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viktorcode
11mo ago
Maybe things have improved since that time (about a year ago). But my question was along the lines of "is it true that in Finnish this word means that?" and ChatGPT promptly confirmed with nonsense
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11mo ago
You mean Firefox that refuses to support web standards for encoded video streams for ideological reasons?
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11mo ago
> Answer: bank/financial apps, enterprise apps, government apps and copyrighted media (music, video, games, books, ...). Those are the players that demand excessive control over end-user devices, and thus the ultimate driver behind
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11mo ago
I asked a Finnish person how good an answer about the language example from ChatGPT was. It turned out to be a hallucination, a confidently sounding nonsense. The quality of internet trained models degrade very fast with language material s
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11mo ago
Ah, so you are talking about frameworks and ecosystem, not the language
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11mo ago
> It is already far, far ahead of anything Swift has to offer Please share what Kotlin has that Swift doesn't
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11mo ago
> React Native is popular because there’s a thousand times more React devs than native devs. Exactly this. And they come cheaper. JS dominance in development stems from business logic, not from quality of development environment or tools
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11mo ago
Interop with Android SDK / NDK, plus a simple way to get started with development.
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11mo ago
Cannot agree more. The UI concepts and capabilities differ too much. Any cross platform UI solution will always be missing some hard to implement things and many recently introduced UI features. And so far I haven't seen a single non t
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11mo ago
> But that's not semantically meaningful Swift code in any normal context, nor is it idiomatic. `self` is equivalent to `this` in C++, and is never normally null. It is, when `self` is captured weakly in a closure, and that closure
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11mo ago
Nothing was wrong, it's just the general perception of customers has shifted. The internet was full of comments very similar to what you can read here, lacking specific details and objective critical analysis, all saying how behind the
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11mo ago
The porting is not straightforward; you must switch to Metal, you should adapt rendering pipeline to tiled deferred shading.
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11mo ago
Could be true, but not sure how good the results can theoretically become. According to Cerny's words from an interview the current PS5 pro upscaler is tuned specifically for popular playstation games, i.e. they have some extensive tes
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11mo ago
Signed by any non-authorised signature is the same as unsigned from security perspective.
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11mo ago
I call "running unsigned binaries"
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11mo ago
This video is a direct continuation of the one where Cerny explains logic behind PlayStation 5 pro design and telling that the path forward for them goes into rendering near perfect low res image then upscaling it with neural networks to 4K
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11mo ago
The author lost me in the first sentence calling Deutsche Bahn a well-liked company. I don't know which planet they are from.
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1y ago
So far the biggest weakness of Signal is identification via a phone number. It's not only hackers who can spoof the numbers, but an authoritarian governments too may take ownership of a number at any moment. Addressing future threats i
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1y ago
> and tamper resistent boot processes Bootloader is unlocked on Macs. That's how Asahi Linux started
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1y ago
The historical data shows that France didn't have upwards trend in nuclear generation since early 2000s.[1] I wouldn't bet on it to change regardless of political climate. 1: https://analysesetdonnees.rte-france.com
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1y ago
You can create an American account and login with that on your phone. App Store account can be separate.
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1y ago
What dividends this propaganda would bring? Apple is making their product less compelling in a market where they have lower share than in the other markets where this feature will be available. They are simply weighting potential fines 
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1y ago
That statement contradicts the significant growth of ARM in server space in recent years.
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1y ago
Your argument was that this is a distinction without a difference. I pointed out the difference: apps on alternative app stores exist until Apple is legally forced to remove them.
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1y ago
Difference is in the fact they don’t have any incentive in checking submitted apps to alternative stores. Does it even launches? Does it use private APIs that will break tomorrow? Who cares. Surely not Apple. It’s on that alternative stores
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1y ago
That would be a valid argument if Apple mislead you into buying iPhone under the false premise of „you can install everything you want“. Instead, you either chose to blame Apple for making your phone work exactly as it was intended, or, as
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1y ago
Apple does not get to decide what‘s published on alternative stores, but they can revoke certificates still.
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1y ago
That statement cannot be taken at face value. Russian developers and Russian registered entities are freely publishing apps on App Store. EU sanctions do not prevent that.
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1y ago
Apple adopted many ideas that first appeared on Cydia. Some customisation options, some missing features. And now even game emulators are available on App Store.
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1y ago
By that logic AI already killing people. We can't presume that whatever can be found on the internet is reliable data, can't we?
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