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by tl 4y ago
> Were this my source code, I'd probably put the (* 2 a) on the next line (properly indented) so it stood out as the divisor. And that's exactly how written math does it (big bar for division of complex terms). Infix code not
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by tl 4y ago
That's a nice idea in theory. As much as I'm harsh on Apple for their decisions elsewhere, TSMC is the right choice, right now. Two things that are hard to ignore: 1. Apple held moving the Mac line on Intel for years despite clear
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by tl 4y ago
Can it? Yes. Is it perfect? No. Is it (on average) good? YMMV. Things to be weary of: 1. Valve took the same tradeoff Nintendo took with a Switch. As a result, driving higher res displays (4k) works until it fails, badly. The increased proc
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by tl 4y ago
Read the article, mentally replacing Rust with C++ (or terms like gccrs with g++). Interesting times for the kernel; you have to wonder whether Rust will be a success or if there will be a repeat of the 1992 attempt [1] to include C++. [1]:
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by tl 4y ago
It's a continuum, not a binary distinction. People tend to say, "this is government" or "this is not government". I disagree with that model, but it's a defensible position. What's not defensible is saying
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by tl 4y ago
Facebook is the government. PRISM [1] makes it explicit in Facebook's case, but any corporation beholden to a government for its continued operation is a policy arm of that government. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by tl 4y ago
While there are parts of Swift that I like, I am more and more convinced as time goes on that Swift in general, and specific sub areas of Swift (like SwiftUI or Swift Charts) are destined to follow the trajectory of .NET as decried by Spols
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by tl 4y ago
I used to agree, but things like Jakt have an even better version: https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt Notable differences: 1. param:value is used, but convention is param:value not the gratuitous Engrish verbingParamPr
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by tl 4y ago
Here's an exhaustive list of companies running ads in the Settings app: 1. Apple - examples include Apple Arcade, AppleCare+, Fitness+ I was so shocked when I saw an ad in Settings I took a screenshot. It's dated December 8th, 2
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by tl 4y ago
I agree with the premise "you don't have nils running rampant because of type safety" but the reality "Swift apps are not crashing randomly" is far from the truth. Right now, I have a research project using Swift Ch
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Cory Doctorow – Fighting Back in the War on General Purpose Computers (2015)(youtube.com)
2 points by tl 4y ago|0 comments
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by tl 4y ago
Apple is in a very different position than they were with the switch to Intel. Some versions of Microsoft Office lack "legacy" features like Excel macros [1] and collaborative editing [2]. Microsoft would love to run Office inside
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by tl 4y ago
> In most cases, the easiest way to tell if you are line or staff is to look at the org chart of your business. You are line if your role makes up the largest fraction of the org chart. If anything, the opposite is true. You are "li
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Single File Applications(catonmat.net)
23 points by tl 4y ago|5 comments
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by tl 4y ago
Powershell's object pipes are more inspectable than any of Bourne's text-based decendants. But the tool itself occupies a niche between "write shell, dealing with esoteria of grep/sed/awk/jq/etc" and
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by tl 4y ago
Russian military spending: $66 billion Ukrainian military spending: $5.4 billion I have serious doubts the outside world dumped more than $5 billion on Ukraine's side. Russian made a serious error in how much territory they tried to ho
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by tl 4y ago
Not quite. Apple requires app developers to opt into Mac distribution. The non-zero cost of doing so on top of testing costs for a new platform (testers may have iPads but not Macs) in addition to fear of the new ability to access the sandb
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All the Music(allthemusic.info)
2 points by tl 5y ago|0 comments
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by tl 5y ago
Minor nit: right click is interpreted as 'press' with odd behavior if the context menu selection is 'Inspect Element'.
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by tl 5y ago
Target Display Mode which turns iMacs into monitors is not supported on newer iMacs (anything post 2015): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
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by tl 5y ago
That's a fairly revisionist view of history. Large partners had earlier had special pricing (ex: Netflix) lax enforcement of rules (ex: Facebook). Blowups where Apple presumed the right to levy a fee are also well known (Amazon book sa
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by tl 5y ago
> very dependent on Google being nice with Chrome Replace Apple/Safari+Google/Chrome with Google/Gmail+Microsoft/Outlook and you currently describe e-mail. That situation is still preferable to the tons of messaging w
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by tl 5y ago
This is a nice dive into limitations in Python's unicode handling and at the end, how to work around some problems. But you could use languages with proper unicode support like Swift or Elixir (weirdly HN is fighting flags in comment c
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by tl 5y ago
> None of my source code files are even 1 megabyte let alone 100 megabytes Source code, sure. Log files and other kinds of text can routinely can be quite large. Also, within the context of source code, colorization and other useful feat
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by tl 5y ago
Welcome to enterprise, where breaking things is a feature so commonly used Microsoft has documentation for it [1] and things are often deployed by people whose sole concern is "minimize attack surfaces". Our Teams installation not
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by tl 5y ago
I work "unofficially" on Java code because the Swift code I'm officially responsible for executes Java code (via HTTP request). I'm "not licensed" to use real Java IDEs. Visual Studio Code's Java support
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by tl 5y ago
> Apple already had some of the basic infrastructure in place with podcasting, but a middle aged outlook meant it missed the (mildly but interestingly) anarchic possibilities. While I have some criticisms of Apple, impugning them for doi
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by tl 5y ago
My experience with dogsheep (healthkit-to-sqlite in particular) is there are multiple (two, in my case) show-stopping issues around usage, that have open pull requests with fixes the author is not merging despite doing occasional releases.
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by tl 5y ago
Unfortunately the market-clearing price (in karma) for someone posting your article is greater than zero, ensuring that nothing short of regulation would prevent it.
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by tl 5y ago
Not really. Nintendo eShop and Google Play Service will dark pattern you towards having an account in cases where they don't outright require it like DLC expansions to the "physical" cartridge you "bought".

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