"to just show text" is such a tell that you know nothing about UI.
Displaying text is extremely complex. This is only 8000 lines because skiaa does the brunt of the job.
Also, who gives a shit about TextView? Just use BasicText, we aren't in 2017 anymore.
I am always stunned that many (most/all) of these high tech gadgets lack a LOT of safety features.
I would pay extra for a drone with such safeguards. just the prospect of less chances of ruining it would be enough.
Similarly, eskates often have a regenerative battery charging while braking which is a great idea. but it also cannot handle charging while already full. So if you go down a slope while the board is full, it can decide to shut down and let you bomb down that hill. Which sounds like an insane pitfall.
Or what happens if the board loses its connection to the remote ? I would hope that it brakes progressively but similarly it just does nothing .. so up to you to find a way to stop.
It is such a weird blind spot to have. I don't think a car manufacturer would ship a product with this kind of blind spot, is that a culture thing ? regulation ?
Anyway, fingers crossed that somebody seizes these opportunities.
interesting, I will have to give it a look at one of these days ?
I heard about it but haven't played it. Looks like it was made from the same team as Ground Control, so this would be a tactics game (maybe a bit of a pedantic point to make though .. the 2 genres are closely related) ?
Indeed, it was not what I had in mind but removing the strategic layer would also serve as making these games more focused and hopefully less frantic.
I just watched a retrospective on 20 years of Double Fine. Tim had some interesting comments in there about how BL came to be. They were avoiding very hard to make or market the game as an RTS because the genre already had a big stigma at the time.
It might kinda explain the weird state of the game. It was definitely a fun and interesting experience but it was also flawed .. way too many games packed into one for its own good.
my hot take on RTS : I like the genre (or rather used to like, the last one I loved was SupCom) but I wish somebody would make an RTS with no/minimal macro. Controlling the builder/peons units is a chore at best and I would love to see it streamlined a lot. For example just ask for a building to be built instead of finding/assigning builders to the task and micromanaging what they will do next.
Dungeon Keeper comes to mind as a game that starts to go in that direction but it can be argued it is more a (very) fun management game than an RTS.
Probably not doable, we would lose a lot of expressivity in such a change. However, if there is a new RTS coming, I personally would love to see an innovative take on the genre, closer to Brutal Legends 2 / Sacrifice 2 (or as another commented posted, something emulating logistics would be another interesting avenue) than to the inevitable Warcraft 4 (for ios ;)).
I live without a car in SF, partly because I used to do the same in European cities :
- it is amazing to be able to walk / use public transport to go everywhere you need to
- I just don't like driving in cities. It is just a chore monopolizing my attention.
Still this is way harder to pull of here than it is e.g. in Paris. No subway system serving all the city here.
I am using an eskate to pick up the slack. If the market street project was already completed and we did the same for some other key streets, it would be 100% viable but in the city's current state :
- many roads are in a pitiful state. I haven't hurt myself seriously yet but I saw or know of many people who did.
- car drivers are extremely dangerous
100% on acceptance, culture scene and let's add food scene as well.
ah the old "I don't know anything about this implementation and why things are made this way but I would have made it 10 times better with half the resources".
Honestly it is almost funny how Google has been mostly unable to successfully launch new products while they have the capacity to promote them to virtually all of the global north.
In particular with Play Music .. not going to complain, I don't think that this market needs another FAANG product but wow, failing to promote that service is one epic blunder.
it is not like these 2 products were identical except for sideloading.
They don't have the same hardware, Apple has an unlimited ad budget, if you want to chat with somebody using iMessages, you are pretty much limited to iOS, you can't transfer app purchases between platforms, etc
It does not look like you can edit your uploads unlike with Play Music. Admittedly that's very probably a feature used by few people (although I know that for all of the people that use it, it is because of some very obscure track they are very attached to and can only listen to if they upload it, making it a must have feature).
And more generally, while I don't necessarily mind a rebrand (although I have to admit that this being Google, I have my suspicions that this will be handled the same way they handle all their messaging services) and I can be forgiving for a v1, this is still so far below play music that I don't really see myself using it.
I wonder how much of an advantage it is practice ?
It is one such toolkit among others, like React or Compose. It is different from making the whole OS open source.
I guess that since the benefit would be to make third party devs job easier, the incentive is not that great for apple .. devs will write mobile apps even if they have to write them in assembly.
stupid question : but is there any specific reason why swiftui is not open source ?
I am working with jetpack compose these days and it is both open source and documented. I am not sure how I would work with it without that, it is quite a big departure from the legacy ui api.
I distinctly remember a tweet from 4 years ago, "this presidency will be a test of our institutions and counter powers".
Well, this did not go _well_.
I wish a lot of luck to the Biden administration, there is a lot to rebuild. I might disagree on tons of policy topics with him but at the very least I can completely agree that he lives up to what should be the bare minimum for any president : respect the rule of law, be the president of all americans, not just the ones who voted for you, etc