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by fingerlocks 10mo ago
Metal predates Vulkan.
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by fingerlocks 10mo ago
I don't know if AI was used, but I do know that git contributions were used as a starting point. From what I've heard, it was just individuals and the managers that enabled it.
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by fingerlocks 10mo ago
Very poor & mediocre. You can find secret little pockets within Microsoft where individuals & small teams do nothing at all, day in and day out. I mean literally nothing. The game is to maximize life and minimize work at the expense
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by fingerlocks 10mo ago
There’s something wrong with your TV. You must have some kind of third party air play video device? AirPlay from the TV.app works fine. Just tried it, phone to TV and phone to laptop. You can either stream directly from the app or use scree
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by fingerlocks 10mo ago
Did you know that if you have any Apple hardware, like anything at all with a screen, this is a 0-step process? You’re already signed into the device, and the AppleTV.app is pre-installed. It’s one tap. I have sympathy for you, that sounds
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by fingerlocks 10mo ago
It’s messed up, but it can be fixed by turning off iMessage and MMS in settings.app and then turning it back on. It’s an old bug. Since it hasn’t been fixed, I’m guessing the solution introduces more problems than it a solves for whatever r
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Apple made major contributions to USB-C and adopted it a decade ago in their MacBooks. They were committed to lightning for 10 years starting in 2012-ish, so usb-c was likely inevitable in iOS devices. However I would preferred a backwards
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Even when HDR tone mapping in real time, such as a game engine or raw video feed, you would still be merging two or four multi-sampled tile memory blocks into a single output image. This is not fundamentally different, just a fancier pipel
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
I never mentioned a file format. These operations are performed on the raw buffer, there is no hack. There is no minimum bit depth for HDR (except for maybe 2) that’s just silly. High dynamic range images just remap the physical light waves
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
What are you talking about? You extract 3 exposure values from the raw camera buffer and merge and tone map them manually into a single HDR image. The final exported image format may not have the full supported color space, but that’s on yo
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Trying to write a ground up game engine in Metal is a very serious exercise in self-discipline. Literally everything you need is right at your finger tips with RealityKit / old SceneKit. It’s so tempting to cheat or take a few short cu
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Customer support costs are higher at Apple than its competitors, because they provide a better support experience. This is not a tautology, it’s one of their core value propositions
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
No there isn’t. I’ve said this a million times before, but usually just downvoted: this is about reducing support costs, not increasing revenue from lock-in. This is not a theory, I’ve sat in meetings at Cupertino and been told first hand.
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
We use remote windows VMs when doing windows development from our Macs. Everyone on my team and the adjacent only use MacOS. We do not work on web apps.
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Physics is not on your side. You need more energy to heat up a larger thermal mass. Dense layers closer to the bodies core reduces the total volume.
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
I couldn’t get past your first sentence. The person that promoting dense-first layers is probably the most influential and famous Alpinist ice/rock/mountain climbers to have ever lived. The man is known for doing his research.
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Maybe they did? Who knows? Never gonna find out because no one had time to look into it. It certainly wasn’t done with malicious intent, perhaps by accident or oversight, which is likely the situation in most small companies.
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Huh? JSON? Did you insert executable preamble bytes and chmod the file to execute or something? Where is this file? Can you post a link? My work issued MacBook is incapable of running unsigned binaries enforced by the MDM kext, and I do all
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Nah. I know of several startups that had nothing but anonymous telemetry and they blocked all Europe because there was no capacity for compliance. I was at an incubator at the time and the decision was unanimous across a dozen or so compani
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
It’s much more efficient to wear the densest layers closer to your body, because that’s less volume to keep warm. Most people wear wool, synthetic, or a down coat underneath the goretex. Try doing the opposite and see it how it works. Puffy
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
If you’re treating a forecast as a single Bernoulli trial, wouldn’t that make them 60% accurate for the opposite of their prediction? Which is a silly assumption; a forecast isn’t a single yes-no event. it’s not obvious to me that 50% is th
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
I said the thread is FUD because essential tooling is baked into the OS that invalidates the central thesis of the thread. Your response was, “haha ok now try that on a separate platform that requires a well known upfront premium to circumv
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
I did a brief stint in office and back this up. There’s a no malicious grand scheme, just the the loudest mouth in the room this quarter calling the shots. It’ll be someone else in 6 months demanding a different color of shit thrown at the
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Isn’t that an issue with Netflix? I haven’t looked into the APIs, but I do know that HBO, Hulu and Disney content will show up in the Apple default search results. Netflix and Amazon (maybe?) always require a separate journey
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Follow a couple of rules and this won’t happen. Type annotate everything. Don’t mix integers and doubles, be explicit. Most important of all, do not ever make a long chain of nested result building function calls with those stupid trailing
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Oops, well it felt nice to vent anyway.
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Or use ‘chroot’. Or run it as a restricted owner with ‘chown’. Your grandparents solutions to these problems still work.
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
Everything I described is in a public header right inside your iOS SDK folder
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
It should be possible. If you enable the JIT entitlement for personal development, then bundle a mach-o into an entitled app. Or compile it directly on the app and mprotect-x to execute it. Is there something else you can’t do that I’m not
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by fingerlocks 11mo ago
You can write directly to the frame buffer, like a video game. You still need the UIKit import to publish, because it has to be bundled into a .ipa which requires an AppDelegate, a UIBundle, among other things. If you want to “technically”

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