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New comment by steve1977 in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

steve1977 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:32:09 +0000

I guess not for this use case. There are many industrial use cases for which there are no macOS versions. In fact, Siemens NX was once available on macOS AFAIK, but isn't anymore.

New comment by steve1977 in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

steve1977 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:30:08 +0000

It could be VDIs, i.e. VMs running on another system, potentially x86 with GPU

New comment by steve1977 in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

steve1977 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:47:09 +0000

Pretty much everything or at least a lot of what you use as an OpenAI (or Anthropic or whatever) customer was once someone elses product that just got appropriated by OpenAI.

Why should your business be any different?

New comment by steve1977 in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)"

steve1977 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:01:53 +0000

Just as an aside, that Amir Majidimehr taking part of the conversation is Amir of audiosciencereview.com fame :)

New comment by steve1977 in "Learn Programming with OCaml"

steve1977 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:22:56 +0000

Did you also compare F#?

New comment by steve1977 in "GPT-6 Astra"

steve1977 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:22:04 +0000

"distilling"... ;)

New comment by steve1977 in "AI is making back-office work extinct"

steve1977 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:08:03 +0000

What jobs would be something to fight for and why?

New comment by steve1977 in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

steve1977 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:40:47 +0000

Codex, clone Claude Code, make no mistakes they also didn't make.

New comment by steve1977 in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

steve1977 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:23:39 +0000

The text gives the impression that PureDarwin has been Clauded

New comment by steve1977 in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

steve1977 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:17:46 +0000

First, this will at best be source compatible.

And if it ever reaches a usable state, I assume it will far behind Apple's current systems.

New comment by steve1977 in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

steve1977 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:16:22 +0000

Looking (briefly) at the source code, it looks like they are at least partially using source code from Cocotron

https://cocotron.org/

New comment by steve1977 in "Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable"

steve1977 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:22:42 +0000

This is all working as expected.

You cannot ssh to a multicast address. More generally, you cannot set up a TCP connection to a multicast address. So that explains why your first ssh attempts failed.

And as you noticed, ping on macOS is IPv4 only, hence the "Unknown host" error, because it actually tries to resolve "ff02::1%en8" as a host name, it doesn't even recognize it as an IPv6 address.

You then ping6 the multicast address and get replies back from all nodes in the multicast group, which includes your MBP.

You then ssh to the link-local unicast address fe80::something, which finally works.

New comment by steve1977 in "Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable"

steve1977 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:52:11 +0000

Ethernet cables are usually always male-male

New comment by steve1977 in "Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable"

steve1977 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:07:38 +0000

I would assume so as well, I'm not sure if all host operating systems act the same though. But you could probably just wait a couple of seconds and the interfaces would have assigned themselves link-local addresses.

New comment by steve1977 in "Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable"

steve1977 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:04:02 +0000

No, traditionally a patch cable is a cable that you would use in a networking rack to connect (to "patch") from say a network switch to the desk outlets or to another switch. A patch cable would explicitly be NOT a crossover.

The main difference between patch and "normal" is that the former is using stranded conductors and the latter solid conductors.

That makes the patch cable more flexible (physically)

New comment by steve1977 in "Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable"

steve1977 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:41:42 +0000

Yeah so called crossover cables. But that's like decades ago.

New comment by steve1977 in "Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable"

steve1977 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:37:46 +0000

People discovering that network cables can be used to network things. And then calling it a "trick" (I'm surprised it's not a "hack" actually).

New comment by steve1977 in "Why Everybody Hates Palantir"

steve1977 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:24:36 +0000

But from what I understand

[1] USA Today is still using Palantir

[2] This might have an effect in 2027 or it might not

[3] The majority of shareholders still voted against that proposal

So in the end, these people getting vocal has pretty much no real effect.

New comment by steve1977 in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

steve1977 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:15:59 +0000

Using Docker instead of podman is the first mistake and that is a distro decision (or a "chef" decision, in Omarchy parlance...)

New comment by steve1977 in "Why Everybody Hates Palantir"

steve1977 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:09:47 +0000

> The company has committed major marketing blunders by giving itself a creepy vibe, which is a well-deserved reputation, down to the very name of the company. These errors are unnecessary and unforced self-sabotage.

I'm pretty sure this was very intentional and not a marketing blunder in any way.

It has long been a shtick of Alex Karp to be vague in answering questions where and how Palantir software is used.

I also don't think you can put Thiel and Musk, or rather Palantir and Tesla, in the same bucket here.

Tesla wants and needs to sell to common people. Palantir doesn't.