MBCook

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by MBCook 1y ago
I don’t see GP proposing privatizating.
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Embedded Swift Improvements Coming in Swift 6.3(swift.org)
3 points by MBCook 1y ago|0 comments
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by MBCook 1y ago
I'd love to see a market share chart going back far far more. At least to the middle of the 90s or so. I'm very impressed though. I had no idea there were near 1/3 of the desktop market. Good for them.
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by MBCook 1y ago
No, also laptops. The article had a chart for that too. It's all systems.
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by MBCook 1y ago
I’ve never been a JS on the server person, I was used to other languages when that was developed. Well I think I would prefer python, but simply because it’s “more traditional“ and I realize that’s specious reasoning, I prefer to use strong
906.
by MBCook 1y ago
If they were using dowsing rods instead of polygraphs would you still feel the same way? It’s certainly suspicious. But it’s also a huge problem they use them at all when the private sector was banned from doing so since they’re so unreli
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by MBCook 1y ago
If you need to run in a JS environment it’s a hell of a lot. It’s a FANTASTIC improvement. I wouldn’t use it server side or for a client application that doesn’t run in a web browser. That’s not its place, for me. But I will 100% reach for
908.
by MBCook 1y ago
It’s not. And trying to just be a transformation of the source to JS without its own standard library (mostly, some old stuff doesn’t follow this) means it really isn’t possible with just TS alone. That’s OK with me. I use TS because I like
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by MBCook 1y ago
I don’t disagree, that’s part of why I like Swift so much. Rust looks very C++ to me. But if I was working in C++ and had a choice of C++ or Rust, I’d go Rust based on this.
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by MBCook 1y ago
We all knew rust was safer. It was the 1000x number that surprised me. Which is more that rust isn’t that safe in my mind, it’s that bugs are that prevalent . I never would have guessed that. That 4x rate is very impressive too. Great se
911.
by MBCook 1y ago
All the cheaper models that used to exist are gone. So the entry price went from like $300 MSRP to something much higher.
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by MBCook 1y ago
They already own the PC market. This seems more like a play to start to introduce Steam towards more of the console market. And for that, assuming a reasonable price, it looks like a nice attempt. Certainly much better than last time.
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by MBCook 1y ago
From what I’ve seen people mostly used the Epson scanners like the V600, V700, V850, etc. They stopped making them early this year. Only the top end model for $1500 still exists and I don’t know if that’s because they still make it or just
914.
by MBCook 1y ago
Oh that does sound familiar. I think you’re right. Apple certainly made it popular for product pages though.
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by MBCook 1y ago
This really isn’t my area but it sounds like nothing is fast. DSLR may be fastest without just flat out hiring someone else to do it. But even with thousands of shots that would still take quite a lot of time. And yeah, workflow is the thin
916.
by MBCook 1y ago
I’m not sure if they can do 4 x 5. I know they can do 120.
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by MBCook 1y ago
Not GP, but it’s probably a personal thing. I remember the iPod socks. Now make them bigger. Now stretch them out a bunch. Now make it look a little more like Borat’s speedo. Now charge like 7x-10x what the iPod socks cost. If the first pla
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by MBCook 1y ago
The Epson scanners are supposed to be nice but they stopped making them and they’ve shot way up in price second hand.
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by MBCook 1y ago
Medium is the problem. There’s nothing. Epson stopped making their flatbeds that do film, reportedly because they can’t get the CCDs anymore. That may be a rumor. The result is they go for 2x MSRP on eBay for models that are many years old.
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by MBCook 1y ago
It’s a cancer on the web. Apple started it and I hate them for it. And I’m an Apple fan. If I wanted to wait 1/2 second for each part of the page to load I’d have stayed on dialup.
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by MBCook 1y ago
But is he? We don’t know. If having such a phone keeps someone in the Apple ecosystem that may be more valuable. All their services they’re always pitching. People with iPhones are more likely to buy iPads and Macs. Maybe the get tired of t
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by MBCook 1y ago
Isn’t the frame rate of film something like that? The industry decided on 24 FPS as something of an average of the multiple existing company standards and it was fast enough to provide smooth motion, avoid flicker, and not use too much film
923.
by MBCook 1y ago
Not in Tim Cook land. If a product is profitable that’s not good enough, it has to be very profitable.
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by MBCook 1y ago
If you like this kind of stuff and have some free time (ahem) you owe it to yourself to check out Jeremy Parish’s Video Works series. He also has a few books. He’s been doing it for over 10 years. The complete history of every game for ever
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by MBCook 1y ago
So why did it ever ship like that? Why was that OK? Why was it safe to let people use like that without informing them?
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by MBCook 1y ago
It’s a fantastic language? I’ve come to really like it. Strong type system, is it to work with, lots of resources available, compiles to a binary, interfacing with any other language that you can link to with C, the syntax doesn’t look ugly
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by MBCook 1y ago
Possibly demand as well. We know that Apple operates a whole bunch of Linux servers, do we know if they’re running FreeBSD internally?
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by MBCook 1y ago
Absolutely everyone in my company uses 1080p monitors unless they got their own. That’s just “normal“. It’s horrible.
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by MBCook 1y ago
I can’t tell you how often I see this. Brand new designs or logos in 2024 or 2025 that look abysmal on a retina monitor because no one bothered to check. Stands out like a sore thumb.
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by MBCook 1y ago
Private equity was a huge part of why Toys “R” Us died. More on topic, my personal suspicion would be that AIs get a lot of stuff wrong, unsurprisingly, and so these orders end up with a higher percentages of returns or people claiming they

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