Eagerly looking forward to sending this to the next LLM-obsessed person who breathlessly asserts ai is the only future, despite having no notable skills of their own.
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If you designed the new “liquid glass” iOS UI, I need you to step away from the computer, and then never return.
Remember when Google made all their icons look basically identical and everyone ridiculed them for it? Did Apple see that and go “hold my beer”??
Saw a quote from one of the designers talking about how they’d spent months on liquid glass to make apps feel “fluid and organic”
My dude, I would settle for apps that work properly!
Shiny ui isn’t preventing apps feeling “fluid and organic”, it’s that most have all perf and speed of wet cement.
“What if, for our UI overhaul, we made the worst possible design, but then launched it anyway, as a joke?” - Apple apparently.
God it’s awful. Who on earth, looked at that and went “looks mint, ship it”? And can they like, never be let near a computer ever again?
Thanks, I hate it.
Did they wake up and go “hmmm, yes, let’s make it as colourless and unreadable as humanly possible”.
Apples design team has a great opportunity to pull a late-season April Fools trick with this new “liquid glass” UX.
Any minute now…
Abstraction is catnip for the average-developer.
“What’s wrong honey, you’ve hardly touched the 15th new ai code editor I made you!
What’s wrong honey, you’ve hardly touched your agentic credits honey! The ai code editor honey! Think of the productivity! Why don’t you use my ai code editor honey!”
“ai” coding editor launches will continue until morale improves.
Someone who works on the title sequences at Apple TV really likes miniature things.
I raise you:
- a sprint preparation session, 1.5 hours, followed 3 days later by a
- 1.5 hour sprint planning session
- fortnightly retro
- all tickets pre-written-by-committee.
Imagine coming up with a world and aesthetic as stunning as the new #Marathon game.
And then absolutely wasting it by making a boring extraction shooter. How disappointing Bungie.
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LLM’s are the modern microwave.
Definitely option B.
I’m going to put seaORM in the bin.
What is the point of an ORM, if every single interaction takes more code, is less expressive, and offers fewer guarantees than the straight-sql library it builds on (Sqlx).
As serving as an example of “what kind of human not to become” I guess.
I understood that bit, I just wasn’t sure _why_ I’d want to be doing that, the error-> display example from the sibling comment was kind of useful, but I don’t understand why if you wanted trait B, or were given something impl’s trait B, you couldn’t just use it?
AWS Cloudwatch metrics is such a deficient and clunky experience I’m somewhat surprised they even bother with it as a product.
Can someone explain the new Trait upcasting in Rust to me please? I’m too dense to get it from reading the release notes, but there seems to be quite a lot of excitement around it.
If we have another 2 people, we could start in the middle and work forward from a quarter way through each!
Rust docs: “there’s a lot of things, but here’s exactly what this function accepts, and I’ve linked everything for you!”
Python docs: “it accepts an object. Bitch. What’s not clear about that?”
It’s an easy for language for beginners! There’s 1 way to do things! Ignore the 4 different ways to interpolate strings, wacky scoping behaviour, an async runtime seemingly nobody likes and murky documentation! What a language.
I used to write a lot of Python, and when I learnt Rust I found the docs initially confusing as I didn’t understand what I was initially looking at, once they clicked I found them suddenly _significantly_ easier. Navigating the Python docs alone should deduct points from its usability.
Don’t be silly, they’ve just neglected to type out all the leading zeroes!
Rust docs: “there’s a lot of things, but here’s exactly what this function accepts, and I’ve linked everything for you!”
Python docs: “it accepts an object. Bitch. What’s not clear about that?”
We had a game where this happened, it was called “BioShock”. I encourage anyone who thinks this a good idea to go play it and see how it turned out for everyone.
“C doesn’t have proper arrays”
Would be some solid bait material for your next post!
I wonder how feasible kernel-TLS or hardware TLS could be? I don’t know enough to be certain but possibly the Pi’s networking hardware doesn’t support offloading.