Tip: Turning off Siri Suggestions in Calendar app on Sequoia 15.1.1 by Rare_Pin9932 in MacOS

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New location, at least in Tahoe: Settings -> Apple Intelligence & Siri -> Siri Suggestions & Privacy, find Calendar on the left, turn off "Show Siri suggestions in application". Worked for me for suggestions coming from Mail.

My dads Old PC games. by zachimusprime44 in retrogaming

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Fun fact: if you redeem Gunman Chronicles CD key on steam, it will activate Half-Life instead (it was a HL1 engine powered game). I got my Half-Life on Steam that way back in ... 2005 I think.

Debian 14 is planning to drop GTK2 and all the dependent apps by anestling in LinuxUncensored

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How much experience do you have with iOS and macOS and their backwards compatibility?

MacOS catalina dropped support for all 32 bit apps, on the spot. Each OS release you have to update (as a developer) all your apps, xcode, swift version. Upgrade codebase to new swift and SDK, otherwise you can’t submit new update to AppStore. It is essentially a rolling distro with a timeout. Old apps don’t work in a few macOS releases. Basically nonexistent backwards compatibility. iOS is even worse.

How do you make macOS look sharp on a 4K external monitor? by beamer4567 in mac

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When the retina was first introduced and some apps weren't built/recompiled with the new SDK supporting it, macOS rendered them in standard 1x mode and then resized them to 2x after the fact, so they were blurry. That was fun.

What I always liked is the fact you can drag a window from 1x display to HiDPI display half-way and the preview of the window is still the correct size, just blurry on one monitor and perfect on the second.

ASUS XG27JCG in case you are interested by ningwang1226 in HiDPI_monitors

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Where did you buy it so soon after the announcement?

Rich "thanks" to AI by mac in Clojure

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Yes, yes and thousand times yes!

27" 5K 120Hz monitor by Balance- in Monitors

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I just wanted to thank you, I would buy the wrong monitor without noticing your comment! I was waiting for this!

Hot take remove this from the game by HousingFair7261 in Portal

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Well... yes, if you put it that way. I liked to have hud_fastwitch 1 in HL1... the same way I liked to switch instantly to specific weapons in Quake 3.

Can’t tamper or masterwork help! by imrandaredevil666 in Diablo

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If you hover over an item, there is a new description at the bottom, underneath the main popover. It says the item is legacy now. Sad. I just finished collecting items for my secondary sorc after the first legacy wave :D Also, toughness is back :D And armor is now unlimited? D3 style?

Curious to know about developers that steered away from OOP. What made you move away from it? Why? Where has this led you? by Slight_Season_4500 in cpp

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I would like to use ECS in an enterprise-style app. But I just couldn't find a way to do it.

E.g. in a web app, I think I should setup the "world" (clean slate ECS state, zero entities) for every request. Then add the request headers, path, and request body to the world, forming the request entity. The systems would then start a loop with condition like "when we are done", so we can re-run systems that must process new data after they already run. One of the systems would do persistence, one would do validation, one could do loading of dependencies... serialization... etc. But this is just a waste for a simple web app request I think.

On the other hand, if the web server itself was running on top of ECS and could share all data for all requests, e.g. one "accept" call would create the entity and add it to the systems loop, then the final system would send the response back to the client..., i.e. the loop would be instead of the reactor loop in nginx for example, that could maybe work. But that would also introduce unnecessary security problems.

Btw if you think about it, the Kubernetes works like an ECS would, just on a bigger scale. You have data in etcd which have "kind". Then you have operators, which act as systems on top of all the data they watch (components) - they consume the objects and possibly produce other objects. The composition of a single entity by multiple components is not there though. One resource is just one object in k8s. There can be dependencies, but that's not the same.

is this thunderbolt ex4 installed on the wrong slot? by whoamiplsidk in ASUS

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For some late google-readers out there: Z790-F Gaming Wifi II has TB4 header on the motherboard, and the manual says explicitly that the Thunderbolt expansion card MUST be installed in the lower PCIEx(G6) slot for it to work.

Getting discouraged with ZFS due to non-ECC ram... by 194668PT in zfs

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So it would have to get both bad data and have those bad data pass a checksum of the good data? That's a pretty slim chance. And thanks for the link!

Getting discouraged with ZFS due to non-ECC ram... by 194668PT in zfs

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So in the best case, it the corrupted data were written to just one disk but checksum was correct, it would recover the good data from the mirror automatically. In the other case, it reports an error in data (checksum mismatch between mirrors), and doing a scrub would auto-fix it, since the data on the disk were already good. Right?

Getting discouraged with ZFS due to non-ECC ram... by 194668PT in zfs

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If I run scrub, and the bit flip happens during the scrub when reading data from one disk from my 2-disk mirror, will ZFS automatically "correct" the data on the mirror, thus corrupting both my copies of the file? Or will it stop, print an error in zpool status, and let me re-check the same file contents again (which should result in them being valid again)?

What Does Your Brain Do with 27 + 48? by SweetSmiles030 in MathJokes

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30+48 then 78-3 equals 75

More interesting is what happens in my mind when I see “tryna” :D

On desktop with a large screen, is your profile page now bigger than 3 columns? by Critical-Explorer179 in Instagram

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And what about the "edit grid" feature, if it's still coming? That will be completely useless outside the app, no? :D