Yes, though the API of having a write-only value that is a monotonically increasing counter is much simpler than having to think about causality or logical clocks.
Unfortunate that the author doesn’t bring up FoundationDB version stamps, which to me feel like the right solution to the problem. Essentially, you can write a value you can’t read until after the transaction is committed and the synchronization infrastructure guarantees that value ends up being monotonically increasing per transaction. They use similar “write only” operations for atomic operations like increment.
Unless Apple comes up with a way to have the crease still physically be there, but visually seem like it isn’t. Perhaps using a waveguide or something similar.
I betting $10 Apple’s foldable will be two iPhone Airs where one side has 0 bezel hinged together with extreme mechanical precision and maybe some fairy dust to make the gap when unfolded unnoticeable.
This creates a foldable with no durability issues and no “crease” problems. Also the two halves of the display could be on the outside when folded, avoiding the need for a third display and getting a rear display for free. I would buy 3 of these.
Gaudi is among the best engineers and artists who ever lived, and I won’t belabor his greatness. It is cool though that Rhino (https://www.rhino3d.com/) got a shout out in this article, it is a similar blend of engineering and artistic excellence that I’ve only dabbled in briefly, but repeatedly pops up in the toolkits of the most interesting engineer-artists. One of my personal favorites is John Edmark who among other cool things made these shutter-synced 3D sculptures that are absolutely amazing: https://www.johnedmark.com/phifib/#itemId=572301305559869e24...
The one thing that has come of this is that products that do this have 0.5% less friction (they can auto-update quicker), achieved this faster and with less engineering effort (no need for a clever workaround, just use the biggest hammer), and have 0.5% less customer support burden (since everyone is on the latest version all the time). As a result, this can help a product dominate their competition the way Zoom has. I say this as a security conscious person who wishes this type of app would just go away, but has worked in the industry long enough to understand the economic realities.
Honestly, this is the number 1 confounding factor for me in terms of the “app stores should be more open” argument. Sure, Apple is stifling innovation in phone applications by disallowing this type of thing, but also the Zoom app is much better behaved on iPhone because it has to be. Personally I am happy trading off some convenience for security, but I am unsure if there is a “correct” answer here. My personal hope is that VMs will become useful enough that it will become viable to have a crude per-shitty-application sandbox for folks that are security conscious. I already have done this with tools like docker from time to time, which admittedly isn’t a great experience.
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