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cellularmitosis··on Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
I cant even imagine trying to use the iOS SDK without autocomplete.
cellularmitosis··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Indeed!

I’ve also dabbled in this area http://leopard.sh/

cellularmitosis··on PID Control Challenges
I find this hard to believe. Even a humble arduino can do 34,000 software float divides per second. https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/506c878631f806cfe6f8...
cellularmitosis··on Show HN: Odin – the integration of LLMs with Obsidian note taking
Unfortunate choice of name, there is already a programming language with the same name.
cellularmitosis··on Lawrence Wright on Larry McMurtry
Came here to post this myself! TIL

https://youtu.be/qguICtJLTCI?si=rqmocnetOEXIq1X_

cellularmitosis··on UK air traffic control meltdown
The best approach is to simply print the error to the screen, rather than burying it in a “low level log” which only the software vendor has access to.

They had a four hour buffer until the world stopped, but most of that was pissed away because no one knew what the problem was.

cellularmitosis··on UK air traffic control meltdown
It made me think of the “put a traffic cone on it” denial of service attack
cellularmitosis··on Develop with Cocoa for Apple devices without using Objective-C
This isn’t so crazy. Apple doesn’t want developers creating a bunch of slow, bloated, interpreted apps.
cellularmitosis··on Develop with Cocoa for Apple devices without using Objective-C
> Which platform doesn't have Clang?

Darwin/PowerPC :(

cellularmitosis··on The worst programmer I know
And how would an experienced cowboy handle this situation?
cellularmitosis··on Mounting your iPhone on your motorcycle can damage its camera (2022)
I’ve been using a Chubby Buttons for about a year now and I love it. My phone stays in my pocket now. You can get them on Amazon.

https://www.chubbybuttons.io/

cellularmitosis··on “Green smoothie cleanse” causing acute oxalate nephropathy
Elimination diets are also common among IBD sufferers to identify which foods are making symptoms worse during a flare-up.

Diet alone is never enough to get you out of the flare-up, but it makes a big difference in how deeply you suffer.

cellularmitosis··on “Green smoothie cleanse” causing acute oxalate nephropathy
The lesson from Jobs is not "don't eat too much fruit", it's "listen to your doctors when they tell you to treat your cancer".
cellularmitosis··on The Secrets of 'Magnetic Rose'
While on the topic of “lesser-known gems which came before”, if you enjoyed 1995’s Ghost in the Shell, check out 1993’s Patlabor 2: The Movie. Many similarities both visually and narratively, because a lot of the same folks worked on both.
cellularmitosis··on Val, a high-level systems programming language
Might have a future in mobile.
cellularmitosis··on Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor
Why doesn't the state just purchase the IP from them?
cellularmitosis··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
Do any of these replicate evernote's web clipping feature? That was definitely the killer app for me.
cellularmitosis··on Web servers should refuse requests for random, unnecessary URLs
Serving an identical resource at all possible paths is no one's idea of following established conventions. That's what redirects are for.
cellularmitosis··on Zink brings conformant OpenGL on Imagination GPUs
Ah, sounds like this isn’t the same Imagination behind the MIPS SBCs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagination_Creator
cellularmitosis··on Web servers should refuse requests for random, unnecessary URLs
Accepting and ignoring doesn't lock you into anything.
cellularmitosis··on Web servers should refuse requests for random, unnecessary URLs
We can argue about the semantics of "wrong" all day, but the lesson here is that not following standards and conventions creates extra work for everyone downstream.
cellularmitosis··on /Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs
Hmm, clicking on the buttons doesn't seem to do anything?

Edit: oh, I see, the changes happen off-screen, "below the fold".

cellularmitosis··on Raylib – A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy video games programming
The Janet bindings work great as well. Lots of fun! https://github.com/janet-lang/jaylib
cellularmitosis··on Data-Oriented Design (2018)
it depends on the access pattern. If you are performing an operation where you need to access every field on each object, then yes you'd be better off with array of structs. But at least in games, it seems more common that you'd need to e.g. get just the x-y coords of every monster, in which case struct-of-arrays is better.
cellularmitosis··on Problems of C, and how Zig addresses them
In practice it only takes a weekend or two to pick up the syntax changes, and the benefits easily outweigh that investment.

Heck, the simple fact that type signatures can be read literally from left to right (instead of using the spiral rule) is enough for me to switch. https://zig.news/toxi/typepointer-cheatsheet-3ne2

cellularmitosis··on “Support for System V scripts now deprecated; will be removed in future release”
I mourn it. I've been typing '/etc/init.d/apache2 restart' for about twenty years now. Why change it?

Would it really be that hard to have a symlink from /etc/init.d/apache2 to /bin/systemctl and teach systemctl to do the right thing?

cellularmitosis··on The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)
What is that reason? (someone driving metrics to get a promotion?)
cellularmitosis··on Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout
It would be great if there were a mechanism which provided some transparency around the decisions being made by the mods. If I could see a list of all of the posts and comments which they have removed, I could get a sense of how reasonable their moderation is.
cellularmitosis··on Our Plan for Python 3.13
> Experiments on the register machine machine are complete

This is a worthwhile watch on this topic: https://youtu.be/cMMAGIefZuM

cellularmitosis··on Reddit Strike Has Started
What are they paying for? For the mod to look the other way for certain corporate spam posts?
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