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agsnu commented on Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card   jpmorganchase.com/ir/news... · Posted by u/vismit2000
__alexs · 2 months ago
This is not even a particularly competitive cashback card in the UK. But perhaps you don't consider that a "more regulated country."
agsnu · 2 months ago
Huh? Cashback cards on VISA/Mastercard have all but disappeared, I think Lloyds still do one but it has a promo of 1% for the first year then drops to 0.25% after. American Express will give you 0.75% on first 10k spend then 1.25%. 2% is unheard of (unless it's promo or heavily capped).
agsnu commented on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?   akr.am/blog/posts/why-is-... · Posted by u/thefilmore
akho · 2 months ago
So are the other browsers on iOS.
agsnu · 2 months ago
It's not just the WebKit bit, basically the entire app implementation is actually shipped as a "Private Framework" which lives outside the .app bundle. e.g. on macOS % otool -L /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Safari (compatibility version 528.0.0, current version 623.1.14) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1356.0.0)

There's a bunch of other private frameworks (SafariCore.framework, SafariFoundation.framework, SafariPlatformSupport.framework, SafariShared.framework, SafariSharedUI.framework, SafariSwift.framework) as well. I haven't checked but I assume it's similar on iOS.

agsnu commented on Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS   github.com/Mic92/strace-m... · Posted by u/signa11
cyberpunk · 4 months ago
Silly question but doesn’t macos ship with dtrace? So why not use dtruss?
agsnu · 4 months ago
Barely supported by Apple these days - in addition to needing to disable SIP which is a pain, it was broken causing system freezes for several major macOS releases.
agsnu commented on WinObjC – The Windows Bridge for iOS   github.com/microsoft/WinO... · Posted by u/zerr
svth · 4 months ago
If I recall correctly, iTunes was a Carbon application. They ported parts of the Carbon APIs to get it running on Windows.
agsnu · 4 months ago
QuickTime for Windows existed long before then, and Apple ported a bunch of the old Classic Mac Toolbox to Windows as part of that.

IIRC it was actually this Windows port of Toolbox that in some ways laid the foundation for Carbon - i.e. a port of the Toolbox API to what became Mac OS X.

agsnu commented on Be Careful with Obsidian   phong.bearblog.dev/be-car... · Posted by u/allenleee
agsnu · 5 months ago
I wouldn’t hold not being on the Mac App Store against it. The MAS is sort of a failed ecosystem with very low usage/engagement, and all the downsides of the iOS store like potentially lengthy review times (can be a lot longer than the iOS store since it seems to play second fiddle) and arbitrary capricious rejections when you’re just trying to ship innocuous bug fixes to users.
agsnu commented on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta   twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/OlympicMarmoto
agsnu · 6 months ago
Huawei seem pretty committed to building their own OS and uncoupling from the Western technology stack in total

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXThttps://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi24/presentation/chen-h...

agsnu commented on RFC: PHP license update   wiki.php.net/rfc/php_lice... · Posted by u/josephwegner
dylan604 · 8 months ago
Last time I heard about a non-news update that required no changes or recertification, we learned about 787MAX and MCAS.
agsnu · 8 months ago
737* :)
agsnu commented on My five-year experiment with UTC   timestripe.com/magazine/b... · Posted by u/adamci
agsnu · 9 months ago
Anyone remember Swatch internet time?
agsnu commented on Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer   pbs.org/newshour/show/sou... · Posted by u/thund
agsnu · a year ago
Many countries find that imprisonment is an effective remedy.
agsnu commented on Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision   admiralcloudberg.medium.c... · Posted by u/mathgenius
ddulaney · a year ago
She wrote an update last year about the frequency changes: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/why-so-few-articles-late...

Definitely worth subscribing to email updates!

agsnu · a year ago
I think since then it was announced that the alluded to paid gig is script work/research for https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot

u/agsnu

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