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by kec 7y ago
Metal predates vulkan by over two years. If anything vulkan is a response to it, not the other way around.
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by kec 7y ago
It doesn’t have to be that way, Boston public schools for instance are excellent.
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by kec 7y ago
> The two systems seem to be built for different things. Mac prioritizes single application, focus based work. Windows is better when you're multitasking Well, Mac has multiple desktops to manage multitasking, and in Catalina the zo
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by kec 7y ago
Wild yeast is in the air everywhere. Sourdough is a thing in SF not because the environment there is particularly good for it, but because of historical reasons (ie, French bakers moving in during the gold rush).
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by kec 7y ago
Cocoa is more fundamental and exists in both (although branded as “CocoaTouch” on iOS originally). The UIKit analog on macOS is AppKit. Also GC/Arc aren’t features of cocoa, but of Objective-C itself.
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by kec 7y ago
Garbage collection was deprecated almost immediately after it was released and has never been supported on iOS (which let’s be honest is the target for 95% of all cocoa developers)
187.
by kec 7y ago
Do it in a controlled environment or simulation, there's no reason or excuse to risk real world babies.
188.
by kec 7y ago
If it isn’t fully functional it shouldn’t be in a consumer product which is capable of killing people when things go wrong.
189.
by kec 7y ago
I live in the bay area, and yet my ping to google is still ~12ms.
190.
by kec 7y ago
Edge computing is a thing, but it really doesn’t help that much: That 1000 miles has to include the signal path inside your gpu to generate the frame and assumes no data loss in transit. If it takes 4ms to generate a frame you’re down to &l
191.
by kec 7y ago
The speed of light says no. “The cloud” will always have too much latency to do acceptable vr. To meet your deadline for a 120hz video frame, your signal can travel at most 1500 miles in a vacuum, closer to 1000 miles in copper/fiber.
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by kec 7y ago
Your experience may be exceptional. When money is tight, people make what can send to be strange decisions. Also anecdotally, I don’t know anyone in SF living in a tent controlled apartment whose name is actually on the lease, they’re all i
193.
by kec 7y ago
Rent control decreases the liquidity of the rental market because anyone currently renting is strongly incentivized to stay put in order to keep their low rate.
194.
by kec 7y ago
Non competes preventing you from workin in industry after you leave an employer are illegal, a clause preventing you from moonlighting for a competitor during your employment is not.
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by kec 7y ago
True black looks nicer in the same way that oversaturated TVs look "nicer" in the showroom: it's great for grabbing your attention, but a pretty crap experience in the long run. White on True black UI has way too much contras
196.
by kec 7y ago
That's entirely the point: 0x1C and 0x1E should never actually appear in "normal" text unless someone has explicitly put them there, which is not necessarily true of , \t or \n.
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by kec 7y ago
In this analogy it sounds like google is a bus, which is... fine? Maybe not for you but what’s wrong with busses for those who don’t care about flexibility?
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by kec 7y ago
Taking it a step further https://trek.nasa.gov/moon/ allows you to fly around google earth style as well as download topographic data as stl for printing.
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by kec 7y ago
It’s a next/macOS idiom to save user settings in the program’s defaults domain, which is a key value store backed by plist.
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by kec 7y ago
Only two of those games have 3d graphics: one has an mtx revenue stream, and the other is a stylized low resolution design and conveniently has no real background to render. Successful indies survive as they do because they stay within thei
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by kec 7y ago
But which is the more likely causes of this: That TSLA is the victim of an evil coordinated effort to cause the company to take, or just that 30% of the market genuinely believes they're overvalued. Given they have a higher market cap
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by kec 7y ago
Exercise really doesn't matter all that much for weight loss, your body has evolved to be crazy efficient (and commonly available food is incredibly calorie dense). A 200lb man will burn about 200 Calories running a mile, which is on t
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by kec 7y ago
The August bulletin currently lists April 2010 for India EB-3 (October 2017 for EB-1). If you go back through the last few years of bulletins, this 9 year wait has been relatively stable. Unless you believe there's been a massive spi
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by kec 7y ago
Every time I see someone talking about immigrating processing times, the number seems to go up... Per the state departments August 2019 bulletin, the actual backlog to file for an EB-3 green card is currently 3 years for China, and 9 for
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by kec 7y ago
I think you underestimate just how much faster and more energy efficient hardware acceleration can make certain tasks, the savings can be far in excess of 10x.
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by kec 7y ago
That's a bit like saying it's sad that cpus added media instructions, or that the gpu was invented. Dedicating silicon to fixed tasks or task specific designs can lead to massive performance increases and in no way means the death
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by kec 7y ago
$1.2M * 0.2 = $240k. No one I know in the Bay Area who has bought a home in the last ~8 years has been able to scrape together 20%, everyone puts down less and gets PMI.
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by kec 7y ago
How many folks actually have $250k they can just drop on a mortgage downpayment?
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by kec 7y ago
> Could this be a rare case of the mythical sufficiently smart compiler having more information at runtime than the programmer has at coding time [...] Mythical? Isn't this the core concept behind optimizing JITs?
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by kec 7y ago
Try again using a gallery page on a site like giphy which is going to be more representative of the use case op was talking about. edit: such as https://giphy.com/sports/2019-stanley-cup-playoffs which seems to be enti

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