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by jshier 5y ago
It does. All of the TB4/USB-C ports on the new MBPs can be used to charge as well, they just can't do the new fast charging.
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by jshier 5y ago
Yeah, could really use some details about the hardware, especially when they mentioned energy efficiency, heat production, and performance in the article, but gave no comparisons to anything for their hardware.
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by jshier 5y ago
The free version was a great resource while developing MQTT clients a few years ago, sorry it was too expensive.
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by jshier 5y ago
> The Swift syntax is more characters than ObjC's syntax. How so?
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by jshier 5y ago
These are the same stupid points people brought up when Swift was first released. I used to believe it too. Then I actually used the language and integrated it into existing codebases. The jump in quality and performance was notable and imm
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by jshier 5y ago
Swift hasn't changed much in the last 2.5 years, and was stable for the year before that, so it really shouldn't be an issue any more.
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by jshier 5y ago
It would be impossible to evolve Obj-C to add most of Swift's capabilities unless you drop binary and source back compatibility. At that point it's just another new language and you've lost the things you say made Obj-C simpl
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by jshier 5y ago
The main point of Swift was to create a memory-safe language Apple could use across its OSes. Trying to change Obj-C's syntax doesn't help with that goal.
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by jshier 5y ago
This just isn't true. Given equal familiarity, Swift will be vastly more productive at any skill level. Of course you can always tunnel deeper into more sophisticated solutions using Swift, since Obj-C lacks most of its capabilities, b
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by jshier 5y ago
Yeah, this sounds like a tooling issue. I have no difficultly believing Kotlin + Android Studio might be faster or more reliable than Swift + Xcode. Hard to say with any certainty though, it could be any number of things, if the perceived d
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by jshier 5y ago
1Blocker has released an update for all platforms which adds a script extension to block YouTube ads. Doesn't help in the YouTube app or on the AppleTV, which is most of my usage, but is nice on the Mac (with today's Safari 15 rel
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by jshier 5y ago
Our representatives are all untrained.
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by jshier 5y ago
Right, thanks. "Reduce Power When Idle" is always selected, but there's no explanation of what it actually does. I would've expected it to be based off the user being idle in regards to the shared screen (e.g. no input f
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by jshier 5y ago
This also explains why the screen sharing so much less efficient than Screenhero's. I had no idea. Hopefully they can add more control over video quality in the future, as the current implementation seems to go for maximum quality all
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by jshier 5y ago
In this case it's likely "dangerous" refers to the plane's danger to the pilot, not the targets of its weapons. The Harrier was notoriously unstable in its VTOL configuration, as it was built before adoption of fly by wi
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by jshier 5y ago
Unfortunately in minimal maintenance mode for the last 3 years. https://blog.helftone.com/monodraw-maintenance-mode/ Still works well though.
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by jshier 5y ago
According to the biography on which the movie "The Imitation Game" was (very loosely) based ("Alan Turing: The Enigma"), Turing was rather direct when expressing interest in the men he knew. Much more so than I would exp
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by jshier 5y ago
Only on watchOS is Bitcode required (to support the watch's 32-bit to 64-bit transition), on all other platforms it's optional and often turned off, as it makes a variety of things harder, like generating dSYMs for crash reporting
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by jshier 5y ago
It's essentially a keynote covering the developer-focused features of the new OS releases, as well as the new developer tools, like the next version of Xcode.
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by jshier 6y ago
They launch the Remote app on their phone, select the TV from the local network (if you don't banish them to a guest network), and pair with the code, same as you adding your phone.
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by jshier 6y ago
UUID's are always possible, you're thinking of the IDFA (IDentifier For Advertisers), which is tied to the device. If you generate a UUID and store it locally you should be able to maintain identity, at least until the user delete
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by jshier 6y ago
Lawsuits? Unless you're talking personal suits, the only one I know of, Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, did not go well for Eckert or Mauchly, personally or professionally, especially Mauchly.
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by jshier 6y ago
The oral history of the person claiming credit was stolen from him is not a reliable source.
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by jshier 6y ago
This isn't really true. There was no existing architecture and even if there was, Eckert and Mauchly weren't the only ones involved. ENIAC itself encapsulated almost none of the Von Neumann architecture principles. While it's
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by jshier 6y ago
Documents and Downloads are the actual directories on disk, they're not some sort of abstraction. It's pretty simple. /Users/<user>/Documents, /Users/<user>/Downloads, etc.
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by jshier 6y ago
I had the opportunity to speak with one of Ingenuity's engineers in the NASA pavilion at the EAA Fly In in Oshkosh, WI in 2017 (or perhaps 2016). This was before it had been accepted for the Rover2020 mission but just after they had pr
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by jshier 6y ago
Closures aren't really a functional concept, they can just be used functionally. You'll see a big reduction in closure usage when the new concurrency features ship.
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by jshier 6y ago
This is hilariously wrong. Actual fans of functional programming would disagree with you, as there are several things Swift doesn't do to enable pure functional programming.
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by jshier 6y ago
1.1.1.1 is just their product name. 1.1.1.1 for Families actually uses 1.1.1.2, and it filters things. 1.1.1.1 the actual resolver does not.
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by jshier 6y ago
Basecamp does this well, especially version 2, which integrated with email. With version 2 you could have topics in Basecamp which you could post directly do or email and it was searchable and linkable. It was even possible to post messages

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