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therockhead
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About therockhead
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Comment #48159568
AWS Graviton has been steadily gaining share, a quick Google search says it's up to 20% now.
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Comment #47261480
The two day old account is an obvious hint but I got to be honest, the content didn't look suspicious on first read. I know you touched on it above, but what do you think triggered…
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Comment #44829944
Who’s left to buy the stuff they make if no one has a job ?
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Comment #43993237
I need to think about this a bit more, but I think I would love a thread feature in ChatGPT, so that it has the context up to the point of creation but doesn’t affect the main conv…
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Comment #43397169
> becoming more popular as propaganda by certain European politics and ideologists kicks in. So nothing to do with the new administration—interesting take?
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Comment #43361072
> People call Gruber an Apple apologist, but he's really not Agree and but it took me a while to realize this. He definitely gives them the benefit of the doubt, and but I think th…
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Comment #43176517
I wonder why they haven't tried to back port SwiftUI improvements/versions to the older OSs. Seems like this should have been possible.
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Comment #43175681
It's been a while since I last looked at SwiftUI on mac, Is it really still that bad ?
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Comment #43175440
I assume it’s because it’s from John Siracusa, a long-time Mac enthusiast, blogger, and podcaster. If you listen to him on ATP, it’s hard not to like him, and anything he does is b…
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Comment #43013284
> Do banks employ fewer people? Is it a smaller industry? No. Banks grew steadily over these decades. Profits may have grown but In Ireland at least, the number of branches have de…
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Comment #37695971
My two adolescent children each own second-hand iPhones, which they rely on daily as their most priced possessions. It's intriguing to note their complete disinterest in newer mode…
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Comment #34844232
> It’s not that useful for phone apps. If you’re building a large complex app that needs to be shared across multiple platforms, C++ is a common choice. Not talking about games her…
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Comment #34819392
Typically one month in Ireland.
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Comment #34592876
Is advised to use CRDTs for an offline app that syncs to a central server, such as a todo app like Apple's Reminders or Todoist? Can simpler methods suffice ?
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Comment #34403779
Beaglesecurity article just seems like a copy of Cisco original report. Any idea why they would post this ?
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Comment #34351032
The twitter account is private/protected, so can't read the announcement. What's the name of the app?
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Comment #31802727
Any ETA on mobile ?
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Comment #31617528
Are you confident it’s the wrong tool though? Curious have you tried web apps with framework such as Actix ?
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Comment #31612643
I disagree. If you want common code between all platforms (iOS/Android/Windows/macOS) your choices are pretty limited. Right now I work on a large codebase where C++ is used to sol…
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Comment #31606235
> If you default to Arc everywhere, aren’t you essentially just implementing a slow GC? Like I posted earlier, you don't do this everywhere, just some sporadic use where it makes l…
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Comment #31606195
> In async web frameworks you very rarely need explicit lifetimes, because the workload is mostly isolated - a handler gets an input from the request Was going to post the same com…
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Comment #31605582
>if you use dynamic `Arc`s almost everywhere in your code, Right but you dont have todo this everywhere, just some sporadic use where it makes life a lot easier. It doesn't have to…
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Comment #31605545
As someone who does Swift 9-5 and dabbles with Rust, this statement rings true to me.
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Comment #31422806
Yeah, I read a dismissive tone in your comment but that's on me, your question prompted some good discussion.
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Comment #31411118
I honestly don't understand comments like this, you know it's ok to competition in this space?