nhojb

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'It's missing something': AGI, superintelligence and a race for the future(theguardian.com)
3 points by nhojb 1y ago|0 comments
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by nhojb 1y ago
Swift is collapsing under the weight of its increasing complexity. So many, many special cases & they keep adding more! As a developer it becomes so very hard to reason about code behaviour. This is especially true with concurrency, whi
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by nhojb 5y ago
Creative Cloud. I don't think there's anything with the same feature set and polish on Linux.
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by nhojb 6y ago
I've spent pretty much my entire career (20 years!) writing Objective-C: first for macOS, later iOS. Of course Swift is now the new kid on the block, and has lots to recommend it. But there's something about the simplicity and pur
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by nhojb 6y ago
Personally I find the LS interface way too complex and intimidating (and I say this as a long time macOS / iOS developer). Lulu has a quirky interface, but it's much clearer. Of course it also helps that it's free and open so
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by nhojb 6y ago
Yeah, I feel the same way about Dash 5. Eventually had to upgrade to 5 when 4 became incompatible with the latest Apple docets. But I much preferred the Dash 4 search.
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by nhojb 6y ago
I've been a professional macOS developer for almost 20 years now and I can't tell you the number of times that this has been an issue. With no access (or ability to patch) the platform source code you are left with a) hacky work-a
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by nhojb 6y ago
I'll give a big vote of thanks to the OpenCore developers. Clover had constant stability problems during boot on my hardware (Coffee Lake, Z390), but OC has been stable since day one (v0.5.6 IIRC). I've not had a single issue sinc
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by nhojb 6y ago
Author mentions web browsers and extensions in the context of barriers to creating a successful malleable system. Surely the web browser - considered in relation to web pages & technologies (HTML, Javascript etc), rather than extensions
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Mozilla to use machine learning to find code bugs(arstechnica.com)
2 points by nhojb 8y ago|0 comments
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by nhojb 8y ago
Exactly. This is advertising people. Since the dawn of time advertisers have over-exaggerated and over-sold products. Call it an art (I might, but not in this case), call it a sham. It is what it is. No surprises here.