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Ever since I read about Rodney Brooks and his idea of the Subsumption architecture I've been convinced that something like this is going on in our minds - likely with some other mechanisms too. It just clicks for me - I'm mostly likely completely wrong, but it's a pretty cool idea, and I've used it to create some really interesting simulations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture

I think it’s important to remember that you don’t have to wait until you retire to live your life. Finding a balance between your work and personal life is the most important thing to get sorted as early as you can. This looks different for everyone.

Sure you can climb a mountain, or cram in life experiences at 60+ if you’re in good health, but I think it’s better to do it as you go and enjoy your entire life.

Looks like a fantastic device. Any chance of getting these to Australia? I can’t see a shipping option.

I live in Sydney and we have a bunch of these on the street. There’s also one in my next door neighbours small back yard growing over my house.

I think I might be in the minority but I really don’t like them. The tiny leaves fall all the time and make a mess, and the purple flowers smell really bad and also make a mess.

Not only do they make a mess but they block my gutters and the roots have destroyed a lot of sewer pipes. I’d much rather see some native Australian trees planted such as paper barks or flame trees. I really don’t get the love affair with them.

An impactful thing you can do for your health is delete all of your social apps and disengage from the circus completely. I did that a couple of months ago and it’s improved my concentration and given me back a lot more time to do other things.

The small amounts of time add up, and the quality of all of your time improves. You don’t have to use these services, and we got along just fine (if not better) before they existed.

Interestingly they've gone for a UIKit approach on iOS. I would have thought for future proofing they would have gone straight to SwiftUI. In my experience so far the transition has already started.

40% seems disengenuous when it's essentially 0 on mobile...

A shortcut helps

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/71fea01c333341878e4355df52c...

This is wonderful, well done. The limitations you mention just add to the style.

Back in the late 90s/early 2000s I worked at a game studio. One of the things we got in to were DVD games - we built a tool that was used to create quizzes on DVD players. Feels pretty similar to this - lots of fun.

Thanks for this. I was going to do something similar because my wife and I can’t think of a name and we only have 4 weeks to go!

I’ve had a similar path to you. Whenever I’m having a frustrating experience with them I just remind myself that it’s better than it used to be. It used to take weeks to resolve things - now it merely takes days. The problem is that most of the time the frustration should have never existed.

This made me think about how we use the term 'over engineered' in our industry. In most industries it seems to be a good thing (i.e. space shuttle). In our industry it's synonymous with bad, unnecessarily complex code. We seem to have a knack of taking positive attributes such as clever, and flipping them!

Was a joy to do it while I was in lockdown. It’s a bit buggy but generally works if you have an Apple Music library with some albums added. If you have any issues just kill it and start again!

Thanks for the video I’ve not seen that one before. There should be a PR up on GitHub somewhere with my fixes (search kemalenver) and you should find it. We had some issues getting it merged. The work Robert and Tom did with it while at bloom was very cool.

Cinder is fantastic. I spent the start of last year fixing an old iPad app that was built with it called Planetary. It’s free on the App Store if anyone is interested.

By pure chance I ended up getting in touch with the original developers and a couple of museum curators from Cooper Hewitt who helped acquire the original code as digital art work. https://sebchan.substack.com/p/48-on-planetary-in-2020-curat...

It’s been a lot of fun!

Same as me. I really liked that too. I always read it as x becomes equal to y.

I’ve been working with iOS since about 2008. I haven’t touched core data for about 10 years...it’s not worth the pain.

For those interested in this series, you might also like Desert Island Disks, which is a series that's been going for about 70 years with over 2000 episodes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qnmr/episodes/player

It's a great listen for short drives and commutes.

At this point I actually prefer the cocoa methods of creating UI. This kind of tech also affects the architecture of the app that is utilising it - SwiftUI and the like seem to be quite prescriptive in terms of application structure, whereas with cocoa I feel that I have a lot more possibilities.

We managed to move our iOS CI over to this in a couple of days. Produces multiple independent builds based on branch names, signed with an enterprise profile for testing and QA. These are uploaded and shared via ms app center. It also produces our App Store releases signed and uploaded to the App Store via a regular developer account.

The process was mostly just changing out a Jenkins file to the GitHub yml and sorting a few issues that cropped up.

Thanks to everyone for your recommendations. There's some real gems here.

Thanks for your recommendations. I'll probably be using metal or vulcan for most of my work so I'll need to get an overview of those (I last did graphics work with OpenGL back in the late 90s), but I really want to get an understanding of all the fundamentals - your links will be super helpful.

Any chance you know the author? There's a few with similar titles.

You reminded me of this Sam Harris tweet https://twitter.com/samharrisorg/status/429007702803492865

One of his observations was imagining what a disaster it would have been if this finding had gone the 'other' way.

I don't think that attitude is unique to Chinese people. My experience is based on my name rather than looks. Whenever people from my father's country ask me my name, they suddenly expect me to speak their language - and then to tell me what a shame it is when I don't. I've seen the same for British Germans, Polish and Vietnamese too!

Thanks for the generosity:

kemalenver

Ah my bad, I misremembered a talk I heard once. I'll check out the book. Thanks.

It’s not puke inducing, but it is verbose. The language designers just took a different approach to how to write code. Just for some background, it came out at a similar time to c++. Both were designed to be a ‘better c’

One of the toughest experiences of my work life was my viva. The examiner picks at every hole in your work and you need to have an answer. Even if the answer is acknowledging it and proposing future work. It's a very useful experience, and when combined with the rest of a PhD, teaches you to be humble and accept that criticism of work is not an attack on the author. I still have nightmares about mine!