colincornaby

colincornaby, 3 days ago to random

The problem with an “AI Newspaper” is I could just have an AI write me the same content and then I don’t need your newspaper. Human generated content is the selling point, not something to be optimized away.
https://beige.party/@Lana/112486025336993841

colincornaby, 6 days ago to random

Props to the guy at this coffee shop with a iPad Mini and a giant mechanical keyboard.

colincornaby, 14 days ago to random

Liking Apple’s new “Pathways” developer pages - and the Games Pathway is a pretty nice overview of developing games on macOS. https://developer.apple.com/games/pathway/

colincornaby, 26 days ago to random

Has anyone had success creating a SwiftUI FileDocument that is not directly backed by Data? I have some extremely large files I'd like to stream directly to disk and not fully buffer to RAM first. But it seems like fileExporter's only route is through FileDocument.

colincornaby, 27 days ago to random

Current favorite visionOS UI nuance - normally when you move a window it's one to one tracked directly with your fingers. But when you end a move gesture with open fingers like you're flicking the window away... the window actually continues moving like you've tossed it just a bit.

Such a wonderful detail adding a little bit of joy to the platform.

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craiggrannell, 1 month ago to random

Big test for the App Store: if someone submits an Apple II emulator. Apple has been quoted as saying the apps must be for emulating “retro console games” only. And yet:

1. That would be a stupid arbitrary distinction – and tricky in the 1980s. What is an Atari 400? A console or a home micro?

2. A (sadly dreadful) C64 emulator is already on the App Store, and no-one would refer to the C64 as a console.

Thought: I also wonder what happens if someone submits Retroarch or FBNeo?

colincornaby, 1 month ago to random

Actually - this reading makes it sound like my DOS emulator dream is still dead. You could actually ship emulators to the store before - but they had to include the ROMs in the bundle. This just makes it sound like games are allowed to download ROMs from an external server that is still under developer control. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/apple-now-allows-retro-game-emulators-on-its-app-store-but-with-big-caveats/

schwa, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

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colincornaby, 1 month ago to random

This just sounds like a cat and I already have one that won’t stop following me around the house.
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112208924342296554

colincornaby, 1 month ago to random

Colluding algorithms are also a problem in the housing market. Rental rates are determined by the same few data brokers that algorithmically determine the "ideal" rate for an apartment. Property managers get to finger point at third parties and claim they're not colluding - they're just doing what the computer algorithm tells them. But everyone is running the same algorithm. https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/28/24114991/algorithms-can-aid-price-collusion-doj-ftc-caesars

colincornaby, 2 months ago to random

I wish Siri had some sort of awareness that made it quiet down at night. Maybe using. A few factors - time, ambient noise, and volume of the request being made.

My wife was asleep and I quietly asked my office HomePod to turn out the office lights. Siri then booms “THE OFFICE NIGHT LIGHT IS NOT RESPONDING.” Wife is now awake. Thanks Siri.

colincornaby, 2 months ago to random

Interesting - I didn't realize that Qualcomm is using non TBDR/PowerVR derivatives in its ARM chips. Should make their architecture more friendly to existing PC games at the cost of performance and efficiency. It doesn't look like it has traditional on chip VRAM - so it may be kind of bandwidth constrained. https://www.theverge.com/24107331/qualcomm-gdc-2024-snapdragon-on-windows-games

schwa, 2 months ago to random

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colincornaby, 2 months ago to random

Spending the day doing paired programming in the backyard. Kind of disappointed. My development partner is way more interested in the birds than in AppKit.

colincornaby, 2 months ago to random

It’s weird hear politicians talk about TikTok posing a risk to American’s privacy when the reasonable solution would just be to actually pass data privacy laws that would affect all applications distributed in the US.

If Congress has to individually ban applications to protect American’s privacy maybe that itself is an issue. (Assuming Congress is even acting in good faith - and I don’t think they are.)

colincornaby, 2 months ago to random

After I changed jobs about a year ago I took a break from Swift Concurrency as I was working less on high concurrent systems. But I'm looking at Swift Concurrency again ahead of Swift 6.0. Anyone have any favorite guides on the upcoming changes and the strict checking mode? I'm started looking at Sendable but I feel like maybe it's about time for someone to write a Swift Concurrency book.

colincornaby, 2 months ago to random

At this point Portland is just the Bermuda Triangle for poorly built 737s https://www.koin.com/news/alaska-airlines-safety-concerns-cargo-door-pictures-portland/

colincornaby, 2 months ago to random

I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been any news of Apple throwing their hat into the ring for a Paramount buyout. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-no-longer-considering-merger/

danielpunkass, 3 months ago to random

Xcode/clang is so unforgiving ... in this case when it says "No matching function", it means there is no "NSLog" function that takes a plain C string. Folks who are used to programming in Swift will encounter this when returning to Objective-C.

colincornaby, 3 months ago to random

Anyone else feel is Vision Pro is a (very expensive) SAD treatment? Put it on I'm working during a sunny day on Mt Hood. Take it off I'm working in my dim office on a dreary, rainy Portland day. Somehow the fake sunny weather makes me feel more productive.

brunoph, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

This weekend I got SimCity 4 to run with minimal issues on a Windows 11 for ARM (which means it is emulating the game's x86 code), in a Parallels VM, in my Mac Studio. No major issues, except modifier keys don't record properly, and I'm unsure if it's a Windows, x86 on ARM, Parallels, or macOS issue.