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by Sidnicious 8y ago
I work at Google, but all statements/opinions are my own. My understanding is that there were two changes: 1. General responsibility for authenticating to Google services has been moved to Chrome, and being logged into Google is equiva
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
Airbags have utility for 100% of motor vehicle users.
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
I’ve been really into the nRF52832 lately, a newer chip from the same company as the nRF24LE1 mentioned in the article. It has BLE, and you can find dev boards with all of the IO pins exposed for $5 (sometimes $2.50 on sale) on AliExpress,
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
Can you share any more detail about this? My impression was that anyone who shared another internet connection with the mesh does it through a VPN tunnel, so traffic exits through the mesh's PoP.
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
The first time I used Go on a big project, error handling bugged me enough that I wrote a package that let me use errors like exceptions: https://github.com/s4y/go-exc I’m not sure if I’d use it again today, but it was
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
Yes. On both iOS and Android, the wallet should open on its own when the phone detects a payment terminal. You don't have to double-tap the power button.
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
The best example I’ve seen recently is Dynamicland, which is building a self-hosting, collaborative computer. Pieces of paper represent programs and UIs, and you can grab a wireless keyboard and place it in front of anything to inspect and
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
The cable to the camera could also serve as an antenna.
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
Try moving your finger left, then right, without letting go (video: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmVacED7iVnDn7JiHuUT7buAL96iSTzqHB7NTZR... ).
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
I'm in the middle of a project using a related microcontroller (the nRF52832). When I started, I had very little electronics/embedded experience, and now I have more! It's absolutely doable.
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
Mike Mullane’s “Normalisation of Deviance” talk to a group of firefighters[1] is relevant here. He describes how the Challenger shuttle disaster happened despite internal memos about the problem years prior. The message of the talk is, esse
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
If you set the window’s collectionBehavior to: NSWindowCollectionBehaviorStationary | NSWindowCollectionBehaviorCanJoinAllSpaces …that should give it roughly the same behavior as the system desktop window. If you want to have thing
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
Let's say that Q, W, and E are 1Ω, 2Ω, and 4Ω, respectively. I'll pretend they're wired in series to make the numbers work out nicely, but it should also work in parallel. If you measure 3Ω, then Q and W are pressed. 6Ω: W an
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
If your app/web page isn’t doing work in the background and doesn’t receive mouse events, the energy impact should be close to nil — it should sit solidly at 0.0% CPU usage in Activity Monitor, else something isn’t right.
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
Another approach is to create a window at desktop level. It can even display a web page with a system web view — you probably want to opt the window out of receiving mouse events, too, to avoid interfering with drag selection on the Deskt
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by Sidnicious 8y ago
That article led me to the page on Cherry’s site about their “analog keyboard controller”, which promises no scanning latency. “Analog” suggests to me that each key has its own power-of-two-ish resistor value, and the controller can just lo
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
It’s worth noting that they’ve sold these kits for at least ten-ish years. I remember seeing them on the website and thinking how cool it was that you could buy a year of food as a unit .
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
This should also do the trick: launchctl stop com.apple.photolibraryd (And replace “stop” with “start” to get it going again.)
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
It sounds like the recipient charges callers per minute, and the service takes a 20% commission.
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
I agree with my sibling comments that in current OSs, desktop apps — especially ones with root — are generally as privileged as the user, and that's (supposed to be!) a good thing. However, Chrome's AppleScript support was used al
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Why OkCupid is changing how you message(theblog.okcupid.com)
2 points by Sidnicious 9y ago|1 comments
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
- Many websites support embedding images in user content but not videos (Gmail, Hangouts, and Stack Overflow, to name a few). - A "minimum viable animated thing" tag is more complicated for videos: <video autoplay loop mu
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
kaptainkristian, too: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuPgdqQKpq4T4zeqmTelnFg
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
A customer service rep doesn’t have to have all the answers, but they should be equipped to find them, or at least find a next step (which they did, in this case). The author didn’t handle this optimally and neither did the CSR. Should they
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
The App Store has ads now. Not quite as bad as push notifications, but it makes me uncomfortable considering it’s the only supported way to install software.
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
One issue is that Electron apps don’t get browser security patches until Electron updates Chromium, the developer updates Electron, and the user updates the app.
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
I believe it indexes continuously by watching the filesystem: https://imgur.com/sipDUCD .
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
After reading this, I just started experimentally sending all calls to voicemail. Here's how I set it up; it should work with GSM phone carriers: - Dial the below number. It'll show a bunch of information, including your voicemail
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
From the Valve employee handbook ( http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p... ): > Why does your desk have wheels? Think of those wheels as a symbolic reminder that you should always be consider
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by Sidnicious 9y ago
It was raining a bit yesterday and that made the fingerprint sensor on my phone basically useless. I forgot how much it was used (unlock, banking apps, payments).

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