ajconway

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by ajconway 6y ago
Have you tried adjusting the IPD? Unfortunately, there are only 3 fixed positions.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Keep in mind these are benchmarks done on low-priced entry-level models of Apple hardware (about one third of them on a fanless MacBook Air), while running translated x86-to-arm binaries and probably translated direct3d-opengl (correct me i
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by ajconway 6y ago
The whole field of engineering is about solving real, immediate tasks that users have. What you're describing is politics.
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by ajconway 6y ago
It's not as simple as that. Apple does not approve cloud gaming apps either.
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by ajconway 6y ago
iOS does not allow apps to be kept alive in background at all. On Android you can (mostly) keep an app open in background, but you should not, as it affects battery life. Of course, another issue is that no device is always online, so you c
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by ajconway 6y ago
These are all technical workarounds to a non-technical problem. Ultimately, you can capture media directly from the media output. If you build software or hardware that make the process easy for a significant number of people, the lawyers w
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by ajconway 6y ago
Apps on mobile devices are generally unable to maintain network connections while not in focus.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Leaving aside the fact that p2p is certainly not feasible in mobile devices, something being p2p or federated does not improve the service's ability to evade censorship. How would you block a p2p network like TOR? Just ban all the entr
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by ajconway 6y ago
We're still here, chatting on the Internet from our cozy apartments using our expensive devices.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Kids today spend their time in Snapchat or whatever, kids before them were into Facebook, those before who had access to forums, and before that there was TV, and radio, and Beatles. It is easy to arrive at the conclusion that things were b
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by ajconway 6y ago
This only works on larger scales. We, as a civilization, do study history, and it is an important area of knowledge. The civilization won't go anywhere, we're too smart now, too capable, tiktok or not.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Why do they need to compare their own culture with something that's long gone? We don't live the way our ancestors did, listen to the whole other kinds of music, enjoy completely different things and speak different dialects of th
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by ajconway 6y ago
If you could, what would you change?
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by ajconway 6y ago
Kids today wouldn’t agree with this statement. What happened is you got older.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Some nationalities would have to re-roll quite a lot: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Pakist... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Indian... https:/&
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by ajconway 6y ago
This is a difficult issue because it involves restricting the freedom of a service provider to develop their product as they see fit. Ideally, the market itself should force companies to make things that are beneficial to the customers. Unf
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by ajconway 6y ago
A single entity that only serves its shareholders is able to singlehandedly terminate almost any IT business out there... Sounds dangerous.
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by ajconway 6y ago
There are all sorts of regulations in other fields, some of them serve public interest (as all of them should). Forcing a very powerful company into making their platform more open might be OK.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Apple specifically declares that they do these things on device. If they don't, this is an opportunity for a class action.
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by ajconway 6y ago
Apple continues to invest in the user experience and potential privacy. Unlike Android, the features that require data processing and ML are not offset into the cloud. This means that if Apple finally moves to encrypting the iCloud storage,
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by ajconway 6y ago
CMake does very good when you have a C/C++ project, but it very poorly suited for cross-language dependencies. Blaze-like build systems, on the other hand, were built specifically for that.
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by ajconway 6y ago
It seems to be a normal engineering process: first make it work, then look for those high-level things that you are ready to break in order to gain performance through optimization and micro-optimization.
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by ajconway 6y ago
And, unfortunately, they are expecting to deliver it 6 months from now.
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by ajconway 6y ago
The other choice is to share business logic, reimplement UI for each platform independently, using platform-specific APIs. Cross-platform GUI always leads to compromise.
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by ajconway 6y ago
It must be possible to do on ARM Macs once they are released. Even if they are still encrypted (regular macOS App Store are not), extracting the key from macOS memory has to be simpler than on an iOS device.
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by ajconway 6y ago
You are still talking about mapping the simulation to a representation that will make sense to you. The episode that I found fascinating to think about is when a simulated character reflects on his existence: “And if the computations behind
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by ajconway 6y ago
I believe the argument goes like this: assume that conscious agents can be simulated (that is, consciousness is computable). What is computation? If sudden wind arranges leaves on the ground into a pattern that looks like “2 + 2 = 4”, was t
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by ajconway 6y ago
If you believe in mathematical realism than the fact that there surely exists a mapping between a random set of data and a simulation with conscious agents in it, that should be enough.
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by ajconway 6y ago
> Almost no one is complaining about Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo's "monopolies" on what software runs on their video game consoles. We should! I would love to run Steam on my PS4. But Sony already invests in some stu
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by ajconway 6y ago
Usually it’s either iOS/macOS development or media editing.

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