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daaaaaaanon Abusing Talon to use my eye tracker in a project

Have you found any solutions that allow for eye tracking across multiple (2-3) monitors? I looked for something a few years ago, but couldn't find anything that worked with more than 1 screen.

daaaaaaanon Swift *almost* does a cool thing I want

I think uniplate does what this author wants: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/uniplate

Looks like there's a Rust crate too: https://crates.io/crates/uniplate

daaaaaaanon Ticker Tape Synesthesia

I get this too! I have to be really tired, lying down and calm. I always think of it as listening to the noise of my subconscious. Mine isn't continuous, more I can pick up nonsensical phrases every 10-20 seconds. I've never heard of anyone else having this!

daaaaaaanon Show HN: A keyboard-centric clipboard history app for macOS

See this site: http://nspasteboard.org/

daaaaaaanon Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta

That's an option (and probably the default option), but it's also configurable to not do that.

daaaaaaanon Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tells investors Apple's DMA rules are a 'farce'

I don't disagree, but it was enough for me to cancel my membership and just move to Apple Music

daaaaaaanon Spotify CEO Daniel Ek tells investors Apple's DMA rules are a 'farce'

I no longer trust anything Spotify says after they fought so hard to get support for home pod actions, Apple added those and years later they haven't bothered to implement that OR airplay 2.

daaaaaaanon So I Quit Spotify

I'm quitting Spotify because after all that whining about Apple not playing fair, they haven't implement airplay 2, or siri support on homepods.

daaaaaaanon GPU advancements in M3 and A17 Pro [video]

Weren't they the first product to ship the small form Toshiba hard drives?

daaaaaaanon Crafting Self-Evident Code with D

No, it's not. Refcounting CAN be a garbage collection algorithm, but in Swift it's deterministic and done at compile time. Not to mention recently added support for non-copyable types that enforces unique ownership: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...

daaaaaaanon Crafting Self-Evident Code with D

Swift doesn't have garbage collection.

daaaaaaanon UK air traffic control meltdown

I appreciated the Haskell examples, they aren't particularly hard to follow. How do you think those more popular languages got more popular?

daaaaaaanon Arduino raises $22M Series B round

and even though it has the capability, they keep refusing to allow a vim mode option.

daaaaaaanon Apple Music launches a Discovery Station to help you find new songs

I'm also curious about this. Spotify has refused to add AirPlay2 to their desktop app for years.

daaaaaaanon Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux

Mouse over the green window button, hold down option and you can maximize, and tile to the left/right of the screen.

daaaaaaanon Python 2 removed from Debian

This is a weird gate-keeping response.