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Rewriting a critical service like this in another language seems way higher risk than making sure all policy checks are flag guarded

So like, the requirements are unknown? Or this service isn't critical enough to staff a careful migration?

If you honestly get hung up that LibreOffice doesn’t look like it was developed by Apple within the last 5 years then you are ultimately being disingenuous

Disingenuous? More like realistic.

I mean this ultimately boils down to “is inconsistent with the design of the rest of the computing experience.” People who care about good, consistent design and can afford to pay for it are Apple’s core market.

More config options means more to test and support, so more cost. The manufacturers who are buying lower end motherboards/chipsets at scale don’t need the feature. And virtually no consumer installs a PCI-E device, ever.

So basically, it’s an argument to make all computers more expensive, in order to subsidize hobbyists.

In what other industry would the market tolerate such well-understood and severe dangers for users of products for decades?

Transportation. Motor vehicles are a huge chunk of the market despite the existence of less deadly alternatives.

Fuck this article.

If city council had some nuts, they'd just deny Dolan his permits, and he'd be up shit's creek.

All this blather about any eventual resolution needing to make him whole or happy is pure throne sniffing.

The station has hundreds of staircases and dozens of entrances. If you commute into it three days a week and haven't found a path that's workable, maybe the train station isn't the problem.

The government changed because the nation changed. It's now the richest country in the world, with a population of 330 million people, and spans an entire continent from ocean to ocean. Even if you just consider the constitutional commander-in-chief duties, whoever holds the role is going to be a person of global importance.

This analogy doesn’t make sense to me. This isn’t a bank transfer, it’s a purchase of a digital artifact. Is Apple wrong to ask for 30% of IAPs in Candy Crush? Because this seems pretty much the same to me.

I use my 8 GB M1 Air with a 5K display regularly and the only situation where it struggles is gaming. Browsing with zillions of tabs, video, etc is beautiful and lag free.

HIPPA is absolutely not too strict, it has many fundamental holes which need to be plugged.

Citation needed? It’s HIPAA, by the way; one P and two As.

There is a developing liberty/security divide which is going very much in the direction of far too far.

Total drivel. I’m sick of lockdowns and mask mandates. If you’re legally and medically eligible for a vaccine and you haven’t gotten one, I’m happy for private businesses to refuse you service.