This is kind of implicit in "hacker camps".

ffmpeg docs include none of the protocols/file formats.

It would be equally "trivial" to say no to personal compute as well. So maybe the problem is manufactured by all of us.

A dollar is a dollar, and suppliers chose to screw over the world for not-even-profits: they would have sold the exact same number of chips if they changed how they prioritized delivery while making sure everyone got chips instead of just a handful of industries.

So, no: it's nothing like what you replied with and that was a rather dumb thing to say.

The first rule of Buddhist Fight Club is that attachment causes suffering.

  > attachment causes suffering

it also makes the economy go round (unfortunately)

You're not supposed to talk about it!

> Here's what I find genuinely strange. A patient doesn't lean over the operating table and tell the surgeon where to cut.

This is extremely funny given we're the industry full of folks that brought the world QS and longevity hacks, together with the peptide boom.

"But that is only because doctors don't keep current/have preconceived notions"

Which would never happen to designers?

Have PWAs stopped working on Android, or something?

Sure, our streets are shit, our legislators are actively trying to ruin the tech industry, we spent $130B on 300 yards of train, policing in large cities is a disaster, and the "best state school system" translates into an education level at 29th/37th country-wide, building housing is impossible due to the world's worst permitting process, but otherwise...

Look, I don't mind paying a lot of taxes. If there's service you get for it. And I'm deeply in the blue camp. But CA leadership (state/county/city) is still an utter disaster and needs to be tossed out on its ear.

Yeah I don’t mind Californians shitting on California, by all means, strive for perfection. But… have you been to eastern Kentucky? There’s levels to this.

Also, low key, visit eastern Kentucky. Gorgeous countryside, Red River Gorge. Genuine people, I once stayed in someone’s cabin over Thanksgiving and they insisted on bringing me a fresh Thanksgiving meal, a gesture I’ll never forget.

Wait, we created the unholy unity of troff and markdown?

Kidding aside, that kind of misses the point of either.

When reinventing markdown turns into recreating roff.

I feel like a lot of people don't know about the power of the roff suites and that it is installed by default on a lot of systems.

> Kidding aside, that kind of misses the point of either.

I agree, in my view markdown is good because it is simple, if you want to use a proper markup language use roff.

Most metrics teams are reasonably competent and are aware of that. Excepting "growth hackers"

I haven't been in a single metrics discussion where we didn't talk about what we're actually measuring, if it reflects what we want to measure, and how to counterbalance metrics sufficiently so we don't build yet another growthhacking disaster.

Doesn't mean that metrics are perfect - they are in fact aggravatingly imprecise - but the ground truth is usually somewhat better than "you clicked it, musta liked it!"

And yet, the observable evidence of changes in software that collect metrics directly contradict this.

Eh, there are a lot of cases where teams A/B test their way into a product that sucks.

No, you really don't. Apple would like you to use it (god knows why), but it's not necessary.

I feel like this needs a big asterisk. Can you ship a a non-trivial iOS or Mac app that uses SwiftUI or other first-party APIs without Xcode? Is it practical? Those are real questions, some cursory searching did not turn up a concrete answer.

Define "without Xcode", but if you mean "without using the IDE", yes, absolutely.

You obviously still need to use signing pipeline etc, but that can all be done via CLI.

As for "non-trivial", here are Chrome's build instructions for macOS: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/m...

Which contains the words "While using Xcode is unsupported" :)

It is possible and practical in lots of cases. And it's necessary to use the CLI tools directly in some situations, such as when deploying from CI servers rather than building by hand.

Is it possible for 100% of situations? I don't know, because I haven't tried 100% of the situations. And in one case I haven't figured out yet (AUv3).