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Comment · 2 months ago
The iOS Simulator consists of (some of) the userspace components of iOS compiled to run on macOS. This would be a full iPhone image running as-is via virtualization.
Comment · 8 months ago
>People are having beachballs on machines with 32GB and more.

Well, sure, because the beachball means the main thread is hung, and that can happen for many reasons unrelated to memory pressure.

Comment · 11 months ago
I don’t understand. Are you claiming the actual results of Musk’s work here were good?
Comment · 2 years ago
I assume they meant that the site is terrible in Firefox, not that Firefox is terrible.
Comment · 3 years ago
Fair, but also where != what
Comment · 3 years ago
> You essentially can make money buying something.

Well, only if you can earn more over 12 months than the asset you bought depreciated. I think a better way to look at it is that you can earn a small discount.

Comment · 3 years ago
>formerly TextEdit IIRC

TextWrangler. TextEdit is the editor built in to macOS.

Comment · 3 years ago
Since the mods’ handles are known, isn’t this pseudonymous rather than anonymous?
Comment · 4 years ago
This and the parent's argument are just whataboutism.
Comment · 4 years ago
Compilers are free to assume x is non-null at the time it’s dereferenced, so isn’t it true by definition? Do you have an example that doesn’t rely on undefined behavior?
Comment · 4 years ago
The GP was referring to C++

>I would almost never write C++ …

Edit: nevermind, I missed the point! GP is saying he wouldn’t write C++ if C supported these features.

Comment · 4 years ago
>why can't I specify, and have the compiler yell at me if I don't properly handle, "this pointer may never be null"

You can do so easily. A reference is a pointer that is never null.

Comment · 4 years ago
>California allows “rolling stops”

No, they certainly do not. I live in California and I've gotten a ticket for doing this.

Comment · 4 years ago
> legislator

legislature

Comment · 5 years ago
Why is Id’s behavior bad (edit: need excusing, that is)? What’s wrong with enforcing your trademark?

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