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by afandian 10mo ago
I had a Motorola Dext, HTC Desire Z, Blackberry Passport, Blackberry KeyOne, and Titan Pocket. And Gemini PDA. The Passport was pretty much perfect, and I've not loved a phone as much before or since. ISTR Unihertz had to make some sig
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by afandian 10mo ago
Referrer-Policy is a response header, so in this case it would be Google sending it, and the browsers who would be honouring it. You have to hope that the browser makers get it correct... Unless I misunderstood?
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by afandian 10mo ago
I was replying to > All the big products put an intermediary for that reason Surely whoever maintains the big products can add headers if they want? And this is about people who care enough about not showing up in Referer headers to do s
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by afandian 10mo ago
I don't understand. They are redirecting to their own S3 bucket, so who would be the recipient of the leak? Also, isn't this what Referrer-Policy is for? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/
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by afandian 10mo ago
It is very odd. I don’t see a good reason, not even tracking.
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by afandian 10mo ago
May not be directly applicable but Mike Harrison makes professional LED installations and has a lot of wisdom and insight. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0KZLmPyL6AnkPSs5cGU437...
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by afandian 10mo ago
It’s heartwarming to see Rich Hickey corroborating Rob Pike. All the recent LLM stuff has made me feel that we suddenly jumped tracks into an alternate timeline. Having these articulate confirmations from respected figures is a nice confirm
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by afandian 10mo ago
Wow that's a serious amount of work! I might take another look.
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by afandian 10mo ago
I'm curious what you did with it? I spent a little time with ChucK with the Oxford Laptop Orchestra (as was) which was an offshoot from the Princeton one. I was there as a technologist, not a musician. Always had a soft spot but never
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by afandian 10mo ago
Is there a counter-theory?
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by afandian 10mo ago
You can feel it yourself if you have a piece of metal, like a bike.
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by afandian 10mo ago
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" feels relevant here.
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by afandian 10mo ago
Too big to fall
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by afandian 10mo ago
Presumably they have flight plans, can listen to ATC, RADAR etc. So what's the plan? Just expect everyone to get out of their way?
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by afandian 10mo ago
It's not a foregone conclusion. I've had great success writing BDD-style literate tests (not using a framework, just comments that follow a particular grammar). They've allowed verbally negotiating the approximate expected sp
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by afandian 10mo ago
Was busking on Oxford with an accordion. An American tourist gave me a bottle of wine. Less exotic than some stories here but I remember it 20 years later.
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by afandian 10mo ago
I’ve talked to apple support reps in the past. It’s absolutely not surprising to hear that there’s confusion. ISTR some aren’t actually direct Apple employees, so they don’t have access to certain information.
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by afandian 10mo ago
Isn't the obvious thing to generate different classes for different ranges over the input? Then the classes could be loaded lazily. And if you then make the ranges tree-shaped you get logarithmic complexity, which massively cuts down t
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by afandian 10mo ago
Clear you must bite your nails!
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by afandian 10mo ago
Sure, but these use cases do blend into one another. And I'm not sure how useful the device when only constrained to the very short end of the spectrum.
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by afandian 10mo ago
I sometimes speak into my voice recorder when I’m out for a walk and have a thought. Those voice notes can be many minutes long, and full of repetition and silence. When no one’s looking obviously. Not sure how that would work with the ring
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by afandian 10mo ago
iOS has recently added a ”trigger voice recorder” to the swipe-down screen from the lock screen. It takes a random length of time to start recording. But it’s always too long. And it’s unreliable. This would be much more convenient. Though
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by afandian 10mo ago
> at any time during the lifetime of the product Eric said that the lifetime of the product is 'up to years'. Presumably because that's the limitation imposed by a disposable battery. I wonder if the circular reasoning wou
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by afandian 11mo ago
Not only your government. The Conservatives who proposed it. Labour who provided no opposition. But most importantly Ofcom, who comprehensively failed to implement a competent and reasonable solution. Everyone could have done a lot better,
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by afandian 11mo ago
To rephrase: Social contact is ultimately higher in my needs than technology choice.
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by afandian 11mo ago
I went down a 1-minute rabbithole. I hate Whatsapp, but it's not optional. So I was curious if it's compatible. There's a Sailfish help page [0] showing how to get the APK from Aptoide, or downloading directly from Whatsapp.c
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by afandian 11mo ago
It's fascinating how different this challenge must be between Latin vs CJK. How do you match up the scans with unicode entities? Human supervision and/or OCR? To what extent is the breadth and quality of OCR the limiting factor? H
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by afandian 11mo ago
Please share what you told the LLM! I can't be the only curious one.
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by afandian 11mo ago
I think those are a pre-surgery photographs.
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by afandian 11mo ago
> I've been to a German factory where robots could not distinct between humans and objects bc Datenschutz. It sounds interesting but I'm not sure what it means. Could you clarify this? Related, recently in the UK news. British

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