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DigitalHackOp··on VLC vs. the App Stores
> For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?

Did they expect that Apple would stop dropping support for old hardware for them?

DigitalHackOp··on Help I work in an open office and my co-workers are so loud
My office is full of loud folks and it's really disruptive. My biggest issue is my tech lead will walk up behind me and pull off my headphones without any warning. It really startles me, so I've taken to not wearing anything and putting up as bast that I can with the noise
DigitalHackOp··on Show HN: I also made a three-body simulation
I think this is very cool, but the edge warping negates a lot of the chaos imho. It keeps things interacting in the center of the screen, but it prevents the chaos of bodies being yeeted out into the void.
DigitalHackOp··on MKBHDs for Everything
Have you found a single review that wasn't negative on the device? Every one I can find is strongly negative.
DigitalHackOp··on 3D-printed "metamaterial" is stronger than anything in nature
Not even close. They optimized for strength-to-weight ratios, which is great for a ton of things, but a space elevator needs insane levels of brute strength. Were not sure the material can exist in our current understanding of physics
DigitalHackOp··on Apple's iOS 18 AI will be on-device preserving privacy, and not server-side
What really could go wrong? Why would you be against local processing of data?
DigitalHackOp··on YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
The advertisers are the customers
DigitalHackOp··on Apple Did a Dry Run of APFS on Your Device Even Before iOS 10.3 (2017)
One key feature of APFS was the metadata location didn't overlap with any hfs+ metadata location, so the two file systems could co-exist on the drive. So I presume they created the apfs metadata inside the hfs+ unallocated space, and so if it failed, hfs+ would happily overwrite the apfs metadata and continue on without any impact.
DigitalHackOp··on Apple's APFS Migration: A Feat of Engineering
It was a massive change, but one they prepared for by having the same migration happen on laptops/desktops

The old filesystem was HFS+, released in 1998 and APFS was released in 2017.

APFS added encryption, data integrity checksums, copy on write, snapshots, logical volume support. The migration wasn't just a "search and replace the name and ship it", but an intensive re-writing of the filesystem metadata during the migration.

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

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

DigitalHackOp··on To make sure grandmas like his don't get conned, he scams the scammers
What do you purpose to do?
DigitalHackOp··on To make sure grandmas like his don't get conned, he scams the scammers
Do you have sources for those claims? It always seems like they're India nationals in India, which makes the claim around trafficking seem a little off?
DigitalHackOp··on John Carmack reflecting on the firing of Palmer Luckey
Are there examples of people who have done this and kept their job?
DigitalHackOp··on Show HN: Docker-boot – Run a system from RAM without LiveCD
> How often do you screw up the system so much you have to reformat the disk (without losing data) to fix it?

Never. But I am curious as to what you are doing to get into this situation so often.

DigitalHackOp··on I stopped paying taxes a decade ago. The results shocked me
The deductions he picked were for his employer, not the IRS. He didn't lie to the IRS, as if he filed, he would just owe more than someone who picked less dependents to withhold.

The not filing was the only issue the IRS would care about.

DigitalHackOp··on Self-Hosted Is Awesome
I don't understand the claim that containers aren't popular with the HN crowd. IMHO containers are the one tech that seems to be universally used among the HN crowd.
DigitalHackOp··on Shiakaku of the Day
Wow. I feel very dumb. Thanks for the correction :)
DigitalHackOp··on Shiakaku of the Day
I don't understand how to make a rectangle of size 5.
DigitalHackOp··on Wiring Your House for Networking
> Similarly, everyone puts 1 GbE ports on their hardware but very few things will come with 2.5 Gbps or 10 Gbps Ethernet ports.

My gaming rig and my Mac Studio both came with 10Gbe. My laptop thunderbolt dock also has 10Gbe.

There's a lot of really reasonably priced switches with 2.5Gbe. For example a 10 port for $90 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CT2F3ZDM

It seems silly to be so limited to 1Gbe right now. All my switches are 2.5 and I wouldn't do less on a new install.

DigitalHackOp··on The rise and impending fall of the dental cavity
Which high fluoride toothpaste do you use? My dentist recommended that I use one, but none of the options seem to give an indication of how much fluoride they actually contain.
DigitalHackOp··on Show HN: QWANJI
So I wanted to view my 'palette' of options

If you paste this into the box, you'll get to see all possible shapes generated. You can then combine them to make shapes

And if you remove the spaces, you get an almost solid block. I bet there's a clever way to use them to take a photo and generate some version of it in words

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DigitalHackOp··on A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS
Not unicode, 0x03

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437#Character_set

DigitalHackOp··on Best Buy Geek Squad employees report mass layoffs
Their numbers don't seem to make sense

9M Geek Squad visits every year 7.1M Caring Center calls per year 30K Patients managed

So each patient is calling ~237 times per year and being visited ~300 times per year? That seems crazy high numbers