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defap··on Apple Reports Second Quarter Results
I’d be interested to know from someone knowledgeable whether Apple can recognize the revenue from a sale before the product has been delivered to the customer. It’s not clear to me that they can/do.
defap··on Highlights from Git 2.25
FWIW I see the corollary of this fairly often in commit messages, where the author "teaches" the code how to do something.
defap··on Gnu: Net
I just needed one peek at that crazy diagram to agree with your point.
defap··on Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evading Sanctions
Entrapment by what, reverse psychology? He didn’t walk into a sting set up by FBI agents; he went to a real conference in the real North Korea despite official warnings not to do so.
defap··on Clang Format Tanks Performance
Not really too bizarre. Header files should include or declare everything they need; they should not introduce include-order dependencies. Listing your includes in lexicographic order is a good way to enforce header completeness.
defap··on The 16-Inch MacBook Pro
He doesn’t know, hence the “probably”. It’s a good guess though, based on the known reliability of the wireless Magic Keyboard.
defap··on Tesla Software Version 10.0
I believe it's controlled by a sort of dead man's switch, i.e. you must continuously hold down a button for the car to move.
defap··on Bike crash left Spokane man unconscious, so his Apple Watch called 911
Via an optical sensor that can perform photoplethysmography.
defap··on Questions raised about research by OpenAg Initiative at M.I.T. Media Lab
It's alleged that they made misleading claims, but it's not like the whole operation was a complete fabrication. There were plants and machines and whatnot, as can be seen in several articles on tis topic.

So it's plausible that they illegally dumped wastewater as part of whatever it is they're doing that isn't working as advertised.

defap··on The 15-Year Layover (2003)
According to Snopes [1], Belgium did eventually offer him residency — which he declined — after a ridiculous 7-year impasse where Belgium said he could only retrieve his lost refugee documents in person but France said he couldn’t leave the airport without said documents.

[1] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stranded-at-the-airport/

defap··on My dog was killed on a walk with a walker ordered through Wag
Wow. The walker kicks and whips the dog until it vomits blood and Wag offers a refund and a $100 credit as settlement.

Who in the world wants Wag credits after an experience like that. If Wag wants to buy these folks’ silence, shouldn’t they at least make a non-insulting offer?

defap··on Inventory of Homes for Sale Is Rising in Silicon Valley and San Francisco
Yes for ESPP but no for RSUs, which is what folks are talking about here. Selling RSUs when they vest incurs $0 capital gains.
defap··on Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’
But in both Apple's and Amazon's denials they claim to have already done extensive investigations.

There's a cost to damaging your credibility.

defap··on Tech's most egregious violations of user privacy
>It’s kind of like deleting a Facebook account then logging back in.

It’s not like that, though. You pay for MoviePass up front each month. Cancelling means you don’t want to pay for next month, but you are still able to use it for this month. Deleting the app would just be throwing money away.

They’re exploiting users who want to get fair value from their existing purchase.

defap··on Intel's New Optane 905P Is the Fastest SSD
But not necessarily as a sequential read.
defap··on Uber and Lyft drivers' median hourly wage is just $3.37, report finds
What product do they have on the market?
defap··on Introduction to Apple WatchKit with Core Motion – Tracking Jumping Jacks
So many features are broken in this orientation that I doubt anyone would be surprised by this.
defap··on Safari Password Generation
Overall the file does appear to contain various autofill quirks, but the expanded dictionary in the screenshot is literally named “PasswordGenerationRequirements”. It’s definitely about password generation rules.
defap··on Restoring MacOS device from a snapshot with APFS (2017)
>If you backup your iPhone, apps and their data don't actually get backed up. Instead, your computer just stores a list of the apps installed and where the icons were, and app data only gets backed up if the developers have used special APIs or whatever to opt-in to having the app's data be part of the backup process.

Not at all true [1].

Everything in the app's container gets backed up with the exception of the app bundle, Library/Caches/, tmp/, and other things the developer explicitly opted out.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/icloud/documentation/data-storag...

defap··on The financial struggles of a breast pump startup
They have FDA approval. It’s stated in the first paragraph of the article.
defap··on Windows 10 S won't let you change the default browser or switch to Google search
How do you install a third-party browser in ChromeOS?
defap··on New Warship’s Big Guns Have No Bullets
Pretty sure the parent was talking about USS Zumwalt specifically, not the Zumwalt class as a whole. It's not unreasonable to consider the first hull a demonstrator at this point. There'd be countless improvements made as the class design matured over the course of a 32 hull production run.
defap··on What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox
> Does Safari utilize XPC for rendering?

Web content and plug-in processes are XPC services, yes.

defap··on What’s Next for Multi-Process Firefox
> Safari just sandboxes plugins

That hasn't been true for at least 5 years. Safari has used a sandboxed, multi-process architecture for Web content since version 5.1.

defap··on FlightCar (YC W13), the Airbnb for Cars, Launches at San Jose International
$0.125/mile seems pretty low. For comparison, the US Government reimburses employees $0.545/mile [1] for official travel in a personal vehicle. I wonder how many miles/day it would take for the cost of wear and tear to exceed the savings in parking fees.

[1] http://www.gsa.gov/mileage

defap··on Apple unveils 64-bit iPhone 5S
A 64-bit virtual address space also makes for much more effective address space layout randomization.
defap··on Web server in one line of bash
That's demonstrating an HTTP client, not a server. I don't think there's a way to make /dev/tcp accept incoming connections.
defap··on Google Treks
I have to agree, at least in terms of these Trek sites. The latest versions of Safari, Firefox, and Chrome constantly use 50%+ of my CPU to render these pages, without me having to scroll or interact at all. For a site that doesn't use any plug-ins, it sure heats up my laptop like a plug-in would.

* Edit: I only meant to agree that these specific Trek sites feel very slow, not "all Google services."

defap··on Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy
If the secret part of an asymmetric key is generated on a device and it lives and dies on that device, Apple doesn't have it -- the device does. Messages encrypted using the public part of that key can only be decrypted with a device that has the key.

But he wasn't describing a technique for decoding messages that have already been sent. He's only claiming an attack on future messages.

With control of the CA, the attacker can just advertise a bogus public key for the victim in the key server, giving him access to future messages. He can now intercept and relay.

defap··on Mac malware signed with Apple ID infects activist’s laptop
This doesn't make sense. The effectiveness of the spear-fishing attack had nothing to do with Gatekeeper. Signing the app with an Apple ID provided for a straight-forward way to disable the attack, which made Gatekeeper a pure win.
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