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This is the usual argument against doing large infrastructure in the USA, and I think it’s kind of missing the point: the USA also has much larger financial and physical resources than those countries. We also have counterarguments: we have a universal electrical network. We built a large railroad network across the entire country. We have an interstate highway system reaching every continental state (and with “interstates” in Alaska and Hawaii as well, if I’m not mistaken). Also, universal telephone service.

I live in the heart of Silicon Valley, and I can’t get cell reception at my house. I have basic broadband, but I can’t get fiber despite being on a street where other houses have it.

I would be very interested in a comparison of what the citizens of each country have paid to fund internet service. US taxpayers have given the telecom mono/duopolies a ton of free money and right-of-way and the providers have broken every promise to provide universal service in exchange.

Various people tried the PC+ scheme in the US and had limited success. Tandy probably came closest.

Sinclair and Acorn were extremely ambitious. Acorn even sold an NTSC conversion of the BBC Micro in the US for a short time. My theory is they were undercapitalized.

> The pioneer of software dictatorship will probably make this impossible or illegal as soon as it gains any traction though

What does Microsoft have to do with this?

I don’t necessarily agree with the post you’re responding to, but the intent seems to be to criticize the lack of visual distinctness between elements, not the lack of pseudo-3D-style rendering.

AKA Epic’s only play with this lawsuit.

From the change log:

> Numerous patches were submitted to upstream terminals to support this functionality.

Yes, there are some people who simply prefer Objective-C, but you need to also realize that Swift is still not ready for system-level programming. Analysis tools aren’t ready; debugging basically means you go to printing variables to stderr and praying. The standard library defaults to crashing at runtime for simple float <-> integer conversion bounds errors which you’d think would be caught statically with more thoughtful design. Still a lot of rough edges.

SwiftUI in particular is excellent and if you can use it you should. But you can’t say Swift in general is ready to replace Objective-C. It’s not.

When templates are included, which I assume will never happen.

That sounds like a serious misunderstanding of the common use case to me. Have people on the C committee never understood the value of RAII in C++? It’s such a huge safety improvement for ensuring that, for example, a mutex is unlocked — or a file closed — on early return.

I’ve used them for almost 20 years in Ruby, several years in Swift. I do find them useful in those contexts.

I haven’t used the C2x version, but one thing I expect them to be useful for is self-documentation of enums representing bitmask values.

Does Apple have representation on the committee? Have they briefed anyone on this?

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/memory-safe-iboot-i...

Fair enough. I will point out there is no commercial entity that does better than Apple on any of these counts. Open source will only get you so far: every hardware vendor other than Apple has lower standards for labor rights and sustainability.

The primary input device to Apple hardware is the trackpad, so it’s kind of irrelevant. But two button mice have been well-supported since classic Mac OS circa 1997-1998.

You may not be completely familiar with them? The object model is fundamentally different. The syntax is vastly different. The runtime capabilities are different. Performance characteristics are different. (Ruby has less startup-time overhead.)

Subjectively, I’ve been using Python since version 1.5? on classic Mac OS — but I’ve never liked it much. Always feels like a struggle to do basic flow control. Ruby really clicked for me. The ‘_why the lucky stiff’ quote really resonates: it’s the language Buddha would have programmed in.

Probably not possible if you want to directly run a modern web experience on it. Classic macOS has effectively no memory protection.

Try that and let us know how battery life works out.

Because even in the best case scenario, you’d have to wait a half decade before getting that supposed 200%.

That’s assuming it passes at all. A bill must get actually passed by both houses of congress and signed into law by the president. Until then, it’s vaporware.

And then, once a bill is passed, someone has to enforce it, and that enforcement likely has to work its way through the court system.

Indeed, apologies for being terse. I suspect @nsxwolf understood that, though.

“ Gopher Protocol was created at the University of Minnesota for searching and retrieving documents. Its original design featured green text on a black background.”

Yeah. All you need to know about this article.

> The ACLU used to understand this probably better than most organizations and today, like much of CA and NY, they're lost

This is a line I've read from texts dating back to at least 1973 by conservative authors, nearly verbatim.

I think cultural mores change and conservatives have a hard time adapting.

Alternatively, they've simply been dishonest with themselves since just after WWII -- start with the nonsense about FDR allowing Pearl Harbor to happen -- because they believe the ends justify the means.

Eh. He worked with frogdesign, Paul Rand, Avie T., and a host of software people with strong opinions at NeXT. He wasn’t incapable of working with other people.

Out of curiosity, why not just use Notes?

(I’m aware there are legit reasons, but I’m curious about your scenario.)

Bob Harp is featured in the article prominently, so I'm not sure how it can be "potentially misleading" as to his role.

The whole point of this article is to highlight what was different about this situation. Bob Harp's contribution wasn't particularly unique! There were lots of highly competent engineers in the early PC industry doing stuff like this. Read Stan Veit's book or "Fire in the Valley" if you want more than you'll ever need to know about them.

You don't understand the purpose and value of headlines. "An engineer husband" is not essential to hook readers into the story. His contribution wasn't ignored in the actual article.

Mac OS X is proof that this can be done if you build a window system from scratch, without X Windows.

But I’m not personally on board the just-use-Linux train. There’s room for innovation at the kernel level.

Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice makes it quite clear that you can (and are expected to, eventually) change which thoughts arise in the first place.

SVN fixed a lot of the issues with CVS, FWIW; setup, maintenance, robustness were much improved. But, yes, git was a major breakthrough. Even if you ignore the advantages of a DVCS and git's raw speed, git provides the ability to branch freely, with reasonable confidence that you can merge without spending days reconstructing your divergent source ("merge hell").

If one’s going to argue about choice of first programs, a proper Hello World on classic macOS requires the use of the Mac Toolbox. Using the bundled Think C console isn’t really producing a Mac-native program.

iOS does not do this.

Here's a modern review of the original LG Prada, from the noted iPhone lovers at Android Authority. You be the judge.

https://www.androidauthority.com/lg-prada-1080646/

>The LG Prada was the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen, but there are reasons why you don't remember it.