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by tolmasky 4y ago
Right, I know. I mentioned SFSafariViewController in my post. I am saying, in the 9 years since SFSafariViewController was introduced , Apple could have made the experience with SFSafariViewController better, for example by having pages yo
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by tolmasky 4y ago
It's even worse than that: 1. Nothing you visit gets saved in your history. So many times I'm looking through my history thinking "I could have sworn I read an article about this..." only to eventually discover (if I&#x2
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by tolmasky 4y ago
So the person that runs the AI just lists themselves as the inventor and that's it? Does anything change other than that. It's not like they can tell if it was made by an AI right?
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by tolmasky 4y ago
If verbosity is the issue we're trying to solve for then it seems obvious that the answer is to simply use the nest emoji instead of "@nest". https://emojipedia.org/nest-with-eggs/
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by tolmasky 4y ago
It seems AI is quickly becoming capable of automating the worst human systems, vs. offering amazing solutions to humanities. In this case, it seems AI has successfully mimicked the horrible bureaucratic systems, operated entirely by humans
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Command Line Functions(github.com)
2 points by tolmasky 4y ago|0 comments
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by tolmasky 4y ago
The thing about Patreon is that it sucks for users too (as in, the consumers). Both the website and the app really suck. They look horrible, have few features, and often work poorly. It essentially serves as a notification platform that I t
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by tolmasky 4y ago
Can you explain why? I mentioned some of my actual issues with it in my critique, which were neither addressed nor even explained away as an acceptable sacrifice in exchange for the many real benefits it provides. I’m legitimately curious w
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by tolmasky 4y ago
> but at the same time I do think separate OSes are necessary for radically different form factors. But the last 10 years have been Apple repeatedly disproving this. iPadOS started radically different from macOS... only to have every
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by tolmasky 4y ago
> Personally speaking I have no desire for touch on traditional MacBooks – I can only see it making sense on a dockable iPad-like MacBook. Yes, the fundamental premise is that the last 10 years would have been used differently to grow
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by tolmasky 4y ago
Stage Manager follows the same pattern as the other features Apple took too long to realize were already figured out on the Mac: make it arbitrarily different to be able to call it new. Just like the “changing cursor” for trackpad support o
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by tolmasky 4y ago
I think this hides the actual pitfalls: it is possible to be lulled into thinking SwiftUI is the right tool, only to discover that a minor UI change is impossible, leaving you with little option than to dump it entirely for the component in
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by tolmasky 4y ago
I think you might both be right, but never agree with each other, due to the trickiness of language. That is to say, depending on your definition of "genius" (and depending on the still not fully understood nature of genius), you
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by tolmasky 4y ago
Not to toot our own horn, but I'd look into Cappuccino and 280 Slides too (we were YC no less!) and were the first iteration in the GWT era to extend JS itself and transpile in the browser.
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by tolmasky 5y ago
There are some apt comparisons of social media to sewers, but not in their utility…
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by tolmasky 5y ago
RunKit provides this functionality and it’s more or less instant (every version of every package on npm is already pre-installed, you won’t feel the boot up time, just the code in question’s actual execution time). Also, it’s free and has b
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by tolmasky 5y ago
Allow me to recommend "perchance", to make it sound extra fancy: @perchance supports(display: grid) as-well-as media(min-width: 33em), @why-then-of-course: { } @on-the-other-hand { } Seems ob
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Hijacking ignored type annotations for other features(github.com)
2 points by tolmasky 5y ago|0 comments
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by tolmasky 5y ago
In an implementation I made ages ago, I created a different operator, the “naughty or”, which defines “invalid” syntax paths (for example, if the entire parse fails, allow going into the branch that does match identifiers that start with
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by tolmasky 5y ago
It is so refreshing to see this featured so prominently. Gives me a lot more trust in the project.
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by tolmasky 5y ago
This doesn’t really conflict with my point. We already know that bad leaders vastly outnumber good leaders. And there are I’m sure plenty of good leaders who haven’t mastered the specific skill of “meeting management”. Again, the video conf
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by tolmasky 5y ago
I don't buy it. I remember real meetings. They were far more exhausting than any zoom call. Completely draining. I guess the novelty of shuffling rooms every 45 minutes is enough to keep some people feeling "active". Or per
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by tolmasky 5y ago
I don't see how these two things are related, and in fact disagree with both assumptions: 1. that the profit contributes in any meaningful way to the quality of the "hardware", nor that the apps on iOS are some "amazing&
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by tolmasky 5y ago
The article mentions that we incorrectly use the term "free market" to describe the optimal market system, but I'd argue we do a similar thing with regulation. We use "regulation" to describe the "ideal regulat
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by tolmasky 5y ago
> From my point of view, the goal posts that keep moving are the ones put up by anti-JS-modules folk because they keep comparing unbundled JS modules vs bundled CJS. Unbundled CJS would perform far worse than standard JS modules by all t
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by tolmasky 5y ago
> SRI really should be done out of band. Inline SRI would require far to frequent cache invalidation and isn't compatible with package manager workflows where you don't know the exact version of a file you'll depend on. A
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by tolmasky 5y ago
It is absolutely not excellent, unless you restrict yourself solely to whether there is a checkmark next to the browser name in mdn. It is very buggy, very difficult to debug, and as I mentioned in another comment, missing serious features
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by tolmasky 5y ago
That was not the whole point, the whole point was to have a feature that could work in a variety of different environments. That’s why this language feature is in the ECMAScript spec and not in the W3C or whatwg, unlike something like “fe
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by tolmasky 5y ago
But they can. I can construct any hard to find use case just as easily with import. Your analyzer probably won't find this: "(a => a)(path => import(path))(ROOT_PATH + "/x.js")". "But no one would do
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by tolmasky 5y ago
This isn’t a real concern, and yes I’ve written a static analyzer for requires (as have many build tools). The fact of the matter is no one is trying to trick the analyzer by passing variables to require, or even more mischievously trying t

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