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One year ago today, my daughter, Evelyn (3 yo at the time), was hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage. It feels like that event sent the entire world off kilter (and with the insanity of 2020, it's hard to not think that it really did).
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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“Miyamoto’s team had one phone photo’s worth of space”
With advanced HEIF compression that’s 4284×5712 pixels and ends up being ~2.9MBs. So 40KB is one 70th of a phone photo. Even if you crank compression up, a good quality photo is going to be bare minimum of 10x more than 40KB
I am so sick of seeing this alert. Every time I get a text message and open Messages, there it is and I hit “Don’t Allow”.
This is the way! Back up your iPhone to an SD card, secure & fast.
github.com/giovi321/ios-back…
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AI coding negates 100% of the productivity boost from SwiftUI. You have my permission to migrate back to UIKit.
Today, we’re excited to announce we’re bringing Instagram to iPad. 🌄
People have asked for this for a while, and we’ve taken the time to design an experience that optimizes your favorite parts of Instagram for a bigger screen. 📸
Enjoy! 🎉
about.instagram.com/blog/ann…
ALT Screenshot of Instagram for iPad. Shows the Direct Messages experience with conversations on the left, and the selected conversation on the right.
Anyone seeing App Updates not happening automatically (at least not at the pace they are used to), with or without BAR disabled?
Alright devs, now that we have an updated Clang it's time to take advantage of flags I've been waiting for decades for -- apply these 4 flags:
-Wswitch
-Wswitch-enum
-Wswitch-default
-Wno-covered-switch-default
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Today is a very sad day for the Apple community
Bill Atkinson has died at the age of 74😢
He was Apple employee number 51 and the principal designer and developer of the Lisa GUI. He was also among the first 30 members of the original Apple Macintosh development team. RIP Bill
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RIP to Bill Atkinson, one of the greatest programmers who ever lived. At Apple he created MacPaint, QuickDraw, HyperCard and was a critical part of making the Macintosh magic. He co-founded General Magic - go watch that documentary.
I remember my step dad getting me Visual Studio back in the mid 90s to foster my obsession with computers to get into programming. It had a tome and only VS Basic was available.
But then, at the end of the semester, we got to do a project with Pascal. It changed my life. I loved it, it “fit” me, and it was all I wanted to do.