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Workaround for a macOS bin that refuses to empty. Sometimes when I tell macOS to empty the bin (“trash” if you’re United Statesian) it refuses with a baffling error message: I have no idea what causes this. One solution is to restart the affected Mac – but that’s obviously very disruptive.
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Workaround for a macOS bin that refuses to empty
Sometimes when I tell macOS to empty the bin ("trash" if you're United Statesian) it refuses with a baffling error message: I have no idea what causes this. One solution is to restart the affected Mac - but that's obviously very disruptive. Another soluti
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The Apple Calculator Language
While perusing Jef Raskin's documents from the early days of Apple (1979 predominately), I came across a curious one: a "calculator" language that Jef proposed. What's particularly interesting is that it's presented in the context of programming languages
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Claude Opus 5 is limited to a 0.2M token context window by default
Opus 4.8 and earlier use a 1M token context window (on any paid plan, at least). So it's surprising that Anthropic quietly reduced this by 80% with Opus 5. You can get the 1M token context window back, though - you just have to enable Usage Credits. You d
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Apple's notarytool can't handle ZIP64 files
In short: if you have any file in your app (or whatever it is you're trying to get Apple to sign) that is over 4 GiB, you must use a disk image (DMG) to package it for notarytool, not a zip file. This is because support for files larger than 4 GiB require
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What's Coming in Swift 6.4
This is a summary of the Swift Evolution Proposals that are marked as Implemented in 6.4. Note that I have not personally verified their implementation. Async inside defer SE-493 func f() async { await setUp() defer { await performAsyncTeardown() } try do
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Claude Says No
I strongly suspect Claude's Mac app is written by Claude. That's not a compliment. There's the non-native GUI, though of course that doesn't tell you much in this day and age. It's obviously just Chromium or something similar (hell, you can right-click on
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Asus ProArt PA32QCV
I'll cut to the chase: it's a nice resolution upgrade from an Apple or LG 5k display. But that's about it - in every other visual respect (brightness, contrast, etc) it's basically the same or marginally worse (see Matte-ugly). Though the built-in KVM is
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SSH waits for background jobs to exit only in non-pseudo-terminal mode
Ugh, this one caused me days of head-scratching. $ ssh somehost somehost$ sleep 15 & somehost$ exit$ ssh somehost somehost$ sleep 15 & somehost$ exit If you run that command sequence, you'll find that it makes the SSH connection and then exits immediately
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"rn" is one Character in Swift
From the department of "how did I not realise this sooner?!": 1 "r".count $R0: Int = 1 2 "n".count $R1: Int = 1 3 "rn".count $R2: Int = 1 Yes, Swift treats the two bytes "rn" as a single character. This is actually super convenient a lot of the time, beca
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6k display comparison
It's very clear that Apple were going for peak brightness above all else. Nobody else has even tried to make a bright 6k display - in fact, every non-Apple 6k display is outright dim by modern display standards - they're barely brighter than the original
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