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Gte, to random
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Weird tingly feeling in my chest. Feels almost like… a little faith restored? Feels good!

joesteel, to random
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It would be kind of funny if they did user-agent shenanigans to serve the single column view on iPads. https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112531738918828020

Gte,
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@joesteel Who’s Len?

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What a curiously dispassionate post on The Verge about their parent company signing a deal with OpenAI. It’s interesting that they posted about it in a way that lumps it together with the other deals and there’s no statement from The Verge’s famously opinionated leadership about what this deal means for publishing, journalism, and the open web.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/29/24167072/openai-content-copyright-vox-media-the-atlantic

Gte,
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@joesteel It’s not like OpenAI had removed headphone jacks, Joe.

hotdogsladies, to random
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Looking through old photos.

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Gte,
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@hotdogsladies I recognize Chris. Is that blurry one Woz?

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    Gte,
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    @schwa Can you do ugly voodoo with ObjC runtime crimes to work out what’s actually being done to the NSPopUpButton? It’s sort of crazy to me that even rebuilding three Pickers() takes any time at all. My guess is if it’s doing the Is Enabled checks for the items it needs to walk the responder chain and darkness closes in.

    hotdogsladies, to random
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    “Star Wars” had a wild teaser trailer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHk5kCIiGoM

    Gte,
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    @gruber @hotdogsladies For a thousand generations Helvetica typesetters were guardians of peace and justified text… before the dark times… before the Arial.

    lorihc, to random
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    Purple person🥳

    Gte,
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    @lorihc That’s the look of someone who knows what time it is.

    justkwin, to random
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    @jamesthomson pretends he didn’t give up on his childhood dream of being a games developer (-;
    https://mastodon.social/@jamesthomson/112492526436283564

    Gte,
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    @jamesthomson @pixel @justkwin You don’t need to understand them. You just need to know when to use them. Ship a game with a calculator as the About screen!

    glennf, to random
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    I don’t entirely understand who Republicans are performing for. The ones who are most in the bag for Israel, no matter how genocidal Israel is, and are currently yelling about antisemitism on college campuses, do not care about antisemitism or students or Israel as a state or Jews. Many of them are either overtly or covertly antisemitic. Who is the audience?

    Gte,
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    @glennf Themselves. None of the rest of the world matters to them. (Which isn’t strictly a GOP problem but more broadly cultural). Like wearing masks to prevent COVID infection, defending Israeli policy has become symbolic of a resistance struggle against some imagined threat. The purpose isn’t to play to anybody except their own audience. Nothing else matters and may as well not exist except as a target of their ire.

    Migueldeicaza, to random
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    Exceptional industry rant:

    https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112491333220209206

    Gte,
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    @Migueldeicaza @Patricia Everything I needed to learn about software development I got from Steve McConnell’s Code Complete thirty years ago.

    (Not entirely. But decades in the industry and I’m still convinced of its value)

    chockenberry, to random
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    Anyone who raves about the brevity and expressiveness of Swift has never written a framework with public classes, structs, and methods.

    So much public. And subtle differences between classes and structs.

    Gte,
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    @chockenberry I’m always dubious about brevity of expression being presented as a clear win. As for the visibility stuff—yes. But also I find myself in a situation where I want a C++ style “friend” visibility while knowing that’s a horrible idea. I only want it because making a proper module is going to be a pain in the codebase I work in.
    Like many things Swift the public interfaces requires you to spell things out across borders. (This is good but can be a burden)

    Gte, to random
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    I hadn’t heard of Windows Filesystem Tunnelling until yesterday. I was happier then. This idea is bananas. You can delete a file and make a new file with the same name (within 15s by default) and the NEW file will adopt the creation date of the DELETED file. This stuffs user logic into the filesystem layer to make atomic save operations work without changing user code. Horrible wild idea.
    https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050715-14/?p=34923

    Gte,
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    @siracusa Right?! I mean I complain about POSIX holding things back a bunch but, sheesh, this is a real Monkey’s Paw.

    Gte,
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    @jann So the “safe save”, or “atomic save” in Apple parlance, writes the file out to a temporary location first. If the write succeeds it then replaces the original file with the new one. This means you can’t have a partially written file if the power goes off while writing for example. The thing is instead of making apps use the approach they stuffed it into the filesystem and that leads to unintended consequences like this rename issue.

    Gte,
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    @jann That will preserve each write. What you tell it to modify will be committed to storage. When a file is big and requires many writes (which is common in large software) you may still end up with an incomplete file even if you’ve preserved each write made so far. Simply because the power went out before you’d finished making your updates.

    Gte,
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    @jann (And I’m using “power outage” here as a proxy for any unexpected failure that software must deal with to remain resilient)

    Gte, to random
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    @schwa Did you get the signpost thing sorted? I see the post in my timeline but it seems you deleted it. I’ve used it a little under Swift but may be able to help.

    Gte,
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    @schwa Yeah. A lot of that stuff is very C centric. Strings as offsets into Mach-o and that kind of jazz. The bummer with the shin stuff is you lose exact location of your call. But if you’re tracing an activity that’s probably a fair trade off for the functionality.

    Gte, to random
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    Remember when OpenAI claimed a founding principle was the ethical development of machine learning technologies? Can’t trust these types even a little bit.

    https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/

    Gte,
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    @counternotions Yeah. The legality of it is up to lawyers and the courts. Feels like using someone’s likeness without consent would have some sort of precedent. What I’m pretty sure of is that it’s a dick move and further undermines my trust in them.

    Gte,
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    @gruber @counternotions @kraigschmidt My guess is they’ll run the play book: pick a partner they trust enough for now and then do everything they can to remove the dependency going forward. My guess would be build their own cloud compute but focus on their massive distributed client side compute advantage.

    hotdogsladies, to random
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    Angus and Malcolm Young hit guitar strings so fucking hard.

    AC/DC - "Whole Lotta Rosie" (Live, 1977)

    https://youtu.be/CHo2EqDpK7g?si=rHOF31f9oxZ5lJBP&t=20

    Gte,
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    @gruber @hotdogsladies https://youtu.be/1T5_82U3JVo?si=4Yt8V0duFcCdX5wX

    Gte,
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    @gruber @hotdogsladies No argument here. I’m with ya. Star Wars was a long time ago and escapes time.

    dmoren, to random
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    Not going to lie: lately I’ve been wondering if any of my work—podcasting, books, tech writing—is really reaching people. But it’s all worth it on those days when some random listener sends an email out of the blue to tell me just how much I’ve affected them.

    Gte,
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    @dmoren I like you. Like. Like like you.

    stroughtonsmith, to random
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    ⭐️ I blogged: The iPad Pro Manifesto (2024 Edition)

    https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20240514-The-iPad-Pro-Manifesto-(2024-Edition)

    Gte,
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    @stroughtonsmith Great piece. Thanks for writing that up. Agree with much of this. One way or the other it is clear that a stagnant iPad OS is hurting the product.

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