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by rnikander 5y ago
I'm in Bogotá. Traffic here is worse than anything in San Francisco. The main danger is probably the motorcycles, flying between cars, sometimes with inches to spare. I don't know the fatality stats, but they must be worse than th
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by rnikander 5y ago
Does this book give ways to deal with the following: a mobile app that works offline (local replica), and then when it's online, syncs (through a server) with other devices' local replicas? I don't even know what to call this
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by rnikander 5y ago
There is something elegant about having all functions at the top level (or module) scope, `foo(x, y, z)`, but I there is also something really nice about function names scoped to the thing/noun/subject: `x.foo(a, b)`. As far as I
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by rnikander 5y ago
By the way, does java.util.logging still suck enough to justify the existence of all these different logging frameworks?
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by rnikander 5y ago
I'm guessing that Loom (lightweight threads) is not in this yet. It looked like a nicer way to handle "async" code, but I wonder about the implementation difficulty.
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by rnikander 5y ago
Interesting. Thanks! I've been using a lot of Swift lately, and they have a generic type roadmap that talks about "existential types" and being able to "open" an existential. This looks very similar.
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by rnikander 5y ago
Looking at the new features. Can anyone say what dependent function types are good for? In the example ( https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/new-types/dependent-fun... ), what's the difference between: de
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by rnikander 5y ago
I do not understand why Chevy dropped the Volt. It seemed ideal to me. Run on electric mostly, but have a little gas generator on board so don't get stuck anywhere.
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by rnikander 5y ago
How can I trade USD for BTC without paying these big fees to someone like coinbase?
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by rnikander 6y ago
Okay, so if I understand correctly, the data in those Apple products is not secured, but turning on iCloud on a device does not ruin encryption for other apps that take it seriously. So if I have an app that uses Keychain (end-to-end encryp
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by rnikander 6y ago
What part of iCloud is the problem?
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by rnikander 6y ago
Anyone else unable to update the Telegram macOS app? In the "App Store" app, it downloads, and then a popup says: "Telegram could not be installed. Please try again later." It's been doing that for a week. (macOS 11
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by rnikander 6y ago
I wish they'd put a robot like this on Europa. Something that could drill into the ice and look for life in the (possible) ocean underneath.
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by rnikander 6y ago
Fidelity has zero commission stock trades. Commission on option contracts seem low (~0.65 per contract). I seemed to be getting slightly better prices with Fidelity than Robinhood. Even before this latest fiasco, I wasn't seeing the po
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by rnikander 6y ago
Does anyone else think it's suspicious that they built everything on AWS? I mean, if you know you're going to take heat for your content being less moderated, wouldn't you diversify your infrastructure? I wonder if someone wa
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by rnikander 6y ago
> Being on a system that allows sideloading is a serious step down in security How? The iOS system sandboxes the binary, so it can't do anything without permission. It can't read files, can't read data like contacts, can&#
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by rnikander 6y ago
Meditate. When I started I was surprised to discover "slower" thoughts that took time to arise, but were of higher quality. The noisy, fast, surface thoughts are often more conventional - echos of what I've been told. Silence
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by rnikander 6y ago
Most of what I like about SwiftUI is the syntax. I wonder if I'd be better off using Swift function builder syntax to build UI/NSView hierarchies and layout.
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by rnikander 6y ago
Yup, I wonder same thing. Besides the docs, it's the lack of comments and help on the "developer forums". They are content to let developers flail and struggle with a topic for years rather than take some time to help. It c
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by rnikander 6y ago
I'm using it in production, but a few situations that I could handle with autolayout constraints seem impossible in SwiftUI. Examples here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/664283 In these 1% cases,
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by rnikander 6y ago
I'd use Swift-on-server for web apps if there were a way to compile Swift to JS, like you can with Kotlin. As far as I know, there is not a good way to do this.
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by rnikander 6y ago
I'd like to build a home science lab/workshop like these guys have. I wonder if there are legal differences between the US states - if some might interfere more than others in these kind of projects. What happens when you start tr
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by rnikander 6y ago
Not for me it isn't. I try to watch logs from an iOS app I'm working on (by connecting my iPhone) and it hammers the CPU. My laptop becomes unusable.
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by rnikander 6y ago
Thank God they are finally replacing the developer forum software.
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by rnikander 6y ago
Some people submitted nonsense papers (for example: rape culture at dog parks, and an excerpt from Mein Kampf), and they were accepted for publication. https://www.timesofisrael.com/duped-academic-journal-publish...
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by rnikander 6y ago
I find it frustrating that stored procedures can't start and stop transactions. Without that ability, you can't really move application logic into the database. [edit: Doh, I'm wrong. Sorry. I'll leave the comment here.]
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by rnikander 6y ago
1. Adventure, exploration. 2. The earth will be destroyed by the changing Sun in a few 100 million years. :) 3. Better to not have 10x the human population here. Leave big open spaces for the other animals and national parks. I'm sure
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by rnikander 6y ago
I was trying to use more values and protocols but then they made SwiftUI where your model has to be class (ObservableObject).
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by rnikander 6y ago
Education - yes. Subsidizing the horrendous waste at typical US colleges and universities - no. I'm not sure it's the same in Europe. Maybe your "free" university is more bare-bones, essential. I'm from the USA, and
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by rnikander 7y ago
I use folders full of Omni Outliner documents. I like it, but to me it's missing some features.

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