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by jwells89 3y ago
Some of these things could happen, but I don’t see Rosetta being kept around indefinitely. Keeping compatibility layers around becomes increasingly expensive with time, encumbering OS development and encouraging devs to never update their a
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Having tracked API changes fairly closely on macOS and iOS for many years now, I can’t think of too many that were just pointless furniture shuffling. Nearly all of them were to enable addition of new features or to improve developer QoL in
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by jwells89 3y ago
This has been my experience. Nobody who has looked into Mars inhabitation at any depth considers it a “plan B”, at least not on any timescale relevant to those alive today — there’s maybe some value as insurance against a planet-killer aste
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I’m kinda surprised that no fork of Firefox has added both global and domain-scoped toggles for web feature support. I know there’s flags in about:config but that only covers some things and isn’t very user friendly. That’d let users turn s
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by jwells89 3y ago
Things like this seem niche enough to safely put behind a permission dialog. 99.9% of sites/web apps have no legitimate need for this functionality.
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The number of other laptops with similar battery life is very small. I’ve looked.
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Depends on the video chat service being used, but in some cases you can force them to use a codec with GPU accelerated encode/decode by running the web version in Safari, which reduces CPU load and heat a lot. It might’ve changed since
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yep, a lot of laptops were 16:10 up through the mid-late 2000s, especially workstation and business laptops. By 2010 or so that’d given way to the HD marketing craze that plagued laptops with those terrible 1366x768 panels that doggedly per
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Similarly it was always surprising to find garlic in San Francisco and Oakland grocery stores that didn’t come from just down the road in Gilroy, the “Garlic Capital of the World”[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jwells89 3y ago
Most of the bigger laptop manufacturers are now on 16:10 (Lenovo, Dell, ASUS) or even 5:4 or 3:2 (HP Dragonfly, MS Surface, Framework 13). Apple has been 16:10 since the early 2000s, only having made one 16:9 model (11” MBA). 16:9 is mainly
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by jwells89 3y ago
How’s heat/noise and battery life? Those have been consistent issues in non-Apple laptop shopping.
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Closest I’m aware of are ThinkPads, but be aware that build quality is not equal between model lines, that some models have less-Linux-friendly chipsets, and that some models come with surprisingly underwhelming display panels for their pri
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by jwells89 3y ago
Same, moving the alpha cluster off-center drives me crazy not just in laptops, but also on desktop setups. It’s uncomfortable and awkward. Not that people who like numpads shouldn’t also have the option, but it really should be an option .
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Swift Tooling: Windows Edition(speakinginswift.substack.com)
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I like to develop in platforms’ “preferred” frameworks when possible and am not really interested in solutions trying to be a “silver bullet”. In the case of Windows I find the design language of Win11 actually pretty nice and would like to
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by jwells89 3y ago
> The iPhone was the first mass market consumer phone to come with a cable that connected to a standard usb charger. And had a device end connector that didn’t change every other model. Some phones used standard connectors for that but p
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by jwells89 3y ago
That’s certainly a valid weakness, but at least getting up and running on Swift’s most native platforms is straightforward. One wouldn’t expect C# and Windows App SDK on Windows to be as much of a struggle as it is.
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Swift’s syntax I think also makes it more approachable for people coming from other languages. Rust by contrast is rather intimidating looking for anybody without a background in C++.
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Microsoft has a lot of baggage they’re dragging around, though. Getting started on C# and Windows App SDK sucks a lot for example, because everything you google about them returns boatloads of results for myriad incarnations of C#, .NET, an
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by jwells89 3y ago
Have been loving this feature. It’s a small but impactful QoL improvement.
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s not that I’m shrugging bugginess off, I legitimately am not encountering these things. I restart Xcode maybe once every 1-2 weeks, if that. Maybe I’ve just learned how to not anger it? Android Studio (IntelliJ) on the other hand I’ve r
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by jwells89 3y ago
It makes sense that UIKit is more solid, because not only does it have 17 years of its own history, but builds upon the legacy of AppKit which stretches back another 20 years. By comparison SwiftUI is still quite young. Haven’t touched Flut
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Xcode is fine as long as you don’t have a ton of Obj-C ↔ Swift bridging going on and avoid XIBs/Storyboards, with writing UIKit in pure code being the most stable option (SwiftUI still needs some time in the oven). Writing idiomatic Sw
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by jwells89 3y ago
There are a few Mac apps out there that support PPC, x86, and ARM all in the same binary. One such app is XLD[0]. [0]: https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html
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> And whoever does that inevitably will have to copy SwiftUI directly or alienate the people who actually know Swift. I may be wrong, but I don’t think this is actually true. SwiftUI isn’t universally loved in the community, largely than
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by jwells89 3y ago
I miss Swift enums when writing Kotlin. Kotlin enums are more restricted in that associated values can’t differ between cases, which limits their usefulness and means that much of the time what you want are instead sealed classes. There’s a
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by jwells89 3y ago
Index on F/J, pinky on A/L, thumb naturally resting on space. Hitting left Command involves bending my thumb and though the press is performed with the side of my thumb, it’s not on its nail but further down.
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Not in front of my computer right now but I’m pretty sure it’s thumb and index finger. Feels completely natural. Maybe it has to do with hand size, finger/joint length, etc?
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For me the standard Command position is much more accessible than the standard Control position, no twisting needed — Control is the one that I find my hand having to contort to reach. Control still gets used fairly often under macOS though
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It’s not hardware alone for certain. You need good software and hardware, with the latter defining the upper bounds of how good the former can be. I’ve experienced the reverse with macOS running on generic laptops via hackintoshing. Potat

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