spacedcowboy

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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
> Universal Clipboard, AirDrop and iMessage - is that really the value add of apple? iMessage... do we really want to encourage that behavior? Er, yes ? iMessage is awesome.
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Most of the complaints about ObjC seemed to be from the “weird bracket syntax” folks, at least the loud ones. Memory management, Generics, Fast enumeration, Properties were seamlessly added to ObjC over the years without adding to the cogni
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Apple had a real winner with ObjC and AppKit. Swift is horrendously complicated for the benefits it offers over ObjC, and SwiftUI is a massive step backwards from AppKit. Just MHO, and it’s not going to stop the juggernaut, but there’s just
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
I think I trust crowdsourced reviews more than I trust a developer who openly says “Developers could write or buy fake reviews, but in volume that would become quite costly” Not “that would be ethically abhorrent”, or even “that would be wr
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
And there is nothing to stop a developer putting up their own nag screen as many times as they like, only pushing through to the real one when they get a good response... And they do.
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Just because “everyone does it” doesn’t mean you get a pass to do it too. Nagging the user to “rate my app” is pure self-interest at the expense of user-experience. I rate any app that nags (ie: more than thrice) me to rate it too. OTOH if
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
LLM’s - more capable of empathy and understanding of the human condition than the corporations that spawned them, lament the right-wingers within human society.
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
What does the UK have to do with the EU fining the US companies for their illegal actions ????
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Seems like US companies should stop misbehaving, huh ? You get away with that shit in the USA where corporations dictate (used advisedly) government policy and court outcomes, but not elsewhere...
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
ST crashes, meanwhile were “da bomb”
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
In the UK, its main contemporary in the non-PC realm was the Atari ST, which was cheaper, arrived on the market sooner, and took the “professional” market because of its excellent mono monitor (“small, but perfectly formed”). The ST didn’t
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
:) FWIW, I retired to the coast in the NW, I have a beach on one side of the house and a park on the other. It's pretty nice :) Even up here in the NW though, it's been too damn hot recently...
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
That seems quite a claim from one datapoint...
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
As someone who moved from the UK, to the US and back to the UK, my money goes a lot further in the UK. I can afford to not work at all here. With health insurance, property taxes, and general outgoings per month being so much higher in th
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Whereas the cynic in me would usually nod and carry on, this isn't actually what I've been seeing recently. My weekly limit resets at 10am on Monday. My current (Sat, 11am) usage is 23% used. Now I regularly used to run out of cre
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
I'm no lawyer either :) Even if Apple benefits though, I'm not sure American law binds foreign subsidiaries, otherwise I think they'd be taxing them as well :) You're probably right, and even if not, theres probably a wh
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
What's to stop Apple using all this foreign-earned money to buy Chinese chips using their (say) European companies ? Then they'd even pay less tax on all that money sitting out there. Apple Europe (or however it's set up) is
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
The only surprise here is that it wasn't already...
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Yeah, but I had my fingers crossed behind my back. I hail from, and only stand for, the Republic Of Scouse. (and if you think Texans have it bad regarding being understood, try being a Scouser [1]) 1: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Apple’s proposed remedy: give Us all the ram.
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
you don’t need to be less intelligent or less capable, but you will necessarily be less informed. How you hold it is, of course, up to you.
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Having worked at Apple for over a couple of decades, I can attest there are some very (very) capable and intelligent people there. I trust they know more about their business model than some rando on the internet, sorry.
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
Even if it were true, and not just some Israel fantasy playing on a weak-minded "leader" ... Iran and the USA are in a shooting war. Why wouldnt this be considered "tuesday" ?
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
This is funny :) True, as well...
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
I was well off, 20 years at Apple, didn’t help me or my wife [1]. I don’t think the NHS is perfect, but I also don’t think they’d intentionally mistreat someone to make more profit. Healthcare in the USA is genuinely fucked, and in some cas
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by spacedcowboy 3mo ago
This. I never watch video posts. I can skim-read a text site in seconds to see if it's worth a real read. I can't do that with video, and there's always some ads in it, whether the author put them there or not. I hate ads. An
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Ah, but 'Manager' being vague is a feature, not a bug IMHO. Unless there's a 'ConnectionLifetimeManager' (which, to be honest, seems overkill in my experience), then I expect ConnectionManager to handle that. It&#x2
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Don't think I agree with this. A "Connection" handles all interaction between two nodes. No argument there. A "ConnectionManager" handles all the housekeeping to do with the connections - whether there's a limi
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
There's a review from PCW of the Apricot F10 in the 1985/09 issue [1] 1: https://pcw.oobergeek.net/magazines/PCW-1985-09.pdf
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by spacedcowboy 4mo ago
Is the interesting part the upvotes, meaning there's more people interested in UK train networks than French ones ? And it's a comment on demographics ? Or is the interesting part that the UK one is real-time, and the French one i

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