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by cageface 6y ago
I’ve noticed on my M1 air that even when it’s swapping the performance impact isn’t that noticeable. I wouldn’t be surprised if 8gb falls short once we can run VMs but I’ve found it to be adequate for everything else. For $1000 the base mod
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by cageface 6y ago
I've been doing this and have a fairly tech savvy circle of friends but so far I've only managed to get a handful of them to start using Signal. I think hunan's just aren't very good at responding to threats that are som
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by cageface 6y ago
I don't like having Facebook apps on my phone at all and I don't like them having the metadata on who I'm messaging and when.
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by cageface 6y ago
This is getting harder and harder as Apple’s ecosystem becomes more comprehensive and more integrated. There are benefits of course but it’s pretty sticky. OTOH I dumped Facebook years ago and haven’t missed it for a second. WhatsApp has pr
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by cageface 6y ago
Just because there is now a multi-billion-dollar industry based on the abject betrayal of our privacy doesn’t mean the sociopaths who built it have any right whatsoever to continue getting away with it. This is fair enough as it goes but
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by cageface 6y ago
Smartphones have gotten very good at handling shots with huge dynamic range but I’m not sure if I really like these kinds of photos. Having everything in the photo in range looks very artificial sometimes.
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by cageface 6y ago
Every language or tool is initially a niche. It doesn’t follow that everything niche is good.
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by cageface 6y ago
This is exactly my struggle with Brahms' music. There are so many brilliant and beautiful passages in his work but he seems to be determined to take the music in a completely new direction every 16 bars.
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by cageface 6y ago
We techies like to believe that most problems created by technology can be solved by more technology. But in fact I think that very few of the problems we're facing with the internet right now are really technical in nature. They are s
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by cageface 6y ago
I doesn't seem like a comparable situation. There were already multiple competing C & C++ compilers including several commercial options. I don't think complacency is holding Rust back.
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by cageface 6y ago
Why do we want alternate implementations?
852.
by cageface 6y ago
What are the reasons? I see a lot of benefits of an open source monoculture, especially if corporate backing is uncertain.
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by cageface 6y ago
What’s the advantage of a formal standard when the language itself and the tools are all open source? All I can see a formal standard adding to the picture is a lot of bureaucracy and friction and the headache of subtly incompatible impleme
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by cageface 6y ago
The problem isn’t that they allow bad people to communicate. It’s that they give bad people a giant megaphone and tools to point it at the people most susceptible to their horrible messages. If they limited this then the actual content woul
855.
by cageface 6y ago
I think it's more that the massive engineering effort that's gone into improving JS has leapfrogged it over languages like Python, Ruby & PHP in terms of performance and tooling. And since you're stuck with JS on the fron
856.
by cageface 6y ago
After ten years doing iOS apps I switched back to web development and I only wish I’d done it sooner. I feel like I escaped a long, abusive relationship. In hindsight I marvel that I ever allowed a single corporation to have absolute contro
857.
by cageface 6y ago
From what I gathered the problem is often that most corporate legal departments are overworked so small donations to open source projects are just never high priority enough to displace other tasks they have in their queue.
858.
by cageface 6y ago
At every company I've worked I've lobbied for us to make donations to open source projects we depend on. Every single time it quietly dies in legal. There must be a better way.
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by cageface 6y ago
This is the one thing that gives me pause about Svelte. I see a lot of quality of life improvements there compared to react but full type checking all the way through to templates is massively helpful.
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by cageface 6y ago
The big win of JSX is that you get full type checking on your templates as well as your code if you use Typescript. On bigger projects this is a huge help.
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by cageface 6y ago
macOS updates almost always break a lot of audio apps. You're better off waiting a few point updates and checking with the vendors of the apps you use before upgrading.
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by cageface 6y ago
Hooks have a very nice synergy with Typescript. useEffect can be tricky to get right in some cases but overall a prefer writing in pure components with hooks over classes.
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by cageface 6y ago
It's very simple. One requires the good graces of an unaccountable and opaque corporate review process. The other requires nothing more than a simple webserver using open standards hosted anywhere in the world.
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by cageface 6y ago
The current situation isn't ideal but I can still build apps and reach users without the permission of any company's review board. There's a big difference between controlling technology and controlling content.
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by cageface 6y ago
What benefits end users can change very quickly. Take Apple yanking HKMaps as an example. Dictatorships have always had some advantages over messy democracies.
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by cageface 6y ago
The alternative is an internet completely locked down in native apps in proprietary and unaccountable app stores. I'll take a bloated web browser over a corporate monoculture any day.
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by cageface 6y ago
I left Utah for exactly the same reasons and would never live there again under any circumstances.
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by cageface 6y ago
To be fair the smartphone was a once in a generation event. I think Apple still has a lot of structural advantages when it comes to inventing new product categories. Coming up with another device with the same impact as the iPhone is going
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by cageface 6y ago
Apple Music search is also horrible. It's almost like they're doing something as naive as an exact string match.
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by cageface 6y ago
I like Poweramp Pro. It can be a little bit confusing at first but it's very flexible and seems to be easy on the battery.

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