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by gardaani 18d ago
The article also mentions that typestates can be cumbersome: > Typestate improves code faultlessness and testability, but comes at the cost of more boilerplate code and can degrade readability. I have noticed this in my own code. `Ticket
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by gardaani 23d ago
Rumors say that Apple will only release M6 base variant and skips M6 Pro, M6 Max and M6 Ultra variants to concentrate all efforts to create a good AI capable M7: "According to reports from Bloomberg, Apple will be skipping its M6 Pro,
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by gardaani 1mo ago
The Blitz Github page says: "Blitz is currently in a pre-alpha state." .. "we would not yet recommend building apps with it." Is it a good idea to already build something on top of Blitz?
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by gardaani 4mo ago
Is bassoontracker too old-school? https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/
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by gardaani 5mo ago
W3C has been defining SVG Native, but it hasn't progressed much lately — mostly because there hasn't been any interest in it. SVG Native is a small subset of SVG 2.0 which doesn't support scripting, animations or any external
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by gardaani 5mo ago
It isn't only corporate development teams — open source development teams want to spy on their users, too. For instance, Homebrew: "Anonymous analytics allow us to prioritise fixes and features based on how, where and when people
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by gardaani 5mo ago
Linux kernel version 7.1 will drop support for 486: "Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many." https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/linux-kernel-maintai...
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App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off(9to5mac.com)
66 points by gardaani 5mo ago|74 comments
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by gardaani 7mo ago
The movie was made in 1983 and it already uses the word "hallucination": "what you see on these screens up here is a fantasy; a computer-enhanced hallucination" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567&#
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by gardaani 7mo ago
Here's Andreas Kling's general thoughts on Rust: - Excellent for short-lived programs that transform input A to output B - Clunky for long-lived programs that maintain large complex object graphs - Really impressive ecosystem - To
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by gardaani 1y ago
Debian Trixie drops 32-bit x86 support. Ubuntu dropped 32-bit support already earlier, which meant that lightweight Lubuntu and Xubuntu don't support it either. It's sad to see old hardware support getting dropped like that. They
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by gardaani 1y ago
> Oklab is a nightmare in practice - it's not linked to any perceptual color space, but it has the sheen of such in colloquial discussion. It's a singular matmul that is supposed to emulate CAM16 as best as it can. Oklab is p
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by gardaani 1y ago
I have been using lima to run Linux VMs on macOS. This new Apple tool looks very similar and I might replace lima with it.
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by gardaani 1y ago
Does your crawler respect robots.txt? Does it request pages with nice delays so that it doesn't bring down servers? Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413
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by gardaani 2y ago
Many modern file formats are based on generic container formats (zip, riff, json, toml, xml without namespaces, ..). Identifying those files requires reading the entire file and then guessing the format from the contents. Magic numbers are
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by gardaani 2y ago
Wikipedia has a good explanation why the PNG magic number is 89 50 4e 47 0d 0a 1a 0a. It has some good features, such as the end-of-file character for DOS and detection of line ending conversions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by gardaani 2y ago
Bluetooth is also turned on after every OS update. I don't understand why macOS does these. They can't be bugs because they have been around for years.
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by gardaani 2y ago
That's why I've decided that my next mouse won't have any rubber in it, but it's difficult to find a good mouse without rubber. I'm still looking for one. Generally, I try to avoid buying anything with rubber. It is
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by gardaani 2y ago
Another annoying Xcode feature is that building a macOS app with Xcode command line tools (xcodebuild) sometimes complains that my iPhone is locked: "An error occurred whilst preparing device for development -- Failed to prepare the
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by gardaani 2y ago
> Ideally, you can constrain the set of inputs to only valid ones by leveraging types. But if that's not possible and a truly invalid input is passed, then you should panic. But how can the caller know what is "a truly invalid
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by gardaani 2y ago
Which open format can handle this kind of video? The Cineform video codec can store stereo video, but I don't know if it would be suitable for this.
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by gardaani 2y ago
There's few new 5K monitors: ASUS ProArt Display 5K PA27JCV (already sold for $799) and Benq DesignVue PD2730S.
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by gardaani 2y ago
Is this an experimental only JS engine or do you aim to implement the entire ECMAscript specification? I have been following the Rust Boa project, but I think that it isn't production ready, yet. https://github.com/boa-
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by gardaani 2y ago
Chinese already did a similar experiment few years ago and the result was that "plants can grow on the moon despite the intense radiation, low gravity, and prolonged intense light" https://phys.org/news/2023-1
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by gardaani 2y ago
> what other products with users has Apple acquired and shut down? Shake was acquired in 2002 and killed 7 years later.
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by gardaani 2y ago
> That doesn't mean you can just slap a RISC-V decoder on an ARM chip and it will magically work though. Raspberry Pi RP2350 already ships with ARM and RISC-V cores. https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/rp2350&#
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by gardaani 2y ago
VS Code does become slower for me on my MacBook M1. I typically don't restart the app unless I have to. After few days of usage, scrolling the code area becomes so slow (<20fps) that I have to restart the app. I haven't experie
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by gardaani 2y ago
> the team at Google has agreed to apply their subject matter expertise to build a safe, performant, compact, and compatible JPEG-XL decoder in Rust There's already a JPEG-XL decoder written in Rust: https://crates.io&#x2
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by gardaani 2y ago
macOS 14 / Safari 17.6 shows static pics, but no animation. Honestly, I wish all animated image formats would just die. They are an inefficient way to animate images, because they only use intra frames. H.264, H.265 or AV1 should be us
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by gardaani 2y ago
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