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by geoffpado 2y ago
Usually this means something in between steps inside a single piece of software. As in “interstitial ads”, which play, e.g., between levels of a game. In context, I think this means that GP doesn’t want to see something pop up and celebrate
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by geoffpado 2y ago
It's interesting to me how this is rather opposite from the way I use LLMs. I'm not saying either way is better, just that there are such different ways to use these tools. I primarily use Claude via its iOS app or website, and I
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by geoffpado 2y ago
It's not that it's a 9-hour investment. It's that for someone looking for a new job, it's 9 hours * N jobs they're applying to. That adds up quick.
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Would it? Surely they'd just claim that this new company is themselves "in on the hoax".
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by geoffpado 2y ago
I mean, security fixes are still maintenance on their own, and on an attack surface as wide as “the entire Internet”, it’s a non-trivial one. But also… what people want to do on their devices evolves. Web developers want to be able to suppo
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by geoffpado 2y ago
> Xcode does have predictive code completion models and Swift Assist. Clarification: While Swift Assist was announced at WWDC in June 2024, it has yet to ship. Predictive code completion is available in Xcode 16, though.
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by geoffpado 2y ago
While this is true, the reader exception has historically been predicated on you not linking out from your app to actually make the purchase; users had to find it on their own. What's new and what the article focuses on is the External
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Yes, but I also don't want to have to go around writing Optional<Array<String>> everywhere, so syntactic sugar is fine.
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Because the former works with all associated values in a case, whereas the latter does not. `case let .some(x, y, z)` vs `case .some(let x, let y, let z)`. And the latter exists because you may want some to be immutable and others to be mut
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Some concerts have tickets that refresh every N seconds, ostensibly to prevent counterfeiting. https://conduition.io/coding/ticketmaster/ In this case, if you don’t have a phone that can display Ticketmaster’s cod
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Wasn't this thoroughly debunked? https://www.techdirt.com/2018/10/26/detailed-thorough-debunk...
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Perhaps I am unfairly lumping Alienware in with some of the other Steam Machines, which very much did look almost identical to their manufacturer’s other PCs at the time. As someone who at the time was VERY into buying the “console-like” PC
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by geoffpado 2y ago
There were some people doing something similar with the Vision Pro and detaching the monitor from a MacBook Air[0]. It looks really slick, but how well it actually works, especially given the drawbacks of the Vision Pro, is… up for interpre
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by geoffpado 2y ago
The history is a bit more complicated than that. Valve themselves never released a “Steam Box” that could run games on Linux. They partnered with a few different companies (Alienware, Gigabyte, etc.), who released co-branded “Steam Machines
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Wasn't me, but… you didn't actually answer the question. @tomrod asked if *these components* were open-sourced, and your response was that *Figma* is not. It didn't answer the question that was posed. The information provided
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Gruber doesn't mention that section, so it's unclear whether that line was always there or not. But the two things he *does* mention (the second screenshot, and the item in the "Data Safety" card) are still there as of m
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Yes.
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Each state gets a number of electors equal to their Congressional delegation: Representatives *and* Senators. So the overweighting of small states in the Senate does, to a smaller degree, affect the Electoral College as well (as every state
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by geoffpado 2y ago
For those who were as lost down the [garden path]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence ) as I was: There are some domains. The domains were pointed at Z-Library. Some of those domains are expired or had pr
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by geoffpado 2y ago
I don’t know if it’s still true, but at least up until relatively recently, #3 and #4 were the same thing; Nebula paid its creators in YouTube sponsorship. (i.e, if you were a Nebula creator, you got “paid” by Nebula buying sponsorships on
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by geoffpado 2y ago
The Regex Crossword was the first thing that made it click for me: https://regexcrossword.com/
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by geoffpado 2y ago
Apple makes 35.3% gross margin on products, per their latest earnings call. Transcript here: https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/08/this-is-tim-q3-2024-analy... While they make a gross margin of 46.3% overall, th
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by geoffpado 2y ago
> And was I supposed to like the main character? In any way, shape or form? No.
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by geoffpado 2y ago
I had a very strange interview experience with Discord myself. They sent me a rejection letter, saying that after much consideration, they'd decided to go with a different candidate. Thing is… I'd never even applied with them, and
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by geoffpado 2y ago
They had this one a decade ago, but I agree it's not common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFcwE1L4GHk
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by geoffpado 3y ago
> Why the focus on tying your agency to making money? Because other fun hobbies of mine include food and shelter. ;) Yeah, no, entrepreneurship isn’t necessarily my end goal in life, but I will say it’s been a passion of mine from a youn
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by geoffpado 3y ago
Not the OP, but strongly identify with a lot of what they’ve said, so, my perspective: > Why do you want so hard to start a business? Why not spend your precious time, money and effort on something else? If what motivates you is willingn
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by geoffpado 3y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight (I haven't played Starfield or any of the Elder Scrolls games, and the last Fallout game I played was pre-Bethesda), so take this question as more curious than dismissive: My understanding is that
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by geoffpado 3y ago
The article is about an Airbus plane.
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by geoffpado 3y ago
If the battery suddenly drops out, your vision is now completely blanked out. If you're walking or moving and become suddenly blind, you can see how that would be unsafe.

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