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by ken 7y ago
There's something a little humorous about a new VR system whose primary feature is how well it can display VT100 emulators. I don't know anyone who used MS Windows when their software was all still MS-DOS programs. Windows really
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by ken 7y ago
There's several good lumber yards in my city. When I go to buy wood, they ask "What quality do you want?", i.e., how visible is it going to be.
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by ken 7y ago
Has there been any work to minimize the size and number of dependencies, or modularize it, or produce a "PostGIS-lite"? Usually I'm happy to grab a good library even if it's overkill, but PostGIS pulls in many hundreds
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by ken 7y ago
Slightly more than 7 years, it seems. Younger than my car, my boots, my desk, my stereo, etc. I’m one of those weirdos who replaces something when something better comes along, not just because a certain amount of time has passed. And I
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by ken 7y ago
Technically true, though if I’m going to give up the advantages of the standard toolchain and the ability to ship App Store apps, I’m not sure why I’d use Swift at all. Some people like Swift on its own merits but I do not. It’s a terrible
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by ken 7y ago
Even worse, macOS is tied to hardware years, so even though I've got 3 working Macintoshes here, only 1 of them can run the current version of Swift (and just barely). My quad-Xeon can't run the latest minor upgrade, even though
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by ken 7y ago
Points 1 and 2 are about introspection, which are hugely language- and implementation-dependent. IME, the languages with great tooling and error messages didn't achieve it by integrating every possible feature into the compiler. (Usu
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by ken 7y ago
First, they can use the sandbox without going through the Mac App Store. Sandboxing is a good idea regardless of distribution method. That would improve security for everybody, without needing to 'let Apple get in between them and th
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by ken 7y ago
Absolutely -- but realize at that point you're asking a brain for an explanation of how it operates. Self-reported data in social science is not the most robust. Especially in the situation where you're trying to figure out if
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by ken 7y ago
Or even a non-MAS app that's sandboxed, if it's going to be free anyway and they prefer to manage their own release schedule.
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by ken 7y ago
Most importantly, does it support the “WAIT 6502, 1” easter egg?
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by ken 7y ago
Tests like your first question are often poor indicators because people without an ability will develop other skills or methods to compensate. We don't just walk through life not knowing anything that's going on around us. After
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by ken 7y ago
The same way I know 2,3,5,7 are the first primes without flashing a picture of the number line in my head, or Beethoven's 5th starts "ba-ba-ba-baahm" without flashing a picture of the sheet music in my head. Most of my memor
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by ken 7y ago
This article may not be the best example, but there's good evidence that inner experiences differ, based on our actual capabilities, e.g., Feynman's/Tukey's experiment that one could count time while reading but not talk
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by ken 7y ago
I would say this is a problem with type systems. Programming languages (including SQL) mostly just have one type for “integers”, or possibly a few types for different numbers of bytes of storage. “Priority” and “array index” and “number of
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by ken 7y ago
"We call that maneuver the 'Edge'."
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by ken 7y ago
> Eclipse has been around forever, and is going nowhere. That's true of everything, right up until the day it's gone. I heard the same thing about Borland. And Perl, Fortran, 1-2-3, Netware, Lycos, Blackberry, ... The histor
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by ken 7y ago
I agree with some parts of the problem (those < > chars already have other uses), but not others (guillemets are even shorter and they read just fine). I don't care for the proposed solution: it's just robbing Peter to pay
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by ken 7y ago
In a sense, I suppose it is one aspect of accessibility. It's not a "total UX fail", though. You can still read the text and accomplish your task, even if the brightness isn't ideal. Speaking of blinding , it's t
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by ken 7y ago
Mac OS had themes (briefly) back in 1998 [1]. Linux (GTK+ and Qt) still do. Windows has supported custom fonts/colors since at least 1992, even if the result wasn't always tasteful [2]. [1]: https://www.blakespot.com&
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by ken 7y ago
I don't interpret "html and js had syntactically shared data structures" to mean what you wrote, unless you also replace all other JS data structures (arrays and dicts and ...) with <> syntax. You've made it more
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by ken 7y ago
Those examples are all programming languages. "Web browser" is not a programming language. It's practically a complete operating system, and they have not in the past shown much reluctance to add features to that big ball of
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by ken 7y ago
If you mean Common Lisp, that’s a Lisp-2 (actually Lisp-N), while JS is a -1. That means there’s no universal obviously “correct” way to do JS interop. It’s complicated... Closure is a Lisp-1, as is Scheme, and (despite it being at least
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by ken 7y ago
> It indicates that the Zoom client — meaning the actual Zoom software running on a phone or desktop computer — is capable of encrypting audio/video data to other Zoom clients in the conversation, without exposing your sensitive dat
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by ken 7y ago
That's a little different. Wifi is an invisible feature, and it can become disabled through no action of yours. Cameras are physical, so you can make it really obvious when it's enabled and when it's not. You just look for
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by ken 7y ago
Isn't the whole point of software to control hardware, at some level? How is hardware-controlled-by-software different from plain old software-controlled? If a switch can be closed by software, I'm having trouble putting my fing
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by ken 7y ago
I disagree that all of our computing systems keep them apart. We’ve got systems like Bash, and Excel. Even when I’m not doing “programming”, I’m doing programming. I wish more systems had that flexibility. Even when the average user isn’t w
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by ken 7y ago
Sounds like Usenet, or mailing lists.
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by ken 7y ago
> At least give them a chance to make good on their claims right? I’d be much more willing to cut them some slack if this was their first offense, or if their previous mea culpas had showed evidence of change. Today, it feels like “This
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by ken 7y ago
Zoom has had major security issues for years, and they've always brushed them off as not a big deal. This isn't an isolated incident. If their position is now that the Zoom software was designed for corporate users, e.g., that yo

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