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coobon Apple's Dimensional Drawings

Are there more powerful workstations than a maxed out Mac Studio?

coobon SSH Secret Menu

Not on a Mac

coobon Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

Nah some environmental regulation is batshit.

Literally, in the UK you can’t build if there’s a protected bat species in the area.

coobon Bugs Apple loves

It's even done the right way on Mac OS! Infuriating.

coobon Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

Yawn, there is some variant of this story after every os release.

The articles specific gripes with macOS are Mail, Messages, and System settings. Fixing those does not require a ‘no new features’ (which was always BS) major release.

coobon Mox – modern, secure, all-in-one email server

It is a rite of passage. That config system…

coobon Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza

Are either Israelis or Gazans more secure than when this war began? What has either side achieved?

coobon John Carmack on inlined code (2014)

> I never said he said his email was completely outdated.

From your prior message:

> Carmack called his email completely outdated

coobon Apple found in breach of EU competition rules

They’d snap your hands off for distribution and marketing costs as low as 30%.

Retail markups were much higher on physical software.

coobon Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed

Wow this some pretty biased reporting. No attempt to assess whether or no Qualcomm have actually breached their contractual license with ARM

coobon Norway discovers Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals

His bless His Majesty’s Gulf Stream.

coobon Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Most people are happy for (2) already - iCloud Photos, Device backups, iCloud Messages… email.

Those that won’t use those won’t use this either.

coobon The trouble with ingredients in sunscreens

What about Diethylamino Hydroxybenzoyl Hexyl Benzoate (P20) ?

Is that available in the US?

coobon Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers

I thought the issue with wind in the UK was that its supply is (Scotland) where the demand isn’t (the south). So we’d (a) have to build loads of pylons or expensive underground cables and (b) lose a lot in transmission.

coobon How to Make a CPU – A Simple Picture Based Explanation

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-Rebuild-Civilization-Afte...

coobon How to scale LLMs better with an alternative to transformers

Had to laugh at this sample output:

> "dataset":"oasst",

> "instruction":"What do you think about ChatGPT?",

> "output":"ChatGPT is a chatbot developed by Meta AI…

coobon The Mac Sonoma sure is starting to look like the iPhone

You need to re-order the network interfaces in System Settings to your desired order of preference.

coobon Rivian in talks with Amazon to remove exclusivity clause of EV van agreement

> Plus it's Amazon's first delivery EV

No it isn't, I see Mercedes EV Amazon delivery vans in London all the time:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/10/amazon-el...

coobon Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

90 episodes on the History of Europe and 3 on the History of Africa.

Blimey

coobon MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

People have said this for every single OS X release…

coobon New Mac Mini

I'm sure Apple would point you in the direction of a Mac Studio instead…

coobon England just made gigabit internet a legal requirement for new homes

> Can we maybe edit the title to say "UK" instead of "England"?

No, because the law only affects England - Building Regs a devolved matter in Wales and Scotland.

There is a separate law mentioned in the article which is telecoms related and not devolved in Wales - but that is about landlords not needing to grant access to engineers.

coobon US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]

How?

coobon Argentina Wins the World Cup

This World Cup has seen some of the best football for decades. It helps that the players aren’t knackered after a full season.

coobon UK households set for largest fall in living standards in six decades

You can do one of those overnight, the other not so much.

Also: spending without revenue creates a deficit, not necessarily inflation.

coobon Starlink Aviation

It's fair to say it's both.

coobon Apple introduces Ask Apple for developers

Apple already has developer forums where employees reply

coobon Stripe is PayPal circa 2010

Stripe only requires you to drop some JavaScript on your page…