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Re:Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another on Friday February 14, 2025 @05:19PM (#43053727)
An update on this: I tried undoing the migration the next day, and it worked! Everything on my main account was restored, including the TV app’s 'Continue Watching' and Watchlist feeds. Kudos to Apple—the undo function actually worked, which was a pleasant surprise.
Re:Migrate purchases from one Apple Account to another on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:55AM (#43022964)
Be warned: I migrated an old Apple account to my main Apple account and my “Continue Watching”/Watchlist in the TV App got totally cleared. It also forgot every Apple TV episode I have ever watched.

Super frustrating and it won’t let me undo the migration right now either.

9.11 > 9.9 is true for software version numbers. For floating point numbers that is false.

ChatGPT 4o gets both of these cases correct for me.

Re:Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Thursday June 20, 2024 @02:55PM (#40741970)
It still fails to be the moderator of a WORDLE board. That is always the first test I do of these new models.
Re:Why C# coders should shut up about Delphi (2016) on Friday May 29, 2020 @08:38PM (#23357339)
MSDN's Channel 9 has quite a few talks/interviews with him [1]. I especially enjoy this one [2].

[1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Search?term="Anders+Hejlsberg"

[2] https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Anders-Hejlsberg...

Also, one of the hardest-hitting quotes from his book, Permanent Record:

"There is, simply, no way, to ignore privacy. Because a citizenry’s freedoms are interdependent, to surrender your own privacy is really to surrender everyone’s. You might choose to give it up out of convenience, or under the popular pretext that privacy is only required by those who have something to hide. But saying that you don’t need or want privacy because you have nothing to hide is to assume that no one should have, or could have to hide anything – including their immigration status, unemployment history, financial history, and health records. You’re assuming that no one, including yourself, might object to revealing to anyone information about their religious beliefs, political affiliations and sexual activities, as casually as some choose to reveal their movie and music tastes and reading preferences.

Ultimately, saying that you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don’t care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say. Or that you don’t care about freedom of the press because you don’t like to read. Or that you don’t care about freedom of religion because you don’t believe in God. Or that you don’t care about the freedom to peaceably assemble because you’re a lazy, antisocial agoraphobe. Just because this or that freedom might not have meaning to you today doesn’t mean that that it doesn’t or won’t have meaning tomorrow, to you, or to your neighbor – or to the crowds of principled dissidents I was following on my phone who were protesting halfway across the planet, hoping to gain just a fraction of the freedom that my country was busily dismantling."

― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, p. 208

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/71198843-permanent-rec...

Re:Behind the Burst Compiler on Saturday March 30, 2019 @04:43PM (#19531725)
The Burst compiler is closed source. However, if you import the Burst package [1] into your Unity project, you can see most of the source using ILSpy [2].

In your project, see the directory: "Library/PackageCache/com.unity.burst@<package-version-here>/.Runtime". The DLLs you'll want to inspect are: "Burst.Backend.dll", "Burst.Compiler.IL.dll", "burst-llvm.dll", "Smash.dll" and possibly the "Cecil" DLLs.

1. https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual...

2. https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy

Re:Visual Programming Doesn’t Suck on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @09:51PM (#19032204)
They added a visual diff/merge tool for Blueprints in Engine version 4.7 (See "Blueprint Merge Tool" here: https://docs.unrealengine.com/en-us/Support/Builds/ReleaseNo...)
Re:iOS 10 Security White Paper [pdf] on Sunday March 26, 2017 @01:52PM (#13962036)
Link?
Re:A trip down the League of Legends graphics pipeline on Thursday January 19, 2017 @01:34PM (#13438194)
They have a new client that doesn't used Adobe Air anymore.

When asked what technologies they use in the new client:

"HTML/JS/CSS for the UI, C++ for the core functionality. We're planning on publishing a deep dive blog on this during alpha, so make sure to keep your eyes out for it!" [1]

edit: "ggregoire" posted a better answer below [2].

[1] http://na.leagueoflegends.com/na/site/2016-season-update/cli... (See the comment posted by Riot employee "CapnBranFlakes")

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=13438077