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by tolmasky 3y ago
To be clear, “mobile” is a distinct category from “handheld”. I am not OP, but to answer your question, I think the idea is that to bridge the gap with mobile gaming the Switch would have to… actually compete in that space. IOW, it has noth
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Full disclosure, I use the main Reddit app. I don't think that I've ever installed a different app. That being said, I think it's actually pretty crazy that Apollo is #10 (in News). It's not clear that being 8 spots high
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Given that it appears that this type system has a universal type (or top type) in the form of the "term()" type in this paper, how does it avoid Girard's paradox[1]? Is it because the the rest of the type system isn't su
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Amazing to read pages and pages of AppStore rule minutia (Facebook Credits vs. directory-listing vs. heuristics for what links "look like apps") with basically zero regard for user experience (Scott comes closest to this by acknow
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by tolmasky 3y ago
I believe his point is that since the creator of Apollo was in frequent conversations with Reddit, who apparently told him they weren’t planning big changes to the API anytime soon, that then making it impossible for him to deliver the app
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by tolmasky 3y ago
It seems weird to have to point this out, but there are many apps that have tabs that are not web browsers. Any sort of document-based app benefits tremendously from tabs, and thus it would be unfortunate to have to lose that feature when m
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Can Web Apps use tabs? As in, if I command click a link, will it open in a native tab in the Web App? If they can't, then a bunch of apps I want to use as web apps will have to stay within the main browser unfortunately.
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by tolmasky 3y ago
If that's what you took away from this, you must have not read it. I have given specific examples from case law that show that the law often just isn't defined in these new areas, and there is actually nothing better than "I
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by tolmasky 3y ago
The "only because" relates to why they don't fight the regulators. As in "why fight them when you can have a revolving door agreement where they get cushy jobs in your company after they leave the FDA". In other wor
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Not that I have a ton of experience on this, but from what I've seen, lawyers do not generally have a unified opinion on stuff like this (stuff that has never been litigated on in general). A lot of them will tell you "this is wha
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Only because they found it much more effective to "collaborate" on the regulations such that they'd be allowed to label opioids however they'd like and addict millions of people in one of the biggest health crises in the
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Just because we decided it that way arbitrarily, right? It's not some natural law that this is how it should be, that the rule makers can't possibly explain rules, only enforce them. I mean, you could make the same argument about
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by tolmasky 3y ago
The best part to me is that this looks like a "platform" that can be updated year over year. They can just keep putting the updated M-whatever chip in it (and hopefully eventually figure out how to quadruple it vs. just having the
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by tolmasky 3y ago
It takes very little for Bob Iger to say he will make Disney+ available on the Vision Pro. It takes very little to deliver a streaming platform to a new device in general, but even less for one that uses the same frameworks as one of your p
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Thank you. One of the more frustrating aspects of the Apple Watch and now VR headset is the bizarre tarnishing of the launch of the iPhone and iPod. It’s a strange cognitive dissonance too, since people do still point to that Keynote as e
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by tolmasky 3y ago
This has repeatedly my been demonstrated to be false in real world tests. One bundled file performs way better, especially when you take tree shaking, minimization (which has performance implications even after load in terms of memory usage
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by tolmasky 3y ago
As someone on TC39, I can tell you that’s not why this was done this way. It’s an accident if history, and recognized as a rushed spec. The async/await first then import expression path I described would actually follow the “don’t sh
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by tolmasky 3y ago
It is an ESM problem, since it works just fine with non-ESM script tags. ESM isn't some theoretical thing, it's the reality of how it works, in particular when we are specifically discussing the practical reality of using it. And
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by tolmasky 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by all or nothing thinking here. The problem with imports is precisely that it is incredibly cumbersome to use without a bunch of additional "add-ons". You can't just "use a little bit of
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by tolmasky 3y ago
Many people want to skip bundling altogether for as long as is possible. It's really nice to have a build-free (or almost build-free) app, especially when you're starting a greenfield or personal project. Why get mired down
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by tolmasky 3y ago
It's really wild seeing the tremendous amount of work being put in to ESM just to come up with a solution that still isn't as fast, secure, or ergonomic as bundling. 1. Import maps are basically a compile-time feature. I thought t
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by tolmasky 3y ago
The AppStore, in its current incarnation, almost certainly decreases security. And I mean this in a very concrete and demonstrable way. Apple on the one hand insists on touting the safety of the AppStore, and its reliance on app-review for
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by tolmasky 4y ago
Emailing and talking to a restaurant worker on the phone is human connection? I can’t wait until the fake bullshit of arguing with my internet provider or the expensing department or what-have-you over email can go back to not being an “e
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by tolmasky 4y ago
It appears that only BlurHash is using base83. I imagine the base83 encoding is being used in the table because that is what the library returns by default. As to why everyone else uses base64, I figure it's because base64 is what you&
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by tolmasky 4y ago
Could IPFS possibly be a good distributed (and free?) storage backing for whatever replaces DockerHub for Open Source, as opposed to using something like GitHub? We'd still need a registry for mapping the image name to CID, along with
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by tolmasky 4y ago
Couldn't tell from the README, does this do any sort of cache management or LRU type thing? In other words, does it fetch the underlying S3 object in real time, and then eventually eject them from memory and/or the backing FS when
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by tolmasky 4y ago
Interestingly, I did learn about that later as a kid, which stuck with me for a completely different reason: the new year used to start on my birthday! (March 25th)
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by tolmasky 4y ago
When I was a kid I assumed that spring started January 1st... since that's when the year started. And then every year I would be like "wow, what an unseasonably cold spring this is." Maybe in a few years my belief as a little
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by tolmasky 4y ago
> The current dollar value of the cap also makes sense. How can a static number make sense given the existence of inflation? We've been told for the last year that inflation is "out of control," and yet in the case of t
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by tolmasky 4y ago
Aside from the frequently mentioned aspects that many times SVB is the only reasonable place to even get an account if you are a startup (something that is changing now thanks to things like Mercury and Brex), many services will push you

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