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by zadikian 8mo ago
What's the advantage of their Electron apps vs using the web? I get that in theory you can use native-only pieces that a browser doesn't support, but in practice a lot of Electron apps are literally the website.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
The Swift way is safer, but I don't like it much either. The ? explicitly says you want to ignore null, so that's fine. The problem is there's no convenient way to throw exception if null, so you're encouraged to overuse
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by zadikian 8mo ago
It'd just run out of tokens
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by zadikian 8mo ago
UIKit etc never made sense to me after years, CSS also didn't make sense, but right out of the box I understood React. And with hooks, it's way less boilerplate than the UIKit ways. Separate from that, Apple doesn't seem to m
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by zadikian 8mo ago
LLMs are better at dealing with human-readable code on their own too
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by zadikian 8mo ago
At least it seems like a lot more apps are cross-platform than before. I wouldn't call the native devs lazy for not making a Mac version of their Windows app.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Pretty sure gen 1 is inherently better IP and it's not a nostalgia thing. The only Pokemon I played was half of Crystal on a jailbroken iPhone as a kid.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
When Swift 1 came out, I was migrating an ObjC app that used CoreData to it and found a bug where nullable cols in the CoreData schema got non-nullable properties in the autogenerated Swift. Found out when I had a non-nullable property actu
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by zadikian 8mo ago
So you silently ignore something being null when you don't expect it to be? That sounds even worse.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Didn't know about this and wow, I had missed stuff from real friends because the regular feed hid it.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Could be, but I've never wanted that. I just answer it on my iPhone or my desktop Mac.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Facetime too. I shared a laptop with my wife for like 2 years, so it was an ok experience, but we noticed those little things.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
$270-$300 (used to be $350?) for the iPad keyboard. I feel like Apple did a good job targeting a user segment that is just happy to spend extra money on gadgets, aside from whoever really needs this laptop-tablet in-between.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Yeah, everyone I know who owns an iPad for personal use, they also own a laptop. It's possible they use the iPad more than the laptop, but they still need the laptop, which might be a Mac.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
I guess to not have to set up protobuf or asn1. Those preconditions of both platforms using the same padding and endianness aren't that hard to satisfy if you own it all. But do you really have such a complex struct where everything in
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by zadikian 8mo ago
NoSQL was more of a convenience thing during that trend. You might have some bag of nested attributes that maps perfectly fine onto relations, but it's cumbersome for someone who just wants to load it all into an object, edit, then res
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by zadikian 8mo ago
I think the point is that you can skip all those, but it's still 50 screens. There's no "skip all and go directly to my home screen" button.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
You don't need an Apple account to back up an entire iPhone and restore it onto a new one, keeping almost all settings. They've kept the local iTunes method working from day 1. Idk how you do this in Android, sounds like most peop
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by zadikian 8mo ago
The article is saying it's good, or at least good enough. I don't necessarily agree with the rest of the article.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
The other drivers are blameless. They did what they were supposed to.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Waymo car was the only thing at fault. Drivers are expected to stop to the side when they see the lights. I guess the red SUV could've slid behind the Waymo to let the ambulance do the same, but it'd be unwise without the police t
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Remember when many websites had quite open public APIs? Over time this became less common, and existing things like FB added more limitations.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Possibly, but it's apples and oranges because the Tesla isn't self-driving yet. They get to take different risks given someone is behind the wheel.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Search is easy to monetize with ads and less expensive to operate. Unless AI services can do the same thing, they'll have to charge money at some point, and then customers will look for the cheapest.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
I'll keep my xacts small until that one time we have to do some big manual fix or migration. But you don't even have to do anything that wild to hit the Spanner 100MB limit.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Oh, I did read but didn't understand that Radix was the TLD owner. Makes sense.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Ok wysiwyg web editor is maybe overselling it. You can make a text-only page in it. Still neat.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
TextEdit prefs (not systemwide prefs) have easy checkboxes to disable all that, also the smart quotes. Also gotta make it default to plain text. The reason I dropped it was cause of a bug where I'd highlight text, copy, and it's a
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by zadikian 8mo ago
Meanwhile TextEdit on Mac always rendered HTML. Which seems useless until you realize it can also edit and save as HTML. So there's casually a wysiwyg web editor built into macOS that idk how many people use.
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by zadikian 8mo ago
I think they're pressing the default dash (actually a hyphen) twice, and that autocompletes to a single em dash.

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