mikenew

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by mikenew 7y ago
Too many details missing here to make any sort of conclusions. Yeah, of course bugs aren't supposed to make it to production. But they do. Is it easier to roll back than it is to roll forward? Usually it's not. How far along are t
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by mikenew 7y ago
If you can give me a way to do iOS development remotely without needing a mac I'll throw money at you.
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by mikenew 7y ago
You're conflating "doing brain surgery" and "learning about how the brain works". No one is claiming to be an aerospace engineer after watching one of his videos. Taking an esoteric concept and making it understanda
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by mikenew 7y ago
It feels like this whole wave of "face unlock" is just a dumb side effect of Apple not being able to get the in-display TouchID to work well enough for the iPhone X. Maybe it's slightly better than a fingerprint unlock. Maybe
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Sick of Your Shit, Apple(stilldrinking.org)
16 points by mikenew 7y ago|10 comments
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by mikenew 7y ago
You're right, but the dialogue should change from "Apple respects your privacy" to "Yeah maybe Apple respects your privacy but they don't respect your freedom". Also they host all their Chinese iCloud data on C
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by mikenew 7y ago
Is side-loading really that common for an Android user? It hardly seems widespread. Certainly not for your average, tech-illiterate consumer.
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by mikenew 7y ago
Happy to see Apple caught in such a difficult situation. They insist on being the sole arbiter of what software a user is allowed to install on their device, so this is their burden to bear. They could at any point give up their walled gard
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by mikenew 7y ago
And those perfectly happy people could continue to install apps via the app store without ever even thinking about the fact that some people install apps that aren't explicitly approved by Apple. And when you start getting into issues
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Thin Outside Fat Inside(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by mikenew 7y ago|0 comments
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by mikenew 7y ago
If AlphaStar is playing at the top of the ladder it probably won't be too hard to figure out that it's AlphaStar. There's only around 15 or so players with MMR above 6000, and they tend to know who they've been matched u
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by mikenew 7y ago
Every piece of DRM'd content will end up like this. Every book, movie, show, album, and game will be dead in a few decades (or sooner) if it relies on some company maintaining it's servers. It's good that there's alterna
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by mikenew 7y ago
Maybe "killer feature" was the wrong way to put it. Matrix has good support for things like bots and bridges, but those bridges are written by people like myself who are mostly just trying to hack something together and make it wo
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by mikenew 7y ago
Yeah sorry :/ There isn't an iMessage API to talk to, so the only way that anyone has found to bridge with iMessage is to have an instance of macOS running, logged in as you, and to send messages through the iMessage app via Apple
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by mikenew 7y ago
Thanks, that's very encouraging to hear and exactly what I would hope for. That also sounds like it would solve my biggest issue with running my own server; if my home internet drops or I spill coffee on it I can't talk to anybody
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by mikenew 7y ago
It very much depends on the kind of bridging you want to do and on the service you want to do it with. My iMessage bridge, for example, is a "double puppeted bridge", meaning the people receiving messages from me via iMessage don&
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by mikenew 7y ago
The not-so-talked-about but killer feature of Matrix is that you can bridge other services into it. I'm currently able to send and receive messages from Hangouts, iMessage, SMS, and Slack all from within Matrix. If I'm working on
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by mikenew 7y ago
Are there any firm plans for what happens to the matrix.org matrix server in the future? I worry that all the friends and family that I've been convincing to register an account on matrix.org are going to one day be asked to migrate th
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by mikenew 7y ago
> Nim generates native dependency-free executables, not dependent on a virtual machine, which are small and allow easy redistribution. That's... awesome. I've written a handful of little tools and scripts in Python for differen
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by mikenew 7y ago
Love the idea. Couple first impressions from the iOS app though: 1. Most of the icons and images are really low-res. You should include @2x, @3x assets or just have higher res images and let them downscale on older devices. 2. A lot of the
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by mikenew 7y ago
Use Matrix. It's been a slow and bumpy few years, but it's there now. Idealism aside I genuinely prefer it to other messaging services. You don't need to host your own server or anything special (unless you want to). You can
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by mikenew 7y ago
Wow, stop watching the news for like an hour and look what happens.
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by mikenew 7y ago
You don't advertise things you aren't proud of. Valve will be doing a full reveal of the Index tomorrow, and based on what we know so far it will be more expensive and vastly better. At the very least it will be a headset designed
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by mikenew 8y ago
It is interesting that Apple will take such a strong stance on privacy (Apple vs. the FBI, for example), but they simply won't make a stand on censorship. In fact I'd argue that censorship is part of their DNA. They've always
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by mikenew 8y ago
Nowadays, when I hold macOS, it doesn't bring me joy. I moved on to Linux a few years ago. No regrets.
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by mikenew 8y ago
Here's how I'm understanding this: Currently, you have three options to distribute software on macOS. 1) You register as an Apple Developer (which costs $100 a year) and distribute through the Mac App Store, where Apple will do th
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by mikenew 8y ago
You can pipe ripgrep into fzf for fuzzy searching. It works like a dream.
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by mikenew 8y ago
Would really be nice to see this on F-Droid or available as an apk somewhere. There are still a few of us (dozens!) that are holding onto the fantasy that Android isn't just a Google service.
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Valve teases new VR headset with physical IPD adjustment releasing in May(roadtovr.com)
1 points by mikenew 8y ago|0 comments
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by mikenew 8y ago
Other than the leaked photos from last year I don't think there's been any new details. But they're clearly working on a headset; those photos are way too detailed and unique to be faked. Any sense of what might be going on?

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