holycrapwhodat
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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
> Apple has not approved any...
They've approved - at the very least - AltStore, Epic Games Store, Aptoide, Onside, and Setapp Mobile.
Comment · 2 months ago
There's an honest-to-god Tesla solar roof tile house in my South Bay neighborhood. They got them installed 5(+/-) years ago.
They look fine.
I don't know what their power generation is like.
Comment · 3 months ago
> The problem with Waymos is there's no human driver, so they'll adjust pick up and drop off in a way that could be dangerous for the passenger. A human driver isn't going let a passenger off into a dangerous situation.
In this situation, you absolutely can (and are encouraged to) press the support button in the car to talk to a human agent. They have the ability to tell the car to go somewhere it normally wouldn't go for any situation that humans can reason about.
Comment · 4 months ago
New NES were still available in the US through at least Christmas 1992, and in Europe deep into 1995, both selling alongside the SNES since 1991.
The final new international games were released in 1994, but Europe still got new games into 1995.
Japanese Famicoms were still being sold in Japan when the PS2 released. They sold more in Japan in 2001 than in 2000.
So no, calling the NES "retro" in 2000 wouldn't have made all too much sense.
Comment · 1 year ago
The verb "to herald" means to be a sign of something that is imminent.
But the noun "herald" literally means "official who tells the news"
So this still definitely checks out.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> WebKit was basically a hostile fork of KHTML...
WebKit has been a fully proper open source project - with open bug tracker, patch review, commit history, etc - since 2005.
Swift has been a similarly open project since 2015.
Timeline-wise, a new high profile open source effort in 2025 checks out.
Comment · 1 year ago
> This has... interesting implications for natives apps, at least at first glance.
Note: The fact that Web Push for Apple's browsers uses APNS and doesn't require any sort of developer account is not new to Declarative Web Push. It's how it's always been since Web Push first shipped in Safari 13 on macOS - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...
Comment · 1 year ago
Since there is no service worker required, if ITP removes the service worker, declarative web push continues to work.
I believe this is explicitly called out.
Comment · 1 year ago
The blog post documents a relatively long engagement process with the web standards process. Starting with publishing an explainer (pretty common for the browser engines), directly talking with the other browser engines and web developers at the W3C TPAC conference, making concrete proposals to the relevant web standards githubs, taking feedback, etc.
Can you elaborate on the carelessness here? What should've been more careful?
Comment · 2 years ago
Why is Swift interop needed for that?
C/C++ are first class citizens in Apple's toolchains, and Obj-C++ interop has been a well supported thing for 25+ years.
Comment · 2 years ago
But, you can still pair most types of extra controllers to it (including a set of Joycons), and the eShop is aware of games the few games that can only be played on a tv and warns of incompatibility.
Comment · 2 years ago
It is not USB-C powered.
It needs 100-240V, 50hz-60hz AC power.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Nearly all the combined work of humanity has been "lost to time," and society seems pretty okay with that.
Pre-digital age, preserving the combined work of humanity was actually quite difficult. The cost to preserve everything outside of "obviously important" artifacts would've been preventative (or even impossible) for society as a whole.
I believe many (if not most) folks native to the digital age believe that digital artifacts should be preserved indefinitely by default - as the cost in doing so is comparatively trivial - and laws in democratic nations will catch up to that.
If you buy a completely option-free $24,950 truck, there is no telematics/surveillance in their vehicle.
Which also means there's no remote app features that people enjoy.
The spirit of the vehicle is you can option out just about anything and DIY-it; very, very few "from the factory" options, but dozens upon dozens of DIY accessories from the factory.
Including a $275 telematics module - https://www.slate.auto/en/store/ACCIT010 - Which enables remote app features.
The current description for the module on their website:
> A plug-and-play solution that acts as a cellular bridge between your smartphone and your Slate vehicle, enabling features like remote access and battery pre-conditioning.
It's not clear to anyone exactly what features the module has to enable the above, or if it does more than all that.
Once the thing actually ships, there'll be manuals, and there'll be people hacking it to find out exactly what it both does and doesn't do.
And since it's a DIY addition, if you later become uncomfortable with what you added to your vehicle, you can remove it!