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by troad 7mo ago
I'm not using OOP to mean presently unpopular facets of OOP, to the exclusion of presently popular ones, I mean all of OOP. It's pretty hard to need factories, let alone factory factories, when one isn't using objects or clas
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by troad 7mo ago
I don't think your stated interest in "remain[ing] in control over [your] computing" is at all compatible with the specific moves in tech that you're advocating for. There's an obvious long-term trend for software t
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by troad 7mo ago
> It's easy to avoid "AbstractFactoryProviderBuilder" if everything is hardcoded. Try to make it reusable and extensible, and I bet you write one yourself. The first domino is opting for OOP. AbstractFactoryProviderBuilder
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by troad 7mo ago
> Many people disagree with that, its the best shot we have for true cross platform applications that would force Apple to open their platform, we say the reason apple doesn't want that is for purely profit driven reasons. And equal
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by troad 7mo ago
Where did he say he did it in work hours? Or that he did it instead of doing his job? He used the word "yawn" to describe using a popular library without understanding the underlying architecture, not in reference to doing his job
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by troad 7mo ago
That's a lot of what ifs, some more fanciful than others. There is no political system that could withstand a such a barrage of bad intentions and corruption. But I'd note that despite how bad things seem, the things you describe
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by troad 7mo ago
>> Mozilla is irrelevant, and they don't have a hardware platform where they forbid all other browser engines from it like Apple does. >> If Apple weren't total assholes >> Apple forces all browsers on iOS to use
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by troad 7mo ago
And when it's normalised for firmware updates to happen via WebHID and WebUSB? Saying no will seem as fringe as browsing the web with NoScript. It's already the main way to upgrade keyboard firmware for a lot of mechanical keyboar
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by troad 7mo ago
"Oh you want to make a little start up to share recipes between friends or whatever? Aww, that's cute. Well, here's the OAuth spec and an incomplete list of footguns. I hope your grasp of elliptic curves is strong. Prison tim
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by troad 7mo ago
The oldest story in tech standards; a play in three acts: > "We've developed Foo 2.0. It does not have feature parity with Foo 1.0, but it's more architecturally elegant in ways that are meaningless to the public. It took
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by troad 7mo ago
You're implying the only solution to unnecessary friction is reams of unnecessary lubricant. Someone had to spend time building those unnecessary toolchains. Imagine if this time were spent developing cool libraries or use cases for WA
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by troad 7mo ago
> Web Bluetooth, Web NFC These are things that literally everyone but Google thinks are terrible ideas. Why don't you flip the conspiracy around and ask yourself why Google, the world's largest advertising agency and data hoove
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by troad 7mo ago
Worth noting that the distinction between democracy and republic that you're clearly advocating here is a usage particular to Americans. It doesn't have much currency elsewhere. Countries like the Netherlands, Denmark etc all have
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by troad 7mo ago
>> For example my own (US) has a political system basically frozen in amber from a time before many of the political and policy challenges of our day were not even thought of yet. Please, please, please go read the Federalist papers.
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by troad 7mo ago
Congress passes tons of laws - just not on subjects on which the country is divided. Is that not a feature? Other systems require 50% + 1 to radically remake the entire country. Would that be better? Or worse? Imagine if <insert your mos
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by troad 7mo ago
I can't see anything in OP's post where he says any of that. Everything you said seems like an incredibly ungenerous reading of what he wrote. Zig is a systems programming language. Moving from Python to Zig is a step down the tec
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by troad 7mo ago
> Some countries alter their observance of DST in line with their observance of Ramadan, which means that the time-offset changes aligned with Ramadan. Only Morocco does this, I believe, and it's not even clear that that's actu
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by troad 8mo ago
I like that theory! I think you're right.
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by troad 8mo ago
If I recall correctly, this was especially common around the time of the antitrust trial, with the possibility of Microsoft being split into a Micros~1 and Micros~2. I remember it being used in speculative discussions around which units mig
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by troad 8mo ago
They won't. In my professional experience, having needed to work with relatively unsophisticated people across many time zones, the only thing that worked consistently was "[City] time". That way people could always check &#x
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by troad 8mo ago
Perhaps someone who's more versed in Apple tech can weigh in, but my limited understanding is that tvOS' users are mostly an illusion - the current user is just a flag exposed to running apps, and each app decides on its own what
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by troad 8mo ago
I'm surprised that would be interpreted to include time zones. Units of time, arguably (measures), but time zones? Time zones are not a measure of anything. Time zones do not follow on from definitions of units of time, any more than r
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by troad 8mo ago
> LLMs have also given engineers access to clear communication. A lot of the time, the inability to express an idea clearly hints at some problem with the underlying idea, or in one's conceptualisation of that idea. Writing is a fan
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by troad 8mo ago
> As with everything in life: you can choose to hard route or you can choose the easy route and your results will follow accordingly. Hard agree, but probably not in the way you're implying. It's the difficult things that make
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by troad 8mo ago
It's funny how being partisan makes one "know" all these unknowable, evidence-free hypotheticals about the other side. Must be nice, to replace the difficult art of getting things done in politics with merely spectating at a
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by troad 8mo ago
I'm not a huge fan of Tahoe's aesthetics, but the response has been near hysterical. It's fine. Apple has done much worse (iOS 7 - present). I wish some of the anger being directed at rounded corners would be redirected at th
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by troad 8mo ago
The network icon usually contains controls for connecting to and disconnecting from networks, which are obviously useful. > I guess you'd have to have used Windows to miss it then. I don't understand what you mean by this. For
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by troad 8mo ago
> Not something I've ever seen (or noticed, at least) or used. It's all the icons next to the clock, placed there by applications that run in the background but need occasional interactivity. It's the thing at the bottom r
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by troad 8mo ago
There are definitely up- and downsides. This is all much trickier than I think people realise, with complex second and third order effects. (Some that I haven't even mentioned. A more nationalised Internet will hurt smaller countries,
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by troad 8mo ago
> I don't see what you mean with your remark about the balkanized internet, the problems is we've been building our systems in US walled gardens, and now we want our freedom back. The short version is that Europe's influen

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