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Re:Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:15PM (#49940789)
Spotify has (had? I no longer use it) a feature that would allow you to make local media available as part of your library anywhere so long as your machine was on and connected to the internet. I would imagine that feature requires disk access under these sandbox / permission models.

Edit: I should say, the model it was created with (select a folder, all media in that folder is mirrored) requires such permissions. One could imagine designs that don’t.

Seeing Anubis deployed on a site whose existence is largely predicated on twitter putting up roadblocks to anonymous access is rather amusing.
Re:Don't Take the Black Pill [video] on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:13PM (#49049441)
They’re likely referring to his post / thoughts on the bun rust rewrite and specifically those he shared about the lead developer of the bun project and the bun project at large.

I would not characterize what he shared as vitriolic, but from the comments when the post was submitted one would get the impression that is not a majority opinion here.

https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.ht...

Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @09:29PM (#48303178)
Is bottom decile consumption a good measure of economic health? In a way it seems it could signal the opposite, ie in the past the bottom decile was saving that money in an effort to change their economic conditions vs spending it now could indicate a lack of hope for upward mobility.

To your example it seems worth noting that the quality of the air travel experience appears to decline over time as well.

The original complaint cites no minimum land ownership requirement and the judgement does not seem to make specific disagreement with this fact as best I can tell, so that is my understanding as well.
Re:C constructs that still don't work in C++ on Monday May 25, 2026 @04:44PM (#48271468)
Is there some kind of ambiguity inherent in designated initializers such that the field ordering requirement is necessary for C++ or is it rather just a quirk of the compiler authors’ choices?
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If I give you a piece of titanium and tell you a piece of lead with equivalent volume would have greater mass I have in no way said the density of titanium is zero.
I agree that not engaging would have been preferable and is going forward.
What you infer from reading the text is your problem, not mine. My follow up comment articulates exactly my position.
I don’t doubt that people feel this way. I doubt that every new account inflating the apparent consensus is genuine.
There is no insinuation. The astroturfing objectively occurs and that it does so is an inherent strain on the credibility of engagement like that of the GP.
This opinion would hold much more weight if it weren’t coming from an account created literal days ago in an age where LLM-enabled astroturfing is so obviously everywhere online and especially on this forum.

Additionally the same companies promoting the use of AI now have been significant cultural drivers in many of the things you claim are the reasons to choose an AI answer, so it would seem a healthy amount of skepticism towards solutions offered by the co-creators of the problem is warranted.

Re:Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out on Sunday May 24, 2026 @11:03AM (#48257815)
Shades of Carlin’s bit on softening language over time here.
Re:Childhood Computing on Sunday May 24, 2026 @08:45AM (#48256839)
It's striking how concise the program in the first video is. Also I had no idea "Digger" existed. I've only ever known Dig Dug in that style.
Re:Sp.h is the standard library that C deserves on Sunday May 24, 2026 @08:22AM (#48256699)
The section with heading "Be Extremely Portable" seems relatively clear to me, but perhaps that is just because I already understand host vs target compatibility.
Re:Don't Roll Your Own on Saturday May 23, 2026 @09:06PM (#48253273)
Nobody “needed” the web to do these things. We decided that the effort and cost of making native applications was too great. I’d argue we went the wrong way given that even the same browser will exhibit slightly different behavior depending upon the underlying platform upon which it runs.
Re:Don't Roll Your Own on Saturday May 23, 2026 @07:42PM (#48252747)
I just went and confirmed this because it’s not something I’ve really looked at and I agree. The date picker you get from a straight up <input type=“date”> on iOS webkit is pretty nice.

The one in webkit on macOS isn’t quite as good, but is better than the one in firefox if only because firefox closes the picker when you type a year in to move far through time. Good thing firefox is open source.

Re:Sp.h is the standard library that C deserves on Saturday May 23, 2026 @09:27AM (#48247496)
Portability across compilers is orthogonal to portability across target architectures.
Re:Don't just paste the AI at me on Friday May 22, 2026 @08:17PM (#48243187)
Typing “I don’t know” saves you more time than asking the AI and pasting the answer.
I’d say the increased scrutiny has merely exposed the difference in care between the different groups in the industry. Seems to explain pretty well why both sides are equally confounded by the other’s expectations.
Re:Bun support is now limited and deprecated on Friday May 22, 2026 @03:35PM (#48240461)
“... it seems unlikely he would ship this rewrite if it didn’t meet his quality bar” is every bit as vibes-based as the decision you are critiquing.
It depends upon what you mean. A dream is a stream of unconscious ideas in a way. One could also look at Jungian psychology and point to the ideas your conscious mind rejects by projecting onto others as unconscious ones, with the idea being that we refuse to face them in ourselves and so must put them outward.
Re:Anthropic acquires Stainless on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @11:39AM (#48194779)
Thanks ChatGPT.
Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @11:31AM (#48194666)
Not good enough for whom exactly?
Re:New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @11:00AM (#48194262)
Use jellyfin and also tell the plex folks to fuck themselves.
Re:I don't think AI will make your processes go faster on Sunday May 17, 2026 @09:17AM (#48168673)
> If you were to give human developers the same amount of feature/scope documentation you would also see your productivity skyrocket.

This is how I felt when I first started seeing people discuss things like AGENTS.md etc.

Re:Illusions of Understanding in the Sciences on Sunday May 17, 2026 @08:54AM (#48168505)
To go a bit further, perhaps behaviors are less about the mechanism than they are about the belief. If one believed such a thing, then finding repeatable mechanisms could be perceived as an effort in fortifying belief in the mind as much or more than establishing physical conditions necessary for the behavior to occur again.
If given the choice, which would you prefer?

A) An electrical station immediately proximal to where you reside

B) No electrical station immediately proximal to where you reside

Re:HTML Lists on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:04PM (#48163793)
It seems the autofill bar only populates with the first three items in the datalist and also does not clear when navigating to a regular text field like this one. Kind of an interesting way to have screwed it up.

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