” ones were the way to go, now and forward.
Re:I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @09:28AM (#48992068)
No dependency on GNU required anymore, POSIX 2024 supports it: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu#the-null-option
Re:Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal) on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:23AM (#48219929)
It was made a release candidate in the previous (non-LTS) major version, in v25.7.0 from February.

Release notes: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v25.7.0

Issue: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61262

Re:How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be? on Saturday May 02, 2026 @06:24AM (#47985101)
I'm wondering if the Xcode simulator (without Xcode running) performs as well, my 2020 Intel MacBook Air has been incapable of running Safari in iOS smoothly for nearly all its life.
Re:The difficulty of making sure your website is broken on Friday April 10, 2026 @05:13PM (#47723727)
That’s an unreliable way of simulating an unreliable network, as overviewed in https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2016/testing-with-realistic-...
Re:Tailscale's new macOS home on Friday April 03, 2026 @04:06AM (#47624265)
There’s no statement or action (such as banning menu-bar-only apps from the Store or even changing the APIs) supporting that Apple still wants menu bar items to be ephemeral.
Re:Significant Raise of Reports on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:35AM (#47613031)
Could you back up your assertion that Willy Tarreau — who used to maintain the Linux kernel — is “an AI enthusiast”? I can’t find anything about it.
Re:Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts on Sunday March 01, 2026 @02:19AM (#47204462)
No, it’s >1 second on every machine.
Re:WolfSSL Sucks Too, So Now What? on Friday February 13, 2026 @06:23AM (#47001515)
Regarding HAProxy, they ended up using AWS-LC in their new Debian/Ubuntu “performance” packages: https://www.haproxy.com/blog/fresh-from-aws-reinvent-superch...
Re:Start all of your commands with a comma on Saturday February 07, 2026 @09:09AM (#46924023)
The issue of rootless malicious command overrides is solved by typing the whole path, such as "/bin/sudo".
Re:How We Reduced the Impact of Zombie Clients on Thursday June 05, 2025 @06:14AM (#44190165)
Certbot does too as of 4.0.0 (2025-04-08).
Re:1,145 pull requests per day on Friday May 23, 2025 @06:15AM (#44071502)
This is due to one of your AAAA records: ::ffff:157.245.83.16. (The other one is fine.)

CLI:

    dig aaaa saile.it
    curl -v --resolve "saile.it:443:[2a04:4e42:2::775]" "https://saile.it/1145-pull-requests-per-day/"
    curl -v --resolve "saile.it:443:[::ffff:157.245.83.16]" "https://saile.it/1145-pull-requests-per-day/"
GUI:

- https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=saile.it

- https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/

Re:The Website Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss on Thursday March 27, 2025 @03:15AM (#43491139)
To be more explicit: asking [email protected] why some submission vanished in a mysterious way does bring a clear answer in my experience.
Re:Move on to ESM-Only on Monday March 24, 2025 @05:26AM (#43458884)
HTTP/2 “pipelining” (multiplexing) is still there and works as intended; but bundling is still much more efficient.

This article delves into just that: https://csswizardry.com/2023/10/the-three-c-concatenate-comp... The first pair of waterfall graphics illustrates the problem clearly.

(What you vaguely remember as not working as intended is probably Server Push).

> Craig Federighi […] merging iOS and macOS team together.

What year was that?

Re:Small Tech on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @09:31AM (#43089883)
No because that additional CSS file can only be fetched after the initial HTML file has been fetched, not simultaneously; thus requiring another roundtrip to the server. (HTTP/2 Server Push promised otherwise but it was never implemented correctly.)

Latency being much more constraining than bandwidth, embedding a stylesheet that’s small is nearly always the correct tradeoff.

Re:The Useful Use of Cat on Monday October 21, 2024 @02:31AM (#41901228)
“<file foo” is POSIX: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/V... (see the absence of mention that redirection needs to be after the command)
Re:The UX of HTML (2023) on Saturday August 24, 2024 @06:01AM (#41336976)
What would a specific table of contents element bring over a <nav> inside your <main>/<article>?

(As demonstrated in the first example of https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/sections.html#the-nav...)

Re:I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox on Monday July 08, 2024 @08:53AM (#40904986)
Where is said track record of the main author being an ass to people who aren't willing to be marginalized, or anything along those lines?
> If we become too insular, then we doom our larger economy to the same mistakes France, Germany, UK, and Japan made.

What are those? (Besides Japan’s which you’ve answered here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143090)

Re:Bash Debugging on Saturday March 02, 2024 @10:15AM (#39573067)
You can `set +e` before and `set -e` after every such command. I indent those commands to make it look like a block and to make sure setting errexit again isn’t forgotten.
Re:JavaScript Bloat in 2024 on Friday February 23, 2024 @02:36AM (#39477914)
For a more complete view, the HTTP Archive tracks general site weight over time and gives you percentiles (click Show table): https://httparchive.org/reports/page-weight#bytesJs

The median JS bundle is 600kB on desktop. p90 (“high 10%”) is 1830kB.

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