SloopJon

These Macs are reportedly shipping with macOS 27 Golden Gate. You'd have two incompatible constraints: Macs don't like to run a version older than what they shipped with, and Golden Gate doesn't support the Intel iMac.

You might be able to boot from the internal drive, install/upgrade the external drive, then boot from it.

I happily booted and ran an Intel Mac mini using a 4TB drive in a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure, and I do the same for an M4 Max Mac Studio using an 8TB drive in a USB4v2 enclosure (OWC Express 1M2 80G).

You'll just have to be careful to match the enclosure to the ports on the system. The base-model M6 Mac mini still uses Thunderbolt 4, so a USB4v2 enclosure would be wasted.

I'm probably preaching to the choir in a story about guitars, but if you're looking for some good 12-string music, Leo Kottke's 6 and 12 String Guitar is a good start.

If you haven't heard (or seen) Michael Hedges play a harp guitar, there's some background and links to videos here:

https://michaelhedges.com/michael-hedges-the-harp-guitar/

I built a PC this year in a Meshroom S V2[1]. The NF-A14x25 G2 fans I used for the AIO didn't seem so expensive when I was spending $600 on RAM, and I was happy that they were available in black.

Not every quiet PC is built in a dense box. Good airflow with big, slow fans is working for me to cool a 9800X3D and a 5070 Ti quietly under load.

[1]: https://ssupd.co/products/cases-meshroom-s-v2

I held my nose and bought an RTX 5070 Ti for $100 over MSRP in January. The very next week the same model was up $200. It turns out that NVIDIA had been subsidizing retail graphics cards with its Open Pricing Program. Not the whole story, but it may help explain the relative flatness of the graph until the end of January.

The other part of it is that the MSRP already baked in a substantial increase from the previous generation. While RAM was near rock-bottom pricing when this hit, current-gen GPUs definitely were not.

An editor that tries to be layout agnostic is almost certainly going to be a nightmare for people like me who set the layout in the keyboard itself. I downloaded the editor (I'm on Windows at the moment), and tried it with my keyboard set to Dvorak, which was plainly broken. I'm sure there's a way to fix the mapping, but when software thinks it's smarter than you, you end up feeling pretty dumb.

The article links to a YouTube mini-review of USB enclosures from UGreen and Acasis, neither of which he loves.[1] I've been happy with the OWC 1M2 as a boot drive on a Mac Studio with Thunderbolt 5 ports.[2] I just noticed that there is an OWC 1M2 80G, based on USB4 v2.[3] I didn't know that was a thing, but I guess it's the USB cousin to Thunderbolt 5.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaV-O6NPWrI

[2] https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-express-1m2

[3] https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/US4V2EXP1M2/

The article links to the opinion[1], which notes more than once that "the quoted language does not appear anywhere in the opinion," and "Goldstine appears to be a fabricated case." I don't know whether it's easy to get a copy of the complaint in question.

[1] https://www4.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B331918.PDF

The blog post announcing the PSP Security Protocol as open source:

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/ann...

HN discussion at the time:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31437033

I found the idea of a password generator appealing, mainly due to vault anxiety. I didn't (and still don't) like the idea that I can't access a resource without this precious vault. If I'm home with my tools, great. Otherwise, give me the right hash function, and I can MacGyver my way to PBKDF2 and generate my password.

However, once you introduce metadata (e.g., to deal with password rules), the idea loses most of its appeal. I wouldn't feel any more comfortable posting such a thing publicly than I would a vault.

I don't see anything in the post or the linked tutorial that gives a flavor of the user experience when you supply an invalid option. I tried running the example, but I've forgotten too much about Node and TypeScript to make it work. (It can't resolve the @optique references.) What happens when you pass --foo, --target bar, or --port 3.14?

Gemini says: pressing Option on the Swinsian menu changes the "Check For Updates..." menu option to "Check For Updates (Beta)..."

I don't have specific complaints about the current version, but I'm going to give it a try. If nothing else, it's probably ARM native.

Petrichor shows my albums as a single track. CUE sheet support is a must.

I also have a hard time seeing myself using a desktop music player without an iTunes-style column-mode browser.

I don't think it's that it's not stripping "e.g.", but that the search criteria are empty. The empty result set is prefaced by "Search results for:".

I actually like that the example is a complete, standalone program that you can compile or send to Compiler Explorer.

Although this is characterized as 1.0, it is governed by the Terms of Use for Early-Access, which are quite limiting, including: "You may use the Service solely for noncommercial purposes."

The video on Steam shows both first- and third-person perspectives. Speaking of LLMs, Gemini says: "Hypercharge: Unboxed is both a first-person and third-person shooter. You can switch between perspectives based on your preference."

> The thesis is predicated on the idea that people claim this is the result of some study. I’ve never once heard it presented that way. It's a rule of thumb.

Code Complete cites eight sources to support the claim that the average cost to fix a defect introduced during requirements is 10-100x if it's not detected until after release. My qualm with Hillel's original assertion is that "They all use this chart from the 'IBM Systems Sciences Institute'" (emphasis added). I haven't personally vetted Steve McConnell's citations, but I am skeptical that they all share this common origin.

The product appears to be similar to Microsoft's embattled Recall feature. In order to remember your digital life it takes frequent screenshots.

The obvious question is, what does free mean? Here's the license:

https://gsap.com/community/standard-license/

Basically freeware with express prohibitions on competing with Webflow.

This is a better link for the actual feature, as opposed to the process that led to its prioritization:

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-tab-groups/

Personally, I don't know what you mean about Rust being too massive. One thing I am wary of is using a truly massive language like C++ on a multi-programmer project without consensus on which features to use and how to use them. Maybe you have in mind something like that?

If you want the simplicity of C with more safety, maybe tooling like Frama-C, a MISRA C conformance checker, or just aggressive use of static and dynamic analysis tools like ASAN and UBSAN. You can also disable certain optimizations (e.g., strict aliasing) to steer away from some of the major pitfalls of UB.

When I read SQL for Dummies almost thirty years ago, it made a point of distinguishing "sequel" as a historical predecessor to standard "SQL." As I recall, the author even asserted that SQL is not an acronym/initialism for structured query language. I felt funny saying sequel for the next decade or so, because I wasn't an old timer experienced with this pre-SQL technology.

Now I usually say sequel because everyone else does. That and it rolls off the tongue better than S-Q-L.

For a while I used dired-sidebar-show-sidebar and dired-omit-mode to give me a list of files in a narrow window on the left. I kept messing it up with C-x 1, though.

I played around with the calculator source code from the Android Open Source Project after a previous submission[1]. I think Google moved it from AOSP to the Google Play Services several years ago, but the old source is still available.

It does solve some real problems that I'd love to have available in a library. The discussion on the previous article links to some libraries, but my recollection is that the calculator code is more accessible to an innumerate person like myself.

Edit: the previous article under discussion doesn't seem to be available, but it's on archive.org[2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24700705

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20250126130328/https://blog.acol...

This is a long rant that covers a lot of ground, a lot of which will inevitably be ignored because the letters "C++" trigger people, myself included sometimes. (Skip ahead to "It's Not All Puppies and Butterflies" for some of the complaints.) The author is really impressed by C++11, as am I, after purposely ignoring C++ for the better part of twenty years.

I appreciate the shout outs to some packages and libraries to play with, although I still often find it a pain to incorporate other libraries into my projects. (Single-file headers, anyone?) I'm intrigued by FTXUI.

And boy, howdy, he's right: cppreference.com is amazing. Python's documentation is pretty good, but I've never seen anything as good as cppreference.com.

I searched for Mac Studio SSD upgrades, and I do indeed see modules that look just like the one in the picture. Not cheap.

The picture shows a 2230-ish drive. I would be somewhat surprised if the 8TB option in the M4 Pro is on that module. The different chips may do storage differently.

Google turns up a CNET article from 2007 (probably because eEye was "pumping press releases left and right"):[1]

> Researchers at eEye used a standard process of code auditing in discovering the vulnerabilities, [eEye CEO Ross] Brown added. He noted that Microsoft either did not do a 'good job' with its code auditing, or it may not have had enough people working on such a task.

I don't really get this culture of racing to find a bug in another company's product, then strutting about finding one (in Microsoft Publisher of all things) and throwing shade. I guess we should all be so lucky to have a company whose "standard process" is to pull a week of all nighters testing our product.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/flaw-found-in-office-2007/

The color for the Wikimedia image looks way off on my computer. Is it possible that it's tagged with the wrong color profile?

Me three, although my procedure did not result in quite so dramatic an improvement. I saw a PCP for the first time in several years, and was 180/130. Four meds (vasodilator, calcium channel blocker, diuretic, and beta blocker) brought that down to 130-140/80-90. After removing an adrenal gland, I'm in that same range with three meds (same three minus the beta blocker, which never did much anyway).

Regarding this potassium paper, it's interesting that it primarily concerns itself with sodium and potassium intake. I don't know that any reasonable change to my intake could have overcome the effects of aldosterone overproduction, but wouldn't the recommended changes to your diet depend on measuring your current balance?