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skrrtww commented on Bugs Apple loves   bugsappleloves.com... · Posted by u/nhod
skrrtww · 21 days ago
I have a lot of pet Apple bugs. Top of mind at the moment:

Why can't we adjust the order of photos in a Shared Photos album?

skrrtww commented on Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift   swift.org/blog/improving-... · Posted by u/timsneath
skrrtww · 21 days ago
This is pretty great stuff, I knew about the raw interop features but had no idea what API Notes offered. Quite cool.

I can't help but feel that Swift will ultimately be the "slow and steady wins the race" safe language of the future. Swift steadily working "first" on both tooling and cohabitability with existing ecosystems is a huge boon for adoption. It understands what an ABI is! If I were doing a greenfield cross platform application I think Swift would be the first thing I reach for now.

The qualms I have with Swift are mostly some of the more recent complex language features that can make Swift code much harder to understand and read, as well as the brainpower required to use Swift concurrency. That and some performance concerns, though many of those seem like they may be solvable with optimizations in LLVM.

skrrtww commented on SETI@home is in hiberation   setiathome.berkeley.edu/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
skrrtww · 22 days ago
Does anyone have a mirror of the old Mac SETI client? setiathome_mac_3_08.hqx? I'd like to see if I can get it running again on my old iMac. Either the OS 9 or the early OS X one would work.

I checked the wayback machine and the download pages are still findable, but the client downloads are all FTP links and don't seem retrievable.

skrrtww commented on Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512   dolphin-emu.org/blog/2025... · Posted by u/akyuu
skrrtww · a month ago
HN's auto-editorializing has tripped on "Report: " matching not just as a prefix but in the middle of the title as well.

(original title: "Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2512")

skrrtww commented on How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one   32bits.substack.com/p/und... · Posted by u/bbayles
pmarreck · 3 months ago
Looks like they got married in 1997

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1997/07/10/melissa-duffy-scot...

If indeed it's "Scott Elson Corley".

skrrtww · 3 months ago
The latter link is referring to different people.
skrrtww commented on Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software   github.com/Homebrew/brew/... · Posted by u/firexcy
skrrtww · 3 months ago
It's somewhat bizarre to me for this to impact "casks" but not "bottles". Bottles are all ad-hoc signed and presumably have the quarantine attribute removed manually since I do not see Gatekeeper warnings for bottles I install via Homebrew.
skrrtww commented on Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On   brianschrader.com/archive... · Posted by u/sonicrocketman
skrrtww · 3 months ago
I've had the same iTunes (now Music.app) library since 2004, with only one botched library migration with an iTunes update in like 2013. It has 40,000 MP3s or so. I still keep it on my boot drive too.

It's a treasure. I understand why most people don't do this, but I will probably forever.

A really significant amount of it isn't otherwise available on streaming services. While I'm an Apple Music subscriber, I still acquire my own mp3s for most of the new music I listen to.

iCloud Music Library is an immense value here as well. Rarely it will sync the wrong version of something in my library, but usually it's on the money. The fact that it doesn't cost anything extra on top of an Apple Music subscription is a huge boon, and it doesn't count against my iCloud data either.

skrrtww commented on Show HN: a Rust ray tracer that runs on any GPU – even in the browser   github.com/tchauffi/rust-... · Posted by u/tchauffi
skrrtww · 3 months ago
In Safari 26 on an M1 with WebGPU enabled I get "InvalidStateError: GPUCommandEncoder.beginComputePass: Unable to begin compute pass."

In Chrome I get "Failed to start: Failed to create State. Caused by: failed to find GPU adapter."

So I guess it runs on "some" GPUs, in "some" browsers!

skrrtww commented on Immutable releases are now generally available on GitHub   github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/fastest963
skrrtww · 3 months ago
Uh, does this apply to the autogenerated source code artifacts? Those are famously not stable because they are generated on-demand with `git archive`. The value of this feature is really undermined if they don't also provide a source code download with a stable hash.
skrrtww commented on Show HN: Cuq – Formal Verification of Rust GPU Kernels   github.com/neelsomani/cuq... · Posted by u/nsomani
nsomani · 4 months ago
Oh wow, honestly this caught me off guard - I've been pronouncing it "kook" in my head the whole time.
skrrtww · 4 months ago
If this was genuinely unintentional on your part, then bless your heart and I'm sorry for assuming the worst. You might be the least morally corrupted internet user alive today.

u/skrrtww

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