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by cageface 3y ago
I’m confused too why this issue needs to be any more complicated than this. Are there any other product categories where allow imports from a country that completely bans our exports?
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by cageface 3y ago
I struggled with a few different solutions for this and finally just settled on an alias on my existing fastmail account under my custom domain. Works fine and zero hassle. I think it's fine for the kind of mailing lists you describe.
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by cageface 3y ago
I loved the setting and the style but it seemed very grindy and monotonous after a while. Maybe I'm not the target audience but manually watering a field full of virtual plants is just not my idea of fun. I guess eventually you can aut
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by cageface 3y ago
This has been tried many times and nobody has been able to make it work. What would you do differently?
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by cageface 3y ago
If you have a better solution to the problem of making journalism financially viable I'm sure a lot of people would be very interested to hear it.
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by cageface 3y ago
Good question. My theory is that companies overhired during the pandemic and are now correcting. AI is another wildcard. It remains to be seen exactly how much it will reduce the demand for developers but it seems very likely to at a minimu
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by cageface 3y ago
The trend here is unmistakeable: https://hnhiring.com/trends Only one source of course, but I think it's indicative of the state of the overall market.
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by cageface 3y ago
I enjoy programming in Swift but it hasn't felt like a little language for quite some time now. It's a complex language with a lot of features and a powerful but elaborate type system.
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by cageface 3y ago
What's in it for you as a user is that the app exists at all. A lot of apps either aren't meant to be profitable (government services apps, ngos etc) or won't be profitable enough after paying for developing the app 3x. Build
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by cageface 3y ago
It's telling that even an obviously sophisticated and careful user of these tools published the output of the model as fact without checking it and even used it as one of the central pillars of his argument. I find this happening all t
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by cageface 3y ago
The world keeps getting better as technology advances, and people will adapt to the new changes. That's making the very large assumption that there are no qualitative differences among our various leaps in technology. It's not h
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by cageface 3y ago
Apple has made some significant improvements in their handling of PWAs recently, most notably supporting push notifications. Which makes their recent moves even more discouraging. https://www.thisdot.co/blog/the-renaiss
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by cageface 3y ago
From the article: There is no native app for The Session, but you can install it on your phone nonetheless. Lots of people have done that. After a while they forget that they didn’t install it from an app store: it behaves just like any ot
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by cageface 3y ago
Sorry about that. I’ve added it.
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by cageface 3y ago
I'm working on a new cross platform desktop music app with a clean modern interface. It should be ready for beta testing soon. Message me if you're interested in trying it.
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by cageface 3y ago
At least on the Mac my desktop Flutter app starts up quickly and performs quite well. It’s much smoother in fact than a prototype I built in SwiftUI.
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by cageface 3y ago
Yeah strong typing is essential. Redux is overkill for small or even medium apps but it's the best tool I've found for dealing with the complexity of larger apps. Having a very clear, inspectable sequence of mutations to all your
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by cageface 3y ago
It still works for me. What if you try it in an incognito window?
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by cageface 3y ago
AWS is certainly very capable but I haven't at all found that everything AWS is easy or makes sense and that's certainly not the general reputation it has among other devs I know. It's quite baroque and the UI is chaotic and
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by cageface 3y ago
The worst manager I ever had in 25 years of working in tech went to Google after she finally got fired at my company. Apparently there she fit right in.
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by cageface 3y ago
Right. The two areas where I've found current AI to be useful are code generation where I can fairly easily check the results and creative stuff where it doesn't matter. I don't understand how people feel they can use it as a
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by cageface 3y ago
I wouldn’t call it great at writing fiction. Its prose style is bland and generic. There’s no authorial voice.
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by cageface 3y ago
Took about 10 seconds to get the correct answer on ChatGPT. But, generally speaking, if you don’t have some way of verifying what the correct answer is, how can you be sure that the answers you get in 10 seconds from the LLM are actually
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by cageface 3y ago
After messing around with various cross platform desktop toolkits, including a big Electron app and some smaller Tauri apps, I've settled on Flutter. It's not perfect but the results I'm getting are so far much better than an
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by cageface 3y ago
It doesn't help that Microsoft and Apple have neglected their native desktop UI toolkits for so long. Writing a native Mac app and a native Windows app and possibly two native mobile apps and maybe a Linux app is just not feasible for
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by cageface 3y ago
It's not a big deal in practice but it would be nice if it wasn't necessary.
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by cageface 3y ago
I think at least on iOS it's stable enough to use now. I'm also not having any issues with it on macOS. Android impeller still seems to have some bugs.
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by cageface 3y ago
My app has lots of complex heterogeneous scroll views and performance is great on iOS (with impeller).
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by cageface 3y ago
Flutter web is much less mature and performant than the native build targets. If the web is your primary target it’s not a good choice, at least not today. Flutter mobile/desktop on the other hand performs great and is way more efficie
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by cageface 3y ago
Sounds like this is specific to the Cupertino widgets? I’m not using those because I think they’re just going to put you in the uncanny valley of almost native Mac UI. The material stuff looks good and performs well and at this point users

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