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- Pico-8 now supports up to 32 on-screen colours at once. (Lexaloffle)
You can have two palettes of 16 colours and switch between them dynamically. It actually makes an appreciable difference. You can also logically rotate the screen and alternate palettes per column, if you want to be weird.
- Python may get a pattern matching syntax. (Infoworld)
Wait, what? Oh, case statements. Yeah, the Python community has been asking for those since before 1.0. Good luck.
- More on TikTok and 52 other apps that silently copy your iOS clipboard. (Ars Technica)
Also worth noting that iOS will share the clipboard between nearby devices on the same account, so TikTok on your iPhone can silently copy what you are doing on your iPad Pro. And once Apple merges in MacOS, well...
- Microsoft has done a Google, axing Mixer and closing all its retail stores. (ZDNet)
Not really a surprise since neither was a booming success. Apple stores meanwhile have mutated into an unpleasant cross between Starbucks and a downmarket daycare centre.
Disclaimer: Not that there is any pleasant cross between those two.
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Apple stores meanwhile have mutated into an unpleasant cross between Starbucks and a downmarket daycare centre.
In California, the Apple stores also serve as a training school for young thieves and shoplifters...Just like every other retail establishment in that state.
It is only a matter of time before retail stores adopt the automat format to minimize precisely this type of thing.
In California, the Apple stores also serve as a training school for young thieves and shoplifters...Just like every other retail establishment in that state.
It is only a matter of time before retail stores adopt the automat format to minimize precisely this type of thing.
Posted by: cxt217 at Monday, June 29 2020 02:47 AM (4i7w0)
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I can't find the final disposition of the case where Apple had a customer arrested for shoplifting and banned from the store for life because his "easypay" purchase didn't go through, even though he was able to show them the incomplete purchase on his phone.
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-j
Posted by: J Greely at Monday, June 29 2020 04:33 AM (ZlYZd)
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Apple already shares your clipboard between macOS and iOS if you have Handoff turned on.
Posted by: Matthew Dixon Cowles at Monday, June 29 2020 08:59 AM (irynM)
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So if you need to cut and paste a password on your Mac, TikTok on your iPhone gets to see it as well. Neat.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 29 2020 10:02 AM (PiXy!)
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Not my Mac though, since I don't have an iPhone, or TikTok, or Handoff.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 29 2020 10:03 AM (PiXy!)
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Rust's pattern matching statement has spoiled me, compared to the alternatives in all the other language I use. On the flip side, it has more footgun potential than I'd like in re: unreadable code.
Posted by: Jay at Monday, June 29 2020 12:17 PM (0jVI9)
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Handoff is just a bad idea poorly implemented. I swear everyone involved in the "all-Apple ecosystem" is a single workaholic in his twenties, who's never had a kid borrow his phone or tablet to play games, never received a personal text message while sharing his screen with a co-worker, never been a power-user of any application that's deeper than an iPad app, etc, etc.
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-j
Posted by: J Greely at Monday, June 29 2020 02:26 PM (ZlYZd)
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Jay, Crystal seems to do most of that too, though slightly more verbose since it's in the Algol family rather than the C family. You can match against a list of values, a range type, or a regular expression. It also has a nice syntax that makes the compiler check that you have explicitly matched every possible value.
Just waiting for it to reach 1.0...
Just waiting for it to reach 1.0...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 29 2020 03:35 PM (PiXy!)
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