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> Opposed to iOS So you say that "[Android] wastes a lot of resources by being very inefficient in software as opposed to iOS". How do you measure that? In my experience, people wh…

Again, I was answering to: > You don't win the stock market or make the deadliest drone by switching to the cheap model The question is not "can you win with the best model?", it i…

Not that I disagree, but the average software before AI was more like a McDonald's. I have genuinely seen companies who were writing code a lot worse than what AIs produce nowadays…

> You don't win the stock market or make the deadliest drone by switching to the cheap model Really? How many times a small team has outperformed a much bigger one just because the…

> I think we put up with Fable's occasional hiccups because there's nothing better at the moment. Which was an argument for using every less powerful model since the moment they go…

> But the direction is clear, and it points at the camera. The obvious fixes are louder ones: a brighter light, an audible shutter, a clear signal when video is rolling. I wouldn't…

In a way it's interesting to confirm that threatening to invade militarily has an impact.

> The browser is obviously the most important software we use every day on our computers; it’s arguably the operating system of the Internet. Wait! I was not yet over Cloudflare OS…

> Just enable the debug mode to see what portion of your screen refreshes and repaints and stand back in awe while nothing changes and you still get hundreds of repaints. And you a…

I don't have issues with my Pixel running GrapheneOS in that regard. I have issues with goddamn banks doing that at the app level.

> Developing and maintaining a mobile operating system is a hugely expensive endeavor. I agree, it feels like trying to write a new browser from scratch. > The best option would be…

> I developed for android for a long time When was that?

Well microg is just the client side, but it still communicates with the Google servers, right?

I find it very weird that a free app coming from a university would not be open source...

Thanks for all the insights! To be clear, I didn't want to say that developing for Apple is impossible, right? I totally trust that once you know how to deal with it, it's fine. Bu…

Because "The Android of ..." is out of fashion?

I would have suggested CloudStorm :-). Or "COSIOS": CloudflareOS Is Not an OS.

I am confused... it's not an OS, is it?

At this point, this is just misinformation. There are interesting discussions to have about websites vs native apps. Not whether one is evil and not the other, but rather when it s…

To be very generous with the article, I would call it "confusing".

Dude, I build Linux distros from scratch. I know what the kernel is. I also know that natural languages are ambiguous, and that when people say "I use Linux" they mean "I use a Lin…

Right. For me I think it is a bit more general than "just" the IDE. For a start, it's painful to install the apps I develop on Apple devices: it's limited in number, so once in a w…

I guess it makes sense: it was helping them convert people to Gmail back then ("you can keep your current emails and handle them from Gmail"), but Gmail has been a quasi-monopoly f…

Genuinely curious: do you have experience with other environments, or mostly Apple?

Can we talk about SwiftPM still not having a proper package registry? I just don't get it.