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Re:Cabel Sassers's (Panic) talk at XOXO 2024 [video] on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:53PM (#41884520)
The less you know about this talk, the more you’ll enjoy watching it unfold.
Re:Why Johnny Won't Upgrade on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:49AM (#24292704)
This! I came here to post something about Slack and their forced update. Click on a notification by accident and BOOM you have a new version with a new layout, even without shutting the software down. With every update they shuffle stuff around without adding much functionality. I guess the designers need to keep themselves busy or something. I hate forced updates like this
Re:Apple’s 2016 in review on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @09:28AM (#13309313)
Interesting read, thanks!
Re:The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:36AM (#13138640)
Reminds me of this XKCD haha https://xkcd.com/612/
Re:So you think you know C? on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @04:05PM (#12903939)
Yep, unfortunately a universal 'Network-Byte_order'[1] stil doesn't exist.

Things like this were especially a pain with industrial network protocols that we used in our applications during the transition from PowerPC to Intel on OS X. All the CFSwapInt16HostToBig() and CFSwapInt16BigToHost() stuff...

And earlier before I learned about '#pragma packed' it took me a while to find out where all these extra zeroes suddenly came from :-D

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Networking