MBCook

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by MBCook 4mo ago
It is specifically for using your phone. So I don’t know if it would help. I don’t think it’s actually driving specific, I think it just is based on the accelerometer. So it might work.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
They added it a few years ago. I tried it for about 30 seconds and was so annoyed by how distracting I found it I turned it off and never did again. I just don’t use the phone when a passenger in a car. If it works for you and doesn’t bothe
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by MBCook 4mo ago
This works amazingly well on my iPhone with obvious touch controls. Very impressive.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I remember this being shown in Nintendo Power. As the kind of kid who liked computers and gadgets I really wanted one, and read the article many times. But of course it never came out.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
They have either recently added or talked about a borrow style system in the language as a way to avoid more copies and speed things up/lower memory usage/help with asynchronous programming.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
In the last year they’ve added improvements to the type checker to speed it up, those would have been released now. They have further and much more significant changes that I think might have recently landed in the development version. That
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by MBCook 4mo ago
They’ve been doing it for years. I don’t remember how we first knew, but I know they’ve been using Swift in kernels for at least some of the other chips like the Secure Enclave or whatever. I’m not sure exactly which. I assume it’s some of
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Ooh fantastic. I’ve been using date ranges plus GIST indexes for like a decade to do this. It’s really nice. But the lack of foreign keys can be painful. I’ve resorted to stored procedures for crates and updates to ensure everything is done
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Budgets generally make it impossible. Any “commercial” game costs enough no one seems to be willing to risk it unless they think it will pay back big. Often seemingly by making the game bigger (thus more expensive) to appeal to more people.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I remember being taught in my COBOL class (early 2000s, needed an elective, thought it would be fun) that that was the point. The stupid engineers could write the code like the grunts they are, and then the manager could read it and verify
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by MBCook 4mo ago
It’s odd it’s not linked in the repo but the author made a your video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzpZQe7JT-o
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by MBCook 4mo ago
As OP: I _didn’t_ write it. I’m not the author. I just thought it was neat. But thanks for the accusation.
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"This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand(arstechnica.com)
4 points by MBCook 4mo ago|3 comments
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I don’t think it’s performative. That seems really uncharitable. Seems like most “performative“ accusations are. I think a ton of people were REALLY misinformed about how much water AI data centers use. I know I was at one point. Now there
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FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL(github.com)
140 points by MBCook 4mo ago|67 comments
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Generally I’d agree but the comment I replied to mentioned people running Linux applications and in my mind that means GUI. Maybe that’s not what they intended.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
You can already run older versions of macOS inside a VM on macOS. So it seems like in theory that should be doable if someone just made the container images right?
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Yep. For a few years. And they keep enhancing it too. It’s the only legal way to do so, due to the software license on MacOS.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
That is a far more useful reply than the GP comment. If they had stated something similar I don’t think they would’ve been downvoted.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Containers are REALLY REALLY popular. This is a a great value add for developers on Mac who need to deal with Linux containers. Which is a ton of ‘em.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Yeah. But in exchange it’s a lot of work to keep up with. For GUI stuff you’re now having to have some sort of Wayland layer/driver. Running VMs is really really easy and low maintenance demand on Apple. And it’s guaranteed compatibili
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by MBCook 4mo ago
CGamesPlay said above its balloon memory so it won’t use all that memory by default, but it can’t release balloon memory yet.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
At this point the EU doesn’t trust Apple’s fair rules. Which is very much earned. So if they did that here, I doubt the EU would accept it. And even if they did as soon as a competitor of any side/credibility cried foul I’m sure the EU
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by MBCook 4mo ago
I was not aware of that. I knew it was split but didn’t know that split wasn’t useful to others. Thanks.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Ew. So it tells the LLM where the git source is for the thing they’re duplicating, but I don’t see instructions saying not to read or copy those files or algorithms. I could have missed them. I didn’t read everything. I did some quick searc
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by MBCook 4mo ago
test_sum is assumedly relatively trivial. So as a lay person I’d expect some sort of obviousness test to apply. Like so much of the stuff in the Google/Oracle lawsuit. But if you take all the individual tests used to test git as a whol
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by MBCook 4mo ago
If we assume an u licensed or MIT licensed test suite, an LLM could develop from that and documentation and you’d get something you could license MIT. IMO, IANAL, etc. And we’ll ignore the question of what the fact the LLM has certainly see
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Apple won’t support them with MacOS 27, and it seems they announced this tool as part of this year’s WWDC. Basically: they’ve moved on.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
The author actually estimated $10-$15,000 worth of tokens.
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by MBCook 4mo ago
Where does the GPL say you have the freedom to relicense code or derivatives under MIT by fiat? Isn’t having to stay under the GPL a very big part of the GPL license?

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