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by tl 2y ago
> I respect that Apple has every right to completely destroy the legacy of the Macintosh I disagree. Apple's various machinations to control the best available supply lines (deals with TSMC, etc...) make me feel quite entitled in sa
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by tl 2y ago
As posted elsewhere, making $107k is illegal. Making $107M is legal. Lots of people made thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. In aggregate, they made single-digit billions based on the losses Citadel had to report. DFV alo
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by tl 2y ago
> There’s so many areas of medicine where we don’t see progress because the ROI just isn’t worth it. Do we want to risk making all medicine like that? You can have a market for R&D and see progress. You cannot have a market for lemon
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by tl 2y ago
I don't know about "paid" but his column has moved from "shill who sometimes has a point" to "rabid fanboy" recently. As a recent example [1], he claims Japan's primary reason to punish Apple and Goog
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by tl 2y ago
Apple's claim (per public statements) is: - They upload your data to their servers. This is a requirement of iCloud and several non-iCloud systems like Maps. - Where analytics is concerned, data is anonymized. They give examples of how
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by tl 2y ago
> I'm actually a little gobsmacked anyone on this forum can type those words without physically convulsing. Apple tells a pretty compelling lie here. Rather than execute logic on a server whose behavior can change moment to moment,
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The Pizzaburger Presidency(pluralistic.net)
4 points by tl 2y ago|0 comments
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by tl 2y ago
> An app like this, that interoperates non-consentually with another app to modify or augment its behavior, is complete anathema to Apple's desired model of computing. And yet, 17Lands works on a Mac! > Of course, Apple themselve
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by tl 2y ago
The iPad is a "pro machine" or a "personal computer" when 17Lands[1] is usable on the device. Having article after article try to pantomime the details of what Apple is missing here is futile. Not only is Apple not liste
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by tl 2y ago
> The parent comment is clearly by an optimistic youngster My only objection is when the "youngster" had his viewpoint questioned, his response was "no I totally know it's in ascent". Objective evidence points in
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by tl 2y ago
> No I totally know it's in ascent, that's my point! Haha! :) How do you "know" this? Show some proof! RSS has two well-known use cases: news and podcasts. It is fighting a pitched battle against players with deep poc
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by tl 2y ago
That would be 2005 when Google Reader launched. RSS for people who didn't know what RSS was.
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by tl 3y ago
Everything above is an anecdote that happened to me personally when I pointed a SQLite client at chat.db on my Mac.
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by tl 3y ago
> It is possible to export iMessage threads by purchasing an Apple computer and enabling "iCloud for Messages" And hoping Apple's broken client actually downloads full history or by forcing it to download by scrolling up t
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by tl 3y ago
Python makes it hard to get this right. Simple idioms result in copies of large collections or other work shifting from C to Python. The state-of-the-art of Python profiling [1] has to target this problem to the exclusion of other concerns.
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by tl 3y ago
> Stanley loves strong and static typing. He's a big fan of pattern matching Funny, the language that made me a fan of pattern matching was Elixir.
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How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days(aphyr.com)
357 points by tl 3y ago|263 comments
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by tl 3y ago
> Modern-day Apple is its own binary star. One fueled by creativity. And another fueled by arrogance. I originally said this as a joke to some friends in a private chat: Anyone got a large enough gravity hammer laying around? I really wa
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Modern-Day Apple(tyler.io)
1 points by tl 3y ago|1 comments
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by tl 3y ago
> Though applications rarely are, I don't know if that was all that different back then either for most people. It was. Another commenter mentioned ResEdit and being able to tinker with classic Mac applications. Two things were univ
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by tl 3y ago
You might want to clarify your question: > do you really have no access to SDK code as a reference? You get headers but no source. While Darwin is in theory open source, UIKit, et. al. are not. > I got to that assembly code part and j
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by tl 3y ago
> People use a certain app to book train tickets even its UI sucks hard and it asks 100 permissions unnecessarily It's worth questioning why this is, as often as you can. We have a wallet app / payment system on most mobile dev
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by tl 3y ago
I can't believe we're having this discussion either. Force cops to follow rules, full stop. We know that police misconduct begets more misconduct [1], and it works in both directions. When officers start losing their badge or thei
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by tl 3y ago
Not just compile, but download . In addition to dozens pure-iOS projects (internal apps deployed to users), I have a couple of react-native codebases to support Android. Xcode Cloud spends more time downloading npm packages than anything e
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by tl 3y ago
An actual sensible shutdown would involve creating a folder in each user's Google Drive with the exports Google is making people do by hand. Google's approach would be poor behavior if Google was dying which they are not.
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Google News removing magazines, including the ones you paid for, in December(9to5google.com)
33 points by tl 3y ago|7 comments
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by tl 3y ago
I'm not sure, short of quoting the entire article you just linked, how to convince you how badly Epic lost that argument. Epic lost nine counts and winning the tenth count forced Apple to do something they were already doing, except sl
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by tl 3y ago
> How is giving money to the "right" people supposed to do that? According to various studies there is a limit to how much money per year changes your base happiness. The ones I have read say $80,000 but inflation probably make
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by tl 3y ago
> I've seen people with college degrees in IT employed as programmers that literally cannot program. I'm not talking "bad programmers" or "brain fart moment", I'm talking "consistently being unable
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by tl 3y ago
Your argument is sound but it does not support your conclusion; react native is an example of “changing the base”. It is missing a significant chunk of HTML and CSS as an implementation detail. It is not an improvement, and I treat it as ev

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