1. vsl Dec 16, 2025 parent

   Because GHA was stagnant and expensive and multiple services like https://www.warpbuild.com/ popped up, with better performance and much lower price. Looks like they ate enough of GH’s lunch…
2. vsl Dec 15, 2025 parent

   Yeah, the joys of mass ignorance.

   - Barely literate native English speakers not comprehending even minimally sophisticated grammatical constructs.

   - Windows-centric people not understanding that you can trivially type em-dash (well, en-dash, but people don’t understand the difference either) on Mac by typing - twice.

3. vsl Nov 19, 2025 parent

   > Why did they think this was a cyberattack and only after two hours realize it was the config file?

   They explain that at some length in TFA.

4. vsl Oct 14, 2025 parent

   The opposite actually: the market is growing, only Tesla sales are shrinking:

   https://electrek.co/2025/09/25/tesla-tsla-down-22-europe-whi...

5. vsl Sep 16, 2025 parent

   > Apple tells you why they rejected the app, and you correct the problem and resubmit.

   Such as, elsewhere in this thread, app for viewing HealthKit data “unnecessarily using HealthKit”?

   App Store rejections are arbitrary bullshit most of the time. We stopped shipping through MAS because of that and went direct-only, the 30% wasn’t even part of the decision; the bullshit and broken sandbox were.

6. vsl Aug 25, 2025 parent

   Polish and decent UI...
7. vsl Jul 23, 2025 parent

   Beta 3 walked it back and added frosting.

   Beta 4 went back again.

   As for being "sure" Apple will find the right balance, they never fixed usability regressions in macOS introduced in the last redesign. And they have ~10 weeks to fix all this.

8. vsl Jun 11, 2025 parent

   That’s security though, not mere bugs.
9. vsl May 21, 2025 parent

   ...or in 2020 (the year of the article).
10. vsl May 17, 2025 parent

    Give DeepL Writer a try.
11. vsl May 17, 2025 parent

    Same. Large companies keep freeloading and ask for support. They buy a single personal license and share it among employees. And it’s not some small shops from poor countries, where you can understand it, it’s (often German) enterprises…
12. vsl May 14, 2025 parent

    ...and Wise support became utterly terrible a few years back. I mean "failing basic reading comprehension" terrible, the level of incompetence shown in this article is par for the course.
13. vsl May 14, 2025 parent

    > Might be an EU thing, though.

    So is Wise:

    > All investment services are provided by Wise Assets Europe AS, incorporated in Estonia under registration number 16267372. Wise Assets Europe AS is authorised and regulated as an investment firm by the Estonian Financial Supervision and Resolution Authority under licence number 4.1-1/174. The registered address is Veerenni 24, 10135 Tallinn, Estonia.

14. vsl Apr 30, 2025 parent

    But people treat them as if they could. You can already see them using LLM output as "proof" in discussions...
15. vsl Mar 23, 2025 parent

    Major ones are enough. Linux and Darwin (that is, macOS and GNU userspace, really) differ sufficiently that you need to pay attention or limit yourself to POSIX. E.g. sed and wc burned me a few times with scripts that need to run on both.
16. vsl Mar 19, 2025 parent

    > Hard to follow this argument, not sure which companies in Europe "won't have to play by the same rules"...

    Nobody except Apple is required to make its new features available to competitors, from day one, no?

    > I hope this works out, it's ultimately to the benefit of the consumer.

    See iPhone mirroring on Mac: not available in EU. This was entirely rational choice by Apple given how small market EU is, and it's hard to see them handling any new deeply integrated features any differently.

    See also how GDPR worked out: clicking through bazillions of obnoxious banners and an occasional 451 error on obscure US websites that can't be assed with this nonsense.

    Thanks to overreaching EU bureaucrats, I will now also "benefit" by missing out on features that I would probably personally consider beneficial (just as do iPhone mirroring). Thanks I guess?

17. vsl Mar 19, 2025 parent

    *nix filenames are series of bytes, not UTF-8 (or anything else) strings. If a find replacement doesn't accept valid (parts of) filenames as input, it's a bit unfortunate.
18. vsl Feb 21, 2025 parent

    Not only that, they don't grandfather users and the price hike from old plans is enormous. They gutted the basic plan, so any non-trivial use goes from $10/mo to $60/mo...
19. vsl Jan 26, 2025 parent

    I didn’t even notice the typos when reading it... I did notice how well the text flows, how easy it is to read.

    I (not a native speaker either) probably don’t make that many grammatical errors, but I envy their ability to just write. I can’t do that, I struggle with every word in long form writing.

    These small errors are easily addressed with a final pass in e.g. DeepL Writer.

20. vsl Dec 28, 2024 parent

    > If you're trying to send from America, it's still the normal way to send a payment to Europe

    It’s not; SWIFT is, and that requires additional information not shown there (although some of it is encoded in the IBAN if you know how to decode it).

21. vsl Dec 9, 2024 parent

    No, these APIs are intentionally designed to be equivalent to hashing all data at once - i.e. to make it possible to hash in O(1) space.

    There's nothing "disfunctional" about that.

    "Incremental hash function" has a very different meaning and doesn't seem to have any relevance to what is discussed here: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/inchash-cs06.pd...

22. vsl Nov 19, 2024 parent

    > This setup prevents new entrants from competing just the same.

    Look at the new entrant browsers out there: all of them are based on Chromium. The existence of Chrome as an OSS project enabled competition in practice - the cost of entry is orders of magnitude lower when you have a mature browser engine at your disposal.

23. vsl Nov 18, 2024 parent

    Doesn't the volume+power gesture transition into BFU, i.e. be equivalent to power-cycling?
24. vsl Oct 18, 2024 parent

    Paddle. FastSpring.
25. vsl Aug 13, 2024 parent

    It's going to be a trivial amount of extra work. Packaging build systems (well, the mainstream ones: Debian, RPMs, ebuilds etc.) have the concept of runtime and build-time dependencies, so the maintainers will just need to add a few more packages to the build deps list.
26. vsl Jul 26, 2024 parent

    Yes, that was a surprise. It was nice to learn about another MoR offering, but this makes them uncompetitive with Paddle, who uses flat 5% + $0.50.
27. vsl Jun 24, 2024 parent

    > It's a huge market

    Approximately 7% of Apple's worldwide revenue: https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenu...

    That's hardly "huge" especially when weighted against DMA's fines up to 10-20% of worldwide revenue plus the uncertainty risk of interpreting DMA.

28. vsl Jun 24, 2024 parent

    See GDPR side effect of annoying banners everywhere even if I don't give a damn about my website visits information being processed, for how unintended consequences played out and made the web worse for everyone.

    For DMA specifically, see Apple withholding Screen Mirroring (a feature I would enjoy tremendously) from EU for fear (IMHO quite reasonable) that the vaguely written DMA could be interpreted as requiring them to open mirroring to 3rd parties.

    It's been just a few months and already DMA impacted my enjoyment of my devices, no?

29. vsl Jun 24, 2024 parent

    3. Improve x64 emulation performance for everybody. Windows 11 on ARM ships system DLLs compiled as Arm64EC - makes the x64 binaries run native ARM code at least within system libraries.
30. vsl Jun 16, 2024 parent

    Now think of the 2nd order effects: they paid money to collect that useful information. If it’s no longer feasible to create such high quality content, it won’t magic itself into existence on its own. It’ll all be just crap and slop in a few years.

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