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samus7070

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iOS Swift developer with an unhealthy amount of Android and Flutter thrown in. Cycling enthusiast. Admirer of TTRPGs, sometimes a player, often times a GM.

  • Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3

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  • I have one of the Voltera dev kits. It’s not bad. It probably runs at almost the same speed as the m1 mini or maybe closer to the dev kit. The x86 emulation is decent. It doesn’t do well when running old games like Age of Empires 2 HD. For doing light development it is okay. The nice thing is that it is far more efficient than anything Intel puts out. Whether Qualcomm can keep the performance per watt to levels like the M series chips remains to be seen.

  • Recommend me a programming language

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  • People shouldn’t be down voting you just because they disagree and hate php. I’ve read that it has come along way in the last 10 years or so. People really like Laravel too. I wouldn’t put it on my list of recommendations personally but I get why someone might.

  • Intermittent MAUI Android issue - "The paging file is too small for this operation to complete (DOS error/errno=1455)"

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  • I don’t know the answer but I can say that it is strange to have your paging files use a RAM disk. The whole point of a paging file is to be able to use more extend the amount of ram you have by utilizing a physical disk. What you’re telling the os to do is reserve a bunch of ram for a disk and then if you run low on ram just put some of the data over here in the ram it isn’t allowed to use. Then when it needs the data in the padding file it will have to swap ram pages from memory into the other area of memory and move the needed pages into the non disk memory. It’s very inefficient.

  • Officers in Colorado are investigating an apparent altercation between Rep. Boebert and ex-husband

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  • She’s in her thirties.

  • What DID Apple innovate?

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  • The facts are that large companies rarely innovate anything major. They tend to buy up smaller companies that have taken the risk and succeeded. Look at Google and Microsoft and tons of others. It’s a problem with growing big. The forces that make a company a successful scrappy little startup die out in the name of organizational efficiency. If you want to know what Apple innovated you have to look at what they did in the 70s or extend your criteria to companies they have bought.

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    Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software

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  • People laughed their assess off at Bill Gates’s epic failed demo of usb on windows 95. Live on stage he plugged in a peripheral and the machine blue screened. No way in hell would Jobs have taken that risk.

  • Lessons in Chemistry

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  • I enjoyed it. The only thing I would say is that there wasn’t a lot of tension or risk of loss in the series. It was more a low key telling of a period in someone’s fictional life. It kind of left me wondering if the last episode coincides with the last chapters of the book or if the season only covers part of the book like what was done with Silo.

  • Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time

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  • The real crime is marketing the driver assist capability under the name autopilot when it is anything but that.

  • A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show

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  • More like banking and finance. Many of them have shipped jobs out of New York and elsewhere to cities in the DFW area like Plano.

  • Grok refuses to answer a prompt, says its a violation of the "OpenAI Policy"

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  • That’s already happening. What’s more is that training an llm on llm generated content degrades the llm for some reason. It’s becoming a mess.

  • M&M's on a bench... Mark

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  • Agreed on the M1. Anything entry level for Apple is decent but not really meant to push the envelope very far. I had a 16GB Mac mini and it served me very well for software development. I had to run multiple ram hogging tools at the same time so it did have pauses when switching between them. Other than that it was a beast. It held up well compared to my higher end MacBook Pro i9 with 32 GB Ram. The M1s run very cool. You’ll wonder if your machine even has a fan except if you’re doing a long intensive processing job. The M2s from my experience run hotter. I have an M2 iPad that I’m betting becomes thermally throttled just by watching Netflix. Not that it stutters, it just becomes warm to the touch.

  • A book recommendation from Google Bard

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  • Keep in mind these things don’t really know anything. They’re good at saying things that seem to fit the situation because that’s how they’re trained. They are like that person you may know that thinks he knows everything and will just say stuff that sounds right to them. The only difference is the ai is a lot more practiced than the human. Google’s llm may have some filtering done on the output to at least make sure that all of the books it recommends are real though it wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a fake one in the list somewhere. These things are prone to “hallucinations” which some lawyers found out the hard way.

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  • Baking recipes should be in weights for any dry ingredient. Converting them to volume measurements produces inaccurate results. One person may pack the flour in harder than the next. However baking requires precise ratios to be right. Change the ratios too much and that bread recipe just became a cookie recipe.

  • Real quick question about the "break"

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  • Yeah, it’s a bit on the extreme side for me. 10-20 is what I prefer. I find that if I follow that rule the code is easy to come back to later because the things a function does are more clearly defined. I can look at a higher level function and it’s filled with function calls like readX, createY and doThis. I don’t have to look at as many blocks of code and try to remember what the intent was.

  • Real quick question about the "break"

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  • It’s a highly opinionated book but it is full of good advice that in my opinion goes too far. Using a metaphor here, I think he wanted to get people to the moon but knew that he needed to give guidance to get to mars because people would look at whatever he wrote and think it’s too much.

    The book has several chapters discussing the SOLID design principles and showing how to apply them. You’ll be a better programmer for reading it. “Uncle Bob” the person can be a bit problematic so I don’t particularly like telling people to give him money. Try getting the book from the library or a second hand store. There are also videos out there of him speaking at conferences that may give a good taste of the material. He has a blog too.

  • Real quick question about the "break"

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  • There is a school of thought that break and continue are just goto in disguise. It helps that these two are more limited in scope than goto and can be considered less evil. If you read the book Clean Code by Robert Martin (it should be required reading for all developers), you’ll see that he doesn’t like functions to be very long. I think his rule is no more than 4 lines. I try to keep mine around 10 or less with a hard stop at 20 unless it can’t be avoided because I’m switching over a large enum or something. If you put your loops into functions then you can just use return instead of break.

    I did have a discussion with a teacher once about my use of early returns. This was when I had returned to school after many years as a professional programmer. I pointed out that my code has far less indentation than theirs and was simpler because of it and that it is common in the world outside of education. I got all of my points back he has deducted.

    You’re going to hear some good and bad advice from your teachers. Once you have a job check out what the good developers are doing and just follow them.

  • CEO Jack Dorsey tells workers he’s making it easier to fire them — There are reportedly no more performance improvement plans at Block

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  • The answer is always “laid off”. They don’t usually verify because the former employer will only verify that you worked there and your start and end date. They don’t want to open themselves up to slander lawsuits.

  • A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved

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  • Find a job you love and you’ll never work another day in your life. I believe that was Churchill.

    I enjoy the line of work I’m in. I don’t always enjoy the companies that I do it in. Some are much better than others. It’s fine to like or even love where you work as long as you realize that you’re in what could easily become an abusive relationship at any time. Do your time and do it well but don’t go out of your way to do it. That’s what I strive for.

  • CEO Jack Dorsey tells workers he’s making it easier to fire them — There are reportedly no more performance improvement plans at Block

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  • In my experience a PIP is just a nice way to say it’s not working out, go ahead and start looking elsewhere, you can stay on a while longer until you do find something else. With all of the tech layoffs over the last 18 months, they might as well just dispense with PIPs too.

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    Unlocking SwiftUI at Airbnb

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    A New Approach to Testing in Swift

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    Flutter Connection Videos, Material and Transcript

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    Issue 186 - Flutter Tap Weekly Newsletter

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    Swift 5.9 Released

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    Linux Foundation WasmCon Live Stream

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    FlutterCon Berlin Videos Now Available

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    July 2023: FlutterCon Recap, Dart on the Backend, New Flutter Developer Tools & Packages

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