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austinha

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Everything is temporary.

I care a lot about systems, particularly systems of technology and education. Fighting for liberatory schools and a free and open Internet. ᨏ

-10x SWE, TFA Alum, UW CS Alum
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daringfireball, to random
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Netflix Strikes Three-Year Deal to Broadcast NFL Games on Christmas Day
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/16/netflix-nfl-xmas

austinha,
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@daringfireball the kind of thing you’d hope Apple would hustle for. makes me wonder how close we are to streaming Apple Immersive Video

marcoarment, to random
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"The iPad Pro doesn’t need to run macOS, but the answer to why an iPad Pro can’t do something a Mac can do, shouldn’t be to carry two kinds of computers with the same M-series chips, with the same RAM, with the same storage, and do different things on each.”
https://duck.haus/@joesteel/112448850000669090

austinha,
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@marcoarment @joesteel a device is more than a SOC.

misc, to random
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Trying to build a system to scaffold your brain is such a tricky business, because you have to balance the tools available, how you want things to work, and openness to ways that might work better.

austinha,
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@misc NOW THIS IS RELATABLE CONTENT

misc, to random
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I just want an Apple Pencil Mini.

austinha,
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@misc for iPhone too, please!!

daringfireball, to random
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M4 Chips in New iPad Pros?
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/28/m4-ipad-pros-gurman

austinha,
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@daringfireball

❝ It makes little sense for a new generation of Apple silicon to debut in iPads.

i’m shocked to hear this take from you, of all people — if the M4 chips are ready, why would Apple wait to release new products with the new chip family? especially if the chips are key to a software feature likely debuting at WWDC?

also, isn’t it possible that the iPads were delayed from their earlier launch date because of issues related to the chips themselves?

daringfireball, to random
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Microsoft Open Sources MS-DOS 4.0
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/27/open-source-ms-dos-4

austinha,
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@daringfireball ❝ I am reminded once again that I somehow managed to get a computer science degree despite being utterly baffled by assembly code.

you should see my degree

misc, to random
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@austinha

austinha,
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@misc LMFAO

austinha,
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@misc this is the new “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”

hotdogsladies, to random
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Jelly pack.

video/mp4

austinha,
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@hotdogsladies easy.

austinha, to random
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@siracusa am i the first person to crop a Hypercritical tee?

thomasapowell, to random
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As an SWE Prof, I warn students about the MVP rush, that iteration can't fix releasing too early making you an R&D release for others and tainting initial users.

Today, I had a sad example with a possibly cool documentation platform, Butterdocs. It could be a contender, yet it lacks code formatting, code blocks, & has no embeds, so it is pretty much useless for its best target audience as it stands. 😢

TL;DR - Release software when it is actually ready not early because of start-up beliefs

austinha,
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@thomasapowell another way to frame this is that MVP must emphasize the “viable” part more than startup culture currently does

atpfm, to random
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579: Use Your Words
https://atp.fm/579

The US antitrust lawsuit against Apple.

austinha,
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@atpfm @siracusa i think you’re right that you can’t draw a direct line from the Microsoft case to the iPod, but what you can say is that the Web — the super app of the 90s — is what allowed the iMac (and thus Apple; the iPod) to exist at all.

austinha,
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@atpfm @siracusa i bring this up sort of tangentially because earlier you and @marcoarment were saying that the only thing allowing super apps does is shift the problem one layer up, but i’m not sure that’s immediately true. super apps just allow a layer of abstraction above the OS layer that makes the hardware and OS less sticky in their own right, and thus encourages competition more broadly.

austinha,
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@siracusa the point is that it creates competition underneath WeChat – i’m not saying i agree with the conclusions, but the argument goes that there is more smartphone competition in China because WeChat sits above everything else and people can switch underneath it. whether you think WeChat just becomes the next problem in the stack depends on your perspective. the DOJ seems to think the issue is the hardware for whatever reason (“performance smartphone”), so it is relevant to their argument

daringfireball, to random
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Apple Announces Intention to Support RCS Messages ‘Next Year’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/11/16/apple-rcs

austinha,
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@daringfireball
❝ Apple caving and deciding to support it will expand, rather than contract, the amount of messaging that is not E2EE.

won’t RCS just eat away at MMS/SMS, which is already unencrypted?

ctietze, to random
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Damn you Swift 5.9!!

austinha,
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@ctietze whenever this happens to me, i end up making it a closure that immediately executes :)

daringfireball, to random
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iOS 17.2 Beta 2 Includes Enables Capturing Spatial Video on iPhones 15 Pro
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/11/09/ios-17-2-beta-2-spatial-video

austinha,
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@daringfireball the question will be, for the long term, whether it’s better to capture moments in 4K or in 1080 spatial

stroughtonsmith, to random
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I think I have not-posted more things this past year than posted; so many conversations I just don't feel like starting, or participating in, anymore. It's just as cathartic to write it all out, then hit the cancel button

austinha,
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@stroughtonsmith my man is journaling 😫😫

misc, to random
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Just give me an Apple Pencil Mini for my phone damnit Apple

austinha,
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@misc THANK YOU YES

mergesort, (edited ) to random
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This is a big moment for ActivityPub and the fediverse. 1/3 of the internet’s websites are now accessible through ActivityPub, and while I prefer the technical aspects of the AT protocol this is great for the open web, and some very important momentum for ActivityPub. https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/11/wordpress-com-blogs-can-now-be-followed-on-mastodon-and-other-federated-platforms/

austinha,
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@mergesort you’ve mentioned liking the AT protocol better than AP a lot lately — this was my initial impression as Bluesky started opening up the spec, but have you elaborated on this anywhere?

kepano, to random
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here's what I'm using the Action Button™ for: skip forward

if you listen to a lot of podcasts and audio books it's great

austinha,
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@kepano NOT skip back‽

austinha,
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@kepano mail…kimp? mail…kimp? mail…kimp? mail…kimp? …

daringfireball, to random
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The Process Tee
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/10/04/the-process-tee

austinha,
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@daringfireball https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Diamond_(design_process_model)?wprov=sfti1

ctietze, to random
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There really is a small, well, startup?, called Make Sunsets that put aerosols into the stratosphere to cool down earth. https://makesunsets.com/pages/who

I am dumbstruck that they aren't already in jail.

Tech bros just futzing with the climate, I mean, why not right?!?! /s

austinha,
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@ctietze https://youtu.be/dk8pwE3IByg?si=0ebMjqEGM1gEw25h

mergesort, to random
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Cannot believe New York got flooded so badly, this is what my city looks like today.

austinha,
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