benologist

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by benologist 6y ago
It would be potentially much cheaper without licensing negotiations, royalties and IP policing adding to the price too.
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by benologist 6y ago
It'd be open source so you'd get plushies, figurines, videos etc after someone else made them because permissive licensing let them use the art and ideas to do whatever they want. There would be nothing preventing a plushie compa
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by benologist 6y ago
People mostly dual-boot so they can access software they need that isn't on macOS, but it isn't available on ARM Windows either so why would Apple care to foster a nascent competing platform?
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by benologist 6y ago
Open source Pokemon, where new creatures can be contributed by anyone and anyone can add stories and adventures or fork the whole thing and do whatever they want.
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Fixing Apple's [MBA Thermal] Engineering in an Hour(youtube.com)
2 points by benologist 6y ago|0 comments
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by benologist 6y ago
I think we need to make it more obvious when account-access occurs for users. If they can see their request logs they can investigate themselves, maybe even identify the cause or instigator. I think letting users define restrictions on the
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by benologist 6y ago
This is why consumers like easily-cancelled subscriptions, which iOS implemented. It was important to implement easy cancellations on iOS to show how you can cancel any time so you're not being defrauded when small utilities, kids gam
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by benologist 6y ago
> I think if Apple measured developer satisfaction scores on the App Store, the results would be jarring. I think their ARM Macbooks have the opportunity to be a real tipping point if they make macOS as restrictive as iOS. Who'd si
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by benologist 6y ago
One of the Hey founders created Ruby On Rails so he is fairly renowned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson
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by benologist 6y ago
Developers that charge extraordinary amounts via subscription should be listed somewhere too, so we know who to avoid. BUDGE used to make children's games that unlocked for $5 - $15 one-time purchase, now the same size and caliber tit
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by benologist 6y ago
Ive checked out ages ago, and even before that Apple Park must have occupied most of his last decade. Meanwhile the butterfly keyboard is rumored to return next week so maybe we should start blaming the executives who actually run the comp
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by benologist 6y ago
And the many stores we can trust are more important than hypothetical abusers. Hypothetical abusers can be addressed in other ways, for instance Microsoft shuts down malicious servers and entities using lawyers and law enforcement.
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by benologist 6y ago
I saw it explained like this. Rare minerals are everywhere but they're spread out, and China's advantage is they will destroy a lot of environment to extract them while other countries are regulating protections for the environme
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by benologist 6y ago
Apple is actually still fighting to avoid culpability for their butterfly keyboard fiasco and to continue replacing broken keyboards with equally-defective keyboards, as you experienced, even though they're obliged to sell you non-def
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by benologist 6y ago
There's an API for chrome and firefox that lets you remote-control the browser with code. I use this to run my unit tests so they really fill out forms as a user would and to save screenshots resized in various device resolutions. ht
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by benologist 6y ago
Apple are bullies. By submitting your app you accept to be bullied. By using their apps you accept to be bullied. By buying their hardware you accept to be bullied. The rule they are breaking is not accepting their bullying. That's
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by benologist 6y ago
I hope this uproar doesn't die down before WWDC because it's going to suck if Apple announces all the ARM Mac software must go through their app store.
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Apple sued for allowing loot boxes in App Store(appleinsider.com)
4 points by benologist 6y ago|0 comments
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by benologist 6y ago
I think people underestimate how poorly Apple have conducted themselves throughout their app store's history. The iOS developer guidelines used to officially state: If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps. https
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Predatory iOS App Subscriptions(mjtsai.com)
1 points by benologist 6y ago|0 comments
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by benologist 6y ago
I personally won't use iOS ever again if Apple is forced to allow GOG, Steam, Xbox and F-Droid to coexist alongside the official app store because it would really suck as a consumer to have existing games I've purchased show up on
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by benologist 6y ago
You can also easily run a VM with any version of Windows going back decades, something Apple has also arbitrarily stifled.
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Was there slavery in Australia? Yes(theguardian.com)
1 points by benologist 6y ago|0 comments
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by benologist 6y ago
Even when Intel started recycling 14nm why would Apple actually care? Some of their computers have gone years without updates despite newer processors being available, it doesn't seem like an important feature of most of their compute
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by benologist 6y ago
It's hard to imagine this is really Intel's fault and not just Tim Cook looking at a multi-billion dollar per year expense as an opportunity - they buy like 20 million processors a year it's a ton of money even by Apple'
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by benologist 6y ago
I wish rather than buy the machines back at a massive discount, Apple would allow us to upgrade ourselves so we can extend the lifetime and usefulness of the machines. In just a few years a 20 - 30 terabyte NVMe upgrade would be feasible o
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by benologist 6y ago
VSCode has an SSH extension that lets you seamlessly work on a remote server, this has been invaluable with my old dual-core Macbook first offloading docker and my work to a vultr.com virtual machine and then a 6-core Intel NUC on my local
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by benologist 6y ago
Or they just want to fold the hundreds of dollars per machine going to Intel into their own profit margins.
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by benologist 6y ago
Their predatory conduct is being investigated in the EU [1] and US [2] which suggests it is far from "perfectly reasonable" and may not even be legal. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/17/eu-to-invest
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by benologist 6y ago
Can macOS virtual machines ever be performant enough to use as a workstation? So far I have only tried setting it up in VMWare and VirtualBox, the performance wasn't there but I haven't dedicated a GPU or drive to it yet. It wou

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