- zapzupnzProbably. The way nobody is calling that out in the thread is wild.
- Does nobody else think the responses from the person who wrote the code read like the usual sycophantic “you’re absolutely right!” tone you get from AI these days?
- Are you really lmgtfy-ing on Hacker News?
- I want a hot bath after a long day. I don't have one at home so you best believe I'm having one when I'm travelling.
- All of that is cool, but can this help get iOS 18 back on supported devices that have upgraded to 26? That'd be magical.
- The best way I've heard this described today is "he's high on his own supply".
- The article never once says "public locker room", it merely says "locker room". These are, presumably, parts of private establishments such as pools, saunas, gyms, etc. That is, one has to make the conscious choice to enter such an establishment.
Even if it's a publicly-funded establishment such as, say, a municipal swimming pool, the conscious choice to enter into such a place versus walking through an open street aren't comparable.
- > Nobody wants to change in a locker where they might be stared at as objects of sexual interest. I would not want to be nude in a changing room with homosexual men or women.
That sounds like a you problem.
Plenty of people around the world getting in the nuddy just fine, not thinking about such thing, not nearly as repressed as your post or tone.
- This isn't to dispute your assertion, but I think things are still quite a bit different. A lot of things provided by Foundation on macOS are still not available in Linux's Foundation, nor CoreFoundation, so one has to defer to something like Glibc — which, then again, is not available to the static Linux distro. On Windows, it's useful to use WinSDK to do things that Foundation would normally do.
There's all sorts of little things that Swift on non-Apple platforms just don't have yet. Little footguns because the Swift rewrite of Foundation isn't quite equivalent yet.
- Why not? Why wouldn't an open source project want their increasingly platform-agnostic language to be supported on as many platforms as possible?
- Swift on Apple and Swift on literally-everything-else are very different stories at the moment.
- > is it easier in theory to port swift to freebsd rather than linux? the facts that macOs has shared history with freebsd tells me yes
That shared history goes back a LONG way. The base components from FreeBSD that are in macOS are absolutely ancient. I think the most modern shared components are just the userland tools.
So I don't think it would make much difference at all.
- Providing a translation in English so people stop downvoting:
Writing programmes in Malayalam is something I've always wanted to do. I know that programming is primarily the language of mathematics, and it's just expressed in English. However, I've felt that seeing it in Malayalam would help in understanding things a bit more easily. At the very least, the documentation would be easier to read. There's no need to use Malayalam script for writing the programme; writing it in Manglish using Latin script would suffice. Only the description needs to be in Malayalam. That way, the problem of changing keyboards would be solved.
- > How long have you been using computers?
Since the 1990s, and I've never used an autosave system that worked that way.
- Vista, or rather Aero, never looked anything like this. It's glassy and translucent but that's where the similarity ends. The way the translucency itself is used is vastly different.
But also, yes, I agree. It didn't need to make a comeback. And even if it did, since iOS and macOS were already fairly translucent, it didn't need to be like this.
- I’ve never used an autosave system for general software like that, overwriting the file but keeping no history, before. Which one behaves like that?
- I generally agree with your points (and love TDE) but
> I don't use autosave either. I don't want the computer to assume when I want to save a file. The computer is too stupid to know that.
That’s why, with auto save systems, you flag/name a version as your canonical save point.
Rather like a video game, I’d rather have the autosaves and not need them, because I generally save the game myself, than not have them at all.
A computer can be helpful and obedient at the same time, when it’s done correctly and puts the user in control.
- So, if you have sufficient influence, you can get things moving.
What about those of us nobodies with no influence?
- > That’s the idea behind the new PostHog.com. You can multitask, open a few articles simultaneously, and move them around as you please.
No, I can't, because the way I please is to use Swish (https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/) to move windows around with trackpad gestures. Can't do that on your website.
- It's already on the App Store and meets all their criteria for a development app, so I can't see any reason why it would be blocked.