I... just did a complete rebuild of my Lightsail FreeBSD instance on 13.2! Sadness. Crying. Despair. Relief because FreeBSD just keeps running and doesn't cause me much trouble. :)
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Maintaining this app for iOS is HALF the work that Android is, we have a lot less Android users, and in general it seems like iOS users are just a better audience.
It really feels like there's no point to doing an Android app, just give those users a website, PWA if they're lucky. And with this change? Pfffff.
And I agree - it does all descend from Google's horrible tooling and ecosystem.
The code I write feels like a side-effect of what I actually do.
My take on what happened is that they decimated a good product in the name of "fighting misinformation" by surfacing content mainly from sites that had moderation policies of whatever sorts. Their way of effectively applying the same App Store style moderation across the entire web.
Things seem to have continued sliding downward in the years since. I won't be surprised when AI eats their lunch.
I guess it depends on how much functionality they pull over, but good chance it spells the end for my usage.
You can't say for a fact if he "gave it a go", and neither can I.
> As per Chris Lattner interviews, Objective-C 2.0 and latter improvements were the ground work to have a good interoperability story between Objective-C and the new language prototype that would be eventually be known as Swift in 2014.
Even if Lattner says this, it still seems as bogus to me as saying it's "objective c without the c." They're two completely different things. Swift is a language. Objective-C is a runtime on top of a language disguised to look like a language. They only say this stuff because people probably would have had a meltdown if they were blunt about what swift actually meant - foundational incompatibility. I'm sure their PR was informed by what happened with the massive amount of software that got lost during the Classic MacOS-Max OS X needs-to-be-rewritten transition.
To the point, I'm not sure what the syntax sugar they added to the 2.0 release had to do with the fact that swift still relies on message passing to access Foundation et al. MacRuby and PyObC used those same mechanisms to access the same stuff.
> Note that Apple already toyed with Java as possible Objective-C replacement, when they weren't sure if Apple folks educated in Object Pascal and C++ would be keen in adopting Objective-C
We know. Java was also just buzzyworthy to include in your OS back then.
But I too have a hard time trusting this.
First, because I feel that Swift has been a boondoggle that everyone was forced to accept and now it's just normal. I'm still not convinced Steve Jobs would have given Swift a go-ahead (release).
From the start, Swift felt like, as a language, that it didn't know what it wanted to say, with a big part of that coming from having just taken a kitchen sink approach to syntax and features. Looking at their same code, 4 lines of python becomes like 12+ lines. I'm not sure who this attracts.
More importantly, he clashed at Tesla. He left a gaping hole in the Swift Tensorflow stuff at Google. He also left Apple and promised that he would still be involved in Swift, until he got pushed out.
It's not that he isn't productive or brilliant, I'm just not sure I trust someone with a track record of being volatile as a great maintainer of a platform.
Overall, this appears to have the same markings of the Cappuccino web framework project.
I built a working concept of a mobile app and pitched it with a friend to FUTO for one of their grants. Project got declined, and the 2 months I spent developing it in every spare moment ended up going nowhere.
The failing to land a grant kind of killed enthusiasm. Project still builds, and oddly it’s still a viable concept. But it remains locked away in the confines of my SSD. :|
I learned programming with types (C++). Was then beaten over the head that types didn't really matter/yolo. And now we're back here again.
It could have always been this way. And for some, I'd imagine the type party never took a break.
When I still worked in an office, the grab and go section at the grocery market really helped me cut down on food costs/expenses. I use the grocery story grab and gos on roadtrips too. Bathrooms, massive food and drink selection (with alternatives to pop), good quality and at better price than you’d get from any fast food chain. Publix, Big Y, Meijers are all favorites for me.
I'm going to throw a bit of shade at Photoshop... remember how up through CS3 they actually did have a native interface? From CS4 and beyond it turned into cross-platform web gunk.
Always disappointing to see. CS2 and CS3 felt so fluid on Mac OS X.
The car market is extremely ugly right now.
This kind of shocks me.
When you go through macintosh garden and look at all the software (there were tons) a hefty enough portion of it looks like the 80s'/90's equivalent of AppStore fart apps. "Porno" apps with interfaces and interactivity that could have been constructed in Powerpoint.
So that (gatekeeping) didn't work. And then they extended the life of all of that garbage with blue box.
That said, even though I "know better" I actively choose to use Safari as a daily driver to avoid things like this. I'm a lot less worried about Apple's intentions, especially since Safari is backed up by all the profits they rake in from iPhone sales.
Writing good luck wishe from Safari to all you all chrome users out there! :-P
You're not doomed to sys admin forever.
One click of a button and your crying baby becomes solely _your_ problem. :P
Replaced them with lightsail and don’t have any of those problems, plus I can pick FreeBSD.
My personal best is 17 miles, but I can only do that if I ride a certain way and have my board configured in a certain way.
As the battery level dips, it gets increasingly difficult to stay foiling or to restart.
And no brand, none of them actually live up to their marketed ride times because it's so highly variate.
I get the need for alternative fuel sources, but I really don't want to have to figure these dynamics out in an automobile and am staying away from full electric cars for now.
Mine: https://bszyman.com/
Also relying on municipal water for mineralization is a bad argument. The minerals in water supplies is highly localized, or drinking tap water could leave you deficient in one or more minerals depending just depending on where you live.