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by easeout 2y ago
That obstacle and the Swift language are unrelated. The same applies to a Rust app or Electron or anything.
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by easeout 2y ago
I don't know about that example—when ARC was added to Objective-C back in the day, I don't remember clang feeling any slower as a result.
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by easeout 2y ago
Foundation wasn't made to be part of the Swift project until recently. 25 years ago it was the "foundation" of Cocoa, the Mac OS X API derived from NEXTSTEP. It was an Apple platform thing explicitly—now it is remade in Swift
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by easeout 2y ago
That's a good point. I had in mind that there's some regret about the combination of type inference with type-based overloads, due to the search expense it adds to what ought to be straightforward parsing of long expressions.
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by easeout 2y ago
This, right? https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-foundation
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by easeout 2y ago
The idea is to end up with one fewer!
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by easeout 2y ago
Have a look at today's Swift track FOSDEM talks.
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by easeout 2y ago
For what it's worth, they ship a solid VS Code extension and LSP. Their swift-testing package is the new open source and cross-platform successor to XCTest. The same can be said of swift-foundation as compared to Foundation. The path t
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by easeout 2y ago
Swift announced Linux support in 2015 when it went open source. Aspects of parity have taken years, and the Objective-C interop that isn't relevant outside Apple platforms but made adoption take off at all occupied a lot of early effor
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by easeout 2y ago
Y'all has been here to stay in the mainstream for a good long while. It really needs no defending. Bless your heart
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by easeout 2y ago
So then, they can claim something is AGI when it isn't, just for the hype benefits, because there's no downside to saying so.
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Establishing an etiquette for LLM use on Libera.Chat(libera.chat)
58 points by easeout 2y ago|54 comments
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by easeout 2y ago
Funny, I thought it continued a while and died with social media.
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by easeout 2y ago
OK, shake to undo is obscure as hell. But Apple is historically the example of app consistency with platform norms and feature discoverability through progressive disclosure. The HIG are not always followed, certainly not as often today a
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by easeout 2y ago
I'm glad this aspect of Android world exists, similar to the way I'm glad Linux on the desktop exists. I love how the FOSS community focuses on user ownership. But I also want them to focus hard on non-hobbyist user experience. I
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by easeout 2y ago
You're right. Now why won't anyone else make computers or phones that I like and want to use due to their nice, consistent user interfaces and stability? Apple's quality has slid in both of these regards, and what really su
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by easeout 2y ago
If you have the offload feature turned on, downloading a new app or an OS update can cause least recently used apps to have their app bundle deleted while their Home Screen icons remain, such that they'll be downloaded again when you n
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by easeout 2y ago
How does binning work when your chip is the entire wafer?
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by easeout 2y ago
So slapdash Unity asset store video games were right all along!
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by easeout 2y ago
The final spaghetti point really takes the wind out of this article's sails. A lot of it is good information, but too many parts make me think "That's a stretch."
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by easeout 2y ago
I haven't, but you can compare editions with this SICP Comparison Edition: https://sicp.sourceacademy.org/
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by easeout 2y ago
I'm happy to use LLM products for what they can do right now, while they're still cheap. Even though they're maintained by high investment that may never pay off, enshittification has not yet set in.
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by easeout 2y ago
Swift has a lot of features, but you can leave many of them alone to begin with and learn them when you need them. Low-syntax defaults work in a reasonable, streamlined way. SwiftUI will confront you with more syntactic variations than othe
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Curly-Cue: Geometric Methods for Highly Coiled Hair(cs.yale.edu)
2 points by easeout 2y ago|0 comments
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by easeout 2y ago
Come to think of it, execute-and-inhibit style as described here is exactly what's going on when in continuous deployment you run your same pipeline many times a day with small changes, and gate new development behind feature flags. We
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by easeout 2y ago
Inheriting Dune's gameplay required inventing another valuable substance in a new setting. They didn't come right out and say he who controls the tiberium controls the universe, but…
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by easeout 2y ago
You say that, but there are tons of features in Notes. They're just successfully kept out of your way until you go looking for them, so when you just want a note that's what you get. This is progressive disclosure, a longtime tene
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by easeout 2y ago
Back then, my download site of choice was happy puppy.
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by easeout 2y ago
Thanks for your work!
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by easeout 2y ago
While I agree in principle, this is a professor sharing as foolproof a method as he can find to get many students, whose existing knowledge, setup, and CLI avoidance he can't control, to the meat of the course experience he has designe

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