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by syndeo 2y ago
I've been using SwiftGodot lately too, and I'm quite enjoying it! iOS development is my day job, so it was great to port my old GMS2 project's codebase over to Swift, and suddenly have type-safety and no GC hiccups. During th
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by syndeo 2y ago
Nope; no having to pause execution and clean up. Miguel de Icaza (the creator of Mono) explicitly mentions this as one of Swift's key strengths over GC languages like C# during a talk about Swift at GodotCon 2023: https://ww
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by syndeo 2y ago
And from what I understand, it’s not due to incompetence; rather, it’s due to not yet having confidence that those optimizers wouldn’t introduce bugs. The SDK and toolchain were very new; SM64’s development itself parallels that of the dev
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by syndeo 2y ago
> but nobody does because it’s a terrible experience To be fair, all apps from the App Store are sandboxed, including on macOS. Some apps that want/need extra stuff are not sandboxed, but still use Gatekeeper and play nice with SIP
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by syndeo 2y ago
Sick and tired of EU meddling in tech. If third parties can muck around in the kernel, then there's nothing Microsoft can really do at that point. SMH
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by syndeo 2y ago
Knew I couldn't be the only one.
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by syndeo 3y ago
(For the lazy, that's between $33.5B and $61.5B, at current exchange rates.)
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by syndeo 3y ago
Well Apple's proposed solution is App Clips, which is what Spin (and perhaps others?) use: https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/ Of course, an efficiently-coded webpage (e.g. no JS-heavy libs) could also work, wi
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by syndeo 3y ago
I quite enjoy 432Hz music. However, I suppose that’s because I have perfect pitch and my childhood piano was tuned to 432, so that tuning evokes a certain nostalgia for me. I doubt there’s any real effect that makes 432 special outside of t
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by syndeo 7y ago
Some Creationists believe in microevolution though, such as myself. I totally believe that different subspecies (or even species) have developed since the point I believe God created them, since the difference between species and subspecies
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by syndeo 7y ago
I used to work at a startup that built products for parents of infants and toddlers, such as "smart socks" to monitor babies' vitals, and was involved in the late-stage development of their smart baby monitor camera, which re