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embedded3 commented on Tales of the M1 GPU   asahilinux.org/2022/11/ta... · Posted by u/rawrenstein
gjsman-1000 · 3 years ago
> Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person?

Man... if I was a conspiracy theorist who believed Apple was genuinely evil, what if Asahi Lina is an Apple employee? ;)

embedded3 · 3 years ago
Apple has pushed OS updates to help the Asahi team, though they did not publicize this, of course.
stoeckley commented on AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes   twitter.com/tibor/status/... · Posted by u/doener
skrowl · 3 years ago
Do you personally know anyone who has been using the same iPhone for 8 years? I find that claim dubious.
stoeckley · 3 years ago
I used an iPhone 4s from 2011 until end of 2018. Probably most remarkably, I never put a case or any kind of screen protector on it. The thing was still practically scratch free when I stopped using it. It’s still sitting in a drawer next to me.
stoeckley commented on Life after Heroku: What's a dev to do?   reaktor.com/blog/how-to-d... · Posted by u/s4i
michaelbuckbee · 3 years ago
No discussion of Heroku and the free tier should happen without the context of the massive cryptomining scheme that was directly targeting their free tier:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/massive-crypt...

Note, oddly the article doesn't state Heroku by name, but the network diagrams all do.

stoeckley · 3 years ago
> the article doesn't state Heroku by name

Heroku is mentioned in the first sentence.

stoeckley commented on Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf]   s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/f... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
spaceman_2020 · 3 years ago
I'm also surprised that they haven't focused more on giving businesses tools to communicate and sell to customers better through WhatsApp and Instagram. Whatsapp is the de-facto communication tool in India and LatAm from experience. Instagram is the de-facto discovery and social tool in India.

Yet from a business' perspective, the experience is really poor. Most have to rely on third party tools to sell and chat with customers.

stoeckley · 3 years ago
> Whatsapp is the de-facto communication tool in India and LatAm from experience

And much of Europe.

stoeckley commented on WhatsApp goes down for users globally   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/tomalpha
sergiomattei · 3 years ago
Latin America runs on WhatsApp
stoeckley · 3 years ago
As do many other countries. You really cannot live without it in much of the world.
embedded3 commented on What “work” looks like   blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022... · Posted by u/LordNibbler
embedded3 · 3 years ago
Rich Hickey talks about this, calling it "hammock-driven development."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

Aaron Sorkin has also touched on this:

> Most of the time, me writing looks—to the untrained eye—like someone watching ESPN. The truth is if you did a pie chart of the writing process, most of the time is spent thinking. When you’re loaded up and ready to go—when you’ve got that intention and obstacle for the first scene that’s all you need. For me at least, getting started is 90% of the battle. The difference between page zero and page two is all the difference in the world.

stoeckley commented on Blending Modes   typefully.com/DanHollick/... · Posted by u/clairity
mortenjorck · 3 years ago
This set me on an interesting trail. I haven’t found anything yet that links Porter and Duff to the modern blend modes as we know them, but I did find this 1984 SIGGRAPH paper they authored that appears to have laid much of the groundwork! https://graphics.pixar.com/library/Compositing/paper.pdf
stoeckley · 3 years ago
I don't know the history, but there is supposedly a fixed set of Porter Duff blend modes, specific algorithms. For example, this C++ library:

> Blend2D supports all Porter & Duff compositing operators

https://blend2d.com/

Also, the link shared by one of the sibling comments can be searched for "Porter" to see how they are referenced:

https://drafts.fxtf.org/compositing/

u/stoeckley

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