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by hbn 3mo ago
I don't think it's fair to compare development for web, which is supposed to be an open standard, with developing for a proprietary piece of hardware like the Playstation. If you want to develop a game for the Switch and ignore th
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by hbn 3mo ago
This has been known for quite a while; when I published an Android app ~10 years ago I saw lots of people advising you to create a separate Google account to publish apps under, because a robot can just terminate your entire online identity
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by hbn 4mo ago
I don't think that matters in a court of law.
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by hbn 4mo ago
There needs to be lawsuits over stuff like that. I don't get why people accept blatant false advertising just cause the tech used to do it is new. They may as well be uploading pictures of a real, nicer apartment with a similar layout.
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by hbn 4mo ago
Apple's own app icons look blurry in iOS 26. They look fine when zoomed in, and I'm assuming that's all the designers considered as they were redrawing icons, blown up across their 27" monitor. But once you shrink them d
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by hbn 4mo ago
I think most university graduates from the past ~15 years are more likely to get taken in by trendy new cargo-cult fads than repeat things taught to them by dinosaurs in their boring university classes.
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by hbn 4mo ago
Is there something you perceive as unfair about judging a guy on the output of the work he was responsible for over a long period of time?
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by hbn 4mo ago
Are you suggesting Gruber is upset at Dye for leaving Apple? We all disliked Dye before he left. People were taking potshots at Apple's design direction under him for 10 years.
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by hbn 4mo ago
The bit about internal rumblings at Apple I definitely read from him but the rest is just things we saw play out publicly over the past decade.
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by hbn 4mo ago
That's not the "it's not just X—it's Y" AI tell that I assume you've seen other people call out. It's legitimately a useful sentence to assist the point the author is making.
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by hbn 4mo ago
Alan Dye was brought in during the Jony Ive era when they were launching the first Apple Watch because he came from a fashion/print background. Before Apple really figured out what the Watch was going to be (a health/fitness acces
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by hbn 4mo ago
> the much-celebrated Liquid Glass opacity slider The Liquid Glass slider is an embarrassing outright admission of failure. Apple built its brand as a tastemaker, so to put out this new, controversial design language, and after a year of
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by hbn 4mo ago
Cmd-F for "AI" has 1000+ hits!
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by hbn 4mo ago
In my experience it's mostly pushed by university professors that haven't worked in the industry since the 90s.
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by hbn 4mo ago
> most consumers pick Windows because PCs cost less than Macs And that's why the MacBook Neo exists now. Apple is coming for the lower-end market. At that point the only thing keeping people on Windows is software lock-in. Which Val
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by hbn 4mo ago
Zero people in the process of creating that ad said "we'll suggest people date their siblings, it'll be so memorable" That is absolutely not a success story when trying to market a Christian dating platform.
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by hbn 4mo ago
Unfortunately for Lehrer he embarrassed himself in his final words by misremembering how long Mozart lived
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by hbn 4mo ago
My generation can't afford to own homes nor have children and the already pithy value of our labour is being outsourced to cheap foreign labour while the cost of food and basic living shoots into the stratosphere But at least we have i
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by hbn 4mo ago
I've been an Enpass user for years because I got a lifetime purchase for a good deal. They don't host the cloud services for syncing passwords. Instead you just auth your cloud storage (I use Google Drive) and it syncs to that. Th
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by hbn 4mo ago
Remember that any time the browser gets more free-reign on the PC it will be 0.01% used in good faith and 99.99% either unintentionally misused or maliciously abused to make computers worse for people who don't know how to diagnose the
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by hbn 4mo ago
Probably not as annoying as what guys named Al are going through
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by hbn 4mo ago
I also played through all the Dragon Age games on PC recently! Origins needs a small patch to run on a 64-bit machine and it doesn't scale very well on a 4k monitor without 3rd party software but other than that it's a great show
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by hbn 4mo ago
> You also don't lose access to older games if you get a better system. To be fair, all the latest generation consoles are near 100% backwards compatible with their respective last gen. This has historically been more tricky due to
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by hbn 4mo ago
Also a PS5 only runs PS5 games which Sony gets a cut of whenever you purchase one. With this thing you could buy it and then install your favorite Linux distro on it and never give Valve another dime. If they ate the cost, businesses would
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by hbn 4mo ago
This runs SteamOS and is an officially supported platform that, if it has legs, will be something developers may want to target as a platform and make sure their games work a la Steam Deck verification. There's also potential for commu
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by hbn 4mo ago
The issues with the ChatGPT Mac app could also be reflective of the state of Swift UI considering not even Apple themselves can ship Swift UI apps that aren't janky. https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/swiftui_
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by hbn 4mo ago
For a few years now Google has given me a captcha whenever my VPN is on (Private Internet Access)
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by hbn 4mo ago
I love the pregnant man emoji, I use it all the time after a big meal
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by hbn 4mo ago
I was looking for a pirate emoji like 5 minutes ago. I'm sure it's not the first time but I'm super surprised that still isn't in there. Seems so obvious.
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by hbn 4mo ago
> (and hopefully decompress) If the decompression is optional, I've got a really impressive compression algorithm in mind!

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