macguillicuddy

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by macguillicuddy 3mo ago
I agree that devices should work independently. But I believe the fundamental baseline should be open interoperability. Yes, the dishwasher should allow a delayed start from the machine itself. But it should also have secure yet open intero
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by macguillicuddy 6mo ago
I've always been interested in the concept of using the filesystem more thoroughly like this, but sometimes I wonder about the value of it, and if pulling on that thread could get us something even more interesting. Take this, for exam
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by macguillicuddy 10mo ago
Yes that's true, but there's effort to consider on both sides of design decisions like those TypeScript has made. Much of the compile time behaviour comes from the decision for TypeScript to be incremental on top of JavaScript. Th
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by macguillicuddy 10mo ago
Because adding types adds constraints across the codebase that detect a broader set of mistakes. It's like saying what's the point of putting seatbelts into a car if they only work when you're wearing them - yes you can use t
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by macguillicuddy 10mo ago
No tool is perfect. What matters is if a tool is useful. I've found TypeScript to be incredibly useful. Is it possible to construct code that leads to runtime type errors? Yes. Does it go a long way towards reducing runtime type errors
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
I wonder if there's a correlation here with new versions of iOS being released around the same time as new phones? Is it possible that OS optimization takes a back seat to bug fixes during the run up to release then subsequent point re
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
I'd argue that TNG embodies your guess in many ways - many of the corridor and living area sets look like relatively normal, comfortable spaces. The computer is exactly that sublime technology - it's there when they need it (throu
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
I don't see anything in the parent comments referencing or advocating for 0% tolerance speed enforcement. In the UK speed limits are typically enforced with a 10% grace factor.
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Mattercraft AI: supercharging the art of immersive 3D content for the web(zappar.com)
5 points by macguillicuddy 1y ago|1 comments
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
Hey all! My team and I have been working on a fully integrated AI assistant for our Mattercraft tool. It's a 3D development environment for web content - our aim is to find an efficient and expressive intersection between the developme
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
I wonder if, in the pipe dream that email were magically replaced by something more modern, we'd use something like markdown instead.
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
We do for some elements of our pipeline. WebGPU will give us more opporunity for this in the future too but right now we need broader device support unfortunately.
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
We have tight inner loops over large numbers of pixels - in some cases optimized to the level of careful register choice and SIMD
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
We do high performance computer vision in the browser (at 30/60 fps) that's an order of magnitude faster in WASM than JS. It simply would not be fast enough without WASM.
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
I feel that this is orthogonal to my point - it's not about how generous or not a given mechanism is, more to question why the App Store is any different from other transactions we need to protect. You either have to argue that App Sto
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
Is this not what the credit card system (with chargebacks and liability shift) is supposed to counter more generally? Lots of these arguments could equally be applied to a shopping mall but we don't require all stores within a mall to
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Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US(developer.apple.com)
463 points by macguillicuddy 1y ago|347 comments
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by macguillicuddy 1y ago
>The App Review Guidelines have been updated for compliance with a United States court decision regarding buttons, external links, and other calls to action in apps. These changes affect apps distributed on the United States storefront o
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
My understanding is it depends on the amount of visibility, plus what type of approach they were on. One type of approach, an ILS, has big radio transmitters pointing from the runway into the air and allows the plane (either pilots or autop
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
It would be my pleasure :-) Zapworks Designer - it's our no-code tool focussing on AR+VR. It's targeted at folks without scripting experience and is very much 'drag and drop'. Our customers typically use this for bringin
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
Great work :-) Sending love from the Zappar team - we're firm believers that AR/VR needs more great tooling!
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
While Mattercraft has some drag and drop elements, it's predominantly a development environment for content, featuring TypeScript and NPM support. So it's a bit like a 'Unity for the web'. Many of the features (e.g. phys
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
x86 ASM is text but we don't build software by copying and pasting it. While the underlying thing we ship is CSS, that doesn't mean we can't add tooling layers to make it easier or more efficient. While it's totally allo
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
It's my understanding that the browsers use a translation layer (such as ANGLE) between both WebGL and WebGPU and a preferred lower level native API (Vulkan or Metal). In this regard I don't believe WebGL has any more or less prot
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
Thank you! :-D
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
Apologies for the plug but in case it's of interest I recently did a talk on this very subject at the Augmented World Expo. It covers 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' of WebXR :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
At Zappar we're about to release an updated version of our SDK that features scale accurate world tracking for the web, including Mobile Safari and Chrome on Android :-)
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by macguillicuddy 2y ago
The right to be forgotten has an explicit exception for circumstances where there's a legal obligation on retention, although it does reference Union and Member State law and not other international entites. https://gdpr-inf
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
It's a single data point but the Xbox Cloud Play (game streaming service) works on iOS through a PWA since Apple required that any service like that submit a seperate app for each game that it permitted to be streamed.
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by macguillicuddy 3y ago
Shameless plug (my apologies it's my second this week ) - but we recently released our $80 headset. It's a plastic headset, with two bluetooth controllers, that you put your phone into 'Google Cardboard style'. We'v

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