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KerrAvon
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KerrAvon
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Sunnyvale’s in the south SF Bay Area. The central coast is further south and considerably less expensive but also more isolated. The other thing persistently lowering quality of life all over CA besides water getting scarce and high taxes i
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Also based on a a quick scan: the mutex appears to be used for other state in the plugin. For better performance and stability they should consider changing the mutex to an os_unfair_lock and maybe find a way to avoid dispatch_async to a gl
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Unless you’re in the right lane, you are the one in the wrong. You can be pulled over in most US states for driving slower than surrounding traffic.
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It’s not impossible — Lisp exists and has been used in both contexts for decades. Swift needs some work to get there. There are a huge number of gaping holes, but these would be a start: - scripting: a native RegEx literal type - systems: r
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Keep in mind that the Mac Plus CPU was something like an 8 MHz 68000. I don’t think a 486 was ever clocked that low? Apple used MPW internally for Mac development by ≈1986, as others have noted. MPW was a Unix-like environment. However, the
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Think Pascal — superior to Think C’s IDE by all accounts — was also used to ship commercial Mac software. It would be interesting to see a video like this done with Think Pascal. By circa 1990, it became clear that C was the future of Mac a