CharlesW

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X-ray scans reveal the hidden risks of cheap batteries(theverge.com)
186 points by CharlesW 1y ago|77 comments
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Apple iPhone 17 Pro review: Come for the camera, stay for the battery(arstechnica.com)
7 points by CharlesW 1y ago|0 comments
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The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says(marketwatch.com)
97 points by CharlesW 1y ago|111 comments
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by CharlesW 1y ago
In my experience, "seniors" aren't a monolith. One of my elderly neighbors is happy with the generally-fine iOS defaults. Another elderly neighbor (I'm the "helpful computer guy" on our street, paid in apprecia
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by CharlesW 1y ago
> Arguably that's a GPU? Yes, and to @quadrature 's point, NVIDIA is creating GPUs explicitly focused on inference, like the Rubin CPX: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-new-
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by CharlesW 1y ago
> So similar to Apple Silicon. Yes, in the sense that this is at least partially inspired by Apple's vertical integration playbook, which has now been extended to their own data centers based on custom Apple Silicon¹ and a built-f
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by CharlesW 1y ago
https://web.dev/articles/push-notifications-web-push-protoco...
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NASA's Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6k(nasa.gov)
6 points by CharlesW 1y ago|0 comments
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AI Stan Lee Debuted at L.A. Comic-Con(instagram.com)
2 points by CharlesW 1y ago|0 comments
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PR Arena: Software engineering agents head to head(prarena.ai)
3 points by CharlesW 1y ago|0 comments
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First Commercial Tattoo Robot – Blackdot Aero Tested and Explained [video](youtube.com)
3 points by CharlesW 1y ago|1 comments
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by CharlesW 1y ago
You're looking at the community forum, which uses Discourse ( https://www.discourse.org/ ). Check out the n8n home page ( https://n8n.io/ ), which is actually great at clearly communicating the point of th
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by CharlesW 1y ago
> When I ask Claude to find bugs in my 20kloc C library it more or less just splits the file(s) into smaller chunks and greps for specific code patterns and in the end just gives me a list of my own FIXME comments (lol), which tbh is qu
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by CharlesW 1y ago
Fair point, I’ve corrected "talking point" to "propaganda" above. Not only does it not make any logical sense, but there is zero evidence that Big Pharma isn't pricing drugs to maximize profitability in every market
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by CharlesW 1y ago
For anyone reading not familiar with this, "America's drug prices are high because we're subsidizing the rest of the world" is MAGA propaganda, and is not based on logic. https://www.msn.com/en-us/ne
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by CharlesW 1y ago
Yes. If there's a hole in macOS's VideoToolbox support it's the middling quality of their hardware-accelerated encoder, so people who want high quality encodes will generally use x264/x265 for that.
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visionOS 26 Review: Keep moving toward the future(sixcolors.com)
2 points by CharlesW 1y ago|0 comments
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Nobody Would Edit Shakespeare, Right? Right?(blogs.loc.gov)
2 points by CharlesW 1y ago|1 comments
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Apple's next-gen Vision Pro revealed in new regulatory filing(theverge.com)
2 points by CharlesW 1y ago|1 comments
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by CharlesW 1y ago
> Also apps seem to assume "because hardware decode isn't available don't serve AV1" sometimes. This isn't a completely unreasonable decision, since the current 2022 model's software AV1 decode apparently
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by CharlesW 1y ago
Ditto. Between AV1's momentum and the imminent release of AV2, it sure feels like VVC will find limited adoption outside of broadcast applications. https://aomedia.org/press%20releases/AOMedia-Announces-Year-...
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by CharlesW 1y ago
The credible rumors beyond AV1 decode include: Wi-Fi 7 via Apple's home-grown N1 chip, a CPU fast enough to support the next-gen Siri release on-device, a RAM bump, improved pass-through for high-end audio formats, potentially a camera
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by CharlesW 1y ago
Fascinating, thank you for this analysis! Currently pining for release of an updated Apple TV, which will have an SoC capable of hardware AV1 decode. It'd be great to hear from someone at Netflix about the unexpected Bojack Horseman re
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Is AI Ruining Music? (Dustin Ballard of There I Ruined It) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by CharlesW 1y ago|1 comments
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AI Isn't Replacing Radiologists(understandingai.org)
2 points by CharlesW 1y ago|1 comments
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Two iPhones, an iPad, and a Podcast: Adventures with Final Cut Camera(sixcolors.com)
2 points by CharlesW 1y ago|0 comments
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by CharlesW 1y ago
For me it's still just Share > Add to Home Screen, so 3 taps if you count the tap to reveal the menu. Also interesting: "Now every site can be a web app on iOS and iPadOS." https://webkit.org/blog/1733
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by CharlesW 1y ago
My apologies, I thought the "IMHO" was implied. You'll be happy to know that checkboxes still exist and work like you'd expect. https://imgur.com/a/p2Xe1WL Apple provides HIG guidance on switch vs.
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by CharlesW 1y ago
For those who love the Fuji film simulation looks but can't or don't want to buy an overpriced-because-influencers camera, there are now apps that do great Fuji’s film simulation: https://apps.apple.com/us/app
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by CharlesW 1y ago
> Honestly the best argument for uncompressed is actually nothing to do with file quality or loss - it's that Apple only supports uncompressed Fuji RAWs. Nitro¹ (macOS, xOS), the spiritual successor to Aperture², does support Fuji

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