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Awesome. I scanned through the renderer documentation. Automated tests for "nasty" patterns, very cool.

Looks like you put in effort to get the scaling (drawing) at pixel level. Very nice work, I hate it when I know I can get razor sharp text at native resolution. But then my eyes want something bigger, macOS upscales and I get a fuzzy picture...

Can you tell us more about the challenges in this area?

I've always done the opposite; getting the base model (maybe bump 1 spec), but then just stay current.

This only serves to prolong the suffering.

But what kind of job would that be?

Same here. I much liked split view and slide over. The current features made it such a hassle that I just switched back to single full screen apps.

If you want something actually more narrow, check out Anka/Coder Narrow.

Great find, it looks kinda silly now. But back then, they must've sold more than one.

I think I completely normalized that. I only remember that Duke said really cool things :-)

Another former Gravis Ultrasound owner here. If you hadn't jogged my memory, I'd have completely forgotten it.

This is also someone who any way try and prove they got out. Only claimed to.

Not only that, but we don’t know for sure that this person on X actually sold their $VOO and $SPY. They just claimed they did.

iPads in general aren't expensive, just the Pro + keyboard.

This year I wanted a new iPad but decided against the Pro and just got the base model which is extremely affordable, IMHO.

There's always OpenOffice, LibreOffice and friends.

I strongly advise the podcast "Robot Or Not". The hosts have very strong opinions on what exactly constitutes a robot, and readers write in with edge cases. It's been going on for a long time, so nowadays they also categorize other things.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/robot-or-not/id9979302...

https://open.spotify.com/show/4M2AELzmQy77FxaYZMl6e9

https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/robot-or-not/b911efc0-e2f6-0...

Nothing self-aware about it, it's just LLM output. I'm not trying to be flippant, I just feel really strongly that you shouldn't use words like "self-aware" about an LLM.

It greatly turned me off but then again as Dang has stated in the past, we need some of those to start up the discussion.

I’ve put that article on my reading list. Yes, I think it’s true that there are situations where the science is used to support “telling the story”. As a counterpoint, I got taught about the “illusion of learning”, where it’s pretty clear that a regular college lesson (teacher droning from a PowerPoint), retention is down the drain. So we teachers know that a good curriculum should incorporate repetition and exercises.

Now the question is, are these curriculi being rebuilt? Here in The Netherlands, yes.

Why do you say so? What is your experience?

I recently did a course on teaching bachelor-level education, and had to study a couple of books. They all seemed to quote their sources and I got the impression that they're rooted in science.

> Of course you have, when have educators cared much about best practices

Why do you say so?

This is not at all my experience, as a recent teacher it strikes me how much the teaching methods are supported by science.

In what sense?

Ooops sorry :-) Keep at it!

This is a question for the sake of curiousness; the article writer shot a couple of pictures of young black kids. I can't find any mention in the article, but is this just coincidence or is this commonly done becauses the darker skin is hard to shoot correctly?

Good one, yes. It was like that in Objective-C, and in the early versions of Swift. I know you know this, but it's useful to summarize for myself:

Basically inheritance is the wrong tool for this kind of stuff. NSMutableArray inherits from NSArray, so it can be passed to anywhere NSArray is expected (upcasting).

So you design your classes and expect them to be immutable, but you can't use NSArray anywhere. Because otherwise, it'll be mutable after all. You can do a runtime check as a workaround.

(I truly believe OOP should only be taught in computer science as a relic).

What is your experience with design done by students? Because mine isn't great. It's not bad either, but it's just... mediocre.

There are many. We have an online supermarket with an app (Picnic) who don't support iPad, don't support landscape, don't support dark mode, etc.

I bet it's due to product managers not caring about those.

Also, every iPad has a full window server. So any app that was available for iPad, should've been resizable in any shape.

I'm not a webdev, is that surprising? Or is it more something that you would have wanted or expected?

What if they add snakes?

Init can become a hassle. And I'm not the only one, I remember listening (to a podcast?) where Chris Lattner himself remarked that there were many nitty-gritty details to the init phase of objects.