darren_

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by darren_ 1mo ago
> Google employs _engineers_ to figure out the truth. and people say hacker news has no sense of humour
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by darren_ 5mo ago
> Can't imagine using MTG to learn a language. Note that he's starting from N2 Japanese, which is already a high level of Japanese proficiency (although it does not test writing/speaking at all, so it's very feasible
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by darren_ 1y ago
No, it's an affectation.
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by darren_ 2y ago
Both of these only apply for US citizens or permanent residents so no, it's not just about paying some amount of money to avoid the theatre.
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by darren_ 2y ago
This site works fine in safari/mobile safari, it is not ‘chromium only’
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by darren_ 2y ago
> if I turn off Lock Screen notifications and turn on time sensitive notifications then will I get no marketing notifications, and only notifications about my driver turning up? It's up to the app developer, they get to mark notific
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by darren_ 3y ago
> Something that isn't talked much about IPv6 and I believe has subtle and indirect influence on it's adoption is that it is far far far less human-readable than IPv4 What? This comes up in like 95% of ipv6 threads on HN (see a
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by darren_ 3y ago
You can still backup iPhones to your desktop instead of iCloud. At least for now.
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by darren_ 3y ago
Here's exactly what it means: Someone at Facebook, when creating the listing for the Threads app on the appstore, told Apple that the app might possibly collect Health data (etc). These labels are entirely based on self reporting by th
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by darren_ 3y ago
This link says absolutely nothing about Flutter usage. It's about apps that are already written in native iOS code, which are currently using custom Material Design components (which are mostly/entirely in obj-c), and that going f
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by darren_ 4y ago
i don't find it too compelling, but this test could potentially help you understand, to some degree, how important battery consumption of an app actually is to users. so you run a test where you intentionally consume more of some coh
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by darren_ 4y ago
I’ve seen arguments that dark mode is important for accessibility, which seems reasonable to me, and depending on the company might be a dealbreaker.
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by darren_ 4y ago
I've mentioned this in another comment but: this update will permanently disable any 32 bit iOS apps you have on your device with no recourse or downgrade possible. So, reason not to update: you like using software you've paid for
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by darren_ 4y ago
This upgrade will break any 32 bit iOS apps you might have on your device, and you have absolutely no recourse and downgrading is not permitted. I've lost access to several _paid_ apps due to this.
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by darren_ 4y ago
> GP’s question was whether the app will still save your queries and submit them once a connection becomes available just to scratch that data collection itch. disclaimer: googler This can be tested. Translate shows up in your Google &#x
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by darren_ 4y ago
> It turns out that there is no way to sign into the Google Keep app without also signing into Google in Safari! If you're wondering why you're getting downvoted it's because this isn't true at all. I'm signed in
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by darren_ 4y ago
There's one major reason to care - the AppStore has a threshold (200MB i think) over which it will warn users about the app's size if they are on cellular connection (IIRC it used to block downloads entirely). So there's a fa
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by darren_ 4y ago
The ars technica article about this has some additional info from the hacker about sony not really being able to do this: "CTurt stressed to Ars that it would be nearly impossible for Sony to plug the hole that enables mast1c0re. That&
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by darren_ 5y ago
> Apple Arcade is a good example of this. With the subscription, they have a bunch of games which used to be gem games, but had that part of the monetization removed. And all of the games are better for it - they removed a lot of the fru
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by darren_ 5y ago
This is iOS, right now, and that's a fairly substantial number of users. It's not ideal but we also aren't hearing regular reports of iOS users being compromised en masse despite their browser monoculture.
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by darren_ 5y ago
No it isn't. It's a bug that web browsers had FTP support in the first place - that's the job of FTP clients , browsers should just be handing off the link to one of them. cf the 'mailto' URI scheme - I think we&#x
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by darren_ 5y ago
Yes, the blogpost (and most of the HN comments here) are completely missing the point. This is just about deprecating a library for implementing material design on iOS, not deprecating the design language itself. It's possible (likely,
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by darren_ 5y ago
Nope. You can see a preview of what Jeff's talking about with iOS Chrome, which has already done its own iOS-ification (de-materialization?) Also, the existing MDC components are already built on top of UIKit - things like MDCButton is
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by darren_ 5y ago
> You can avoid that with precheck. No I can't, I was born in the wrong country and therefore may never be trusted enough to fly unmolested in America.
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by darren_ 5y ago
I don't see what's not to understand or what logging out has to do with it. I have a browser tab for an IM application, that's also available as a native app on my phone. That tab is always open on my desktop. If I have other
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by darren_ 5y ago
But this isn't adequate for the IM use case at all? I spend the bulk of my time not focused on my chat app tab(s) but I definitely want to be reported as 'available' by those chat apps, because I am if someone messages me.
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by darren_ 5y ago
NZer, have never heard anything about not using thumbs-up for hitchhiking. I also can't imagine anyone (at least in NZ), who would be otherwise inclined to give you a ride, somehow getting irate about it either.
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by darren_ 5y ago
Strong disagree, if you like BoTW and are looking for similar you might get tricked into liking it for a bit until you notice how incredibly lackluster it is both at being BoTW (and at being interesting otherwise). The lack of emergent mech
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by darren_ 5y ago
> How is implementing dark mode even remotely comparable to launching a new general purpose CPU and transitioning an entire product line from one CPU to another?? Is changing the color on a web site that hard? They're definitely n
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by darren_ 5y ago
> and I dare say most things (services, devices, etc) aren't even tested against IPv6. literally every single iOS app is required to fully support ipv6 and will not pass apple review if it doesn't.

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