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by jshier 9mo ago
To extend the analogy, Congress hasn't had their balls removed, they simply aren't humping other dogs right now. I'm not an expert, but while many of SCOTUS' rulings have been against the plain letter of the law, few of
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by jshier 9mo ago
Congress hasn't been neutered, they can reclaim their power at any time. Republicans in power simply refuse to act at all.
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by jshier 9mo ago
Boomers didn't create the EPA, that was the Greatest and Silent generations. Boomers were no more than 25 in 1970 and hardly in power. Some of them may have been in the activists pushing for change but they didn't actually pass th
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by jshier 9mo ago
"Stop asking the guy we hired to draw CSAM, we're not going to tell him to stop."
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by jshier 9mo ago
Xcode 26.2 is a 2.1GB download, which expands to 8.63GB on disk, which includes the macOS SDK. The iOS SDK and simulators are another 8.38GB. Luckily Xcode versions can share iOS SDKs now, so you only need to install them once. Really the b
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by jshier 10mo ago
> looks sequential [but isn’t] This is just wrong. It looks sequential and it is! What the original author means is that it looks synchronous but isn't. But of course that's not really true either, given the use of the await ke
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by jshier 10mo ago
Not really true; @MainActor was already part of the initial version of Swift Concurrency. That Apple has yet to complete the needed updates to their frameworks to properly mark up everything is a separate issue.
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by jshier 10mo ago
async let and TaskGroups are not parallelism, they're concurrency. They're usually parallel because the Swift concurrency runtime allows them to be, but there's no guarantee. If the runtime thread pool is heavily loaded and o
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by jshier 10mo ago
Anything taking arbitrary values or user input could cause an invalid URL, especially on earlier OS versions. Newer OS versions will use a newer URL standard which is more flexible. You could wrap your URL encoding logic into a throwing or
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by jshier 10mo ago
My local Meijer gas station recently remodeled and now carries Rec gas, which contains no Ethanol or any other additives. It's actually more expensive than any of the other fuels there, but it is designed for things like motorbikes and
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by jshier 10mo ago
Even without autoland, I've never understood why there wasn't an emergency system to handle depressurization events when it detects no pilot input. There have been enough ghost flights, even in the last 20 years, that such a syste
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by jshier 10mo ago
Yes, Proxyman has great sim integration, including the ability to filter by apps within the sim. It's a far better macOS app than Charles, and I've never found it to be lacking a feature I used in Charles.
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by jshier 10mo ago
Pretty sure all of Baen's books are DRM free, and they offer virtually every ebook format around. They even used to include CDs with their hardbacks that would would include a huge subset of their collection. But they aren't a ret
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by jshier 10mo ago
Presidential impeachments are political processes and so do not set precedent. At least, not any more than any other political process. So it's as much a precedent as McConnell's "no SCOTUS confirmations within the year befor
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by jshier 10mo ago
Given the current administration's desire for unmitigated power, and SCOTUS' inclination to give it to them, there's really no such thing as a non-partisan role anymore. When you can be fired at any moment for any action the
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by jshier 10mo ago
If consumers cared about small phones Apple would still make the mini series. It's hardly Apple's fault the biggest phones are the most popular. In fact, they were late to the larger phone sizes, as the iPhone 6 shipped years afte
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by jshier 10mo ago
All independent agencies are dead, according to SCOTUS fiat. If we want anything to survive they'll have to be rebuilt, either with an enlarged court that won't strike them down again, or as section 1 agencies that Congress has to
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by jshier 11mo ago
For anyone looking for a more memorable mnemonic, learned them as "I explain" and "example given".
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by jshier 11mo ago
Another law that needs to have actual criminal consequences, especially if the person doing it is part of the federal government, rather than optional civil consequences.
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by jshier 11mo ago
No, Congress did not give him the power to implement arbitrary tariffs. They allowed limited power for emergency, targeted tariffs of limited duration and scope. This is so far beyond that they're clearly illegal, it's just a matt
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by jshier 11mo ago
It's clear that it's not legal, the Supreme Court is simply in the process of deciding whether it can happen anyway.
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by jshier 11mo ago
LLDB also needs python if you want to use its scripting integration.
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by jshier 1y ago
Yes, ICE has been a bad actor since the day it was created, which is why "shutdown ICE" has been a thing on the left for a while now. But it's now operating as the private military of Donald Trump and the executive branch on
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by jshier 1y ago
Presumably hot reload and IDE integrations that actually work. Xcode is really crappy compared to other IDEs, so platforms that can avoid it for most of your work tend to be an advantage. Xcode 26 generally broke anything that relies on ind
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by jshier 1y ago
nano is now an alias for UW pico, since Apple won't take any new versions of GPL tools.
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by jshier 1y ago
You mean Project Builder. Once they unified it into Xcode, stability and performance started decreasing every year.
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by jshier 1y ago
How much power does hardware accelerated AV1 consume vs. hardware accelerated H.264? I would think they'd be relatively similar.
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by jshier 1y ago
Apple's SSDs are all encrypted at the controller nowadays. No need to rewrite, just reformat and it cycles the key, leaving any recoverable data irrevocably encrypted (until we break modern encryption).
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by jshier 1y ago
Considering TBC hired the one guy doing anything with Swift on Windows and paid for much of the work needed to make Windows an officially supported platform, it was still an achievement. I'm not even sure I'd call Windows official
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by jshier 1y ago
Notably does not include the performance improvements related to GitHub's PR view. We should see them in next week's release (if there is one, as it's Apple's event week).

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