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by e28eta 4mo ago
I’ve got a 2023 Mac Studio M2, and was dismayed by the M3 & later. So I’ve been trying to track down more details. That specific device list is only for: > Apple’s most powerful on-device model and the features it enables, like expre
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by e28eta 4mo ago
They’re actively asking developers to index all the content in their apps, to provide Personal Context that Siri can use for user requests. And to create/index the actions available in the app. So, where developers comply, all of that
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by e28eta 4mo ago
Sounds like Apple offered to implement that, but it didn’t fit the EU’s requirements. I suspect if you paid apple enough money, and were willing to prove that your personal Private Cloud Compute did meet their requirements, it wouldn’t be i
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by e28eta 4mo ago
I think there’s a case that Apple’s commitment to privacy here will increase participation by 3rd party developers. For example, if I’m maintaining a secure chat app, I think I’d be more likely to adopt the APIs to share the chat messages w
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by e28eta 4mo ago
That’s changing this year. They specifically demoed “send a message” and it went through their sample app, but there’s a schema for Reminders. “Make your reminder app’s actions available to Apple Intelligence and Siri by adopting schemas fo
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by e28eta 5mo ago
Clicking through to the query for the first chart, I see the peak of ~300k in May of 2020, and it was ~3k in April of 2026 (the last complete month). I’m flabbergasted. https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revis
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by e28eta 5mo ago
I don’t know how I feel about it. I’ve been on one side, looking at usage numbers of older iOS versions, and arguing that low single digit percentages were fine to stop supporting with the new version. On the other hand, I view my kindle as
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by e28eta 5mo ago
I think there’s a difference between inheriting a codebase that you can freely refactor, and contributing to someone else’s open source project. I’m usually trying to find the smallest practical change to accomplish my goal: giving them les
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by e28eta 5mo ago
I think a similar thing comes into play when you ask a developer to write tests for the feature they just implemented. They’re going to have selective blindness for the edge cases (or requirements) that they failed to consider during implem
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by e28eta 5mo ago
I remember listening to this Freakonomics episode [1] on the phrase. It covers a variety of times people might use it. Sometimes it's genuine, other times it's flattery. Some people use it all the time (and in the episode they tal
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by e28eta 5mo ago
It's been great software: reliably native, promptly releases updates with macOS changes (I had a retina-capable text editor before I had a retina display for my mac), and consistently updated to fix bugs. Some of the change log entries
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by e28eta 5mo ago
I remember reading that page sometime pre-COVID, and being surprised at just how ridiculous it was. It started strong with “The Obsidian team takes security seriously”, but then almost everything else on the page led me to believe they didn
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by e28eta 5mo ago
Since iOS 16, apparently https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-... https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=huqjyh7k
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by e28eta 5mo ago
Students having records of what their score was doesn't prove to the professor / university what score they received. "FWD: Exam 1 Results" is not especially auditable.
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by e28eta 5mo ago
iirc, I saw it all over Stripe documents while I was there from 2017-2020. Lots of emoji use on Slack, and then it’d show up in requirements docs, shipped emails, etc. I don’t know where it came from, but that’s where I was exposed to it fi
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by e28eta 5mo ago
Unless I’m mistaken, it’s a monorepo. So it’s not 25M LoC in a single app, it’s (all?) of their server-side code and shared libraries. There’s also a variety of other languages in use. 16 years and thousands of engineers write a lot of code
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by e28eta 5mo ago
I think git’s naming is actually pretty reasonable: smudge (on checkout) & clean (on stage).
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by e28eta 5mo ago
That’s untrue. While I would be willing to believe that for a brief period of time there was a bug that could expose it, having been at Stripe between 2017 and 2020, it was my experience that they had a robust system preventing PANs from be
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by e28eta 5mo ago
“a noisy argument or fight”, from the Cambridge dictionary. I believe it’s primarily used in British English.
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by e28eta 5mo ago
If you want a slightly different black hole to send your report to, you could use Feedback Assistant: https://developer.apple.com/feedback-assistant/
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by e28eta 6mo ago
John Oliver just did a segment on prediction markets. https://youtu.be/ZN4njIQcSR4 Turns out the US federal regulator is not doing their job, and is actively trying to prevent US states from imposing regulations.
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by e28eta 6mo ago
Sure, but then what if in the several hours before the decision is executed, new information comes in? Your decision maker is now going to make decisions differently than they would if they hadn’t made the bet, due to the financial incentiv
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by e28eta 6mo ago
re: grapple leapfrog, it links to this question: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/q/136964 Maybe the AI used the accepted answer (with 4 votes vs the next with 39) and then mangled things from there? re: counter chaining,
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by e28eta 6mo ago
Since the code they show and their comment says `uint32_t timer` wraps, but then their math doesn’t wrap it, I wonder how they missed this. It’s also weird that their “smoking gun” example is with active TCP traffic, which (should?) be upda
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by e28eta 7mo ago
I went to a local estate sale of a professor, whose entire downstairs (4+ rooms) was filled with bookshelves full of books. They were well organized by topic, and covered a range of topics (math, science, health, fiction, biographies, etc).
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by e28eta 7mo ago
Probably the only apple platform whose price point is low enough that I’d be on board with this idea.
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by e28eta 7mo ago
It’s nice not to crash, but unexpected null can still cause bugs in ObjC when the developer isn’t paying attention. Having done both ObjC with nonnull annotations, and Swift, I agree that it’d be hard to forgo the having first-class support
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by e28eta 8mo ago
My first team figured that out after a year or so. If it’s really TODO, it should either be addressed before the WIP feature is considered “completed”, or it needs to show up in our work tracking system. Otherwise it just fell through the c
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by e28eta 8mo ago
Do you believe that there’s a single person (or small group) who chooses what’s on the front page?
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by e28eta 10mo ago
> For example: did you know there's no way to run a system upgrade (like to 26.2) via SSH I did not know this. I thought the `softwareupdate` command was built for this use case, and thought it worked over ssh. It sure looks like it

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