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barkerjaon U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected

I think they were referring to the two wars we spent decades in that increased spending. OIF and OEF.

barkerjaon A suicide crisis among veterinarians

Do you know how much it costs to maintain and operate an imagining (MRI, X-Ray, etc.) machine? Do you know how much it costs to maintain staff (doctors, techs, office assistants, etc.)

As someone that used to think the same way as you, and then got to see other side of the business (my wife is a Veterinarian who runs an urgent care facility) —— it’s easy to think the way you do without seeing the costs incurred on the other side.

barkerjaon Apple has what it needs to launch its own Google replacement

> Apple lacks the server side chops to build super low margin services

https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin...

Has much materialized from this?

barkerjaon Apple has what it needs to launch its own Google replacement

I don't believe that would be possible. At worst, it could be locked behind an iCloud authentication.

barkerjaon Apple has what it needs to launch its own Google replacement

Apple Maps is actually really good these days. It doesn't have feature parity with Google Maps, but I don't necessarily consider that a bad thing. The core things: directions, POI and overall design are just as good, if not better than Google.

barkerjaon Apple has what it needs to launch its own Google replacement

It really depends on what and how you use it. I know that's not saying a lot, but Siri is genuinely good at some things, and incredibly terrible at others.

I know the same can be said about Assistant, Alexa, etc.

barkerjaon Ask HN: Why isn't Phoenix/Elixir more mainstream?

https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy

barkerjaon Show HN: SlackRevert, a Firefox extension to revert Slack's new design

I don't have the new design yet in any of my servers, but this sounds nearly identical to the iPad layout, which I've grown accustom to and don't mind.

barkerjaon Fanatics Is Building a Weird Monopoly over Sports Trading Cards

My goto these days is:

- homage.com

- whereimfrom.com

- neweracap.com

- 47brand.com

barkerjaon Pornhub Sues Texas over Age Verification Law

They are likely referring to features such as iOS' parental controls, which can limit adult websites.

To take things even further, some ISP providers provide parental controls which block at the DNS level.

Pornhub is correct; they shouldn't be the one doing the blocking or verification. Leave that up to those that have control over the devices.

barkerjaon Apple TV's MLS Season Pass subscriptions doubled since Messi's arrival in US

FWIW, Apple provides both national and local feeds for audio for games. It's not a well-known fact as it's kind of hidden, but while watching, there is an option to change the audio feed.

barkerjaon Elixir for cynical curmudgeons

Using escript, I am able to almost halve the startup time. But it's still ~4x slower than ruby.

  hyperfine "./derp"
    Benchmark 1: ./derp
      Time (mean ± σ):     241.0 ms ±   7.4 ms    [User: 146.9 ms, System: 170.8 ms]
      Range (min … max):   235.1 ms … 261.7 ms    11 runs

barkerjaon Elixir for cynical curmudgeons

> My biggest criticism of Elixir has been the difficulty of writing quick scripts

Curious what you find to be the biggest pain point(s) here. Is it runtime containment? Library access? Etc.

barkerjaon SMS traffic pumping fraud

Does Google/Android have the same level of integration?

barkerjaon Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences

Thank you for your contribution and for this video! Going to give this a try in the near future.

barkerjaon Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences

How's the svelte + LiveView integration been working out for you thus far? I still find a lot of issue with trying to do a bit of work in JS-land for things where I want to have no latency, but find it can sometimes be a challenge managing everything through various LV hooks.

barkerjaon FedNow Is Live

> I would love to see government IDs be available as a form of auth on the internet

This kind of already exists: https://login.gov

I have to use this to login to the VA.

barkerjaon Apple Maps Gradually Winning over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests

> Apple are total morons for not allowing crowd source of information on their maps.

This leads to false information and scams. There's a huge issue right now with Google Maps and airports; scammers update the phone numbers for airlines, attempting to scam users out of money.

Apple does provide business connect for business owners to manage their data on Apple Maps. It's slowly being used more and more by businesses.

https://businessconnect.apple.com

barkerjaon Apple Maps Gradually Winning over Google Maps Users, Report Suggests

I'm in a rural area and find Apple Maps is generally always consistent with the real life conditions when it comes to traffic and road closures.

iOS devices report the flow of traffic, they just do it in an anonymized way. I'm also seeing more and more user-reported events (the Waze-like feature now built into Apple Maps). Reporting things like speed checks, accidents, etc.

barkerjaon Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?hl=en&ref_t...

According to this support article, you can store original quality. Assuming that is what you meant by "lossless".

barkerjaon Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang

I believe it does. Elixir with quite a few Rust NIFs is my understanding.

barkerjaon Phoenix LiveView: Async Assign Pattern

Knowing the origin of the function is a huge benefit, but also imports create compile time dependency. In this case, it's not an issue, but when you're importing a lot of things across your codebase, it can become an issue.

barkerjaon Major Reddit communities will go dark to protest threat to third-party apps

How large is a "large portion"?

barkerjaon Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps

I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted, but if you have a better source for reading and discussing:

- TV/Movies

- Gaming

- Sports

- Technology

- Politics

- Mixology

- Lawncare

- Home DYI

Please tell me, because I am genuinely interested.

barkerjaon Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps

I am the same, but I often find I am a purist. I prefer the native apps for most all services (Reddit, Twitter, etc.).

barkerjaon Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps

I'm no fan of Reddit's management and the choices they've made in recent times, but I've yet to find anywhere else where I feel a true sense of community and source of knowledge.

Reddit is one of the first places I search for almost anything; if I'm using a search engine, it's almost always to "site:reddit.com <my query>".

barkerjaon Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet

I'm on Spectrum with 1 gig down, 25 Mbps up. It's not difficult to saturate my upstream.

barkerjaon Passage by 1Password: Add passkey support to your app or website

Passkey support has been on iOS since the release of iOS 16 -- so more than a half-year!

Google has actually had support for passkey for many many months now, but for whatever reason, waited to formally announce it until just recently.

Cross-platform is also already solved. See the FAQ directly from the FIDO Alliance: https://fidoalliance.org/passkeys/#faq

barkerjaon Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features

Does Google do on-device processing? Or do they have to pander to the lowest denominator, which happens to be their biggest marketshare?

If the answer is no, then does it make sense for them to allocate those resources for such a small segment, and potentially alienate its users that choose non-Pixel devices?

Also, if the answer is no, this is where Apple would have the upper-hand, given that ALL iOS devices run on hardware created by Apple, giving some guarantees.

(I don't know this answer, it's a legitimate ask)

barkerjaon Apple reports Q2 2023 results

> In many cases, they're not 'perfectly good'. Apple does backwards compatibility longer than most, but at some point, those old phones can't function as smart phones. Banking and health apps will require newer OS, and newer OS eventually means new device (for better or worse).

To add to this, each annual release of iOS does typically add a new feature or two that works only on the newest model(s). Sometimes, this is enough to generate an upgrade.

There's also a large amount of people that essentially "rent" their phone through a consistent upgrade pipeline via their carrier or Apple directly (basically never paying off the device directly).