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lol, in no way. The article has a call to action to try to get Apple to change course.

The author suggesting that indicates a total lack of comprehension to Apple’s plan and purpose/intention.

Calling for people to ask Apple to change this is like politely asking Opioid manufacturers to stop killing people. It’s profit. It has nothing to do with what’s best for the consumer.

My main point of the comment was not to explain the subtext of the article. It was to explain that the article just didn’t need to be written, and won’t change anything.

I can’t take this site seriously. It says it’s ‘not about’ the green and blue bubbles.

It is, and it’s largely that Apple has a vested interest in making their ecosystem look so much better in general.

If I’m texting my friends with an Android and group chat, etc; isn’t working properly - I will automatically assume something about Android is broken, because it works perfectly to my other friends who use iPhones.

Apple will never - ever - ‘fix’ this, because it’s not ‘broken’, it’s a design meant to create the illusion that iOS is the better ecosystem.

iMessage is one of Apple’s most valuable psychological tricks to keep people within the ecosystem, or convert others to join in.

This is a waste of a call to action.

It will be about as effective as praying to Rain Gods for rain. :P

Apple has a massive vested interest in not fixing this ‘problem’.

There’s also a ton of cross platform messaging apps that already have no issues when used with each other - including popular open source ones like Signal.

The websites’ creator has their heart in the right place, but their mind is confused. This is all intentional on Apple’s part. It’s genius and they know it. They will never willingly stop a plan that is working so very well.

>> What do you mean 'a thing'?

I meant ‘are they being produced anymore’, ‘would you still recommend them’, etc.

>> Also, the printer from your childhood was limited to black and whatever colour paper you fed into it, not black and white.

I wouldn’t have known - it’s not exactly like I was the person purchasing the toner, and I was simply told by my Dad that it printed in black and white only.

At that age, I was just grateful to be able to print my Winnie-the-Pooh fan fiction. :P

Are laser printers still a ‘thing’? I recall having one as a kid and it just wiped the floor against any InkJet printer I’d used - holy crap.

It was limited to black and white though.

GameHut, where Jon Burton, a developer from Traveller’s Tales; goes into extreme technical depth as to how they managed to pull of some seriously ludicrous achievements on the SEGA Genesis/MegaDrive such as the FPS section in ‘Toy Story’, or the supposedly-impossible transparent polygons in Sonic R for the SEGA Saturn.

If you’ve got the mind for it, Burton’s channel is one of the most fascinating I’ve been blessed to see. It’s an amazing achievement of sharing highly obscure technical detail for no reason but passion.

https://youtube.com/channel/UCfVFSjHQ57zyxajhhRc7i0g

I very much appreciate that your design incorporates the ability to use them wired as well.

While I’m out/in transit, of course there’s nothing particularly terrible about Bluetooth.

When I’m at home, however - I produce music a lot more than I consume it.

I also mainly consume music at home on my record players anyway, which obviously I don’t use Bluetooth for.

As any audio producer will tell you; the latency introduced be even the newest Bluetooth standards makes producing music in a DAW a frustrating experience at best.

I love the ‘best of both worlds’ headphones with optional latency-free wired support. I can take them on the go and use Bluetooth on the bus, I can connect a wire at home; and produce in bliss.

I would absolutely love to create my own headphones from the ground up sometime, choosing my drivers and cushioning carefully, and ideally modelling/3D printing my custom design, based on taking measurements of the shape of my head and size of my ears. (I prefer over the head headphones as even the most comfortable buds tend to hurt my ears after a short while.)

Sounds like a fun summer project sometime. :)

I wish that were the case - but it’s a significantly smaller fraction than it needs to be.

The largest fraction of the anti-transgender movement is clearly the American conservative Christian right, who has completely chosen to ignore human rights in favour of Old Testament values.

(Source: I’m transgender, and I’m terrified what’s going on in the USA.)

>> Korn >> Hippies/Woodstock

Pick one. You can’t have both. :P

btw I am a huge fan of both Korn (they are the best-sounding act I have ever heard live, Daft Punk included) - and the psychedelic rock that is far more appropriate for such a festival, like MGMT, the Flaming Lips, Zeppelin, etc.

I’m just saying even though they were popular ‘rock’ acts at the time, I’d argue actually that these bands fall closer to the ‘metal’ and ‘nu-metal’ genres.

Regardless, Fred Durst literally told people to destroy shit, and they did.

I mean…absolutely. The original Woodstock was as seedy as any other music festival. I used to perform at festivals as a semi-touring musician, but the culture, even at its best, is questionable. I quit when I found serious evidence of human trafficking going on at some fairly mainstream festivals.

But I mean, come on. People weren’t setting fire to shit. There wasn’t this massively widespread destruction of property, riots or violence in the original Woodstock. It was just sketch. There’s a huge difference.

That’s a fascinating perspective. Can I ask how this technology differed from 5.1 surround? I assume you must have had many more than 5 microphones?

I am positive it isn’t permanent - but damn if it isn’t awful, ugly; and the complete antithesis to Apple’s usually extraordinary design decisions.

He’s done the same thing with DONDA as well, essentially.

I know it’s Apple-only, but I find Interface Builder in Xcode to be an extremely similar and enjoyable experience.

Easter Eggs were, to me; part of the early charm of the weird aesthetic to 90’s software and web things.

It’s definitely a bit sad to see Easter Eggs be less common these days, but I do understand how it’s not always the best practice.

Question; because I just don’t know - is it possible to wrap a VST host/bridge in WASM?

>> Anything not checking all those boxes is interesting, but likely won't be "able to(n)" get a whole lot of "tracktion" from "avid" users. ;-D

They probably wouldn’t find that “Logic—al”…

(I couldn’t help myself, I’m a Logic user and you wrote it for me :P)

This a fucking fantastic site, it’s absolutely hilarious, and I’ve bookmarked it - I kinda unironically want to set it as my home page - but just a heads up that the CSS is broken for me on my iPhone SE2.

The images don’t scale properly with the rest of the site, they’re massive compared to the content.

That’s not the way it works, globally.

tomc1985 made an extremely valid point here, as any serious DAW user would agree - they did not imply the creator was an idiot, but that any DAW without plug-in support is, at best - a toy, and I will personally add that the concept of using a browser to record audio when latency and playback quality is already an issue with fully OS-native DAW’s.

Other than some side project just for fun, I absolutely see no practical use, application, or function the app can provide that Ardour (which is already open-source and free if you compile it) isn’t going to do infinitely better.

The author isn’t an idiot, quite the opposite, it takes a lot of effort to write even a simple DAW.

But the product makes no sense. The target platform is totally in opposition to the needs the tool requires to fulfill its purpose.

It’s like those people who run DOOM on their smart fridge. The creator isn’t an idiot, it’s just a waste of time outside of saying ‘I did this’ and nobody is ever actually going to choose to seriously play the game with that way.

There’s no need to be snarky like you’re being, it’s possible to make points without coming off like an asshole.

For all the hate it gets, I can confirm that Apple Maps does not exhibit this behaviour, and I also believe Waze doesn’t, as well; though my memory is hazy on that one.

Driving around in Northern Canada, as I am often wont to do with my partner; you’re without cell service at least half the time; and even when you do have cell service - data is very uncommon.

My girlfriend and I ran into this issue twice with Google Maps, tested if Apple Maps exhibited the same behaviour, and since it hadn’t - neither of us have actually used Google Maps since.

This is - of course - iOS-specific advice.

Hahaha, not for long; not on the front page of HN…I can see it’s got the old ‘Hug of Death’, but I’m curious to how long it lasted and how loud the result was.

This is nightmare fuel. I can’t even imagine what you’re going through.

Imagine that a company who created a game that was clearly a massive fad that stopped growing years ago, was unable to sustain that unrealistic growth.

It’s almost like it’s important to make business decisions off long term expectations, not short term miracles.

But then again, these are educated businesspeople who would know better than me…right? :P

Wow, you okay, man?

We are a bank. We make software used by millions of people a day.

We are a major company.

Lost your key, gatekeeper? :P

“I understand my permission herein overrides my listing on any state of(sic) federal do not call list and any prior listing on the do not call lists of the companies listed above.”

That’s disturbing. There is no way that’s possibly legally binding? Surely there can’t be a loophole this ridiculous in the Do Not Call law?

This absolute piece of shit has been telling people to ‘move states if they don’t like it’, like a racist who tells Mexicans to ‘go back home’.

I don’t think he gets that this is a human rights and, in particular, women’s rights; issue.

Let us women speak and vote amongst ourselves.

If you’re a man, don’t make laws for women. Let us vote on it ourselves.

Feel free to move to one of the many countries that embraces toxic misogyny. Thanks.

I work for a major bank in Canada; we are one of the largest companies in Canada, and we use storyboards. We are very serious about the work we do.

We are also working on SwiftUI stuff as well.

I’m baffled as to how this has been so downvoted. It’s just a fact. Been using SwiftUI for two-some years and while I use it for prototyping, when I actually want to get ‘real’ things done, I go back to UIKit quick as a bolt of lightning.

That’s missing the forest for the trees.

The outrage here is that they violated our basic rights as Women by suddenly overturning a law with no warning or input from citizens.

The further outrage is that they’re actually being revolting enough to chase after us for it.

What a disgusting, disturbing, revolting country. :( ‘freedom’, lol…