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You can build and distribute apps (up to and including selling them on the App Store) in Swift Playground on iPad. The full iPad SDK is in there. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swif…

So many stores and (all?) banks require two-factor login now, where an SMS sent to a phone is the second factor. How do you cope with this?

Can you imagine a what would have happened if the car charging infrastructure would have used your regular 120/230V plugs? This isn’t a great example because, on the ‘other side', …

Will we be able to get pictures of this? I presume that if the answer is ‘yes’ we will do so, and I’d like to see some!

Weak, dynamic typing. Dynamic method binding at runtime (method calls really are message-sends). 'Traditional' object orientation with inheritance (although delegation and dynamic …

The article is arguing that your color coding is misleading because the ‘purpose’ of the tokens doesn’t seem to be what a plain English reading of them would suggest. They’re not a…

The article doesn’t argue that they do reason.

I don’t really have any doubt that these are ‘real’ - but the article author has, to me, a strange amount of confidence in video game ‘grading’, especially since he himself is an e…

This magazine only covers stories that are at least three months old.

You’re in luck! https://buttondown.com/hacker-newsletter/archive/

The worrying thing is that many supporters, and, I’ve come to believe more and more, many of the leaders and upper echelons of organizations on the right actually believe the exagg…

‘Q’ by the pseudonymous ‘Luther Blissett’ is a great historical fiction book about the period that really gets into what was happening in Europe in the 16th century. The Peasants’ …

Plane flights. I hope the ‘free internet all the time’ era that airlines have been threatening us with for a decade now never arrives.

I wish something akin to Japan's strict food packaging laws existed for restaurants. It’s just plain old false advertising, isn’t it? We already have laws about that.

Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_E

I don’t see the prejudice or jabs? The article seems pretty factual to me.

On (A), what I - and I am sure most of the commenters here (epically the ones that did not read the article :-) - am uneasy about is that, intentions of these researchers notwithst…

Our imagination is a figment of time.

I’ll leave it to other comments to discuss the societal and moral implications of being able to do this (which, I agree, ick…). On a practical level: We train an encoding model, a …

It kinda worries me that one of the big points here is that you can give non-technically-inclined users power by allowing them to build Home Assistant interfaces using Claude. In m…

I actually find it hard to read. Something about it is hard to follow, and I have to think very hard to keep the ‘story’ straight in my head. I keep having to re-read sections, whi…

I love that the top two (currently) replies to this claim that the Economist is ‘centric’ are one that’s arguing that it’s obviously too left wing for that label, and another argui…

I think this is a different problem. The page says that “browsers may split a QR code across lines” - but this isn’t split across lines. Experimenting, if I just type "[Q R]" (very…