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you talk a lot in your comments about wanting to avoid politics but almost all of your comments mention politics

The downvotes are likely due to me obviously being an Apple cultist ;)

What is Rube Goldberg about storing passkeys on a phone? Would you not call a physical lock system based on notches cut into metal a Rube Goldberg machine?

Unlike my car keys or wallet, my phone can be located anywhere in the world from another device.

People with bulky keychains often just throw them in their bag or purse and it can be annoying to fish them out.

I personally put a very high value on having a minimal keychain and wallet since I rarely carry a bag with me. The goal is to someday live in a state with Apple Wallet drivers’ license support, in a house with NFC smart locks, driving a car with Apple Car Key, at which point I could finally completely jettison my keys and my MagSafe wallet. I don’t want to carry physical keys when I’m already constantly carrying a device with a Secure Enclave and biometrics.

Because seem like someone who might have an interesting answer:

A GeoGuessr player, GeoWizard, has done a few “straight line challenges”, where he attempts to walk across a country in as straight a line as possible, usually planning beforehand with Google Earth and PostGIS. This got me thinking of what could fairly be thought of as “crossing”, since obviously you couldn’t describe e.g. walking from one side of Florida to the other as “crossing the USA”.

My best thought was to set the ending point of the line by following the border of the country in each direction til they met on the other side. To avoid the fractal coastline problem, use the challenger’s stride length as the unit of measure for the border.

But perhaps there is a better, more rigorous way of defining the opposite point on the edge of an arbitrary polygon.

This is the most impressive ChatGPT chat I’ve seen yet. While I theoretically can accept how large-scale probabilistic text generation can lead to this chain of “reasoning”, it really feels like actual intelligence.

Aren’t you ignoring Waymo?

Silence, magat

I was really excited when I learned of these characters, but ultimately if it’s in ASCII then it’s in-band and will eventually require escaping leading to the same problem.

No, command tools should follow the POSIX standards, not GNU.

Worth noting https://developer.apple.com/documentation/packagedescription...:

    case aptItem
    case brewItem 
    case nugetItem
    case yumItem

>:(

Just a play on “ed is the standard text editor”.

But, by all measures, MacPorts is more standard than Homebrew. Such as being implemented by an Apple employee who also created the official (source-based) package manager for the most popular BSD.

Homebrew definitely has a lot more market share though, much to my chagrin. The only other MacPorts users I’ve met in person are people I convinced to switch.

MacPorts has far more packages than Homebrew and was implemented by the creator of the original FreeBSD ports system, who was also an employee on Apple’s UNIX team. MacPorts is the standard macOS package manager.

Everyone here is talking about rock music, but electronic music was also just on fire during the 90s. No decade since has come close to the perfection of the 90s across so many genres of electronic music. House, gabber, jungle, so many electronic genres are still just trying to reach the peaks they hit in the 90s.

I say this as someone who was 5 years old at the turn of the millennium, so this isn’t some sort of nostalgia filter.

Check out the Vinegar extension if you use Safari. Same old YouTube but all the videos are replaced with HTML5 <video>s.

Why do you like Elon?

Likewise, Manning got pardoned when her release was clearly messier and less targeted than Snowden’s. There isn’t much logic to these things.

To be clear, all 3 are personal heroes of mine.

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I’m aware. I personally wouldn’t want to tie my infrastructure, nor provide funding, to the government of Serbia at this particular juncture in geopolitical time, but hey, you gotta have a cutesy ccTLD hack or you aren’t webscale.

What does this project have to do with Serbia? They’re based in the Netherlands. They must have made a mistake when registering their domain name.

All those stupid genpop people raiding their 401ks. Why can’t they be smart like me and have more money so they don’t need to do that?

America has been sacrificed at the altar of short-term profit.

That is correct.

What happened in 1929?

Notationally I wish the diaeresis was a single dot. It bugs me that we’re using two dots to separate two syllables, yet both dots are over the second syllable. Plus a single dot would avoid ambiguity with the umlaut (though I suppose there are very few words with both features).

Why would any company be motivated to reduce profits? You seem to fundamentally misunderstand what makes capitalism tick. Capitalism writ large will always, always optimize for short-term profits over long-term well being.

We haven’t had a left or progressive administration in a very long time. Please lay out the harms you perceive though. Anyways I have no sympathy for fascists and I am a Marxist so we probably won’t see eye to eye. Fascists aren’t people.

Going through your past posts it seems you may be referring to warrantless wiretapping, which I’ve been railing about for ages. Of course the groundwork was laid by Bush’s PATRIOT act, but absolutely the DNC is extremely corrupt and many democrat leaders have done awful things. I’m not a democrat or a neoliberal and the DNC is very far from a left wing or progressive party. But none of that changes the fact that we’re currently in the midst of a fascist coup, and your whataboutism comes across as fascist apologia.

You seem to make the mistake I see a lot of online rational tech people make, which is to assume that the DNC represents leftism, and to then associate all the evils of the DNC with “the left”. Read some actual left-wing theory like Kropotkin dude. The DNC is a deeply compromised center-right neoliberal party, as anyone on the actual left will be quick to tell you.

We must be polite to them as they spit in our faces UwU