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I’m part of a team of six iOS developers and we already have a 2-week cycle without any major problems. Most of our publishing cycle is automated except for the inevitable last str…

> The problem with this is that both carplay and android auto capture their own vehicle telemetry. So even though the car is not able to use your phone as a general data pipe, Goog…

> forced upgrade to iOS 26 No-one has forced you to upgrade. I’m writing this on iOS 18.

> win this war ASAP How can we define what this even means? I don’t think any of the naive initial aims were ever attainable - and the entire impulsive and irresponsible adventure …

> it was a skill issue on the part of the Spotify engineers writing the internal system prompt for their slop DJ Spotify are currently making a big deal about not writing any code …

How would you differentiate from how MacOS itself does this, without any need for third-party apps?

I’m paying over 40 dollars a month for YouTube but it doesn’t allow me to choose almost anything of what I see, despite trying hard to fine-tune my recommendations. I can’t permane…

> In Sweden it also almost never happens This just isn’t true, at all - electricity is regularly out for hundreds or thousands of people in Sweden because of snow. This year was es…

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> Not sure that "crisp" is a word I'd use to describe any part of the UK in autumn - probably more like "soggy" - but that applies to any season! From the gently self-deprecating n…

> Having a culture that produces happier people in worse circumstances doesn't make those people less happy The question is whether stoicism in the face of what most people would c…

> I’d never want to live in perpetual summer. Seasons brings joy Even this is a typical myth that I often hear from Scandinavians. In fact different parts of Spain (or England or F…

These measures are bullshit and often just come down to a prevalent societal ‘temperament’ that’s inculcated from birth. I live and have family in Sweden and the rest of my family …

I agree with you, but my point was aimed at people who might think that even a couple of thousand dollars would be too much to spend on a film camera, whereas used Xpans (with an u…

This is a great product, and without meaning to underestimate the value of a ‘makers’ project I really wish it could be manufactured at scale with a metal body and a mount that cou…

> Modern digital cinema cameras can capture dark scenes far better than the film stocks of the 90s and earlier. So set designers don’t need to blast light everywhere to have actors…

> Obsolescence for Macs comes when Apple decides not to allow your mac update the OS to the latest one. That doesn’t make it obsolete, at all.

Living in Stockholm I’m so envious of the way the Danes are truly committed to cycle traffic instead of the window-dressing we have here. This type of practical measure is unthinka…