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pilky

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Freelance Mac/iOS Dev, plastic crack junkie, and Critter. I run M Cubed Software.

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davemark, to random
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Eye surgery in the morning. Gonna likely be off line for a bit.

Will check in in a few days. Here's hoping!

pilky,
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@davemark Good luck, hope it all goes smoothly!

girlonthenet, to random
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Tonight I went out with a friend to do what I’ve started describing as our ‘comfort walk’ - it’s a fun, simple 8 miles or so on a route we know well and love. It’s healing to have a proper heartfelt catch-up, and in between Big Life Updates I really enjoy the ritual of having almost scripted, familiar chat as we pass each of our favourite landmarks.

pilky,
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@girlonthenet Painting miniatures

pilky, to random
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screams https://youtu.be/LN1TQm942_U

tonyarnold, to random
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My kingdom for a true 5K 120Hz+ refresh rate Thunderbolt 4 monitor.

This 60Hz nonsense is hurting my eyes!

pilky,
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@tonyarnold Yeah, im at the point now where I’d rather do scaled 5k on a 4K 120Hz monitor than true 5k at 60

pilky,
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@tonyarnold Yeah. I currently have a 28” 4K @ 144Hz scaled to 5K as my primary monitor, with two 27” 1440p at 60Hz as my secondary.

Unless you’re working with a lot of 1px lines close to each other then from a normal viewing distance it’s hard to tell the difference with true 5K. However it is easy to see the difference vs 60Hz.

I wrote about it in more detail a few years ago https://pilky.me/4k-vs-5k-displays/

fj, to random
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Email from Meta this morning:
“To help bring [Meta AI and AI Creative Tools] to you, we'll now rely on the legal basis called legitimate interests for using your information to develop and improve AI at Meta.”

pilky,
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@fj @janl Didn’t a court rule a while back that how most sites are trying to use Legitimate Interest isn’t a legal way of doing it?

pilky, to random
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I can’t be the only one looking at the “faster” UI in the video and still thinking “that looks super slow”
https://social.vivaldi.net/@brucelawson/112523840764732599

ianRobinson, to random
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Finding it very hard to feel sympathy for these parents complaining about the Labour plan to change VAT rules for private schools.

https://youtu.be/0mRPgTdQfzs

pilky,
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@ianRobinson I can understand the whole “how will we find them a state school place if there are no places in our area” part, which obviously needs to be addressed, but the rest of that video just reinforces the need to curtail private schools

stroughtonsmith, to random
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The ‘maybe I should buy a drone’ starter pack…

pilky,
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@stroughtonsmith I’m beginning to think Ireland might just be a bit of a pretty country

RobW, to random
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Went to a Lego show today. I had a great time!

A Lego model of an LNER train passing through a station. The train is blurry because of the speed.
A large scale model of a German castle made from Lego. The gate house is red with sand turrets. The main castle is white with blue roves. The caste is in a mound with bushes and trees.

pilky,
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@RobW That castle looks amazing!

ianRobinson, to random
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That national service idea is a dead cat on the table.

Spend a week talking about that rather than how shit the Conservatives have been in Government.

pilky,
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@ianRobinson Parties to 16 and 17 year olds

Labour: “the right to vote”

Tories: “something to get the Right to vote”

pilky, to random
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Whoever has the loud speakers outside Downing Street playing “Things Can Only Get Better” as Rishi Sunak announces a general election, you are the hero we want and deserve

caseynewton, to random
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A few more words about the OpenAI / Scarlett Johansson situation https://www.platformer.news/platform-sales-tax-california-sb1327-glazer/

pilky,
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@caseynewton @deirdresm I’m willing to give benefit of the doubt on stuff being a coincidence when a company hasn’t got a pattern of just taking what they want when they don’t get their way 🤷‍♂️

pilky, to random
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Looking at the new Copilot + PC specs I hope they push Apple to move to a minimum of 16GB of RAM on M4 Macs (especially given how much more powerful the GPU and NPU are)

pilky, to random
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You have to admit, Apple has been truly innovating with iPadOS over the years. Unfortunately their goal seems to be “create the worst multitasking environment humanly possible”
https://www.threads.net/@snazzyq/post/C7NweYZNLWG

ctietze, to swift
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Are there any API design best practices about error handling?

So far, I sketched everything with Result<Value,Error> so I get typed errors.

But both stack unwinding and the lack of ceremony of throws is appealing, too. API consumers probably don't need fine grained detail which of the 20 error cases occurred.

pilky,
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@ctietze Usually I’d only use Result for an async API, so I’ve mostly been switching to async await so I can use throws instead. The only remaining places would be anywhere I need an NSOperation

pilky, to random
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That both the Israeli government and Hamas are complaining about the ICC requesting arrest warrants against their leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity shows how much they worry about them (as they should)

pilky,
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I believe it also means that, if the warrants are granted, the 5 people mentioned basically can’t travel anywhere in Europe, Australasia, and most of Africa and the Americas without being arrested

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Vision Pro's international launch will be even tougher now that we know the device is two whole chip generations behind the iPad, and we've seen Apple's lackluster content/release cadence for it.

It desperately needs a whole lot more developer support and that doesn't come for free. Once that interest dies out…

Incidentally, forScore is the closest thing I've seen to a killer app

https://mastodon.social/@b3ll/111865131843871113

pilky,
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@stroughtonsmith @b3ll What does it offer over the same sort of apps that have been on iPad for years?

ctietze, to random
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What's new in PHP 8.4 https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-84

"Property Hooks" is a new feature and it looks just like Swift's, or the stuff in C#

pilky,
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@ctietze Honestly, modern PHP is a pretty fantastic language

pilky, to random
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One thing I don’t get: what’s the downside of Apple allowing macOS to run in a VM on iPad? It doesn’t take anything away from those who don’t want to use it. You just ignore the feature and keep using your iPad as-is.

Apple doesn’t even need to build it themselves, just allow the tech they already have to run and be allowed on the App Store, that way someone like Parallels can come along and provide it (which would also allow Linux, Windows, etc)

pilky,
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@lapcatsoftware I’m meaning the downside that causes people other than Apple to dismiss the idea

gedeonm, (edited ) to random
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Have you replaced some or all of your passwords with pass keys yet?

pilky,
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@gedeonm Voted “what’s a passkey?” As there’s no option for “none”

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Apple's website was masking the accessory pricing in the Saved for Later section: the actual cost of a new 13” iPad with 16GB of RAM is €3,107. 💀
https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112406010223311779

pilky,
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@stroughtonsmith Save a bit of money and go for the Logitech case. It actually protects the iPad, the keyboard is detachable, and it’s quite a bit cheaper than the Magic Keyboard

gedeonm, to random
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Tesla has texted or called me at least 10 times in the last month to offer incentives if I lease a new car with them after my Model Y ends at the start of May. They are quite litterally desperate.

If I chose to re-up with them I could get quite a deal. I’ve told their reps multiple times I won’t support Tesla as along as Elon Musk is the CEO of the company. Gotta wonder how long Tesla shareholders will put up with him in charge. https://mastodon.online/@electrek/112201815082910986

pilky,
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@gedeonm I wish they’d hurry up with the EV2 rather than these large models!

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