TheTon

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by TheTon 1y ago
No regrets here, but I did use Google Code a fair bit prior to GitHub and I had an experience that made me think maybe Google regretted that product in some ways. Around 2005-6 I wrote a Mac OS X client for Xbox Live. The idea was I wanted
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by TheTon 1y ago
Several years ago, a coworker made an Arduino "mouse" that traced a square with a 1KHz report rate. Multiple systems running Windows 10 and reading mouse updates via either regular window events or the Win32 raw mouse API would oc
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by TheTon 2y ago
I don’t have many hard rules I follow about specific standards or parts when I shop for a bike, but I do have one guideline I adhere to: I only buy bikes with online tech manuals containing exploded diagrams, dimensions, part numbers, and t
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by TheTon 2y ago
This idea was already tried with the hour record. Between 1972 and 2014 a standard bike was used to match what Eddy Merckx used. What happened was cyclists lost interest in the hour record because the bike became too dissimilar to the bikes
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by TheTon 2y ago
Sure, I use Xcode to work on cross platform C and C++ projects. Meta build systems like cmake can generate projects or build files for various IDEs (like Xcode) or build systems (like ninja) from a single project definition. IMO, Xcode is a
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by TheTon 2y ago
From the article: “But 'American Idiot' wasn't a true act of revolution. In fact, the album was produced and promoted by a multinational conglomerate with the intent of packaging seemingly transgressive pop-punk acts for my e
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by TheTon 3y ago
This post seems to be just about the GTK port of WebKit. So they’re comparing Skia vs Cairo on Linux. There’s no mention of Skia vs CoreGraphics for macOS. It doesn’t sound like that is something that is being considered.
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by TheTon 3y ago
I see a similar response rate as the poster you’re replying to, but I am going to keep filing bugs. If Apple fixes a bug I file, that’s not just to Apple’s benefit, it’s to my benefit and to the benefit of people who use my software as well
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by TheTon 3y ago
Apple’s calculator seems to get the first set of problems from the pdf right as well. Did you test with it and get something different?
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by TheTon 3y ago
You can, actually. AUv3 plug-ins have been a thing on iOS for years. I have a few I use through GarageBand.
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by TheTon 3y ago
My comment was in the context of sales within the state, where both the seller and buyer are in the same state (same situation as the article about Apple in CA). Previously, WA was like CA apparently is today, where the sales tax for in sta
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by TheTon 3y ago
In Washington state they solved this problem by allocating the sales tax to the location of the customer for online sales. I remember having to implement it as a small business and it was a minor pain, but I assume the legislators mostly ha
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by TheTon 4y ago
Our 9 year old has an electric scooter. I didn’t really want to get it for him, because I’m an old school analog bike guy myself, but I have to admit it is convenient. It has around a 15 mile range and keeps up with a comfortable cycling pa
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by TheTon 4y ago
I really doubt the issue is technical. The page curl rendering itself was implemented in Core Animation. The application side just set the parameters for the position of the curl. It worked well even on the original iPad. I have no inside k
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by TheTon 4y ago
Severance is great, but it sure felt to me like a send up of Apple’s own corporate culture with some mid century IBM thrown in. I wonder how Ben Stiller was able to nail the vibe so well as someone who hasn’t spent time as a worker in a pla
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by TheTon 4y ago
IBM v Papermaster was a pretty high profile one.
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by TheTon 4y ago
Thanks, I really appreciate that.
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by TheTon 4y ago
Do you happen to have a link? I actually do follow them and their blog pretty closely and this is news to me. I realize we are all reading tea leaves here, but any public info at all from an Apple source would be interesting to me.
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by TheTon 4y ago
It’s fine to disagree, it’s not unreasonable to have the take that making users pay a cost in terms of extra cpu usage is worth it for the benefits of AV1. But it would be better if you could make that argument without the hostility. Anyhow
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by TheTon 4y ago
As a user, I appreciate my user agent restricting its codec support to those that can be played back efficiently on my hardware. I see this in contrast to Google not caring about my battery life or device thermals and forcing CPU decode on
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by TheTon 4y ago
Is there any evidence for this beyond kCMVideoCodecType_AV1 in the 16.0 headers? I'm not sure that alone implies any particular version. Could be iOS 17 or later for all we know.
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by TheTon 4y ago
> I am a former Apple employee but this has given me no special privileges or advantages at all. Perhaps it has given me some particular skill at diving into header files to figure out a solution to a technical problem. It’s definitely t
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by TheTon 4y ago
It depends on your workload and codebase. I have a Ryzen 5600X in my desktop and for C++ work, my M1 Pro is quite a bit faster for clean or incremental builds. The desktop is still useful/required for some of my work (using x86_64 wind
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by TheTon 4y ago
If you're already in the CS program then you've got a great head start. Even 20 years ago they had a way to be admitted out of high school, and for the folks who were eligible (I wasn't) and took advantage of that it was grea
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by TheTon 4y ago
I did CS at University of Washington in the early 2000s and I still have nightmares about it. I loved the coursework itself, but the whole meta game of the program was pretty traumatizing. They (along with some other STEM programs) used fir
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by TheTon 4y ago
For games another reason they don’t need dynamic metadata is they produce their content on the fly and they’re doing tone mapping themselves already and can tailor it to the display characteristics.
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by TheTon 4y ago
They don’t (usually) have different versions but they do have “linked on or after checks”. So one libsystem, but it can look at the sdk the software was built against and adjust its behavior accordingly. But I have no idea if they’re doing
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by TheTon 4y ago
There is a lot of C++ at Apple. It's of course possible to work there and never touch it, but it's also possible to work there and do almost all your work in C++. Many significant parts of iOS and macOS are written in C++, for exa
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by TheTon 4y ago
At my work people delete slack messages and recall emails occasionally. It is almost always for one of two reasons: there was an error in the message or it was sent to the wrong channel / group. By deleting or recalling the message the
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by TheTon 4y ago
The article matches my own experience porting some media processing code from SSE to NEON for the Apple Silicon transition. I had a library with C and SSE implementations and I wanted to write a NEON implementation with the goal of outperfo

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