Nick Statt (also: 9to5Mac, MacRumors): The situation soon changed after his laptop arrived for inspection. Suddenly, McGloin was told his MacBook was worth just $140, less than half what Apple originally quoted. The mysterious culprit: “display has …
Lees meerMiguel Ojeda: Please note that the Rust support is intended to enable writing drivers and similar “leaf” modules in Rust, at least for the foreseeable future. In particular, we do not intend to rewrite the kernel core nor the major kernel subsystems…
Lees meerColin Jenkins (via Hacker News, MacRumors): One of the selling points of upgrading to the newer, upgraded, and more expensive Peloton Bike+ was the inclusion of the Apple Gym Kit, an Apple platform that makes it very easy to pair the bike with your …
Lees meerDavid Smith: Useful pattern for aggregating the results of parallel work in Swift: let result = Array(unsafeUninitializedCapacity: count) { (buffer) in DispatchQueue.concurrentPerform(iterations: count) { (idx) in buffer[idx] = processItem(idx) } } …
Lees meerLouisa Stockley: According to Statista, WhatsApp is the world’s most popular messaging app, with over two billion active monthly users. In the UK it’s present on 58% of smartphones and the number of WhatsApp users in the US is expected to hit 86 mil…
Lees meerDaisy Ramos: This is all that’s needed to scale custom fonts with Dynamic Type. Sometimes in content-driven apps there is a need for web technologies for complex layouts / styles. Let’s see if we can support Dynamic Type and web-driven content via W…
Lees meerMonica Chin: But one thing is unique about the X1 Nano: it’s the lightest ThinkPad Lenovo has ever made. Starting at just 1.99 pounds, the Nano isn’t technically the lightest laptop on the market. But it’s still one of the best combinations of porta…
Lees meerJacob Kastrenakes (tweet, Hacker News): Discord is amping up its restrictions on adult content, with new age gates on NSFW servers and a ban on accessing these servers from iOS devices.[…]The NSFW marker does two things. First, it prevents anyone un…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: A number of those using my free utilities Ulbow, Mints and T2M2, and possibly others, have recently noticed a bug which prevents them from obtaining any log extracts. When you try to get a log extract or, in T2M2, to run a check on Ti…
Lees meerNafiul Islam (via Hacker News): With the deprecation of Java on the Mac, certain things such as font-rendering on retina screens became more difficult using the version of Java that Oracle released. In order to remedy this, JetBrains forked the Open…
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