KerrAvon

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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I would bet a significantly larger percentage of posters here use Apple devices than does the general population. A lot of the population just buys the cheapest thing that claims to do what they want.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
It turns out it's not possible to do that. We've been trying since the 1960's.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
COVID is not over. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/is-the-pandemic-over/
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
It’s not fair to the doctor, but it’s better for the patient.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
It’ll have to be better than today’s spicy autocomplete technology to do that, though. ChatGPT will never be in the driver’s seat; it can’t be trusted.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The title is incorrect -- this is still using Objective-C, it's just obfuscating the syntax for no really good reason.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
The point is: what's the point of wrapping this at all? You can just directly call `[object foo]` instead of doing your own `object_foo()` wrapper just because you want to make the syntax prettier. It's like doing `#define saith p
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
You can't rely solely on autorelease unless you're going to put literally everything in the autorelease pools, which would not be great for performance.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
This was a Trump rollback of environment rules to please conservative nutjobs. Can we stop posting these here?
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
To this day, I can’t read the Joy of Tech comic because I remember their response to Al Gore’s climate activism: “Al Gore is fat, haha”.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
they have no problem making shit up to fit ring wing desires. Liberals could only dream of having such activist judges on their side.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
this discussion does not belong on HN, but the Fifth Circuit is the purest concentration of activist Trump-nominated whackjob judges in the entire federal judiciary. Google “fifth circuit overreach”
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Haven’t watched this yet, but it should be enlightening https://fujinet.online/2023/06/28/fujinet-and-meatloaf-at-vc...
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
You really need to read some mid-90's books like Microserfs or some of the early Mac histories for some historical context. None of this was new or particularly unusual in the valley at the time. -- https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
> A good windowing system is a system where you don't need to move or resize windows. That isn't necessarily true for everyone; the Lisa and Mac designers definitely did not feel that way. > why Apple's OS didn't h
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
That’s literally one of the questions at stake. If I buy a machine — whether I’m compelled to or not — why shouldn’t I have the right to fix it myself? A contract does not contravene federal or state law.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Ruby’s English documentation remains terrible, unfortunately.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
That sounds trivial? I mean, you can do that in C, what’s surprising about it? I have never found Python as nice to use as you seem to have, but Ruby always fit like a glove. I’ve written Python since 1999 and I still would rather use almos
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
No, that’s self-important bullshit. These are just evidence that Python really suffers from people in that community not using any other languages.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yes. Steam is more or less a good Mac citizen aside from not being fully Apple Silicon native. But, as previously stated, the entire catalog was 32-bit and it evaporated overnight when Catalina ended support for 32-bit executables.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
I haven’t compiled a Linux kernel in decades — how do those cluster compile times compare to something like an Intel i7-11k? They sound slow.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
What services are you having trouble with? My RPi PiHole has been working great for whole-house blocking for a half-decade now.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Pre-NeXT takeover, Apple had a lot of folks like Quinn to support developers, and an entire documentation department churning out content. Quinn was always one of if not the best. While much was gained in the NeXT merger, the biggest thing
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Subpar was accurate. What you can theoretically do with an SWF file given a new from-scratch runtime and what you could actually do with the extant Flash player at the time are different topics.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Heinlein wrote something to the effect that predicting gadgets was easy, but predicting social change was hard.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Yes, Jobs, the great satan of tech. He died so that Tim Apple could sin with impunity. No FaceTime for Windows users — it will bring the rebels to their knees.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Apple themselves tell you to use Metal instead of OpenGL on Apple platforms. It’s not beating the big corporation if the big corporation isn’t in the competition.
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
Revisionist bullshit. It was bad enough to cause the reactor to be removed from service permanently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
You're saying you're OK with hanging out in a virtual Nazi bar just because the Nazis can't speak Japanese and you don't personally see the swastikas. Let's see if we can reign in your ignorance a bit. This man owns
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by KerrAvon 3y ago
What's interesting is that this actually represents the point in time where the NeXT people in charge started to realize that they didn't know everything and stopped resenting the idea that some of the classic Mac ideas were actua

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