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I agree that devices should work independently. But I believe the fundamental baseline should be open interoperability. Yes, the dishwasher should allow a delayed start from the ma…

I've always been interested in the concept of using the filesystem more thoroughly like this, but sometimes I wonder about the value of it, and if pulling on that thread could get …

Yes that's true, but there's effort to consider on both sides of design decisions like those TypeScript has made. Much of the compile time behaviour comes from the decision for Typ…

Because adding types adds constraints across the codebase that detect a broader set of mistakes. It's like saying what's the point of putting seatbelts into a car if they only work…

No tool is perfect. What matters is if a tool is useful. I've found TypeScript to be incredibly useful. Is it possible to construct code that leads to runtime type errors? Yes. Doe…

I wonder if there's a correlation here with new versions of iOS being released around the same time as new phones? Is it possible that OS optimization takes a back seat to bug fixe…

I'd argue that TNG embodies your guess in many ways - many of the corridor and living area sets look like relatively normal, comfortable spaces. The computer is exactly that sublim…

I don't see anything in the parent comments referencing or advocating for 0% tolerance speed enforcement. In the UK speed limits are typically enforced with a 10% grace factor.

Hey all! My team and I have been working on a fully integrated AI assistant for our Mattercraft tool. It's a 3D development environment for web content - our aim is to find an effi…

I wonder if, in the pipe dream that email were magically replaced by something more modern, we'd use something like markdown instead.

We do for some elements of our pipeline. WebGPU will give us more opporunity for this in the future too but right now we need broader device support unfortunately.

We have tight inner loops over large numbers of pixels - in some cases optimized to the level of careful register choice and SIMD

We do high performance computer vision in the browser (at 30/60 fps) that's an order of magnitude faster in WASM than JS. It simply would not be fast enough without WASM.

I feel that this is orthogonal to my point - it's not about how generous or not a given mechanism is, more to question why the App Store is any different from other transactions we…

Is this not what the credit card system (with chargebacks and liability shift) is supposed to counter more generally? Lots of these arguments could equally be applied to a shopping…

>The App Review Guidelines have been updated for compliance with a United States court decision regarding buttons, external links, and other calls to action in apps. These changes …

My understanding is it depends on the amount of visibility, plus what type of approach they were on. One type of approach, an ILS, has big radio transmitters pointing from the runw…

It would be my pleasure :-) Zapworks Designer - it's our no-code tool focussing on AR+VR. It's targeted at folks without scripting experience and is very much 'drag and drop'. Our …

Great work :-) Sending love from the Zappar team - we're firm believers that AR/VR needs more great tooling!

While Mattercraft has some drag and drop elements, it's predominantly a development environment for content, featuring TypeScript and NPM support. So it's a bit like a 'Unity for t…

x86 ASM is text but we don't build software by copying and pasting it. While the underlying thing we ship is CSS, that doesn't mean we can't add tooling layers to make it easier or…

It's my understanding that the browsers use a translation layer (such as ANGLE) between both WebGL and WebGPU and a preferred lower level native API (Vulkan or Metal). In this rega…

Thank you! :-D