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by gyomu 10mo ago
“Marketers are not designers” is fine, except it was the designers themselves pushing the marketing drivel in those videos.
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by gyomu 10mo ago
I have a vision pro (obtained on day 1 for development purposes), and have given demos of it to a number of non enthusiast/non techie people. All of them immediately hate that it’s bulky, it’s heavy, it messes with your hair, messes wi
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> Eventually the concept of refunds will become very rare Except where enshrined by law, eg in the EU
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> When you have a library of every question asked, at some point, you asked most of the easy questions. Have a novel question becomes hard This would be true if programming were a static field, but given that new programming languages&#x
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> I don’t see a downside. You don't, Apple does :)
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> why can't I disable network access entirely for some apps Agreed, the only reason we don’t have a streamlined version of Little Snitch (very flexible network monitor) built in to the OS is that it’d destroy billions of revenue for
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by gyomu 10mo ago
The API calls to turn on the camera, wait for + grab the first frame, and terminate it, are 1) non timing deterministic and 2) always take more than 30ms so that’s a pretty bad “hack”
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by gyomu 10mo ago
1) Apple loves USB-C, they helped invent it and were one of the first to ship a USB-C only laptop 2) Apple committed to 10 years of lightning support to weather the backlash from dropping 30-pin USB-C on iPhone was going to happen regardles
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by gyomu 10mo ago
Yes, but it’s a couple mm at most and not exposed as a public API.
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> Of course not Actually of course yes, every capacitive touchscreen has basic hover capabilities in some form, it’s just a fairly narrow range (a few mm at most) and not exposed as a public API.
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by gyomu 10mo ago
When I teach programming, some students, when stuck, will start flailing around - deleting random lines of code, changing call order, adding more functions, etc - and just hoping one of those things will “fix it” eventually. This feels like
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by gyomu 10mo ago
Given that market control is one of the few ultimate gating factors that makes you thrive or die as a company, it’s no surprise that anything that could be used as a mechanism to maintain market control would be.
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> I honestly wonder if Fabrice Bellard has started using any LLM coding tools. If he could be even more productive, that would be scary! That’s kind of a weird speculation to make about creative people and their processes. If Caravaggio
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by gyomu 10mo ago
I don't find it that surprising. The creatives that are against generative AI aren't against it only because it produces slop. They are against it because it uses past human creative labor, without permission or compensation, to g
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> put the 6x9 in an acrylic frame on a sunny windowsill. you likely know this already, but just in case - or for anyone reading this and getting ideas - fading over time due to sun exposure will be a real issue, so make sure to have scan
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> you might save on costs but you give up so much Modern society, and the push to optimize every single thing that can be measured, in a nutshell.
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by gyomu 10mo ago
Most western countries have somehow decided over the last couple decades that small negative actions should mostly be free of negative consequences. You can cheat on tests, shoplift in stores, and pretty much nothing will happen to you. Whe
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> A photon is, from its point of reference, at the point of creation and at the point of destination at the same "time" > every photon exists, from its point of view, for only infinitely small amount of time Why is that amou
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by gyomu 10mo ago
Fair enough, I guess I was just surprised to read from someone who makes their living from Apple insider baseball and Cupertinology that they have “never heard much” about one of the most influential software designers at the company over t
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by gyomu 10mo ago
I really have to wonder who Gruber’s sources are. His statement “prior to today never heard much about [Steve Lemay]” leads me to think he doesn’t have intimate access to anyone deeply familiar with design decisions, because anyone who’s sp
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by gyomu 10mo ago
> they've lost the wow factor in their software design Software craftsmanship at large scale is dead, so we shouldn’t expect to see that make a return any time soon. The last few decades of free market experimentation and evolution
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by gyomu 11mo ago
> The other less probable theory is that they actually picked Fadell "Less probable" is the understatement of the century. This rumor came out of nowhere, and it should instantly set off the BS-meter of anyone familiar with how
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by gyomu 11mo ago
Aqua-era OS X is the best looking out of the box desktop environment in the entire history of computing, and given 1) the lack of interest everyone seems to have in the desktop these days and 2) the directions in which the few remaining con
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by gyomu 11mo ago
I love how people in those videos always have impeccable clothing/hair/skin/etc. When I go back to my rural hometown, the people working the earth, growing the food, and managing the livestock don’t look as… prim.
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by gyomu 11mo ago
> "I also supported cloud computing, participating in 110 customer meetings, and created a company-wide strategy to win back the cloud with 33 specific recommendations, in collaboration with others across 6 organizations." Man
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by gyomu 11mo ago
As an old school interface/interaction designer, I see this as a direct consequence of how the discipline of software design has evolved in the last decade or two. We’ve went from conceiving of software as tools - constructs that enhan
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by gyomu 11mo ago
This is not the real news. The real news is that he is being replaced with Steve Lemay, one of the most OG interaction designers at Apple. Not someone with a marketing or packaging design background; someone who sweats over pixels and knows
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by gyomu 11mo ago
Man I hate this kind of HN comment that makes grand sweeping statement like “that’s how it was with steam in the 19th century or rocketry in the 1950s”, because there’s no way to tell whether you’re just pulling these things out of your… to
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by gyomu 11mo ago
Your comment would be more useful if you could point us to some concrete tooling that’s been built out in the last ~3 years that LLM assisted coding has been around to improve interpretability.
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by gyomu 11mo ago
It is kind of wild that not that long ago the general sentiment in software engineering (at least as observed on boards like this one) seemed to be about valuing systems that were understandable, introspectable, with tight feedback loops, w

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