ajconway

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by ajconway 7y ago
The opaque return types are, however, only available in Swift 5.1 and later, which means that the API will have to be different and not directly compatible with the Swift UI.
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by ajconway 7y ago
It's actually a major feature that comes in very handy if you live in a cold place.
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by ajconway 7y ago
This one is PoS though.
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by ajconway 7y ago
It's not against ToS to run VMs with Windows in them. It's also fine to virtualize a copy of macOS on an original hardware, but it hardly does anything for gaming as there is still no GPU acceleration available for macOS guests.
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by ajconway 7y ago
Unfortunately ccache does not help with swift.
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by ajconway 7y ago
WhatsApp contains significant amount of native code, making it much more difficult to analyze.
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by ajconway 7y ago
It looks like they’ve been doing pretty well in VR so far.
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by ajconway 7y ago
App Thinning works just as well without bitcode. It’s just a process of removing unneeded architecture slices and resource variants from a downloadable app.
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by ajconway 7y ago
I don't know, actually. Should the state other that what the task (or sub-task) can observe matter for it to function? Where would be the boundary, as there are lots of things happening simultaneously in a computer, and the global stat
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by ajconway 7y ago
There is no dichotomy here, it's perfectly fine to use imperative code where it fits better. I would not agree that using any particular technology makes code less clear. Also, I'm not sure how protocol interfaces, callback-based
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by ajconway 7y ago
Do you mean that it tends to require using immutable data structures?
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by ajconway 7y ago
The state is there, of course. The goal here is to minimize the amount of state the code has access to at any particular time. Functional purity is not the goal, it's just one way to reduce state.
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by ajconway 7y ago
More reactive usually means less global state, which is generally for the better. It also encourages functional purity where possible. Previously (briefly) in iOS/macOS there was an attempt to move to closure-based APIs, which led to u
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by ajconway 7y ago
While taxes are a sane and common way for a government to make money, there are countries where there is either no corporate tax at all, or only some industries are taxed. Additionally, there are places where corporations do pay taxes, but
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by ajconway 7y ago
Theoretically, you can. At 0.99c 111 light years take about 15 years of ship time to travel.
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by ajconway 7y ago
Right, probably. No one knows who else might have used it, though. What's kind of sad is that this story was not used to enlighten the general population on how exactly the modern information security works (which can be reduced to &qu
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by ajconway 7y ago
> The media overhyped the vulnerabilities No, the media underhyped it. It's a remote code execution vulnerability that's triggered by visiting a website.
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by ajconway 7y ago
Apple removed the ability of app developers to use the (somewhat) reliable way to deliver events to apps without alerting the user. There’s API that lets an app to decrypt visible notifications, but it’s incredibly limited (it will crash if
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by ajconway 7y ago
Maybe X11 just doesn’t have the right abstractions. As an example, to this day iOS uses mostly server-side rendering with API basically unchanged for 10 years. Fonts are rendered client-side, but compositing and animations are done out of p
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by ajconway 7y ago
WhatsApp does secure group messages with end to end encryption, but what good is encryption in a public protests group where everyone can see your phone number?
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by ajconway 7y ago
This feature leaks metadata. It's just an implementation detail, I'm sure the devs are not happy about it and probably are researching other ways to provide cross-device experience.
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by ajconway 7y ago
MacOS as a guest is tricky. GUI is pretty much unusable without a GPU attached, and it's considered a potential vulnerability by Qubes maintainers.
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by ajconway 7y ago
Can clean-electric cars and planes help with this? A world-wide hyperloop network, perhaps? Not sure if "just add more taxes" is the solution to everything.
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by ajconway 7y ago
I really like the idea of Signal and try to use it as much as I can, but man it’s an ugly app. There must be a way to design the UI a bit better without compromising security and privacy.
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by ajconway 7y ago
To distribute the new K you would need to encrypt it for each of the N-1 users of the group. That's why we need trees.
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by ajconway 7y ago
One would think that a browser-based app should excel in terms of accessibility, because it's practically built into the engine.
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by ajconway 7y ago
Apple sells iPad Pros which they call “computers”. Those are powerful devices, but there is not much productivity software available, and UI is very different from traditional desktop interfaces. Apple could offer an Air-class machine power
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by ajconway 7y ago
I wonder if Canada and Russia will be the nicest places to live in the next century.
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by ajconway 7y ago
I actually think that there might be something to it. The current keyboards already have a small key travel. A solid-state keyboard with “taptic” feedback from individual keys could feel ok.
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by ajconway 7y ago
The iOS-native UI is not customizable, that should be the main reason.

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