georgelyon

7 ms·

1.
by georgelyon 1mo ago
Another good way to think about this is that it does change the output, but in a way that is equally likely to make it "better" as it is to make it "worse".
2.
by georgelyon 3mo ago
Cool, but can it make parallel grooves like HENGE’s Journey to Voltus B? https://www.outofrage.net/post/review-henge-journey-to-voltu...
3.
by georgelyon 9mo ago
Yes, though the API of having a write-only value that is a monotonically increasing counter is much simpler than having to think about causality or logical clocks.
4.
by georgelyon 9mo ago
Unfortunate that the author doesn’t bring up FoundationDB version stamps, which to me feel like the right solution to the problem. Essentially, you can write a value you can’t read until after the transaction is committed and the synchroniz
5.
by georgelyon 1y ago
Unless Apple comes up with a way to have the crease still physically be there, but visually seem like it isn’t. Perhaps using a waveguide or something similar.
6.
by georgelyon 1y ago
I betting $10 Apple’s foldable will be two iPhone Airs where one side has 0 bezel hinged together with extreme mechanical precision and maybe some fairy dust to make the gap when unfolded unnoticeable. This creates a foldable with no durabi
7.
by georgelyon 1y ago
Gaudi is among the best engineers and artists who ever lived, and I won’t belabor his greatness. It is cool though that Rhino ( https://www.rhino3d.com/ ) got a shout out in this article, it is a similar blend of engineering
8.
by georgelyon 1y ago
While this is a common view, recently I’ve begun to wonder if it may be secretly an antipattern. I’ve run into a number of cases over the years where additional fields don’t break parsing, or even necessarily the main functionality of a pro
9.
by georgelyon 1y ago
One thing is the graphics are a generation behind what you would usually expect from a game of this quality. I’ve been playing it and I can confirm it is wonderful, and the graphics just makes me impressed with the amount of focus the tiny
10.
by georgelyon 1y ago
For the record, I’m not saying this is the perfect model and we should move to it immediately. My only claim is that it isn’t crazy. I think the fundamental difference between advertising to discoverers vs advertising to consumers is that c
11.
by georgelyon 1y ago
The idea of product discovery has value. Advertising funds product discovery by taking some of the funds that you pay for goods, and funneling that money to platforms and creators that are willing to help others discover that product. There
12.
by georgelyon 2y ago
Then you probably have already heard of this guy: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqzB9Ks5H939XLuSuVLuPVw He does a bunch of awesome stuff with PVC and 3D printed parts.
13.
by georgelyon 2y ago
I’ve been wrestling with Swift’s region isolation checker recently and had a similar experience.
14.
by georgelyon 2y ago
I’m genuinely surprised it took this long for Apple to do this. Having a full contacts list has long been one of the most valuable pieces of information for ad targeting. It’s why you can not be on Facebook but they still know everything th
15.
by georgelyon 2y ago
If I’m not mistaken, the embedded swift mode aims to make ICU (the 27mb file for Unicode support) optional (and thus easily removed where it isn’t needed)
16.
by georgelyon 2y ago
I ran into this problem a while back working at a company that was working to distribute video streams with low latency (lower than Low-Latency HLS) to a large number of viewers. Initially a prototype was built on top of AWS with fan-out&#x
17.
by georgelyon 2y ago
I have in several capacities over the past few years. VSCode works pretty well with the sswg extension (powered by sourcekit-lsp). Devcontainers are particularly nice if you are into that sort of thing (I develop in a Linux container on a m
18.
by georgelyon 2y ago
One thing I’ve noticed in my career is that it is often quite difficult to distinguish “good” technical infrastructure improvements (meaning ones that will actually help a company achieve its goals) from “bad” ones (stuff that is unnecessar
19.
by georgelyon 2y ago
For the record, borrowed references are only going to be really usable in Swift 6 which isn't released yet. That said, Swift's implementation of borrowing seems significantly more user-friendly than Rust's. While this is very
20.
by georgelyon 2y ago
It wasn't too bad to switch for me, but the problem is going back and forth. I don't love over-customizing my IDE but I've created my own keybindings for the commands I mis-type most (Command-R to run being the main culprit).
21.
by georgelyon 2y ago
This is spot-on. Though I think the interesting thing here is just demonstrating that you _can_ build this kind of thing at all and a cross-platform-SwiftUI-like framework isn't a pipe dream. For production use-cases at this moment in
22.
by georgelyon 2y ago
sourcekit-lsp works really well, VSCode integration is solid[1]. I've been using VSCode+dev-containers+sourcekit-lsp for a couple years now for Linux development on macOS and it has been really nice. I agree that this is a must-have fo
23.
by georgelyon 3y ago
For the record "No macros", is one of the things that is out-of-date. There is some discussion about it in the comments... maybe I'll be forced to actually update it :)
24.
by georgelyon 3y ago
It is a little out of date but a few years back I wrote up a few key differences: https://gist.github.com/GeorgeLyon/c7b07923f7a800674bc9745ae...
25.
by georgelyon 3y ago
Great summary! One addition: Swift WASM support has recently become stable enough to be [included in CI]( https://forums.swift.org/t/stdlib-and-runtime-tests-for-wasm... ). The folks working on that have done a great job
26.
by georgelyon 3y ago
Really unique product with a super-strong founding team! I’m not a working with them, but am cheering from the sidelines. One of the founders gives a great talk here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fFSPwJFXVlw
27.
by georgelyon 3y ago
I’ve been following a similar issue in Swift (which is informed by some learnings from the Rust side of things). Here is a link to the latest language complexity resulting from this: https://forums.swift.org/t/sub-pitch
28.
by georgelyon 3y ago
Additionally, such an investment effectively makes it cheaper to acquire the company down the line (since they already own some percentage of it). In such a scenario their investment would both flow back as revenue and reduce to the eventua
29.
by georgelyon 3y ago
Congratulations to the Antithesis team! I actually interviewed with them when they were just starting, and outside of being very technically proficient, they are also a great group of folks. They flew my wife and I out to DC on what happene
30.
by georgelyon 3y ago
They have built their own storage engine named Redwood, which has some very FoundationDB-specific optimizations (like prefix compression). Check out the "Storage Servers" section in this doc: https://apple.github.io&#x2

More ›