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The implication is that the random-looking data did not contain ASCII characters other than the parts of the flag

Wouldn't strings(1) have worked for this?

By default, strings needs a run of 4+ (printable|ascii) characters. This sounds like it was 1 ascii character at a time in a sea of random data (with other alpha chars removed).

Ah, right. It would have to be `strings -n 1`, then.

That would be expected for encodings or container file formats. Straight-up encryption like AES produces results that are visually indistinguishable from random data.

It works often enough for the company to be wildly successful. They can simply cut their losses and withdraw from industries where it hasn't, such as EVs.


Yeah, user edits/deletes are locked after 2 hours. You can email hn@ycombinator.com to request an edit past the initial window.


Here's an in-depth analysis (also linked in the OP): https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/


A lot of the examples in here, I can't find? Like, I looked around for the new smart folder with the cog icon, where is it on my mac? Same with save as check, where is that? Also I'm pretty sure (although I can't find it) the save as with the up arrow is save as out to something? The ones I do find, all make perfect sense and work pretty well for me, they're not totally perfect but I'd never thought about them much before this post and I use them almost exclusively. Look at all his new for example, see new finder window? Look at the box around it, then open your window menu at the top of your screen, see how minimize has the same box around it? If you go though those icons set, most of them have: primary, secondary and sometimes tertiary visual clues. I dunno, I read that blog post and it doesn't really jive with me. I'm sure they could stand to clean it up a bit, I don't know I'm not a designer, but I'm certainly glad they are there!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


New Smart Folder with a cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Notes.app, while New Smart Folder with a folder+cogwheel icon is in the File menu of Finder.app.


Thanks! I don't use the notes app, cog is not the best icon for that but I suppose it's differentiated from the file system version, if I read them both the same I might be confused, but not sure why they selected cog!!!


Yeah should be an accessibility setting for the few users who need it


Static linking packs the dependencies into the executable. This is basically dynamic vendoring.


Good to hear. What hypervisor are you using (UTM, VMWare, Parallels)?


I use UTM, it's simple and seems light. I can share my source directory with the VM so I can edit using macos pycharm, and test the containers in the VM.

What really caught me out was I downloaded an x64 image once (there was no arm64 image) and it somehow just ran anyway in the arm64 VM. That may have been some qemu magic?

I love the macos/virtualised linux dev workflow, but is isn't better than plain linux. I'm just still not convinced GUI stuff works on linux as well as it does on macos and macbook hardware is so nice (if you're not paying for it).


A "free side" means being exposed on the left or right, matching your Wikipedia quote. On the other hand, OP's implementation checks if it can be moved up or down.


Look at the shape of the puzzle and compare with the wikipedia photo. The sides logic is correct.

Although looks like the images on the tiles were indeed rotated, as mentioned in another comment[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47115499


I quite like Shelter [1]. Shelter apps are installed in a separate work profile, which essentially sandboxes it from the rest of your data. It also has a neat feature to automatically disable (freeze) specific apps and seamlessly re-enable them when you launch them through Shelter.

[1] https://github.com/achalmgucker/Shelter


It seems that the repository has moved to https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/Shelter/.


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