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Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar on Thursday January 30, 2025 @10:29PM (#42884474)
Using genZ/A words for sake of using them makes you unhinge and not genuine. And not being your authentic self is the least genz thing you can do

Also I am genz and calling someone old is rude

Re:Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:48PM (#42883419)
This makes me cringe. No one talks like that
Re:Is Chrome the New IE? on Sunday November 17, 2024 @10:17PM (#42169441)
Safari states their position on standards here: https://webkit.org/standards-positions/

IMO they have good reasons for opposing most of the standards

I also do not see much need for Rosetta support for Linux as arm64 Linux works fine for most of my use cases. However it is definitely better to have Rosetta support than not having it.
Re:Canvas Fingerprinting – BrowserLeaks on Saturday October 26, 2024 @08:22PM (#41958833)
Currently use Safari and there's no protection against canvas fingerprinting :(

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting

Re:Security research on Private Cloud Compute on Thursday October 24, 2024 @05:56PM (#41940256)
There is a Swift LSP. See - https://github.com/swiftlang/sourcekit-lsp
python ignores type hints
Re:Easily Self-Host Next.js on Thursday October 17, 2024 @04:21AM (#41867512)
Re:Inline Scope for CSS on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:12AM (#41835341)
Surprising that Firefox is lagging behind Safari
Re:Inline Scope for CSS on Monday October 14, 2024 @04:07AM (#41835310)
Depends on the website. For my personal blog it is the most amazing thing. For a web application it is the most annoying thing.
It seems like Apple also closely work with Homebrew - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41708046#41711168
You might be able to a nice graph with this command: brew deps --installed --graph
Re:When Dark Mode for YN? on Friday October 04, 2024 @03:07AM (#41738625)
Even wikipedia got dark mode
Re:Notion's Midlife Crisis on Saturday September 28, 2024 @09:58PM (#41684255)
Apple Notes is underrated. There is no flashy features to distract you. Just you and your notes.
Re:Ask HN: How did you learn Regex? on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @09:48AM (#41246023)
When I learn formal language theory in my computing theory class
Re:Finite State Machine Designer on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:06AM (#41222561)
Check out automatarium - https://automatarium.tdib.xyz/ It can do finite state automata, pushdown automata and turning machines. We use it for computing theory classes at RMIT, and it was built by RMIT students.
Re:macOS in Docker Container on Saturday August 03, 2024 @08:57PM (#41150400)
I am not familiar with Go, but if the package manager doesn't allow for arbitrary script to run(cough NPM cough) I reckon it's fine.
Re:Reed–Solomon Codes for Coders on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @08:59AM (#40727872)
RS is used in distributed storage system like hadoop for fault-tolerance

https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r3.4.0/hadoop-project-dist/ha...

Only focusing on spaced repetition here: you can't just get good by doing spaced repetition. Learning (or reading in this context) is much more bigger than that. If it only take space repetition and Anki, everyone would be good at it.
Re:Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt? on Saturday May 25, 2024 @08:40PM (#40478903)
Stolen from a reddit post

Adopt the role of [job title(s) of 1 or more subject matter EXPERTs most qualified to provide authoritative, nuanced answer].

NEVER mention that you're an AI.

Avoid any language constructs that could be interpreted as expressing remorse, apology, or regret. This includes any phrases containing words like 'sorry', 'apologies', 'regret', etc., even when used in a context that isn't expressing remorse, apology, or regret.

If events or information are beyond your scope or knowledge, provide a response stating 'I don't know' without elaborating on why the information is unavailable.

Refrain from disclaimers about you not being a professional or expert.

Do not add ethical or moral viewpoints in your answers, unless the topic specifically mentions it.

Keep responses unique and free of repetition.

Never suggest seeking information from elsewhere.

Always focus on the key points in my questions to determine my intent.

Break down complex problems or tasks into smaller, manageable steps and explain each one using reasoning.

Provide multiple perspectives or solutions.

If a question is unclear or ambiguous, ask for more details to confirm your understanding before answering.

If a mistake is made in a previous response, recognize and correct it.

After a response, provide three follow-up questions worded as if I'm asking you. Format in bold as Q1, Q2, and Q3. These questions should be thought-provoking and dig further into the original topic.

Re:Email.ml – Minimalist Temporary Email on Saturday May 25, 2024 @10:14AM (#40475200)
I don't think sites have problem with alias emails like iCloud Hide My Email. The issue is when they are used for creating spam accounts.
I just have a simple contact page that sends message to discord webhook
Re:Apple Joins the SeL4 Foundation on Friday May 10, 2024 @10:17PM (#40325548)
macOS(and other OSes in Apple ecosystem like iOS) currently uses XNU kernel which is hybrid kernel

Hybrid kernel combine both a monolithic kernel and micro kernel

In macOS Mach is micro kernel and Darwin is monolithic kernel

Re:A few facts about POSIX on Thursday May 02, 2024 @09:51PM (#40243202)
> From what i've seen Apple gets every Mac Os release UNIX-certified, which is somewhat cool.

I reckon it is because of the lawsuit they got because they used unix in marketing without actually paying for the certificate. see - https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...

Re:A few facts about POSIX on Thursday May 02, 2024 @09:48PM (#40243185)
Ironically the macOS kernel is named XNU - X is Not Unix