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eppsilon··on AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline
but can i invest in bitcoin hate?
eppsilon··on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
Try some of the steps on this page [1]. In particular, enabling real-time protection stats and then adding exclusions for the processes causing the most file scans can help.

1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/mac-supp...

eppsilon··on Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code without telling users
all software if we're being honest :)
eppsilon··on The Hollow Men of Hims
Unfortunately, the AMA is a cartel of doctors that lobbies to put limits on government-funded residency slots to keep salaries high. [1]

1. https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2022/03/15/ama-scope-of-p...

eppsilon··on From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
In case anyone is curious, AAPL has split a combined 56-to-1 since 2003.
eppsilon··on WASM 2.0
I got some using Orion on iOS yesterday. Same engine as every other iOS browser, so I guess it's sending a user agent GH doesn't like?
eppsilon··on Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order
> I'm such others have catalogued many, many more of these

One such catalog:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lest-we-forget-the-horro...

eppsilon··on JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
Do any IDEs expose their features (like refactoring) as tools the AI can use? Would much prefer that over the LLM trying to figure it out.
eppsilon··on More Everything Forever
> The person who made millions from making a sugary drink and marketed it as something healthy is not necessarily pretty smart and more than likely isn't someone you want in charge of anything.

Quite literally in the case of former Apple CEO John Sculley.

eppsilon··on Are .NET 4.x and JDK 8.x the "zombie" runtimes of enterprise software?
EF6 works fine on .NET Core. EF Core does not work on .NET Framework.
eppsilon··on Restructuring Announcement
get hired back to become a refluxer, train as a hardware engineer to become a flux capacitor...
eppsilon··on The School Car Pickup Line Is a National Embarrassment
The article cites the FBI, DOJ, and NCMEC.
eppsilon··on Ask HN: What's the "best" book you've ever read?
Great book. Some other historical fiction recommendations:

- The "Welsh Princes" series by Sharon Kay Penman (same era, different perspective)

- Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (Black Death)

- The "Grail Quest" series by Richard Cornwell (Hundred Years War)

- The "Last Kingdom" series, also by Cornwell (Viking invasion, Alfred the Great)

eppsilon··on Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
"The Long Short" is the story of the invention of capri pants.
eppsilon··on Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac
You can set a relationship type in her contact card. I think Siri uses that data.
eppsilon··on Why are there suddenly so many car washes?
Sprawling low density cities consume resources too. Mass transit is less effective, so more people must buy and drive cars. Roads and highways are wider and more extensive. Cars need storage at the origin and destination of every trip, so homes need driveways or garages and businesses need parking lots. Other infrastructure must expand too: power lines, water/sewer pipes, communication wires, and so on.

One million people would need about the same amount of food/energy if they lived in 1,000 sq. mi. as they would if they lived in 100 sq. mi. But the cost per person to house and transport people in a dense city is lower than in a sprawling one.

eppsilon··on Passwordless: a different kind of hell?
The iOS Keychain already supports TOTP.
eppsilon··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
Does it support Steam mods yet? That's what kept me from using it to play CS1.
eppsilon··on People are happier in a walkable neighborhood: the US community that banned cars
Heating cold areas takes a lot of power too, and often it can't be made "green" as easily as electric AC. Also, AZ and most of the mountain west use the vast majority of their water for agriculture that would not be financially sustainable without water made artificially cheap by government subsidies in the form of overbuilt dams/reservoirs. (AZ infamously gave a sweetheart water deal to a company that grew alfalfa exported to Saudi Arabia.)
eppsilon··on Shrinkflation Tracker
http://www.miseryindex.us/indexbymonth.aspx
eppsilon··on Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake
The Jordan River flows northward into the GSL.
eppsilon··on Foxconn's promise to invest $10B in Wisconsin is now a distant memory
This is incorrect. The TSMC site has already seen a massive amount of construction and is scheduled to begin producing 3nm chips in 2024. [1]

1. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tsmc-fab-21-arizona

Edit: They've apparently delayed the start of production to 2025 [2]. However, the situation with Foxconn is simply not comparable to what TSMC has invested.

2. https://www.anandtech.com/show/18966/tsmc-delays-arizona-fab...

eppsilon··on UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
Do you have copy-paste and shared folders working in Fusion (with a Windows ARM VM)? Last I checked VMware Tools did not support those features yet.

Edit: The Fusion 2023 Tech Preview [1] installs the full VMware Tools and supports copy-paste.

1. https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads/get-download?do...

eppsilon··on T-Mobile to cut about 7% of workforce, mostly corporate roles
I think Fleets and Spaces were both released in the couple of years pre-Musk. (Fleets was later removed.)
eppsilon··on macOS command-line tools you might not know about
You can also right-click the screenshot thumbnail to save to clipboard or some other location on a one-off basis.
eppsilon··on Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?
Defender will disable itself if it detects another AV product is installed...maybe someone should make one that acts as a no-op AV scanner.
eppsilon··on The Great CPU Stagnation
*kicks ass per-watt
eppsilon··on The Great CPU Stagnation
iOS has an Optimized Battery Charging option that does something like that. You can't set a schedule, though - it's based on your usage patterns.
eppsilon··on IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants
It might be nice if the IRS provided a summary of what you paid + your effective tax rate in a prominent place on the first page of your tax return. Maybe they could include last year's info for comparison.

If we ever reach a point where the IRS just tells you what they think you owe, they could include the same summary to placate the Norquist types (who undoubtedly will then start complaining about something else).

eppsilon··on MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry
If your phone is a corporate device, they may have set the default browser via MDM. Check Settings > General > VPN & Device Management.
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