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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It took them a few years, if I remember right, though they did add the unlock-with-watch pretty early.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pulsar, the best code editor⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s open source though and they plan on adding Linux/Windows support in the future

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing OpenD⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Side note: Rust is the only of the three to have an ML-style type system, which is generally agreed upon as one of the most theoretically sound foundations. Also the point is that Rust does it precisely without requiring dynamic allocation, as opposed to Go, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attack of the week: Airdrop tracing – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not just add a timestamp that rotates every, say 5 seconds, to the hashed data?

  That would make it infeasible to precompute the table permanently (it would have to be precomputed for a very narrow attack window, which is still better than nothing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A nice example of this is Ardour: A DAW that’s free in the sense that the source code is GPL, but the prebuilt official binaries have to be paid for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How so? It’s a polished Unix desktop that runs most open-source and a bunch of proprietary apps, including Final Cut and Logic. It’s natively POSIX and has a proper shell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love Kotlin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP, but a pretty common reason is having a super-modular and hackable IDE. Everything is JSON-configurable, all editors are webviews, so adding stuff like HTML rendering in Jupyter notebooks is almost trivial from a technical perspective. Fleet might be a step in the right direction, but still feels like a layer on top of IntelliJ, which is a beast in of itself, plus it is closed-source.

  Also the approach of decoupling editors from the language support via LSP might be one of the biggest innovations in this space in recent years, IMO. Having a widely adopted and open protocol for language support effectively made Neovim, Emacs etc. a viable choice. It has spawned several high-quality LSP implementations, often directly supported by the compiler vendors, e.g. clangd.

  Arguably Microsoft has been monetizing a bunch of services on top of VSCode too and they haven’t always stuck to their own principles (see Pylance, a closed-source language server that only runs in official VSC builds), but the LSP itself was still a pretty big net positive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Swift does, though using the dollar sign rather than underscores

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love Kotlin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That article tells you how to set up syntax highlighting, not really comparable to IntelliJ…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best free (preferably FOSS) Rust IDE for MacOS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wanted to point that rust-analyzer is the fantastic language server that powers the language support, and it runs in a lot of editors (VS Code, Emacs, Neovim, …)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨D or d come on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all fun and games until you try moving a backup to a file system that’s case-insensitive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors'.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In principle you can, the Mach-O format is openly documented and implemented in the major compilers. The issue is that you need a sysroot (aka SDK) of the frameworks and headers for your target OS, which in Apple’s case are proprietary and cannot be redistributed legally (you could probably rip them out of a macOS installation yourself though). For iOS apps you’d also need to sign the binaries and install the app to the device which is non-trivial to impossible to do on other platforms.