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by wootest 3y ago
It's not a "deep dive" of the power adapter - it's part of a "deep dive" series of the laptop model, writing an article each about individual components.
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by wootest 4y ago
The page has a link to activity from 2008. OpenStack started in 2010. In other words, this project had the name before OpenStack.
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by wootest 4y ago
Which in turn reminds me of: http://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/16/efficient-pagination-us...
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by wootest 4y ago
That's fair but in a lot of cases you verify the email for your account and there is activity associated with that account. There are many reasons other than to send unwanted marketing emails for the service to need to get in touch wit
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by wootest 4y ago
Ignoring every other benefit and concern, verification in the way proposed is a bad idea because part of the verification process in most cases is verifying that the service can send messages to you that actually get delivered. If you do th
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by wootest 4y ago
Slightly off-topic, but according to that page, the project has "-1246658 Bytes Project Storage".
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by wootest 4y ago
Grammar is not the most important thing, but it's hard to exemplify tone and voice without having the common language to talk about them and grammar is that language. I'm guessing the article starts with it because tone and voice
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by wootest 4y ago
JavaScriptCore is a constituent part of WebKit, which is pretty much available on washer-dryers these days. But the macOS/iOS/etcOS framework part of JavaScriptCore that adds Objective-C/Swift layers is only available for tho
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by wootest 4y ago
Fossil is an SCM system - https://fossil-scm.org/ . Are you suggesting that every piece of software ever kept in, say, git repositories are therefore maintained by the same team?
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by wootest 4y ago
Where does it say that the authors/contributors of LumoSQL is the SQLite team or from the SQLite team? There are meeting notes at https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql/file?name=doc/meetings/lumo-... whic
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by wootest 5y ago
I understand the pedagogical example as a stark contrast, but this choice is immediately turning me off the product. Startups and the companies they grow into have spent decades helping themselves to data to track and identify and write cla
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by wootest 5y ago
Many designs does this implicitly. At least one, the original iPhone keyboard autocomplete/suggestion algorithm, did it explicitly. Ken Kocienda's book Creative Selection has a very good chapter on the algorithm being built piece
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by wootest 6y ago
Sounds like you're re-making the arguments in the article without realizing it. No amount of work will make the inherently complex less complex, but doesn't have to be more complicated than it has to be. That's what "a
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by wootest 9y ago
Implementation may be strictly mechanical if you have everything planned out NASA-binder style, but surely there'll still be a need to adjust the plan from time to time? Then there's debugging and maintenance, both of which may no
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by wootest 12y ago
That's not an exclusive or.
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by wootest 12y ago
No points for "based on LLVM" and "opt-in as you please side by side with Objective-C"? (Side by side with Objective-C probably does not require the Obj-C runtime, but it's hard to see how it wouldn't want to u
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by wootest 12y ago
I love Siracusa, but what he's been saying is "well, they're gonna need something or they'll fall behind". Which is a fine bet and was a prescient analysis even in the rounds before. Copland 2010 was his idea in 2
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by wootest 12y ago
Yes, I may have been wrong on that part. Or it was planned but not started yet. Or Chris Lattner read that post and thought "we've gotta get on that". Or whatever. Regardless of that, a lot of details match (opt into it, side
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by wootest 13y ago
This news post is from January. Nadella was appointed in February. Although he's been leading that department for years, so I guess you could say that, but it's not due to him becoming CEO.
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by wootest 13y ago
Thanks, that's very kind. As you say, it all hinges on every single one of their big mistakes being correctable now and avoidable in the future. Microsoft doesn't have to figure out how to be Apple or Google or what have you; it h
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by wootest 13y ago
Beacons are passive. They have an ID and you're supposed to know what that ID means by some other band of communication or intrinsic knowledge. I can't find a use case for telling the Mona Lisa that you have a dentist appointment
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by wootest 13y ago
I never said they'd make a watch. I said it's curious that they're so obviously aiming it at a very resources-constrained device (or optimizing out the wazoo for energy efficiency) for which they don't have a client of t