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by zer0zzz 4y ago
Yeah, same for enums in Swift. Although with classes in Swift it's not quite like a runtime GC. Static code is inserted to retain and release. Afaik the arc optimizer uses an ownership model to optimize placement of retain/release
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
Not true. Swift uses value semantics for structs and enums, arc for classes. The arc optimizer afaik is able to remove atomics when it can determine code is not used for multi threading too.
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
Pythonic Rust you’re speaking of sounds an awful lot like Swift.
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
It’s a shame that swift isn’t brought up more often in conversations around Rust and borrow checker mental overhead. From what I understand swift gets pretty close to the rust model (and even closer with some of the newer move and ownershi
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
Performance with Rosetta on macos is good enough for most games that shipped for x86 macos. With a decent enough graphics driver implementation it should be feasible to grab the Linux version of Rosetta and use that to play games. A lot of
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
Very little discussion of swift and how the current work on C++ Interop is in many ways a peak into what carbon and others may be in several years.
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
There's probably more people using WhatsApp securely in authoritarian hellholes and nightmarish war zones around the world than many of the alternatives you are thinking of combine. Personally I wouldn't use any chat service for s
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
> There are a large number of people who would never want to have a private conversation or meeting using Facebook infrastructure Seriously, this is a really dense comment from previous poster. Sure people don't like the idea of a d
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
You’re calling out FB here but they’re one of the few to have rolled out similar backup encryption for WhatsApp messages and that was quite a while ago at this point. I think FB really wants data about your behavior but based on what they’r
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
> But let's focus on a specific criticism: what I took from the article is that the job market is shrinking and the evidence is that job offers and internships rescinded. We also know about broad layoffs. I’d argue this take isn’t a
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
The last sentence I wrote agrees with what you just said. The great writers are rarely good sources of tech commentary and even moderately decent tech contributors are rarely good writers. I’m not sure what you’re trying to start here but
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
Totally. And when the coverage on tech is this way it practically degenerates into tabloid journalism. It’s not even useful journalism. It’s just clickbait entertainment for dorks that enjoy reading about the doom of tech.
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
I think the most enraging thing is that the article is using the term “computer science” graduate as a label for all tech workers. If you’re a bright talented CS graduate you’re going to find a good job with good pay even in this environmen
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
> A Boston native, Ms. Singer graduated from Brown University with a degree in comparative literature and has a master's degree in creative writing from Boston University. > Ms. Huang is from New York and graduated from the Unive
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
It’s all just pure facebook hate. I remember some of same people who today trash vr and anything coming out of meta-RL were literally drooling at totally absurd incomplete and awful VR demos at GDC 7 or 8 years ago at a time when I really
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
They did on WhatsApp for India and it’s the only somewhat successful system they have rolled out afaik.
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
SLAM!!!
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
No one’s looking at Static Hermes? https://github.com/facebook/hermes/commits/static_h
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
Perhaps he’s implying that apple is pulling the strings and arm is doing this because of some pressure from apple? Outside that I can’t imagine how this comment makes any sense.
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by zer0zzz 4y ago
How is it faster than the m2 with a fan? Does using the case as a heat sink dissipate more heat or is the m2 in the air binned more aggressively?
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by zer0zzz 5y ago
Google used YouTube in the same way against Windows Phone. They actively made it technically and legally difficult for Microsoft to develop their own YouTube app for WP while only developing a version for iPhones and android. At least with
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by zer0zzz 5y ago
Define Xcode bits. You mean the swift and llvm toolchain?
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Announcing hlsl 2021(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by zer0zzz 5y ago
This isn’t the case anymore with WhatsApp. Backups to iCloud and google drive are optionally fully encrypted. You have the choice of storing the decryption artifacts on facebooks servers (which are held on a Secure Enclave) or to backup the
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by zer0zzz 5y ago
ObjC is more dynamic than people think. See things like swizzling and non-fragile instance variables. ObjC object orientation is closer to what folks on Java and C# consider the job of reflection.
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by zer0zzz 6y ago
You might want to check out https://github.com/compnerd/swift-win32 as well
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by zer0zzz 6y ago
Don’t feel too bad. I had an interview with them recently and a week later the recruiter told me I was going to get an offer the following Monday. It’s been almost 2 weeks and no word on any offer. I haven't bothered the recruiter thou
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by zer0zzz 7y ago
Catalina has been mostly fine for me. My 2015 15” mbp has been a little unresponsive at times under dark mode but all my other laptops are doing great on it. Other than that, my work computer has all this stuff like Cisco and chef installed
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by zer0zzz 7y ago
Not many use an actual c/c++ compiler (clang) to generate language native calling convention wrappers for calling into C/ObjC code (not sure how well c++ interop works these days).
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by zer0zzz 7y ago
Dude you’re literally illustrating Swifts strength here. The whole point is to have a safe easy to use language that reuses existing system libraries.

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