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by hhas01 7y ago
“ Imagine interoperability nightmare when we cannot rely on everything being just bytes being streamed.” As I’ve noted above, the problem isn’t transmittability; the problem is never knowing what the bytes being transmitted represent . I m
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by hhas01 7y ago
Ah, Plan 9. Vastly superior to its predecessor in every way, except the one that counts: bums on seats.
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Having cruft in your top layer is fine and healthy; a sign of a living, evolving system that is still learning how best to do its job and hasn’t prematurely ossified. The problems occur when a still-crufty layer becomes set in stone, ensuri
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Worth bearing in mind here that files and file systems are themselves a kludge, a 1950s workaround for not having enough primary storage to keep all programs and data live at all times.† (Also, primary storage traditionally tends to be vola
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by hhas01 7y ago
Eh, before we go looking for intelligent life up there, how about finding some down here first?
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“What if I wrote the software?” Good point. Apple doesn’t care. If they did, they would’ve put some fricking effort into it. Not only is 10.15’s “Automation” security model pathetically thin and annoying (I’ve used those APIs; they’re cra
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See my other post here. There will always be desktop malware; what really matters is that it is contained and has no access to sensitive information. Locking down the entire UX doesn’t work because day-to-day operations become onerous whi
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“And then there are Apple engineers who seem to be so far behind the curve that they're just now discovering and implementing patterns that others not only discovered and tested years ago, but discarded years ago .” QFT. Because there
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Just about everything you said there is wrong. Hey, don’t get me wrong: if you enjoy 10.15’s tedious security-theatre crap then knock yourself out. But you are not qualified to dictate what other users need or want to do; only they are. L
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Retrofitting user-centric security model onto an OS and application ecosystem that wasn’t designed for it and has grown up without it was always going to be a giant ballache. There’s no way around the pain. The old “fortress wall” model is
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by hhas01 7y ago
Given any non-deterministic problem, 98% programmers will treat it as a deterministic nail and hit it with their favorite C until one or both is dead.
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“All that is old becomes new again. The more I read about the history of our discipline, the more I'm convinced that we are just chasing our own tails over and over again.” It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not l
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by hhas01 7y ago
Swift Playgrounds is not a real REPL though as it re-evaluates the entire program after every code change†. While it nicely annotates the code with per-line results, program state is not persisted between edits and side-effectful operations
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by hhas01 7y ago
Logo’s a Lisp. Swift’s an Algol. The latter are much more complex, and also much less expressive and customizable; alas, thanks to C they’re also firmly entrenched as the status quo. Logo emphasises compositional thinking; Swift Playgrounds
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by hhas01 7y ago
I’m a Scot living “Oop North” for over a decade, and very much aware of the attitudes round here. Believe me, I was never a fan of provincialist Scotland and utterly despise the huge separatist chip on its shoulder and everything that stand
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“China doesn't need a high [per-capita] productivity because they have man power.” True; China doesn’t need high individual output as it more than makes up with sheer number of individuals. But, IANAE and even I can see how absolute
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And how much more self-determination are you enjoying this week vs last? Meanwhile, I’m in a Tory safe seat with one of the most rotten MPs in the house. Every single election, my vote against them doesn’t do squat, thanks to the fit-up tha
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Britain may think it lives in a vacuum. But it does not. China has also created many low wage jobs and decreased unemployment. So how does their productivity compare to ours?
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Because it’s easier to blame Others for not being the centre of the universe any more, than to man up and do something about it. Lazy, nihilistic, CBF, post-Empire shitehole. What a sick, sad waste of potential.
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Upvoted because, dang, that’s on the ball. Most geeks know the value of everything and the cost of nowt. Especially those costs measured in risk, be it risk of a code exploit in some mature stable part of the OS that almost nobody uses, or
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by hhas01 7y ago
It’s like AppleScript, but with sick guitar licks! Could be the next Gloryhammer!
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Yep, it’s play. But, even just playing might generate ideas and insights that subsequently prove to have “real work” uses as well. Play also has the advantage of being utterly unconstrained by any need to “be serious”, and in having no fear
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by hhas01 7y ago
At risk of giving HN’s more delicate male readers their daily attack of the vapors: Such thoughtless dismissal of half the human race is not a good look for a product claiming to improve accessibility.
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That would be wrong battle to fight first. Pick one special-purpose market it can win and take that. Rinse, repeat. Dog knows IoT needs something a lot better than Linux to run on; fat flabby old-school hacker-culture footguns are absolutel
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Different product, different business, different time. When AppleWorks and FileMaker were spun off, they were likely significant chunks of revenue in their own right. By the time Aperture was taken out back, it wouldn’t even have been a rou
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As a former manager (who sounds like a good one), are you able to shine any light on why management cultures appear so reluctant to eject malignant managers? Any bad employee will damage the business and those around them. But where a typic
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by hhas01 7y ago
Fucking up is one thing. Getting involved in a coverup of that fuckup is quite another. Gonna guess Prez Aliu never read his kid the popular bedtime story of Tricky Dick And The Cuban Thieves. That one ended in boiling oil too.
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by hhas01 7y ago
Also consider the position of the thrust point relative to the plane’s center of gravity. Being positioned below and ahead of the CoG, the engines naturally try to push the plane around it, i.e. nose-up. Mind you, my physics ed stopped afte
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I suspect they’d need to teach those pilots to add a lot of trim. Putting those big engines well ahead of the CoG makes them throw its nose up; it’s basic Newtonian levers. Not that any plane flies perfectly level at all speeds, which is
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I exaggerate slightly for [black] humor, but the point is hanging those huge engines so far forward puts its center of thrust uncomfortably ahead of its center of gravity, making it naturally want to pitch nose-up in flight. All the rest—do

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