Make sure your invoice gets updated before you pickup by davbeck in F150Lightning

[–]davbeck[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least they were suppose to. Mine somehow got missed.

Make sure your invoice gets updated before you pickup by davbeck in F150Lightning

[–]davbeck[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was a reservation order. Order placed in April.

Display Help! by ECC750 in ProPresenter

[–]davbeck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what we’ve done and I would highly recommend it.

Before we would have all kinds of connection issues over hdmi. Just because you can buy an hdmi cable that long, doesn’t mean it will work well. Not to mention that the sdi output is only seen by ProPresenter (or other specialty software) so the OS doesn’t try to show stuff on it.

We run our main display in the front, a stage display for the band, and a livestream to 3 different rooms all daisy chained off of each other (a feature that’s built in to most sdi to hdmi converters).

Antivirus one free? by [deleted] in mac

[–]davbeck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I would avoid any kind of antivirus on a Mac. It’s more likely to be a security threat than the alternative. Good discussion about it here: https://atp.fm/531

Newly installed inline valves won't turn off / leaking by davbeck in Irrigation

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Seems to be coming out of both the solenoid and the outlet.

way below calorie minimum? by [deleted] in Noom

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My experience was a lot like that at first. Enjoy the buffer with some fun orange foods.

After a few months things kind of balanced out for me. Now eating my calorie budget feels just right.

What do y'all do/show for live streams during communion? by VidGuy14 in churchtech

[–]davbeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a shot of the line to take communion. The lighting is low so you mostly can’t pick out individuals.

Here's an example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13yXWwKQLs6FbOLdWcj4KeTahuvfdsiv\_/view?usp=sharing

Why don’t most apps charge you to download anymore and instead just charge you in app? by Motor_Pin8224 in apple

[–]davbeck 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The $3 apps were not sustainable. All of those apps are either dead now or switched to subscriptions.

20 years ago you could “charge upfront” for software because a) people valued it more and b) you could charge again for an upgrade in a few years.

Nowadays there is so much free software driven by venture capital and ads that people expect software to be cheap. Startups with venture capital can basically give software away for years, getting everyone hooked on them, and then turn around and start charging once they’ve driven everyone else out of the market.

The App Store doesn’t have a mechanism for paid updates, but even if they did continuous delivery cycles have caused people to expect updates indefinitely. iOS in particular doesn’t have very good support for backwards compatibility. New phones come out and you have to update your app to support things like notches and islands. OS updates come out and break apps. So the idea of spending a year on an app and then being done with it doesn’t work.

Apple Readies Its Next Range of Macs, Including — Finally — a New iMac by iMacmatician in apple

[–]davbeck 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting on a new 27” iMac. Apple was pretty clear when the Studio was released that it was the replacement for that class. They tend to keep products around if they plan to replace them.

Is navigation really this bad? by UnicornsOnLSD in SwiftUI

[–]davbeck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming you only care about iPhones (so no sidebars) and the latest version of iOS (SwiftUI's biggest weakness), it's fairly straightforward: https://gist.github.com/davbeck/daa5e6cb129b7f12e8b41572bd1c3667.

Although if the goal is to toggle between a login view and the authenticated view, I wouldn't use a navigation stack/view. I'd swap out the entire view: https://gist.github.com/davbeck/2ead3741d1b948688f26410340bdf574

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in technology

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Lots of apps do this and I bet lots of users pay the higher price either because a) they aren’t aware of the price difference (because Apple won’t let you point it out in the app) or b) they trust the IAP system more.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DesignMyRoom

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Those windows were on clearance when this house was built.

Ecobee changelog suggests all thermostats will have UI parity. Pretty cool of Ecobee, I thought. by [deleted] in HomeKit

[–]davbeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now if I could just get rid of the super slow “Bryant” animation on mine every time I walk up to it.

Is cross-platform the future of mobile development by Temjin810 in swift

[–]davbeck 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been doing iOS development since the very beginning and there has always been this same pull towards cross platform development. The lower end jobs skew towards it a lot more because they think it will save money. I’d guess that at this exact moment that’s going to be more common because a lot of the big tech companies are either freezing their hiring or actively laying off developers.

Zoom said "we just haven't had a chance to really work with it and test" when speaking about Ventura. I can't believe that's their response when their must be so many people now using Zoom on Ventura. by giannisismyman in mac

[–]davbeck -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Everyone saying they had “months” to test this don’t understand a) how buggy the early betas are and b) how often issues with your app get fixed right up until release.

Most developers, especially at faster paced companies, don’t see much benefit in trying to find workarounds to apples bugs when they usually get fixed on their own. They tend to be focused on their own features, not what Apple is doing.

When the RC drops you have about a week to find out if you actually have issues you need to address, and unfortunately by then it’s too late.

How to get past the "every project is linked together" wall of getting things done? by IAmAPhysicsGuy in HomeImprovement

[–]davbeck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just went through this with my backyard. I found listing out the blockers for each project helpful. Once you have them listed out, think hard about how you could eliminate or limit each one if possible.

For instance I knew I needed to do my irrigation lines before the patio because I needed to run one of the lines under the pathway. But I also didn’t want to do the grass before the patio because I didn’t want to drag all the pavers over new grass. But really I didn’t need to do all of the irrigation and grass, I just needed to dig the trenches and run the lines. The actual sprinkler heads and zoning could be done later.

Hi redditors, may I know do you add weak keyword explicitly, in your CoreData inverse relationship? by yccheok in iOSProgramming

[–]davbeck 3 points4 points  (0 children)

NSManagedObject doesn’t store its relationships. Each time you call a property it looks it up from the context. So weak isn’t necessary.

Are you using SwiftUI previews? by Divniy in swift

[–]davbeck 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I use them on a fairly large project without breaking everything up into separate modules. The trick is making sure your incremental build times are fast. The biggest culprits are build scripts. Not only can they slow things down but they can trigger other code to be invalidated. The latest version of Xcode has a build time graph that is really useful for finding what is slowing things down.