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by grishka 1y ago
Looking at this, they demonstrate everything on iOS, while macOS seems to be an afterthought. This is sad.
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by grishka 1y ago
GUIs made with cross-platform toolkits, the kinds that do their own rendering on a blank canvas instead of using system controls, always looked like ass on macOS, so nothing new here.
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by grishka 1y ago
Remembering things reliably must be the most unsolvable problem in computer science. Unless it's related to advertising. Then it works flawlessly and sometimes survives device transfers and factory resets.
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by grishka 1y ago
Also, on both macOS and Android, there's a time component to device unlocking. You would sometimes get this stupid "your password is required to enable touch ID" or "extra security required, pattern not used in a while&q
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by grishka 1y ago
> I'm actually looking forward to a 3D-API that can fully focus on a single GPU architecture that's developed side-by-side with its 3D API - it will be a nice testing ground of what the future of 3D APIs could look like. Aren&#
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by grishka 1y ago
By the way, macOS has a super useful search field under "help" in the menu bar. It searches among all menu items in the current app and even shows you where they are. Very non-obvious, but once you try it, you don't understan
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by grishka 1y ago
Different people may approach the same UI differently. A good practice in UX design is to put things where people expect to find them — and duplicate them if different people go looking in different places. So a working search function does
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by grishka 1y ago
Oh wow. Took me several minutes of aimlessly poking around. Actually, even without that, the grouping and the hierarchy don't make sense. Why are some things top-level items and other under "general"? Same for "privacy a
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by grishka 1y ago
They've already started ruining the desktop experience with the macOS 11 redesign and there's no sign of them stopping. For example, the recent settings app redesign that no one asked for broke the fundamental desktop UI design ru
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by grishka 1y ago
The USB modem worked on a Nexus 5 in 2016.
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by grishka 1y ago
What do you mean can't? I have one of those USB hub dongles for my MacBook and every Android phone I plugged it into can use the Ethernet port on it just fine. I also have a USB cellular modem that pretends to be an Ethernet device, an
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by grishka 1y ago
Oh wow, the readme to one of the mentioned projects is in KOI8. It's been decades since I last saw that encoding used.
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by grishka 1y ago
Natural languages are kinda weird about this because most people don't remember their rules as rules, they learn by example, by finding patterns and kinda extrapolating them. English is a foreign language to me. But I somehow managed t
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by grishka 1y ago
Us programmers like to distill everything down to rigid sets of rules because that's how our mind operates. The fewer probabilistic "analog" parameters, the better. Of course the real world doesn't work this way.
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by grishka 1y ago
The problem is that for some strange reason there is no punishment for malicious/false copyright claims.
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by grishka 1y ago
These kinds of SIMD instructions are usually used by things like media codecs and DSPs. They would include several versions of the performance-critical number-crunching code and would pick the best one at runtime depending on which SIMD ins
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by grishka 1y ago
In St Petersburg all payphones were made free for calls to local and mobile numbers around 5 years ago, but most of them disappeared since then.
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by grishka 1y ago
Why not allow pairing the fingerprint sensor with the SoC fully offline?
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by grishka 1y ago
I've also heard the opinion that modern compilers are better at generating optimized code than someone writing assembly by hand. Not sure how true it is, but considering the unfathomable complexity of modern CPUs, it does feel believab
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by grishka 1y ago
Thinking about it a bit more, no, your argument about touchscreens doesn't make sense. The terminal OP looked at runs Linux on the "insecure" side, but the keypad is still passed through to that the same way the touchscreen w
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by grishka 1y ago
But when I'm doing my job as a software developer, I don't want to be fuzzy. I want to be exact at telling the computer what to do, and for that, the most efficient way is still a programming language, not English. The only plac
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by grishka 1y ago
Magnetic stripes seem to only still be popular in the US. It always blows my mind just how insecure card payments are there. For small payments, like several dollars, they'll swipe your card in a reader attached to the POS system and
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by grishka 1y ago
Do you have a way do make sure that a terminal with physical buttons is secure? To me, the touchscreen doesn't make the whole device inherently less secure. As far as I understand, the whole system is designed to make replay attacks us
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by grishka 1y ago
These are (were?) popular in Finland and confused me a lot every time I visited. The NFC reader in them is on the side , which is very unusual compared to the kinds of terminals I'm used to, which have it in the screen so you just tap
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by grishka 1y ago
Speaking from my own experience, which is admittedly limited, but still — I had AI bots crawling my fediverse server, I added them to my robots.txt as "Disallow: *", they stopped. As I said, it might be someone else entirely using
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by grishka 1y ago
They also respect robots.txt. However , I've also seen reports that after getting blocked one way or another, they start crawling with browser user-agents from residential IPs. But it might also be someone else misrepresenting their c
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by grishka 1y ago
I tested an older version of Opera Mini, iirc 4.x, on an actual 00s phone (we still have 2G networks with no plans to shut them down) out of curiosity several months ago, and to my great surprise, it worked too. Exactly like it did back in
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by grishka 1y ago
I imagine things would get complicated if private courier companies start getting involved
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by grishka 1y ago
TIL. Though the more common route seems to be flying to Pyongyang from Vladivostok.
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by grishka 1y ago
Some people don't know that computers can be fast. Others modify their system to remove/neutralize all this crap. There are even tools to automate that.

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