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by dwaite 3y ago
> as long as it can be wrapped in a good cross platform layer (which means that it boils down to website repackaged with the platform's out-of-browser payment mechanism). If you are trying to build a cross-platform application usin
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by dwaite 3y ago
Both of these are also shared with Rust FWIW. I believe Swift takes the switch farther than match in Rust, because it tries to deal with API stability (e.g. a system library adding new possible cases)
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by dwaite 3y ago
That is partly what this article is about - a swift-native set of foundation modules.
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Not really. The two are somewhat sister languages, but they have been syntax-optimized toward completely different focuses. Swift for example defaults to copyable value types and reference types that are refcounted because that is what is m
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by dwaite 3y ago
> How exactly are protocols a Swift "upgrade" to OO programming? They were in Objective-C since the mid 90s, adopted by Java as interfaces, copied by C# etc. Typically you would write more protocol-oriented code - rather than u
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by dwaite 3y ago
Wouldn't that be this new Swift Foundations project?
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Seems right up his alley, too - star of the show was killed off in the first 10 minutes of the pilot.
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by dwaite 3y ago
> I'm skeptical that Apple and Google will try to make it too easy since they benefit from user lock-in, but I would be happy to be proven wrong. https://hachyderm.io/@rmondello/110329118270492669 Apple's
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by dwaite 3y ago
How are you doing the Linux integration?
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by dwaite 3y ago
TIL that George R R Martin wrote an unproduced "Xmas" script from the cancelled second season.
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by dwaite 3y ago
You do not need to pay to be a developer. You pay to publish and to get beta access.
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You mean security camera integration?
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by dwaite 3y ago
Matter is a consortium effort by IoT vendors and enablers (Amazon, Apple, Google, Legrand, Silicon Labs to name a few interesting members) to consolidate (and hopefully commoditize) the space. It is IPv6-based and standardized devices need
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by dwaite 3y ago
You have to be careful with such comparisons - a 300 dpi printer will effectively run at a lower DPI if you require dithering. Even if you could only see 300 dpi, a B&W 1200 dpi printer may still effectively add greyscale information be
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by dwaite 3y ago
What part of that isn't a legitimate and valid warning? I've had multiple relatives with broken/stolen phones who lost very important photos because they were no longer being backed up. You can always turn iCloud backup off i
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by dwaite 3y ago
> They waited years longer than the competition to switch to larger screens. They only really got to it with the iPhone 6. There's a lot of people upset they switched to larger screens! I suspect that Steve Jobs really wanted the ph
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by dwaite 3y ago
One of the classic examples I've heard was how Apple cannibalized their iPod (classic) with the iPod Mini and the iPod nano. These were smaller and cheaper due to the flash storage, but did not replace their more expensive cousin. The
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by dwaite 3y ago
Asahi Linux is an incredible undertaking. I don't see myself running it for years, until it becomes the only way to get security updates to continue to use the hardware. Apple has virtualization and paravirtualization built into the OS
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by dwaite 3y ago
You could also say that Chrome had a huge _interest_ in pushing for browser-alternatives to native Apps because of Chromebooks. Some of that died down once Android support was added. The position on many of these by other browser vendors we
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by dwaite 3y ago
> Apple Arcade is a good start, but it still doesn’t convince me that they’re serious about catering to anyone beyond casual gamers To be fair, a huge portion of the gaming market is casual gamers, and Apple does incredibly well there on
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by dwaite 3y ago
They still would have to _license_ Half Life: Alyx (a Steam exclusive designed for the Valve Index) or Beat Saber (by Meta-owned Beat Games). > It's the reason gaming on Mac died Some gaming on Mac died because they are pinched by
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by dwaite 3y ago
> Google and Meta both tried an failed miserably. Did Google really try? The only way they could have convinced me it actually might be around 18 months after launch is if Alphabet spun out an entirely new company for it. Launching it as
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by dwaite 3y ago
There was never a big chance that Valve would port Alyx, or Meta would allow Beat Saber to be on another platform. It would take an epically _good_ relationship to convince hardware platforms to port their platform exclusive titles over - j
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by dwaite 3y ago
Sure. But the XDR is meant to be a professional reference model - those stands are among other things built with magnetic latches so you can detach and pack up the screen and take it with you site-to-site. To compare, Home Depot sells a $32
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When the device has a user experience, it gradually turns into a convergence platform. This is what makes coming out with new products harder - Apple doesn't have a market for a mid-range camera, or a GPS, or a music player, or a PDA -
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by dwaite 3y ago
> I mean PA semi was purchased in 2008 and the first A4 processor was 2010, the writing was already on the wall a good decade out. Is this similar to how AMD's Bulldozer architecture back around that timeframe was the writing was on
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A fair portion of that quarterly operating expense results in $20 billion a quarter in services revenue. I don't think those numbers intuitively reveal a plausible scenario where they are under in five years.
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> The biggest remaining one is still that fingerprint locked information is not protected under the fifth amendment in the US. Is this comment more about the ongoing existential concern for everyone, or wondering if this is a specific co
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> On the other hand, if that's the result of doing that, then there'd be no gain. Yeah, we'll just have to wait to see. Passkeys are just big enough and different enough that I think they are exposing a lot of the holes in
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by dwaite 4y ago
AFAIK Flutter still isn't a web development technology - the browser becomes a drawing surface for uncomfortable UX flutterisms. IMHO - Flutter is the spiritual successor to Adobe Air, just as Dart is the spiritual successor to EcmaSc

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