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@lucaslove Yes. But it's also terrifying how bad everyone's documentation has become.

I used to tell every coworker that they should read Apple's documentation instead of guessing how things work. I gave up on this.

Lukas Ehlers Stührk Mar 8

Christine Malec Mar 7

For the first time in my life on Masto, I read alt text that made me wish the person hadn’t bothered. After a wordy post, they wrote in the alt text field something like, “I don’t really want to write alt text and train the AI for free, but okay, person holding a computer.” I’m going to assume they didn’t think about what a slap in the face this was to me, and possibly to anyone else who relies on alt text. 3 Times I started an acerbic reply and deleted it, but I’m still seething, so I’m asking anyone who is so disingenuous to just not bother; you’ll create less hard feelings that way.

Lukas Ehlers Stührk Mar 3

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Mar 2

It is completely unfair to refer to Microsoft as Microslop, because that implies a small quantity of slop.

Lukas Ehlers Stührk Feb 24

Rebane Feb 24

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

https://lyra.horse/x86css/

Lukas Ehlers Stührk Feb 22

JA Westenberg Feb 22

Nothing more dangerous than a dude who just finished a book

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Lukas Ehlers Stührk Jan 30

@arroz The compiler catches it outside collections, though.

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Lukas Ehlers Stührk Jan 30

@arroz I might be misunderstanding, but did you mean compile time in the first sentence of 2)? Sendable is only checked at compile time. It's a marker protocol.

And because of this I'm not sure if I would say it's working as it should. This is very dangerous code as it's broken in a very subtle way: It will "cast" objects that are not Sendable. So they will be accepted in code paths that require Sendable. This will introduce concurrency bugs that are extremely hard to debug.

Lukas Ehlers Stührk Jan 23

Francisco Tolmasky Jan 23

One of the places AI has arguably been most widely deployed is law enforcement, yet no one has pointed to this as evidence of a coming “end to police jobs” like they do for all other fields. What a fascinating discrepancy.

Lukas Ehlers Stührk Jan 21

Skip Jan 21

Incredible news: Skip is now free and open-source for everyone!

Create fully native x-platform apps in Swift and #SwiftUI, with deep Android and #JetpackCompose integration, powered by the Swift Android SDK

Read more and learn how to contribute:
https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/

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Lukas Ehlers Stührk Jan 21

@jpsim I’d never have believed you if you’d told 2010-era me that a former Goldman Sachs executive would be the voice of reason.

And yet, this is both a good speech and a good policy.