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strangemonad commented on Apple acquires Pixelmator   pixelmator.com/blog/2024/... · Posted by u/dm
no_wizard · a year ago
I suspect this move is due to behind the scenes Adobe / Apple relations souring over the years.

Adobe used to be one of their biggest supporters and helped winning over users to the Mac platform.

This has diverged significantly over the years, and I think Apple is looking at Adobe and their business model and realizing that it both lucrative for them to have software that fills into this market to round out their creative pro apps suite and that Adobe increasingly becoming aggressive with cost / licensing and tactics to extract revenue aren't good for their ecosystem.

That's my working theory, at least.

strangemonad · a year ago
If that’s the case, why not just buy Affinity
strangemonad commented on Larry Tesler pioneered cut-and-paste, the one-button mouse, WYSIWYG (2005)   spectrum.ieee.org/of-mode... · Posted by u/gumby
gymbeaux · 2 years ago
My main gripe with Amazon is how slow it is. It takes me like 30 seconds to change my shipping address and payment method before placing an order. I always assume it’s because they’re using Glacier on AWS to drive that functionality.
strangemonad · 2 years ago
I literally chortled reading that. Thank you for making my day
strangemonad commented on Instagram Recommends Sexual Videos to Accounts for 13-Year-Olds, Tests Show   wsj.com/tech/instagram-re... · Posted by u/Umofomia
rdtsc · 2 years ago
> In one clip that Instagram recommended to a test account identified as 13 years old, an adult performer promised to send a picture of her “chest bags” via direct message to anyone who commented on her video. Another flashed her genitalia at the camera.

When it comes encryption and privacy the legislators just can't wait to jump in an "save the children", let's see how vigorous they are going to be investigating and prosecuting Meta for showing inappropriate things to children.

> On TikTok [...] new teen test accounts that behaved identically virtually never saw such material—even when a test minor account actively searched for, followed and liked videos of adult sex-content creators.

Well, isn't that embarrassing? The evil TikTok they are trying hard to ban, and for good reasons I think, is doing a better job "protecting our children" than Meta.

strangemonad · 2 years ago
It’s almost as if it’s not a single factor issue and insta could stand to improve its under-age content filters AND TikTok can also be a threat because of its ties to China.
strangemonad commented on Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler"   github.com/NilsIrl/docker... · Posted by u/NilsIRL
strangemonad · 2 years ago
There is some great cosmic irony here. A section about never needing to build, install, etc… just give me an executable. Followed immediately with an incantation for zig to build this project
strangemonad commented on The rise of batteries in six charts   rmi.org/the-rise-of-batte... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
zardo · 2 years ago
> Tesla will be saving $800 in LFP battery costs within 6 months and another $800 within about 18 months.

Do they have a model using LiFePOs now?

strangemonad · 2 years ago
Many of the china model 3s and Ys use prismatic cells from CATL use lifepo chemistries
strangemonad commented on FUSE-T is a kext-less implementation of FUSE for macOS that uses NFSv4   github.com/macos-fuse-t/f... · Posted by u/nimish
macshome · 2 years ago
Apple started replacing their own file system (and networking) kexts with user-mode file systems in macOS 13. Right now its locked up behind some private entitlements though. Hopefully they open it up more in the future.

For a quick overview check out a blog post on threedots. https://threedots.ovh/blog/2022/06/quick-look-at-user-mode-f...

strangemonad · 2 years ago
It’s certainly been interesting watching the multi-decade arc play out. With Mach as the origins, everything other than tasks (processes) schedule and virtual mem was out of kernel and done over Mach port comms. Then xnu via next step and later OS X linked much more in kernel and exposed specific data types using com+ in iokit. And now more and more is moving back out of the kernel.

io_urging networking on Linux is another similar move out to use space

strangemonad commented on A Lufthansa A350's frustrating Oakland diversion   onemileatatime.com/news/l... · Posted by u/ghgr
Hansenq · 2 years ago
There's a follow up video to the one linked in the story that provides a lot more context missing in this piece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHxdn8oz20

Basically, SFO normally does VFR parallel approaches at night. Approach sequences these approaches miles beforehand, so there can be a chain of 10-20 aircraft all sequenced to land before responsibility is even transferred to SFO's tower. The incident happened during a particularly busy landing time at SFO, so there was indeed a massive chain of aircraft coming in to land.

Lufthansa was the only aircraft asking for ILS. Because ILS needs greater separation, that would require breaking the chain of approaches, sequencing a single ILS approach, then resuming. The chain of landings already sequenced takes priority, so Lufthansa would have to wait 30+ minutes for a gap to appear. By the time that gap appeared, Lufthansa had just decided to divert to Oakland. If Lufthansa had arrived a bit earlier or a bit later, they would have been sequenced just fine.

ATC could have been a bit more accommodating in rerouting their divert to SFO as soon as the a gap appeared, but Lufthansa was also the only airline requesting ILS, and they're already dealing with sequencing 20+ aircraft during a busy time. It's not clear who's in the wrong here; just an unintended consequence from many well-intentioned decisions.

strangemonad · 2 years ago
The key bit of information missing here and from all these replies is that Lufthansa’s no SFO night time VFR policy was a reaction to and SFO and NorCal notice requiring this limitation from inbound international carriers after a few incidents but the requirement of how to implement this was ambiguous and Lufthansa is complying as best they can
strangemonad commented on Tracking Java native memory with JDK flight recorder   morling.dev/blog/tracking... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
twic · 2 years ago
> the one thing which NMT does not report, despite what the name might suggest, is any memory allocated by native libraries, for instance invoked via JNI

If you're using glibc, then malloc does have information about that, and provides ways to read it, so it's a shame this isn't exposed. It would be quite helpful in the face of suspected native library memory leaks.

strangemonad · 2 years ago
jemalloc + memleak and perf work pretty well in that case. I think you could do something similar with tcmalloc
strangemonad commented on VMware is now part of Broadcom   broadcom.com/info/vmware... · Posted by u/tonoto
xyst · 2 years ago
Vmware changing hands between corporate overlords like it’s hot potato.

VMware under EMC $625M acquisition lasted ‘04-‘15

Dell acquires EMC for $58B in ‘15 which includes previously acquired VMware.

Now Dell is trying to balance their books and sells entire stake of VMWare in ‘21.

Broadcom now picks up the pieces of VMware with acquisition completed this year (‘23).

I wonder which corporate overlord will take it over in the next 4-5 years.

Maybe Oracle or MS will be the next to bag hold.

strangemonad · 2 years ago
Not to mention Pivotal interwoven into that story
strangemonad commented on Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution   federalregister.gov/docum... · Posted by u/Metacelsus
strangemonad · 2 years ago
Gee if only the FAA could have certified unleaded gas some time in the last 3 decades. It’s not like us GA enthusiasts enjoy depending on an expensive leaded gas.

u/strangemonad

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