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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Not only distrust of politicians. I'd say the mainstream media have suffered from a similar loss of trust over the last years because most outlets simply repeat official guidance from the WHO or national agencies.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Not really. I've played it safe by buying a Linux desktop box in addition to my MacBook. elementary OS was fun (esp. the Daily build) because so many things can be fixed on an evening by sending a small PR, and they also receive suppor
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Before the mid 2010s, we talked about how the 99% could avoid concentration of power and wealth in the 1%. Now the richest and worst companies in the world paste BLM rainbow flags on their website, and suddenly large swaths of society have
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
This too. I sometimes boot a PowerPC iMac from 2004 to rip a CD, and it's amazing how little Apple has broken/removed since then, while adding gestures, cloud syncing, and all sorts of tiny quality-of-life improvements.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Thanks. I've tried it when it came out and wasn't really convinced. The video on its homepage looks better now, I'll give it another try when I'm on Linux again.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
For me: Git Tower, MoneyMoney (German banking app, absolutely fantastic), Fantastical, to some degree also OmniFocus. Plus first-party apps like Safari with its fluid trackpad gestures, Photos with its iCloud integration, and of course Xcod
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I'd agree if we were talking about desktop machines, which are basically a box around a GPU, CPU, and some networking. The situation there is infinitely better than on the M1 Mac Mini. But if I go and buy a random Windows _laptop_ and
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I am aware that for GPUs specifically, the driver situation on Linux is pretty good (minus the Nvidia/Wayland friction). But a laptop is more than just a GPU and a CPU. When I was shopping around a few years ago, the fingerprint reader
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Apple has kept the M1 Macs open for other operating systems, which is why a project like Asahi Linux can exist: https://asahilinux.org Apple doesn't provide Linux drivers for their components, but neither does "anyone
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I love elementary, although I couldn't make 6.0 work on my Nvidia-based machine (something has changed about the driver installation?). What annoys me is that AppCenter takes up so much space in their blog posts and sponsoring campaign
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> But for outside devs, Apple has almost frozen ObjC in favour of Swift In my experience, Apple doesn't even have to freeze anything because the iOS developer community (outside of Apple) is full of proud Early Adopters. Sometimes i
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
The question is, where does ObjC end and where does Swift start? When Apple announced an Objective-C without the C, I assumed they'd keep the Smalltalk object system and message passing. It still boggles my mind that they took a hard t
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
And I could tell just from reading the comment that it was another case of developers not knowing about Unicode normalization. It's extremely unhealthy for web standards that every deviation from Chrome's behavior is considered a
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
It's a great example though, I really like how readable Homebrew formulae are. Run "brew edit go" or "brew edit pkg-config" to take a look at how things are downloaded and built.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> I don't see many old macs around Just anecdata, but from walking through German trains, I disagree. I still see non-Retina MacBook Airs on some trays, for example, last sold in 2015. Some Mac models are clearly more reliable and m
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Some, yes. But in my experience, Xcode is/was amazingly responsive right until the first Swift file or IBDesignable class is added to a project. Then something happens in the background and everything starts to crawl.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Fair enough, but I also don't see why we should judge languages based on the absolute worst projects written in them. For example, the offshore Swift programmers I've encountered will add "?? 0", "?? []" etc. i
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Lacking capabilities also means fewer decisions. If you want to model something in ObjC, it's a class, full stop. In Swift you have the choice between classes and structs. There are generally more degrees of freedom. Just observe how m
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I have jumped into several badly written ObjC projects and I skimmed the source code of every CocoaPod that I've used, and I have never seen ObjC code that used C string/memory handling "most of the time". Not even when
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> Anyone who doesn't believe in 10x engineers just hasn't met one yet. Or they are working in a small and well-funded company that only employs ~10x engineers, and they have never met a (to them) 0.1x engineer.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Or maybe they want to hang the Greens specifically because they are less popular in Eastern Germany than Die Linke, so that they don't alienate the large number of previous Linke voters. (And on a less strategic level, the subtitle of
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Only unprecedented during the previous decade, but SPD/Greens were in power from 1998 to 2005.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I actually skipped or voted neutral on several important macro questions because I hadn't made up my mind yet, such as how to deal with national debt. However, I have an opinion on comparatively simple issues such as the use of inclusi
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
The "hang Nazis" posters are from the previous election [1], while "hang greens" is a new slogan from this cycle [2]. If I had to guess, I'd say that the party was hoping for the "hang greens" posters to b
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Speaking of the German Pirate Party, I found it interesting that I haven't seen a single election poster about technology or direct democracy this year. The ones I saw were exclusively about the 1.5° climate goal, the gender wage gap,
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I don't disagree with what you wrote, but as far as 4chan has developed a style/brand, the tone of the page felt surprisingly non-edgy to me. Anons usually aren't known for unironically repeating media slogans, are they? (&qu
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
Thanks, that's good to hear. A quick Google search makes it sound like it will finally be possible to use `backticks` for code everywhere.
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> ... and that a lot of people do want that complexity (disagree with that as you or I might). As much as I love to hate Atlassian, I feel like complaining about Atlassian is like techies complaining about management in general. Every si
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
> There aren’t good integrated replacements I think even that would be a good attack vector against Atlassian: For them, "integration" means adding links from one product to the other. If I were to pay for an integrated suite o
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by gurkendoktor 5y ago
I wrote "when you are in a situation..." - but that's not generally my experience, instead controllers are often cluttered with rendering details like colors and animations, networking code, or things that I would've put

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