lylejantzi3rd

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Comment · 2 months ago
It's how everyone with a smartphone learns how to write these days. Editing large blocks of text on a smartphone is still extremely annoying, so people get used to hitting send between every few words.
Comment · 3 months ago
I have a similar setup with 2 2016 MPB M1s connected to an LG ULTRAGEAR+ display via a UGREEN KVM and a Minthouz Dock. Switching between them got to be so annoying that I had to disable sleep on both devices using this command:

    sudo pmset disablesleep 1
You would think this would negatively affect battery life when the laptop isn't docked, but I haven't noticed much of a change. It's also nice to be able to shut the lid on a whim instead of trying to keep the lid open so my downloads don't turn off while I'm moving from one room to another.
Comment · 4 months ago
I agree that this isn't communicated well, but I think the idea he's going for has nothing to do with virtualization or containerization. It's reducing all application level actions to a sequence of events, complete with the data that would get passed in. That way, you can replay production events, complete with production data, locally for debugging purposes.

Unfortunately, that also makes this a PII security nightmare.

Comment · 4 months ago
That market is growing because of AI. Everybody I've seen use AI gets to a certain point where it breaks and they don't know how to fix it. They have a choice to make, then: ditch it and pay for real software that works, or pay somebody to fix it. Hopefully, they've used that AI generated software to create enough cash flow to afford somebody to fix it.
Comment · 4 months ago
How much does it pay, relatively? The last time I looked into jobs in the UK and in Europe, I could make more money flipping burgers in the US.
Comment · 4 months ago
I'm working on GPS tools to help support my current contract. I've found there are no good tools for tracing a route on a map and having a mobile device think it's traveling that route. I'm not just talking GPS coordinates, but speed, direction, motion detection, precise timing between waypoints, being able to play these trips forward and backward, step by step, etc. I'm talking time-travel debugging for GPS applications.

It's still early days, but I have a demo running. Unfortunately, it requires using a drop-in replacement library for CoreLocation. That alone may make it infeasible.

Comment · 4 months ago
It looks nice. Maybe I'll give it a shot.
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Comment · 4 months ago
I ran into some interesting limitations when trying to test a friend's trip tracking application.

I can record a sequence of events that includes just about anything the phone can do: lat/long changes, speed, orientation, changes in motion state (idle, walking, driving, etc), geofencing, bluetooth state changes, wifi state changes, etc. Everything timestamped.

But, how do you play this sequence back in a way that makes the app think you're taking the same trip again? I was hoping the OS (iOS and/or Android) would provide a mechanism for this. And it does, but only lat/long. Nothing else.

The missing information is very important when trying to debug what's going on in my application on any particular trip. Now, I know I can create my own version of CLLocation that will generate these events whenever I want them, but I was hoping to find a solution that didn't require changing application code to support. I would like to take my findings and create a product that can help people do this sort of testing and requiring them to switch out CLLocation everywhere it's used in their application is a difficult sell.

Comment · 5 months ago
I'm working on GPS tools to help support my current contract. I've found there are no good tools for tracing a route on a map and having a mobile device think it's traveling that route. I'm not just talking GPS coordinates, but speed, direction, motion detection, precise timing between waypoints, being able to play these trips forward and backward, step by step, etc. I'm talking time-travel debugging for GPS applications.

It's early days. I'm not even sure it's possible.

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