alexdbird

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by alexdbird 3y ago
There are a lot more of them too, they're quieter, and there are more distractions inside for the driver.
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by alexdbird 3y ago
The performance becomes more relevant when it's running the latest OS update over 5 years later. Software only ever gets heavier, as a rule.
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by alexdbird 3y ago
> There's the green bar at the top indicating I'm still in the call, but I cannot figure out how to get back to it. For future reference, you tap the green bar. > approve it in some well hidden sub-section I have a feeling t
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by alexdbird 3y ago
> it will take many years for apps to adopt it This is the flaw with the Apple back gesture, sadly, as although it's generally really easy to support this in native app — essentially it comes for free and you just don't break
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by alexdbird 3y ago
I believe that Caffeine was a fairly simple GUI wrapper for the existing caffeinate command
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by alexdbird 3y ago
It was a perfect engineering solution, poorly communicated to users. I'll take a slightly slower phone (in reality not noticeable on most tasks) over unplanned restarts. My partner only just stopped using the iPhone 6 I bought in 2014,
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by alexdbird 4y ago
This info is a lot less useful to me, a developer for iOS, than the OP. What are you trying to do that makes these details interesting?
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by alexdbird 4y ago
On a related note, I wish there was a swipeable element in the flow to prevent a Watch™ falsely entering PINs in your pocket until it locks permanently and needs to be completely reset. It can happen in minutes. It's pretty crazy that
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by alexdbird 4y ago
> Apple absolutely is not worried about that, one of their favorite things to do is pull the rug under accessory holders. This simply isn’t borne out by fact. The entire iPod, iPhone and iPad (non-Pro) range, going back over 20 years, ha
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by alexdbird 4y ago
I think along the same lines, well, not the living in a terminal bit, but have worked with people who would probably be described as neurodiverse that absolutely hated files moving from the order they'd left them in. Xcode projects sti
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by alexdbird 4y ago
Interesting, here in the UK your PIN stays the same when you get a replacement card. Revealing a card PIN to anything other than ATM/POS hardware seems fundamentally wrong too.
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by alexdbird 4y ago
Oh, AppCode absolutely kicked ass in 2013-2014 when Obj-C had been somewhat modernised but wasn’t changing too fast, and Swift was yet to be announced. Xcode was an even worse editor back then too. It was always a struggle for JetBrains to
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by alexdbird 4y ago
I think this is an under-appreciated piece of UX. Authy get it, they prompt you to enter your backup password, just to check you know it, but you can skip so it doesn't get in your way when you're in a hurry. I have one bank that
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by alexdbird 4y ago
Well, they're not going to tell you there's something in the US ink that's banned in the EU, or vice versa — this is purely an example of another type of explanation, of course.
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by alexdbird 4y ago
Whilst I also recommend Brother if people ask, and also go to a local bureau for colo(u)r, the mono laser printers I've had at home for the last 20 years have been HP, simply because those are the ones needing very minor repair that I&
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by alexdbird 4y ago
> allow sideloading for a limited time only to those with a paid developer account. I think this is confusingly phrased and the replies relate to that confusion. A free Apple developer account allows 'sideloading' for a limi
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by alexdbird 4y ago
Super low latency makes native iOS apps popular for music.
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by alexdbird 4y ago
I usually tell people it means I forget things sometimes.
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by alexdbird 4y ago
From memory, more recent non-US keyboards do have "command" as well as the symbol, and recent US keyboards have added the symbol, so we have eventually reached consistency.
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by alexdbird 4y ago
Using these machines on a 2022 display adds so much lag, it really makes them unplayable. On a CRT the connection between your movement and the paddle on screen is so immediate and undamped, it can be quite a powerful experience as you embo
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by alexdbird 4y ago
> the automation of white collar work (often via the computer!) began in the 1960s. The Lyons Electronic Office would beg to disagree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer) The first business application to
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by alexdbird 4y ago
5⃣.4⃣4⃣7⃣ I got 5.447 seconds on my first try in 55thegame.com And I’m going to quit while I’m ahead!
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by alexdbird 4y ago
That's a standard compact Mac layout, so muscle memory will work fine for Mac users. Maybe Fn is elsewhere for the PC one, but I detect a tiny bias in the website. Whilst I always used a full keyboard with a PC, for the reasons you
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by alexdbird 4y ago
I don’t think so. Most tinnitus isn’t an actual sound wave. It’s coming from a glitch in the auditory system. Even if your input was mixing and could theoretically cancel it out, it would be impossible to lock the phase (without some feedba
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by alexdbird 4y ago
Fn + backspace does this on every Apple keyboard. IMO it’s gloriously consistent compared to the bizarre places that delete ends up on PC laptops and compact keyboards.
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by alexdbird 4y ago
I believe they're saying that cryptocurrencies aren't inherently better than most assets - but NFTs are such inane garbage that you could argue cryptocurrencies are 'better'. Very much damning with faint praise.
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by alexdbird 5y ago
I was relieved to read the final paragraph. I have found NSDate/NSCalendar to be the best designed API for date and time calculations, and I never knew it was built on top of ICU. It discourages bad assumptions while many others try to
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by alexdbird 5y ago
I’m a little surprised no one has mentioned the canonical name for this game: Exquisite Corpse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse