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Arcticulate

@Arcticulate@toot.community

Male. Born and raised in Sweden. I’m a Swift-programming hobbyist, Linux enthusiast, promoter of MacOS-native apps powered by AppKit and SwiftUI frameworks. Mac owner since 2006.

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dimillian, to random
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Now that I have 36 GB of RAM I’ve discovered that those two just use as much as possible. The more you have, the more they use.

Arcticulate,
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@dimillian The simulator probably allocates a lot more GPU VRAM. That is always super nice.

Migueldeicaza, (edited ) to random
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Me: opens Xcode

Me: “ok nerds, watch and learn”

Me: chat.OpenAI.com

“How do I remove duplicate rows from a table where the id matches in swift using the c SQLite api”

Arcticulate,
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@Migueldeicaza If it helps, there’s this project which makes SQLite ”swifty”: https://github.com/stephencelis/SQLite.swift

Unless you want to avoid a third-party library for it.

Arcticulate,
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@Migueldeicaza Oh, interesting. Yeah, I guess there are good reasons why C is popular in memory-constrained situations … as long as memory leaks are avoided, of course, hehe.

dimillian, to random
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It’s been almost a month, and I’m unable to sit and play a video game. I get hyped about a game, I install it, launch it, and then get absolutely bored in about 7 minutes. Burnout is still good, tho.

Arcticulate,
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@Nicovel0 @dimillian Yeah, same here: ”Burnout is still good, tho” … said NO ONE. EVER. Oh, right, such as the third edition (Burnout 3), the EA game that was released for the Playstation 2 maybe two decades ago now? I still have my PS2 (tucked away) with a couple of games (my first ever DVD player like many other people in 2002 …)

christianselig, to random
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I am so proud of this visionOS YouTube app. Submitting today

Arcticulate,
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@christianselig It would be great if it made you a gazillion CDN in sales and I’m all on your side in using ”the iOS 6 strategy”, but didn’t Google part ways with 3rd-party clients?

jamesthomson, to random
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Glad to see that Brian Tong didn’t delete PCalc during his Vision Pro review!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPw6ScHyb4

Arcticulate,
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@jamesthomson The iPad doesn’t have a calculator bundled, but now I’m certain that Apple is going to make their own and bundle it with every device for free! It’s called … 🥁 … VisiCalc!

Oh wait ….. 😭

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@jamesthomson Supposed to be a 100 % joke, as I want PCalc to continue its success, if someone else missed the very old reference to spreadsheets.

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@jamesthomson Heh 😊

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@jamesthomson Well, I heard you had a bundle deal for PCalc a really long time ago, on the Mac? A particular iMac model, was it, with limited distribution or limited time deal maybe?

jorijn, to Kubernetes
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This is my new LinkedIn header image. Can you tell I do things with ?

Arcticulate,
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@jorijn Trivia: the first time I encountered the Maersk (Mærsk A/S) branding was when I was on a flight to Denmark with Maersk Air. I only noticed the containers a decade later or more, as an adult 😅

dimillian, to random
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Why should Apple provide all the tooling and infrastructure and collect no fee already?

Arcticulate,
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@dimillian Apple is a government you know. The users are its population. We pay Apple Tax, they collect it and give us job opportunities without fees on anything. Even iCloud with 12 TB storage is free. It’s great.

Apple liquids drained. Whoops! I guess Dell can go ahead and buy it now.

Arcticulate,
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@dimillian It was supposed to be satire, but I guess my reply looks legit by mistake. Excusez moi!

Arcticulate,
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@dimillian Oh no, not ”excuse me” in a douche kind of ”excuuuuuse meee”. Sorry, it’s like my mind translates my ideas into terrible text 🙂

christianselig, to random
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I'm really looking forward to a Vision Pro for development because nothing makes my MacBook hotter than running the visionOS simulator

Arcticulate,
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@christianselig I never considered that while trying out my own apps in the simulator. Guess it’s an advantage of having a Mac Mini M1 instead of a Macbook in the lap. On the other hand, I lose out on the portability aspect unless I use a remote desktop setup from an iPad (I do).

Arcticulate,
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@christianselig Oh okay, that sounds like an optimisation/efficiency issue to be dealt with in any visionOS 1.1 release, or more likely version 1.4 if it’s anything like the typical release cycles on iOS. I mean, a few minutes of usage … reminds me of my old legacy Macbook spinning its fans because of the Flash plugin in Safari.

Migueldeicaza, to random
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The vision hardware looks lovely, but I am more impressed by the depth of the user experience, the guidance to developers, the design system, the operating system and the tooling to support it.

Previous headsets have been cool and exciting (I own pretty much one of each), yet none got this level of necessary scaffolding in place, so the experiences are a mish-mash of half baked ideas.

We finally go from “this is a neat idea” to a viable platform.

Arcticulate,
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@Migueldeicaza Yeah, but, WWDC 24 better be about more than translucent windows and Capsule-shaped buttons. They need more features and performance boosts on SwiftUI for iPad and Mac.

dimillian, to random
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You can think whatever you want about X, literally whatever. But listening to some of my favorite streamers and content creators AND Elon Musk talk about one of my favorite games (and more) is WILD.

Arcticulate,
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@dimillian I will never forget his insane war on union rights in Sweden. He’s gonna lose, of course, but Tesla has lost more in brand loyalty and dirt.

jorijn, to running
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After returning from my run, I realized that I have been ignoring the obvious for quite some time now. My knee has not been the same since I had surgery two years ago.

It's now clear to me that I must consult a physiotherapist before proceeding with the rest of my training.

I'm quite disappointed about it, to be honest. However, prioritizing my own health is crucial.

Arcticulate,
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@jorijn We got all these scientific and medical advances, but there’s something special about knees it seems. I have heard several reports of people having knee issues and it stands out from other aches.

It almost sounded like I’m med-trained, but not at all. No doctor. I only diagnose and troubleshoot computers.

dimillian, to random
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We have a new @IceCubesApp icon from @louie, and I love it! It’ll be in the app over the next few days

Arcticulate,
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@dimillian @IceCubesApp @louie Really liking this icon! Btw, the app resets my selected alternative app icon after every App Store update. Well, maybe not the last time it updated … I’ll check that again on the next update.

nedbat, to random
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Tired of this: "learn C so you can understand how a computer really works."

So much of modern computers is not visible from C (pipelining, virtual memory, branch prediction, cache misses, etc).

I guess what they mean is, "you learn about pointers and consecutive memory locations"? How is that helpful for programming in other languages without pointers?

C teaches you an abstraction of computers based on the PDP-11. It's interesting, but it's not essential.

Arcticulate,
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@nedbat C (the little I know) and C++ (intermediate proficiency) never taught me how the computer hardware works. I think CPU-specific assembly is the teacher of that. C is key if you need to interact with the OS directly, or as I saw mentioned here previously: in the embedded space. You can use Python on embedded devices, too, as you may be familiar with. Not just rpi and clones, but tiny IOT devices as well. Assembly for ARM (v8/v9) and RISC-V might be useful skills ahead.

Arcticulate,
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@nedbat At least with specific models of CPUs based on RISC-V, there are very power-efficient CPU variants with very low performance in terms of Megahertz speeds and everything. I would never use Python on an architecture like that, because it’s too slow and a waste of resources in the most concrete way. (Disclaimer: I got zero skills myself in CPU assembly apart from the very early rookie knowledge l gained recently, about the 6502 CPU for Commodores, video game units, et al).

jamesthomson, to random
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So, if around 500 of you could buy a copy of PCalc on or before the 2nd of February, that would be great. Thanks in advance.

Arcticulate,
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@jamesthomson @sdarlington ”Heinrich did it!!” — paraphrase, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Already_Did_It

I’m referring to the ”I am rich” app for $999, but since it was before IAP was introduced, I guess you could be first (or early to the scene), had you in fact done that for real, which … you won’t 🤔🤨🧐😂

Arcticulate,
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@jamesthomson @sdarlington Maybe you already knew this (I didn’t): I thought apps couldn’t be sold for $999 anymore, but Apple apparently adjusted their pricing flexibilities at some point, to allow devs to request access to 100 more price points where $10k is available. So yeah, technically, you could add a $4k or other exorbitant sum in there, but Apple probably limits the acceptance of requests to certified healthcare apps and certain special enterprise apps.

https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/manage-in-app-purchases/set-a-price-for-an-in-app-purchase/

jamesthomson, to random
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“The status of your (visionOS) app, PCalc, is now Ready for Sale” 🥳

It should be live on the store shortly and is a universal purchase with the iOS version. So if you are reading this you probably already own it! †

† Vision Pro not included.

Arcticulate,
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@jamesthomson I was so ready to buy your app to get that Happy Me … err, cereals with a toy in it … err, a Vision Pro 🫢. Congrats on getting it launched! Now I know at least 1 of my purchased apps will work on the headset I might, maybe, some day own (who knows?). I’m guessing you want to bring a RealityKit version of Dice 🎲 as well, which utilises … ARKit?

dimillian, to random
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Are those pastas real?

Arcticulate,
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@dimillian Sorry if that was interpreted the wrong way. I went back and updated my text to better reflect what I intended to write.

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