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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I recently bought a M1 Air for $750 (25% less than regular retail) from amazon as a vacation laptop. I was expecting it to have quite a bit of performance limitation but the machine is actually fantastic. I think it may be one of the best v
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Weird. How does it integrate Adblock? Do they do a native Adblock the way brave does?
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Add Apple News and any bundled phone news app to that list.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I totally agree with this. Except when it comes to new platforms and media of the likes of tech we are collectively much more willing to examine and be critical of our own industry even on HN. However IMHO the thing that makes the news indu
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
As per usual the news people writing news articles blaming their own failure on phones and the internet. At some point can we just get one honest article where the writers and news people that work at these organizations own up to their hyp
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
The Transit app was infinitely better for public transit last time I used it. This was before the pandemic for me though.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Somehow AdGuard on mobile didn’t filter this horrible shit for me
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
This is terrible. I use chromeos because I want a secure locked down browser not another shitty Linux distro.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I’ve recently used a Samsung galaxy book 5g that goes currently for $260 on Amazon running windows on arm64 and I feel this could be an indicator of how they easily could do this.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Any platform is threatened by any app that becomes bigger and more important than the platform itself. They invested in ie for the same obvious reasons that Apple tightens control over apps on the AppStore. When you spend more time in an ap
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Didn’t GRRM use Word Star? https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/s770y1/this_is_th...
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
All the browser chrome etc are written in Swift. They are working on a port to Windows but it is not ready yet.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
It supports Metal. In fact Metal is probably one of the reasons they built an adapter like this in the first place since GL became less of a supported thing on Darwin.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I am as well, but I am refreshed by a world where computers were literally so shitty they still stayed on desk. And despite that they still had better interactivity than they do at times today.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
In my defense when I first started using it it was one guy I think. That was like 14 years ago at this point.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I once wrote an entire application around dcop. Actually it was a tool for plotting your amarok songs on a 2D kde window grid and it allowed you to make little gestures and squiggles to determine what songs amarok would play. It was a prett
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Dude this is trinity desktop: That’s kinda the point. Trinity desktop is basically a kde fork from the early 2000s that’s still maintained for use in modern distros by some guy. I gotta say with so much slowdown in newer windows, macos, Lin
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
> Well, you first need to get agreement from your language users on what constitutes "better". Removing the dynamism from a dynamic language does not make it "better". I think that depends on if said dynamism is being
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
> It is not necessary to produce a "shippable" app or dylib, the vast majority of apps or dylibs can be and are shipped without doing any of this. You're not wrong. I think I engaged in a little bit of hyperbole here becau
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
> Source: I used to work on the OS X performance team. I am so sorry to hear that. When I was at Apple I worked on a different part of the stack so my experience is not first hand here, but the folks I knew who worked on optimizing the s
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
That’s literally all compiler people do.. if we see a pattern people are using 80 percent of the time we find a way to make it better. There are ways to make ObjC better optimized at the compiler and runtime level but no one is exactly aski
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
People already enable pgo and lto which dramatically makes their build times worse all the time just to produce a shipable app/dylib. When large objc codebases (apple, meta, google scale code bases) ship frameworks and apps they basica
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
What part are you responding to? I in no way made any claims about objc versus swift performance. I said the way they have tried to address memory safety assumes more compiler optimization and less burden to the programmer than rust.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Yep. I think right now we just have too much objc code written that doesn’t need any of the parts of objc needed for frameworks.
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Also my answer to your question is: I think both. If it’s generally too hard for compiler people to optimize for the common case then it will be harder for folks to build great software. I’d also argue that apple did not do the former in
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
It’s probably easier to use than COM on windows. The other interesting thing about it was that because of the message passing and easily inspectable objc_methname sections in the macho it was probably super easy for those early iPhone app c
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
I suppose you were expecting him to throw smalltalk or clasp or prolog/datalog in there to get your approval? This was rude.
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
They have done some nice stuff recently with objc_direct. The minute you can annotate away the dynamism it’s much better. Question is what’s the best way to do this? Lots of folks have been investigating analysis of entire apps either at t
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Four of those languages are ones where you can almost always statically tell when code is dead. Two or three of them are dynamic languages with large investments by multiple companies and communities to make the dynamicness less terrible fo
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by zer0zzz 3y ago
Objective-C is probably the worst language I’ve ever encountered (speaking as a compiler guy). A language where you can’t prove anything is dead, where you can’t make any changes to the runtime to deal with the dynamic semantics is not grea

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