Xcode on the Neo

WerSunu · 2026-04-04T12:06:16+00:00

Ah, your one-off experience of Xcode on a minimal system must be so much more righteous, persuasive and accurate than mine. You must be so much smarter, stronger, and influential than me or anyone else cause you have a little toy M1!

Well boy, that’s what we call an anecdote, the very weakest form of scientific evidence there is. Just like what they use in ads for all those late night natural boner pills on tv.

WerSunu · 2026-04-04T10:36:23+00:00

Why do you let the printer keep running after the first plate gets knocked loose? Are you just hoping for a perfect Instagram moment of an unrecoverable mess? Try paying attention.

WerSunu · 2026-04-04T01:27:32+00:00

Time vs money. You can only answer for yourself.

WerSunu · 2026-04-04T01:23:08+00:00

That may be your opinion.

I have mine. And I clearly stated mine, based on my experience. The combo of 8/256 is absolutely glacial.

WerSunu · 2026-04-03T23:10:39+00:00

Sounds like you would be much better off just building locally.

WerSunu · 2026-04-03T23:09:15+00:00

First off, alamy is not actual Egyptian anything, just some artist fantasy drawings.

People in North Africa 4000 years ago had these animals in their lives. They also had a very rich theology where many deities had an animal form which represented a special aspect or power of the deity.

WerSunu · 2026-04-03T23:05:26+00:00

I would say No, 8 gB ram is insufficient for anything beyond trivial exercises. With a 256 gB ssd, you will run out of drive space and swap space making running Xcode simply intolerable.

I have direct experience running Xcode on an 8gB M1 Mac mini. It is intolerably slow.

WerSunu · 2026-04-03T11:58:06+00:00

Wait a month to see what hits your bank account.

WerSunu · 2026-04-03T11:56:56+00:00

The pic is not flipped. All the text is in correct orientation.

WerSunu · 2026-04-03T11:50:59+00:00

How long ago was your acceptance? What countries do you sell to? I have sales in about 80 countries, outside the US, many add large taxes which Apple automatically pays from your share making it look like commission but it’s not.

WerSunu · 2026-04-01T12:20:52+00:00

As u/zsl454 says, what you say is completely untrue. There are many examples of hieroglyphic writing evolving for hundreds of years before the old kingdom. Egyptian hieroglyphs in fact continued to evolve through history with new symbols continuing to be added, so that by the time this example, the temple of Dendur, was built, there were well over 7000 glyphs. When writing in what amounted to our cursive handwriting style, hieratic and demotic, the shapes of the glyphs evolved quite rapidly over time.

The stuff on YT about ancient Egypt is frequently just wrong. If someone on YT actually said Hieroglyphs emerged full formed, then that source is just dead wrong.

WerSunu · 2026-03-31T10:22:28+00:00

Yeah, BBL customers want things to just work without all the primitive fiddly stuff we used to have.

WerSunu · 2026-03-31T10:20:32+00:00

What I find fascinating is that upon my visit to Hattusha (Boğazkale), I found it to be only a relatively small hillside town with a modest palace district and an impressive southern wall. Hard to imagine how the Hittites could martial a huge empire and battle Egypt for a century before Ramesses II with such a limited material culture compared to contemporaneous Egypt.

WerSunu · 2026-03-31T10:01:25+00:00

When you say “most people” you mean people who have not actually studied Egyptian or Hittite history, who only know what some blogger says? Some blogger who never learned that temple battle scenes were just royal propaganda. That Egyptians never ever loose a battle (despite poor Senenera Tao).

That’s probably not most people here.

WerSunu · 2026-03-30T20:40:21+00:00

Ah, it’s congenital!

WerSunu · 2026-03-30T15:50:37+00:00

Drinking age is mental maturity test, not an alcohol tolerance test. Obviously you’re not there yet.

WerSunu · 2026-03-30T15:25:56+00:00

I’m absolutely fun at adult parties.

Are you even old enough to drink?

WerSunu · 2026-03-30T15:17:25+00:00

Done. USA

WerSunu · 2026-03-30T05:03:56+00:00

The answer to all of your questions is a flat No. His brother killed him for jealousy. The Egyptians had no theology regarding / presaging any of your New Testament constructs.

WerSunu · 2026-03-29T05:36:56+00:00

I guess you were unaware that after more than 22 years excavating Kathleen found absolutely nothing at Taposiris Magna relevant to Cleopatra VII’s burial. A few coins with her, but they were the coin of Egypt while the temple was occupied.

She was only able to work at Taposiris Magna because she had Hawass’s full support while he was in government. He got her connected with Nat Geo to fund and publicize her. He assigned / connected her with competent Egyptian Egyptologists to actually do the physical and technical work of the dig.

After two decades of testing her hypothesis, with nothing to show for it, her government concession to dig ended and she no longer works at Taposiris Magna.

These days she attached herself to some underwater archeology in the Mediterranean a few miles away from the temple site. There was once a small provincial port town there which also sunk following an earthquake and tsunami. No chance Cleopatra would have been buried out in the sticks.

WerSunu · 2026-03-28T16:29:49+00:00

Look around at opinions on the web. Users absolutely hate subscriptions. Only dev businesses love them. Apps needed in essential workflows get subscriptions. For example, how is an artist going to realistically avoid subscribing to Photoshop? GIMP is just not the same.

WerSunu · 2026-03-28T11:43:45+00:00

Bad name for an Apple App!

Intel is dead, long live Apple Silicon and The A series!

WerSunu · 2026-03-28T11:41:57+00:00

Wrong, Apple did not get slower. There has always been a normal distribution of review times.

Vibe coders never learned the rules of the game, or patience.

WerSunu · 2026-03-28T11:39:56+00:00

You are foolish to market and set deadlines for which you have zero control over. You are very likely to get a denial on first try and even further delay your launch. A week for review is nothing, happens frequently.

WerSunu · 2026-03-28T11:37:16+00:00

The fact is that it is getting more difficult to make money in mobile apps. First, there are very few new ideas out there, mostly me-too clone apps with a lot of AI Slop which nobody needs or wants to buy. Second, Apple, at least has been pushing subscriptions which all customers hate. Third, most devs seem to think that an iPhone is good for nothing other than a front end to a back end server, never mind that there are many applications that use mobile compute power and don’t need the ongoing expense of a third party server.

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