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by derefr 1y ago
My hypothesis is that, at least on VisionOS, some apps are full of — almost cluttered with — 3D objects; and so Apple felt that, for the sake of your eye being easily able to jump to "where the UI is" amongst all that, the user ne
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by derefr 1y ago
Would anyone here assert that there's any particular programming language that's better for writing emulators, virtual machines, bytecode interpreters, etc? Where, when I say "better", I'm not so much talking about
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by derefr 1y ago
But doesn’t this lead to the opposite problem: creating a model that can never learn to let go of an early-life mental model picked up from a skewed dataset? By analogy to humans: if this model were raised in a cult, and then let out into t
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by derefr 1y ago
I've wondered about this for a while now (where e.g. some models of HuggingFace require clickwrap license agreements to download, that try to prohibit you from using the model in certain ways.) It seems to me that if some anonymous ne&
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by derefr 1y ago
(Separate reply for space) > We really shouldn't be making new standards with big endian byte order. IFF isn't a wire protocol standard for efficient zero-copy; and nor is it intended for file formats amenable to being streamin
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by derefr 1y ago
> you need to know the application specific format contained anyway in order to do anything useful with it One neat thing about IFF is that all of its "container" chunk types (LIST, FORM, CAT) are part of the standard; the expe
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by derefr 1y ago
> So all the addressing bodies (e.g., ISPs and cloud providers) are on board then right? My guess is that it's going to be approached the other way around. After all, it's not the ISPs' job to issue IP addresses in conform
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by derefr 1y ago
So, I'm a big fan of metaformats with generalized tooling support. Think of e.g. Office Open XML or ePub — you don't need "an OOXML parser" / "an ePub parser" to parse these; they're both just zipped
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by derefr 1y ago
> Instead they play games about mortgage interest deductions because they want to incentivize certain kinds of living arrangements over others and give handouts to some voters but not others. Your "they" is doing a lot of work
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by derefr 1y ago
> That's because an advert is effectively an unasked-for imposition on my attention intended to benefit somebody else more than it benefits me "Adverts" are a pretty incoherent category here. There are a lot of things that
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by derefr 1y ago
You're assuming a very simplistic model of API coupling, where there are only "applications" and "libraries that the application compiles into itself." But: • There are also runtimes, installed separately from the a
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by derefr 1y ago
Not necessarily. Given how most mobile UX design operates today, in most apps there’ll just be a single glassy hamburger button that opens a (much more legible) menu. You don’t need to read a hamburger button; you just need to know it’s the
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by derefr 1y ago
In this hypothetical, presuming you're putting the manhole (subsurface conduit/plumbing maintenance access point) in after you've already paved the road: it's because the tool you'd use to cut a hole into pavement (
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by derefr 1y ago
From the perspective of "design the manhole cover first", the reason is that manhole covers aren't just round — they're (very subtle) domes. A dome is: 1. the best shape for taking stress from very heavy trucks putting
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by derefr 1y ago
Cloudflare isn't a cloud in the traditional sense; it's a CDN with extra smarts in the CDN nodes. CF's comparative advantage is in doing clever things with just-big-enough shared-nothing clusters deployed at every edge POP im
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by derefr 1y ago
I presume that "outdated upon release" benchmarks like these happen because the benchmark and the models in it were chosen first , before the model was created; and the model's development progress was measured using the ben
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by derefr 1y ago
Seems like the largest industrial customers would still need metered usage, though. There are quite a few businesses that can scale limited only by power consumption — but due to that, they today need connections massively overbuilt compare
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by derefr 1y ago
I think the use-case for these is more VR focused, with the AR just being a "being able to notice when something needs your attention" feature (where you would respond to such an interrupt by taking the glasses off, not by trying
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by derefr 1y ago
And even then, people were never against most of it. Scrollbar thumbs with grip stipple? Checkboxes that fill in with a roundrect rather than a checkmark? Buttons and tabs that have an inline ring-highlight "intent" color to them,
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by derefr 1y ago
The OS is less the stage manager, and more the venue itself. Imagine if the Sydney Opera House or Carnegie Hall looked "inoffensive" rather than majestic.
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by derefr 1y ago
> So if you build enough nuclear plants to power the grid, charging per kWh for the electricity is pointless because the marginal cost of the fuel is so low. Wouldn't there still be the OpEx of maintaining the power plants + power
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by derefr 1y ago
I somewhat agree with your point, but I'd quibble with the analogy, and its implication about the usefulness/importance of fences. I'd argue that the Internet is less like water, and more like a freeway. (It is the "in
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by derefr 1y ago
I think this approach made a lot of sense in the 2000s and 2010s, when consumer electronics with internet access were expensive things well out of reach of a child unless given to them by a parent. But we're in an era now where cell ph
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by derefr 1y ago
But formatting already-typed text on iOS is incredibly fiddly (as you have to select a text span first, and iOS fights you every step of the way when you do this — especially if the span starts or stops at something iOS doesn't consi
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by derefr 1y ago
In an ideal world, the browser could act as an mDNS client, discovering local services, so that it could then show the pretty name of the relevant service in the security prompt. In the world we live in, of course, almost nothing on your av
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by derefr 1y ago
Just as a devil's-advocate argument, an IDE + font could syntax-highlight + ligature `if err != nil` (only under Golang syntax mode) into a single compact heiroglyph and fade it into the background — which would in turn make anything
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by derefr 1y ago
To take this analysis another level deeper: what has happened here is a classic example of bikeshedding — and, worse, fostering bikeshedding. Everyone feels equipped to have an opinion about "what should be the syntax for an obviou
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by derefr 1y ago
Apparently their first target is soon-to-expire donor blood erythrocytes — which makes this essentially a (pretty major) scalability improvement in how far existing donor blood goes. However, that being said: hemoglobin’s just a protein. Re
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by derefr 1y ago
I am suspicious of this argument, because it would imply that you can’t understand the design intent / tradeoffs / etc of code written by your own coworkers. Which: of course you can. Not least because both your coworkers and thes
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by derefr 1y ago
So do the thing that a student copying their notes from the board does: look at the PR on one monitor, and write your own equivalent PR by typing the changes line-for-line into your IDE on the other. Pretend copy/paste doesn’t exist. P

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