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811.
by etchalon 4y ago
In a discussion about the performance tradeoffs inherent in abstractions, you seem to be implying you don't understand why a tree of say, NSViews, would be more performant than the process of parsing text markup, converting that markup
812.
by etchalon 4y ago
I'm having a hard time squaring this statement: > I've been a mobile developer for 10 years, a web developer for 2-3 years, and I've done perf with C++/Asm for years of my career, so know that I'm not coming from
813.
by etchalon 4y ago
I don't see how it's fallacious, and I specifically set aside the performance tradeoffs as I knew the retort would end up being almost exactly what you posted. I'm also not sure why I'd have to list the tradeoffs on a fo
814.
by etchalon 4y ago
Yep. PWAs are a business solution to a business problem. They don't solve any problems for users.
815.
by etchalon 4y ago
Ignoring that HTML, CSS and JS have specific performance tradeoffs that allow for flexibility and universality, I'd go with "because I can't name any cross-platform tooling that has ever felt as good as a platform-native alte
816.
by etchalon 4y ago
I'm not sure that "who cares what users want" is a valid product strategy.
817.
by etchalon 4y ago
I don't care much for this post, but I think it is fair to say that PWA support wasn't something Apple cared about. They shipped a lot of features in Safari over the years, including many that that landed before Chrome and Firefox
818.
by etchalon 4y ago
It's not illegal to fire someone who is pregnant. It's illegal to fire someone because they're pregnant. You have to be able to point to another reason, such as performance. Meaning, if you're doing layoffs, and you thou
819.
by etchalon 4y ago
I'd bet not. Whatever their problems, Coinbase seems to be run "well" and in compliance with US regulations.
820.
by etchalon 4y ago
It's not all society's fault, but research has shown that the distress and depression of being outside societal defaults is greatly lessened when support is available and acceptance wide spread.
821.
by etchalon 4y ago
As someone who hires people, I think this is a double-edge sword. Bluntly, without a sustained effort by managers, teams will default to hiring people who are as most "like them" as possible. Shared interests, vernacular, professi
822.
by etchalon 4y ago
People were making the "they're committing suicide because their brain is wrong so we need to fix their brain" argument about homosexuality back in the 90s. Research has pretty firmly come down on the "nah, it's soc
823.
by etchalon 4y ago
Steve would 100% of done this. Steve didn't care about vendors.
824.
by etchalon 4y ago
I've yet to find a guy who was worth dating that wasn't in a relationship if they wanted to be in one. I do know a lot of guys who struggle with the fact that the woman they're attracted to aren't to them. I definitely k
825.
by etchalon 4y ago
A great rebuttal and investigation into a topic that was raised by a shallow alarmist last week.
826.
by etchalon 4y ago
Because a. we live in country where freedom of speech is inclusive of product and editorial decisions and b. a truly "politically neutral" product, at least one that produces or displays content, is essentially impossible so c. &q
827.
by etchalon 4y ago
Because there was a demand, far-right friendly infrastructure services have been founded, and are, as best I can tell, doing fine business-wise. As a free speech absolutist, I cannot fathom a world in which we have to trample on one group&#
828.
by etchalon 4y ago
They comparison exists because the majority of buyers will probably have an Intel-based Macbook Pro. From a marketing perspective, it is more useful to focus on how much faster it is than that product than it would be to focus on how much f
829.
by etchalon 4y ago
I am, once again, am baffled by the insistence that one product or service must always succumb to every group's values. If you want a "Conservative" version of ChatGPT, go build it. If you want a "Leftist" version o
830.
by etchalon 4y ago
Or it's an entirely valid necessity of a feature you do not understand, that's being driven by a system setting you also do not understand. The system could be behaving exactly as it should be, but because you failed to do any res
831.
by etchalon 4y ago
It's as good as none.
832.
by etchalon 4y ago
You can wire up a proxy and watch the traffic if you were so interested. The fact the articles author didn't bother to and report back what they found, means this person didn't even do the bare minimum of technical research before
833.
by etchalon 4y ago
You didn't report false claims. You reported a bunch of unrelated claims without any technical research, and then pointed your readers to a conclusion that lacked any technical or journalistic merit. It's shallow alarmism.
834.
by etchalon 4y ago
Basic research would have shown this person that mediaanalysisd has been apart of macOS for long before Apple's CSAM local-scanning plan. This is essentially a conspiracy theorist post. 1. There is a thing happening I do not know anyth
835.
by etchalon 4y ago
I love these types of stories because they show that, no matter how much people protest, few designs which make their way to the public are the "only obvious way to do it". They're only obvious after you see them, and only if
836.
by etchalon 4y ago
My main question is whether the miles equated are in fact equal. Autopilot is used far more often on the highway, I believe, than in residential areas – where I also believe crashes are more frequent. It'd be interesting to see the mil
837.
by etchalon 4y ago
I don't see how it's the same.
838.
by etchalon 4y ago
Generally speaking, if the current pilot has ran your plane into a mountain twice, you probably want a new pilot.
839.
by etchalon 4y ago
I think these discussions always seem focused on the ideal state of the "AI is perfect and gives correct answers" and not the current state where the "AI constructs sentences that are structured correctly, but are filled with
840.
by etchalon 4y ago
Maybe more people to discover, and build with, Monte Cook's excellent Cypher System: https://csol.montecookgames.com/license/

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