gh123man

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by gh123man 5y ago
Indeed you are right. XCode absolute induces some stockholm syndrome as an iOS dev. Maybe anecdotal, but I do find swiftPM based projects to have far fewer issues than cocoapod + Cocoa based apps. I'd love to see sourcekit-lsp (the swi
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by gh123man 5y ago
I am! I'm building a complete backend in Swift for an app i'm working on. It's actually been really great so far. I develop on my mac in xcode and deploy on linux via docker. See: https://vapor.codes/ I'
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by gh123man 5y ago
This seems cool. I am currently shopping around for a cheap managed database for an app I am launching soon (and bootstrapping - so cost is a concern right now). We are starting small but want room to grow. The free tier looks really promis
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by gh123man 5y ago
It's pretty insane how locked down their software is. I was looking into building a battery status app for the Garmin Fenix watches that connected directly to the board over bluetooth, but you need to fetch a key from their api with a
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by gh123man 5y ago
> nobody thinks that the Swift libs will be wrong as a first guess This is highly dependent on which version of Swift you started with! When Swift introduced the new substring API I hit a bug where certain UTF-8 character sequences cause
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by gh123man 5y ago
This is insanely impressive. Having tried set up GPU passthrough in proxmox a few years ago, it was an absolute disaster. I would love to see this kind of approach more widely supported by other hypervisors! It's a real shame consumer
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by gh123man 5y ago
Ive been using mailgun since before they restricted the free tier to forward emails from my personal domain to my gmail (and respond to them with SMTP creds via gmail). Thankfully my wildcard routes have been grandfathered when the change h
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by gh123man 5y ago
Not directly related but when I was releasing an iOS app recently - App Annie made me realize how "pay to win" building apps is these days. You know a service is expensive when there is only a "contact sales" button on t
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by gh123man 5y ago
Possibly related - this is the same person who is working on a very impressive voxel game/engine. I didn't see an explicit mention of it in the blog, but the Youtube videos speak for themselves: https://www.youtube.com&
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by gh123man 5y ago
Yep - worked there for a few years on an iOS/Mac team. Was pretty fun to watch the progression over the years. When I joined they gave me a mac and a PC desktop because so many internal tools only worked on windows or IE. But that chan
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by gh123man 6y ago
As do I. This is a difficult problem to solve especially as the signal to noise becomes worse as abuse becomes more common. Ive had to wildcard block my area code (since I don't live there anymore) which captures 95% of my daily spam c
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by gh123man 6y ago
It gets even worse if you try to "pinch and zoom" on a mac.
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by gh123man 6y ago
I'm in the same boat. I bought my Edge Router Lite probably 8 years ago and it's easily been the best $99 I ever spent on networking gear and it's still working amazingly well. Before the Edge Router I couldn't imagine
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by gh123man 6y ago
I actually designed and built a (modern?) game like this! If you have an iPhone you can check it out. It's sort of "Portal meets Doom" https://blog.sb1.io/gateescape/ I used some screenspace shaders for
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by gh123man 6y ago
If you find this sort of thing interesting, I implemented a "Portal" raycasting engine akin to Valves portal game. You can read more about how it works here: https://github.com/gh123man/Portal-Raycaster
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by gh123man 6y ago
DST has become my favorite "holiday" as an adult. Seasonal depression evaporates when I can see the sun after I finish working for the day. I can go work in my yard, or wash my car after work instead of having to cram it in the mi
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by gh123man 6y ago
Ex MS employee (and former intern). Somewhat new to Go (and using VSCode full time) - but it's the language of choice for my job right now. Go seems to be popular in backend apps (non windows mostly) where concurrency and performance
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by gh123man 6y ago
Sure! Go install "Apple Configurator 2" on your mac and start exploring the different profiles/configs you can push to your iDevice. Anything an MDM provider can do to an iDevice, you can do yourself as well. There are even G
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by gh123man 6y ago
This reminds me of Swift's string formatting syntax: let name = "Bob" print("Hi my name is \(name)") Which I always quite liked. I found myself missing this when I moved on to Rust and Go.
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by gh123man 6y ago
Agreed. I worked for (very large company) distributing a mac app outside the app store. Other than the distribution + update benefits (and a couple entitlements) you get from the app store, the freedom you get by living outside the sandbox
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by gh123man 6y ago
How do you define hackable? Also it is trivial to run unsigned code on a mac. Signed binaries are a totally reasonable security feature for computers sold to people that will install anything. Having a reasonable (hard enough to find) work
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by gh123man 6y ago
I assume by cracked you mean jailbroken or something of the like - and I deeply agree with you. I also have one of the original windows RT tablets and it really was a remarkable tablet on the surface (no pun intended). Excellent hardware fo
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Apple prevents replacing iPhone12 camera without proprietary reconfiguration(youtube.com)
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by gh123man 6y ago
I wonder how it would look if the noise was randomized each frame and the points from the previous frame were considered in future frames to cheaply fill in missing data. I believe a similar technique is used to optimize real time ray traci
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by gh123man 6y ago
I disagree. Music is subjective. In fact, the lower barrier to entry and discovery has enabled me to find my favorite music that 5 years ago I had no idea even existed. You would probably hate the music that changed my life, and I would pr
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by gh123man 6y ago
This was my interpretation. If you want to get technical, Ray tracing != path tracing != ray marching. However people often use them interchangeably.
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by gh123man 6y ago
This is super interesting. The first video on the page sheds some light on how this actually works. It seems like they convert the scene into shapes that can be represented via SDF's and smooth min ( https://www.iquilezles.or
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by gh123man 6y ago
Has anyone tried using an LG OLED TV as a monitor? I do. I love OLED - however the LG TVs have 4 subpixels (RGBW) which messes with font rendering regardless of what settings you play with. On Windows, chrome (including chromium edge) seems
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by gh123man 6y ago
Very cool. FYI the whole page breaks if you accidentally delete the "shares" value or type 0, requiring a refresh to revive it.
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by gh123man 6y ago
In my experience, SPICE is awesome on a fast local network. I even run it at 4k with a remote VM. I experience more frame drops than straight up lag - but things like video and audio are surprisingly good. I've been searching for a goo

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