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by jherskovic 22d ago
Python has some absolutely kick-ass libraries, even without C. It has Django, for those of us who like developing web apps but never could fall in love with Ruby on Rails. And Django is amazing. I've also yet to see a better language f
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by jherskovic 26d ago
On the other end of the spectrum, today I needed to build a complicated piece of software on x86-64 Linux and all I have handy are ARM Macs. One qemu later, I have an 8-core “PC” building merrily. It won’t win speed records, but it’s entire
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by jherskovic 2mo ago
Go look at the editorial policy from Ars. Lee just writes like that; it's his style, it always has been.
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by jherskovic 2mo ago
This keeps getting posted and is not true. Rosetta is still present and working. It throws a deprecation warning notice but otherwise runs fine. It's macOS 28 that will no longer run x86_64 apps, although games are exempt. Rosetta is b
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by jherskovic 2mo ago
Have a TrueNAS server at home with a bunch of drives in a RAID-Z array. Backups go there. My pictures, which are probably my single most important item, are also there but get cross-backed up to a very good friend’s NAS in a different city.
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by jherskovic 3mo ago
Just give them all ACME catalogs and watch the problem solve itself.
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by jherskovic 5mo ago
I do this same thing too when building archives in macOS I will unpack on Linux later.
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by jherskovic 5mo ago
I use FontAwesome. I bought FontAwesome subscriptions for my team. Love the product. “We released new icons” (or a new version) is a message that has exactly zero information content for me. My workflow is “I need an icon for this,” so I op
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by jherskovic 5mo ago
So many naysayers. I love it! So what if it doesn’t come from the Brut region of France and thus it’s just sparkling cement, it looks great and is clearly a labor of love.
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by jherskovic 9mo ago
First line of the readme: Non-functional implementation work-in-progress framework code for getting HDR10 working under X11.
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by jherskovic 11mo ago
Love my APP3, upgraded from APP2 and have only one regret... no Comply Foam tips available yet. Why does Apple not go all-in on memory foam, I dunno, but at least the APP2 version was so much better it's not even funny. With the Apple
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by jherskovic 11mo ago
I was affected as well. My IAH->SEA 7:10 PM Central flight took off 4 hours late. It’s 4 AM central and we’re just descending to land in Seattle. Communication from the airline was basically nonexistent and the poor ground crews didn’t g
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by jherskovic 1y ago
I use Safari (admittedly, with Private Cloud and a few tracking-blocking extensions) and get bombarded with Cloudflare's 'prove you are human' checkbox several times an hour. It's already a pretty degraded experience.
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by jherskovic 2y ago
The website generally looks good, but the font in the headings is weird. What is up with the "d" in it?!
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by jherskovic 2y ago
Looks like the end boss of yak shaving. Very fun, silly idea and a great implementation.
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by jherskovic 2y ago
Oh, man, Christian, are you going to do Discord next? Because it’d fit the pattern to a T. (This is a joke) I was a huge fan of Apollo and genuinely appreciate your UX design and aesthetic chops. Please make something 100% your own next tim
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by jherskovic 2y ago
I was there a few weeks ago! I had always wanted to visit, so it was a bucket list item for me and I absolutely loved it. The conditions in which people worked tirelessly while trying to eke out a bit of a normal life in between were so int
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by jherskovic 2y ago
No parole in the Federal system. There's (some) time off for good behavior.
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by jherskovic 3y ago
I was a big Tableau champion at our org. Lots of dashboards, led a user group, was the go-to expert for a while (think 10 years ago). For us, what killed it was the pricing. They got very greedy very fast. Justifying a 4-digit license, per
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by jherskovic 3y ago
It's better-than-free money. The 0% interest rate means, accounting for inflation, you're getting paid to use Apple's money instead of your own. I can afford the lump sum, but it's a lot nicer to smooth out the cash flow
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by jherskovic 3y ago
Allow me to quote myself "Even for a technological tour de force, 5K is a lot of dough. If I used it, and loved it, I’d keep it. But for discomfort, actual eye pain, looking through a periscope, and the inevitable resulting gathering-d
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by jherskovic 3y ago
OP here. What the sibling comment said. The built-in speakers are fantastic, and like many other Apple enthusiasts I own Airpods Pro already as well if I need isolation.
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by jherskovic 3y ago
OP here. I mean the passthrough cameras, and I mean they suck compared to the expectation of this being "AR, but rendered in VR" (I also have a 'first impressions' post that goes into more detail on this). They're d
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by jherskovic 3y ago
OP here. I own a Quest 2 as well. It's a toy compared to the AVP, but it is more comfortable. I agree with your impression - these things will get addressed, but not within the return window, and a $5K gamble that it'll become use
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Apple Vision Nope: Why I returned mine(jorgeherskovic.net)
70 points by jherskovic 3y ago|204 comments
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by jherskovic 3y ago
I deeply disagree with the author. Costs are predictable from one year to the next, true; but you are beholden to the vendor, and the vendor may even effectively hold your data hostage. Vendors can and do get greedy, and if you're deep
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by jherskovic 3y ago
I will admit to implementing `__getattr__` and `__setattr__` in such a way that they mimic object properties in dictionaries, for specific cases. In general, the threshold for doing so should be IMHO fairly high. In my case, - they are dat
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by jherskovic 3y ago
It's amusing that the UUIDs are considered 'ugly' while the Amazon and YouTube IDs are not. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I don't find UUIDs pretty, at all, but the others are even uglier to my taste. Yes, UUIDs
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by jherskovic 3y ago
Yup. If you have name recognition, even in a niche field, you'll be inundated with nonsensical resumes and/or desperate people. We get hundreds of applications per position, and many of them are downright nonsensical. No, we can&#
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by jherskovic 3y ago
My very-slightly-different Python implementation runs in 9m56s minutes on Python 3.11, but in 2m54s using pypy3.9 (all on an M1 Max) pypy never ceases to amaze me for low-effort performance gains on computational stuff. A naive implementati

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