ethansinjin

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by ethansinjin 14d ago
Apple doesn’t allow other apps to use Safari extensions (edit: on iOS or iPadOS) Orion offers custom support for WebExtensions but it’s basically requiring them to manually check and port WebExtensions to work well with WebKit, one by one.
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by ethansinjin 5mo ago
Important caveat: > You must swap out an old electric unit; switching from gas to electric doesn't qualify.[0] That’s a bummer; totally would have done this otherwise [0] https://www.hotwater.com/water-heater-rebates
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by ethansinjin 6mo ago
I don’t think your original comment made it clear it was an Apple monitor
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by ethansinjin 6mo ago
A fun read. I was hoping for the title to have some more relevance to the story, like someone who had handcrafted a piece of software and didn’t want others messing with it! Was that ever part of a draft?
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by ethansinjin 7mo ago
Very interesting article. But why does Apple want to avoid GPL v3? edit: found this previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20102640
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by ethansinjin 8mo ago
> I can chat with my friends (not possible right now with whatsapp!) btw, WhatsApp has an Apple Watch App! https://faq.whatsapp.com/864470801642897
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by ethansinjin 1y ago
If you have a watch that was imported into the US before the restriction went into effect, you never lost the (original, watch-only) Blood Oxygen functionality and this update doesn't affect you. Up to mid-2024, Costco was selling 2 se
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by ethansinjin 3y ago
I think this was motivated by non-English languages which have separate terms for different relations than English?
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by ethansinjin 3y ago
As of Swift 5.9, using Obj-C++ is no longer necessary! https://swift.org/documentation/cxx-interop/
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What’s in a Module?(thunderseethe.dev)
2 points by ethansinjin 3y ago|1 comments
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by ethansinjin 4y ago
Meta’s internal “you’ve been here longer than X% of the company” metric does not give credit to total tenure (ie. boomerangs), so IMO it’s highly misleading as a measure of attrition.
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by ethansinjin 6y ago
Gmail on iOS uses SFSafariViewController, which runs in a separate process from Gmail.app and can’t be interacted with, unlike WKWebview. My guess is that they ran metrics and decided that keeping users in the Gmail app window led to longer
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by ethansinjin 6y ago
A big benefit of files is discoverability. Fluid sounds awesome in terms of collaboration, but I'll be interested to see how hard it is to find a specific note or chart weeks later "in the middle of an email chain, in a chat app l
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by ethansinjin 7y ago
These rights are strikingly similar to the ones outlined in GDPR.
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by ethansinjin 7y ago
I grew up on Ghibli movies, so I will probably get a free trial of HBO Max when it launches to rewatch/binge them. On a different note, I hadn’t heard of HBO Max before this announcement. I’m kind of reaching “peak subscription” at thi
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by ethansinjin 7y ago
China has many other more effective means of blocking websites for users within China mainland. Since Tencent is used for a malware list instead of Google for all users who have their iOS region set to China (even if they aren’t physically
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by ethansinjin 7y ago
If the list of hashed URLs is relatively static, what’s to prevent Apple from caching this information on their own CDN? If this not possible in China due to the Great Firewall, at least it could be done in other areas. Unless it’s against
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by ethansinjin 8y ago
As far as I’m aware, community labor is generally sentenced as an alternative to prison time.
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by ethansinjin 8y ago
This is highly laudable and a great step in the right direction. Something that struck me though: what about all the time drivers are - idling and waiting for a ride - driving to a pick-up point - driving to and from a high-demand area It s
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by ethansinjin 8y ago
In my opinion, this move makes a lot of sense. The Safari Extensions Gallery was laughably outdated, similar to the Dashboard Widgets Gallery: https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/ Switching to App Extensions