jwells89

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by jwells89 2y ago
Yes, there's clearly hurdles on the path but I think they're well worth figuring out how to clear. There's multiple reasons why but one that stands out in my mind is the sheer difference in trajectories between a species that
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I don’t get it either. Writing is not something I need that level of assistance with, and I would even say that using LLMs to write defeats some significant portion of the point of writing — by using LLMs to write for me I feel that I’m no
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by jwells89 2y ago
If Swift were practical to use for Android app development, I would absolutely do so. I enjoy writing Swift more than I do Kotlin by a good measure and not having to wrestle with gradle and proguard would be a nice bonus.
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by jwells89 2y ago
> I agree this is a false dichotomy, but also pretty sure dumping money into building houses and hiring every unemployed person at a socially inclusive minimum wage would eliminate both housing and unemployment. It’s one of those things
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> What I find the most interesting is that there is clearly something that makes anime stand out as being its own thing, distinct from the majority of other animated TV, but it's hard to put a finger on exactly what that attribute i
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Even back in the iPod days, one of the stated goals of the designers at Apple was to make their handhelds feel like a singular piece, like something that naturally grows that way (think fruits, crystals, etc) instead of disparate pieces ten
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by jwells89 2y ago
Western animation is varied, but I think anime overall still has an upper hand. In anime not too unusual to see shows like Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju which is a historical drama that follows the apprentice of a master stage entertainer i
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The biggest issue with divergent adaptations in my opinion is that there aren't many that are middling or on par with the original. They tend to either be good, uplifting the source material into something greater, or not well thought
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Yep, that's why I included those quotemarks. I don't think that behavior or gritty aesthetic is actually mature, but there's a popular conception that it is for reasons that are unclear to me. My best guess is that the overar
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> Can you have "Western" anime? Some hardcore otakus scoff at the idea. There's not really anything stopping creative individuals who aren't Japanese from producing anime. The thing that many attempts miss (and I susp
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That cynical bent you mention along with a takeover of dark/gritty aesthetic, with both being positioned as more "realistic" or "mature" and thus preferable has made western TV somewhat exhausting to me too.
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Very cool. I've been tempted to buy a 3D printer for various little things like this but have yet to make the leap. For those who haven't tried using standby mode as a bedside clock, I recommend it. Started using it maybe a year o
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by jwells89 2y ago
Great question. The feeling clearly isn't based in logic; somehow watching a TV show or playing a game (neither of which is financially productive) instead of working on "just for fun" side projects doesn't elicit the sa
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by jwells89 2y ago
Exactly, it's the opportunity cost. When I was a young adult and especially a teenager, I spent a lot of time making things out of pure desire to because I didn't have to think too much about my financial situation (present and fu
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by jwells89 2y ago
Gradle rot really is a pain, at least for Android projects (haven't used it in e.g. serverside stuff). Proguard is fun too, with how it'll carve out or break chunks of functional code if you don't spell out precisely what sho
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by jwells89 2y ago
It does get a lot right and feels smooth in ways that Chrome, the various Chrome-clones, and Firefox just don't. It's also ironically the only browser even trying to feel native on Windows, using WinUI/WinAppSDK for its UI th
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by jwells89 2y ago
Eh, I'm not too bothered by it. SwiftUI has its issues but I've put the result builder feature powering it to use for things vastly more simple than SwiftUI, for which it works very well. It's a net positive overall and I pre
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by jwells89 2y ago
I find that Interface Builder, while not great for editing XIBs on iOS and storyboards on either platform (it's slow and buggy in those cases), is actually still fairly pleasant when working on Mac XIBs. My go-to is pure code UIKit on
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by jwells89 2y ago
Most of the layouts I've built on macOS are actually simpler than their iOS counterparts because the mode of interaction is so different. Getting data onto the screen in a somewhat natural way is usually less of a contorted process bec
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by jwells89 2y ago
I think SwiftUI is actually causing Swift a lot of reputation damage. I rarely see the issues common to moderately complex SwiftUI views when writing Swift with code-only AppKit/UIKit, for a CLI program, etc.
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by jwells89 2y ago
Kotlin isn't bad, but having written plenty of both it and Swift, I'd rather write Swift if I had the choice. Their syntaxes share a lot of similarities, but subjectively I find that Kotlin is less ergonomic, not as conducive to c
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by jwells89 2y ago
Though it might fall under the umbrella of not spending enough money, I'd add that we haven't been meaningfully iterating on the technology and processes involved. One might even argue that traditional aerospace has been trying it
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It makes sense if one considers the angle of how single-key shortcuts are much more disaster-prone. For example, if the user has a large number of files selected and accidentally triggers the open shortcut by hitting enter, their computer i
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by jwells89 2y ago
I haven't picked it apart, but if it's like the other Continuity features it all takes place locally over bluetooth and ad-hoc wifi. There's a possibility that their servers are just sending the notifications to the user&#x27
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NSUserActivity didn't forward notifications, it just provided a way to move whatever you were doing on your other Apple devices to the one you're currently using and only covered things that the dev specifically implemented. This
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Only speculation, but it might be to try to avoid having to support mirroring for Android devices too.
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It forwards notifications to your Mac too, even when a mirroring session isn't active.
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by jwells89 2y ago
Comparison to drugs is a bit extreme, but I think that some level of concern about MrBeast-style operations and the content they produce is warranted. It’s not just broad appeal, but the mass reach of YouTube, the audience targeting and tig
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The other thing is that who would be willing to trade off safety on some mystery meat $30 Amazon battery or similarly questionable battery one would get by getting a repair at a suspiciously cheap shop. Not that $120 is a great price exactl
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by jwells89 2y ago
I think a bit in the first sentence in your first post is key. They don't want devs to think as Macs and iDevices as separate targets, but rather as one big platform. They don't Mac ports , they want Apple platform ports. It ma

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