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New comment by agsnu in "Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card"

agsnu — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:03:23 +0000

Huh? Cashback cards on VISA/Mastercard have all but disappeared, I think Lloyds still do one but it has a promo of 1% for the first year then drops to 0.25% after. American Express will give you 0.75% on first 10k spend then 1.25%. 2% is unheard of (unless it's promo or heavily capped).

New comment by agsnu in "Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?"

agsnu — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:33:36 +0000

It's not just the WebKit bit, basically the entire app implementation is actually shipped as a "Private Framework" which lives outside the .app bundle. e.g. on macOS % otool -L /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Safari (compatibility version 528.0.0, current version 623.1.14) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1356.0.0)

There's a bunch of other private frameworks (SafariCore.framework, SafariFoundation.framework, SafariPlatformSupport.framework, SafariShared.framework, SafariSharedUI.framework, SafariSwift.framework) as well. I haven't checked but I assume it's similar on iOS.

New comment by agsnu in "Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS"

agsnu — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:13:36 +0000

Barely supported by Apple these days - in addition to needing to disable SIP which is a pain, it was broken causing system freezes for several major macOS releases.

New comment by agsnu in "WinObjC – The Windows Bridge for iOS"

agsnu — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:11:19 +0000

QuickTime for Windows existed long before then, and Apple ported a bunch of the old Classic Mac Toolbox to Windows as part of that.

IIRC it was actually this Windows port of Toolbox that in some ways laid the foundation for Carbon - i.e. a port of the Toolbox API to what became Mac OS X.

New comment by agsnu in "Be Careful with Obsidian"

agsnu — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:03:30 +0000

I wouldn’t hold not being on the Mac App Store against it. The MAS is sort of a failed ecosystem with very low usage/engagement, and all the downsides of the iOS store like potentially lengthy review times (can be a lot longer than the iOS store since it seems to play second fiddle) and arbitrary capricious rejections when you’re just trying to ship innocuous bug fixes to users.

New comment by agsnu in "John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta"

agsnu — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:11:50 +0000

Huawei seem pretty committed to building their own OS and uncoupling from the Western technology stack in total

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi24/presentation/chen-h...

New comment by agsnu in "RFC: PHP license update"

agsnu — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:03:14 +0000

737* :)

New comment by agsnu in "I Switched to UTC and Never Looked Back"

agsnu — Sat, 31 May 2025 18:33:03 +0000

Anyone remember Swatch internet time?

New comment by agsnu in "Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer"

agsnu — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:03:39 +0000

Many countries find that imprisonment is an effective remedy.

New comment by agsnu in "Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision"

agsnu — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 09:18:15 +0000

I think since then it was announced that the alluded to paid gig is script work/research for https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot

New comment by agsnu in "Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport"

agsnu — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:02:29 +0000

3 were critically injured, so not “no casualties” but pretty darned close all things considered

New comment by agsnu in "Smoke in the cabin of two 737 MAX caused by Load Reduction Device system [video]"

agsnu — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:59:05 +0000

Doesn't help you if the pilot flying is incapacitated by the toxic air in less than a minute, or crash in to mountains, as in the scenario posited in the video. Climbing out to an appropriate height to join the approach, reconfiguring the plane for landing etc, takes several minutes; an immediate forced 180 teardrop back to land is very challenging to execute successfully (see the tragedy at Jeju just before new year).

New comment by agsnu in "Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany"

agsnu — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 08:48:20 +0000

Tesla parked near me has a bumper sticker to the effect of "I bought this before Elon went crazy, sorry"

New comment by agsnu in "Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]"

agsnu — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 06:34:45 +0000

Sounds like a bunch of work. I thought the priority was reducing waste of taxpayer dollars?

New comment by agsnu in "Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport"

agsnu — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:11:39 +0000

They were almost certainly both cleared to maintain visual separation.

New comment by agsnu in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

agsnu — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:59:11 +0000

A significant portion of human structures are located close to the coast (seaborne trade having been a huge enabler of economic development for a few hundred years) and are exposed to flooding from rising sea levels, or built in valleys that are increasingly at risk from flooding due to far-above-long-term-historic-norms precipitation runoff (higher atmospheric temps lead to more energy in weather systems; see eg massive floods in Europe in the past few years).

New comment by agsnu in "Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week"

agsnu — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:42:03 +0000

That’s what I thought at first, but actually this seems to be not the case for Developer ID certificates? https://developer.apple.com/help/account/reference/revoking-...

New comment by agsnu in "Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website"

agsnu — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 07:55:11 +0000

That is certainly true of Flutter, which has its own rendering pipeline. React native, if you create a Button then on iOS you'll get an actual UIButton instance constructed, etc.

New comment by agsnu in "Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website"

agsnu — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 22:29:25 +0000

React Native actually constructs a view hierarchy in the platform's UI toolkit, so I'm curious what you mean by "still a webpage"?

New comment by agsnu in "A pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay, didn't lose his job (2021)"

agsnu — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:03:11 +0000

IIRC for 1549 there also wasn’t enough time to run the checklist and so they didn’t press the “ditch switch” which closes off a bunch of vents, although given the damage to the aircraft skin it’s not clear whether it would have made a difference