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by foooorsyth 2mo ago
Android’s original offering was nothing like modern phones. They didn’t have multi touch and they expected physical keyboards. Android added multi-touch in 2.0 Eclair in 2009 as a clear response to iPhone’s popularity
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by foooorsyth 4mo ago
Biggest killer of JetBrains IDEs has been simple: the “Switcher” now orders navigation destinations dynamically, whereas they used to be static. Destination keymap is not customizable. Ruins all of my muscle memory and makes me hate the IDE
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by foooorsyth 5mo ago
The opposite, actually. Signal endlessly nags you to turn on notifications, and when you turn them on, previews and content are shown by default. You cannot opt out of the nags.
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by foooorsyth 7mo ago
>The actual meaning of a "clean room implementation" is that it is derived from an API and not from an implementation This is incorrect and thinking this can get you sued https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struc
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by foooorsyth 7mo ago
I wouldn’t take too much issue with the “cameras are enough” claim if cameras actually performed like eyes. Human eyes have high dynamic range and continuous autofocus performance that no camera can match. They also have lids with eyelashes
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by foooorsyth 8mo ago
The reality that most encryption enthusiasts need to accept is that true E2EE where keys don’t leave on-device HSMs leads to terrible UX — your messages are bound to individual devices. You’re forced to do local backups. If you lose your ph
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by foooorsyth 10mo ago
Had so many Boston cabs not show up for rides to the airport growing up. Uber was such a breath of fresh air…until it wasn’t anymore.
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by foooorsyth 1y ago
I’ve said several times before that notifications should be reportable as spam directly to Google/Apple, just like email spam reporting. Google tried to tackle this with notification channels, but the onus falls on the developer to act
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by foooorsyth 1y ago
Rockets? Seoul is in artillery range of the border.
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by foooorsyth 1y ago
git by itself is often unsuitable for XL codebases. Facebook, Google, and many other companies / projects had to augment git to make it suitable or go with a custom solution. AOSP with 50M LoC uses a manifest-based, depth=1 tool called
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by foooorsyth 1y ago
>The biggest problem with Nix is its commit-based package versioning. I am naive about Nix, but... ...isn't that like...the whole selling point of Nix? That it's specific about what you're getting, instead of allowing tick
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by foooorsyth 1y ago
Does Lottie do no temporal compression? Is it just a sequence of p-frames with a json manifest?
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by foooorsyth 1y ago
It's really impressive. Technical content, GitHub repos that go along with the videos, set design, retro editing -- much higher quality than a lot of stuff out there from major studios
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Unfortunately the cheats are way ahead of this. Most modern aimbots in shooters like Counter-Strike are (intentionally) not-obvious. They give minor advantages and do tiny corrections for an already-immensely-skilled player to gain a small
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
>I think many would quickly understand the value proposition I think thousands of innocent teenagers without credit cards will be furious. Not to mention anyone that takes a game semi-seriously and cares about their reputation after gett
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
So because China will steal it eventually, we should just give it away now? That’s your argument? >clearly China is capable of catching up with ASML’s tooling The only thing clear to me is precisely the opposite. Nobody has been able to
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
My situation: hardware company, over 100 years old. I’ve found useful usage examples of pieces of software I need to use, but only on an OS we no longer ship, from a supplier we no longer have a relationship with, that runs on hardware that
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Have you ever worked in a large organization with many environments? You may find yourself with a particular interface that you don’t know how to use. You search the central code search tool for usages. Some other team IS using the API, but
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
I don’t particularly accept f(g()). I like languages that require argument labels (obj-c, swift). I would welcome a language that required them for return values as well. I’d even enjoy a compiler that injected omitted ones on each build, s
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Not everyone reading your code will be using an IDE. People may be passively searching your code on GitHub/gerrit/codesearch. val/var/let/auto declarations destroy the locality of understanding of a variable declara
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
If you’re going to attempt to be pedantic, can you at least work on basic reading comprehension? The concept of a large and powerful entity allowing free speech is in the spirit of the Bill of Rights, whether the large and powerful enti
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Nobody is forcing anyone to do anything. Meta, as a large and powerful entity with the ability to censor as much or more than many governments, is opting to allow free speech on its platforms. So is X. That spirit is inspired by the Bill of
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
The ideas are from the Bill of Rights.
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Just being able to hold a drink in your hand as social cover is part of what you’re buying. At a Christmas party, you just want to have what appears to be the peppermint Christmas-themed drink in your hand like everyone else, even if you’re
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
gotos can be used without shame. Dijkstra was wrong (in this rare case). defer is cleaner, though.
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Well in this case on the return flight I’m usually booked regular economy, and regular economy has no under seat space loss. I’m able to work the entire flight back from Europe on the cheaper ticket.
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
Premium economy to MUC out of CLT always annoys me because the legs that hold the seats up can possibly be right in the middle of your under-seat space, making putting a briefcase under the seat in front of you impossible (the legs are un
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
I don’t think you should have to hold the entire canon of programming history in your head to avoid these types of footguns. Conventional design choices of the past that lead to bugs and security vulnerabilities should be replaced.
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
It’s the fastest product to 100m users ever. Even if they never update their models from here on out, they have an insanely popular and useful product. It’s better at search than Google. Students use it universally. And programmers are depe
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by foooorsyth 2y ago
>You can’t tell me that someone couldn’t fine an awesome game using their maps and street view Isn’t that just Niantic? They spun out of G and made Ingress and Pokemon Go

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