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I teach bachelor-level software development. I like Unix in all of its forms. If you would like to contact me, email is easiest: bart at my domain: dutchvirtual.nl
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bartvk··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
I've always done the opposite; getting the base model (maybe bump 1 spec), but then just stay current.
bartvk··on New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
This only serves to prolong the suffering.
bartvk··on Claude Duet
But what kind of job would that be?
bartvk··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
Same here. I much liked split view and slide over. The current features made it such a hassle that I just switched back to single full screen apps.
bartvk··on Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers
If you want something actually more narrow, check out Anka/Coder Narrow.
bartvk··on Laptop Based on 6502 CPU
Great find, it looks kinda silly now. But back then, they must've sold more than one.
bartvk··on I love software rendering
I think I completely normalized that. I only remember that Duke said really cool things :-)
bartvk··on I love software rendering
Another former Gravis Ultrasound owner here. If you hadn't jogged my memory, I'd have completely forgotten it.
bartvk··on I sold all my SP500 yesterday morning
This is also someone who any way try and prove they got out. Only claimed to.
bartvk··on I sold all my SP500 yesterday morning
Not only that, but we don’t know for sure that this person on X actually sold their $VOO and $SPY. They just claimed they did.
bartvk··on Apple HomeView
iPads in general aren't expensive, just the Pro + keyboard.

This year I wanted a new iPad but decided against the Pro and just got the base model which is extremely affordable, IMHO.

bartvk··on Tiny Little Office
There's always OpenOffice, LibreOffice and friends.
bartvk··on "Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot
I strongly advise the podcast "Robot Or Not". The hosts have very strong opinions on what exactly constitutes a robot, and readers write in with edge cases. It's been going on for a long time, so nowadays they also categorize other things.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-or-not/id9979302...

https://open.spotify.com/show/4M2AELzmQy77FxaYZMl6e9

https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/robot-or-not/b911efc0-e2f6-0...

bartvk··on Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model
Nothing self-aware about it, it's just LLM output. I'm not trying to be flippant, I just feel really strongly that you shouldn't use words like "self-aware" about an LLM.
bartvk··on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
It greatly turned me off but then again as Dang has stated in the past, we need some of those to start up the discussion.
bartvk··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
I’ve put that article on my reading list. Yes, I think it’s true that there are situations where the science is used to support “telling the story”. As a counterpoint, I got taught about the “illusion of learning”, where it’s pretty clear that a regular college lesson (teacher droning from a PowerPoint), retention is down the drain. So we teachers know that a good curriculum should incorporate repetition and exercises.

Now the question is, are these curriculi being rebuilt? Here in The Netherlands, yes.

bartvk··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
Why do you say so? What is your experience?

I recently did a course on teaching bachelor-level education, and had to study a couple of books. They all seemed to quote their sources and I got the impression that they're rooted in science.

bartvk··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
> Of course you have, when have educators cared much about best practices

Why do you say so?

This is not at all my experience, as a recent teacher it strikes me how much the teaching methods are supported by science.

bartvk··on WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
In what sense?
bartvk··on Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?
Ooops sorry :-) Keep at it!
bartvk··on Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
This is a question for the sake of curiousness; the article writer shot a couple of pictures of young black kids. I can't find any mention in the article, but is this just coincidence or is this commonly done becauses the darker skin is hard to shoot correctly?
bartvk··on Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?
Good one, yes. It was like that in Objective-C, and in the early versions of Swift. I know you know this, but it's useful to summarize for myself:

Basically inheritance is the wrong tool for this kind of stuff. NSMutableArray inherits from NSArray, so it can be passed to anywhere NSArray is expected (upcasting).

So you design your classes and expect them to be immutable, but you can't use NSArray anywhere. Because otherwise, it'll be mutable after all. You can do a runtime check as a workaround.

(I truly believe OOP should only be taught in computer science as a relic).

bartvk··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
What is your experience with design done by students? Because mine isn't great. It's not bad either, but it's just... mediocre.
bartvk··on Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes
There are many. We have an online supermarket with an app (Picnic) who don't support iPad, don't support landscape, don't support dark mode, etc.

I bet it's due to product managers not caring about those.

bartvk··on Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes
Also, every iPad has a full window server. So any app that was available for iPad, should've been resizable in any shape.
bartvk··on Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes
I'm not a webdev, is that surprising? Or is it more something that you would have wanted or expected?
bartvk··on Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
What if they add snakes?
bartvk··on Swift 6.4 Released
Init can become a hassle. And I'm not the only one, I remember listening (to a podcast?) where Chris Lattner himself remarked that there were many nitty-gritty details to the init phase of objects.
bartvk··on Swift 6.4 Released
Except for the rules around init
bartvk··on iPhone Duo
I thought you were joking but that's interesting, I hadn't realized it was so wide. So I looked it up; closed, it's 84 mm while my 14 Pro is 72mm. That's quite a difference.
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