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by barkerja 3y ago
Do you know how much it costs to maintain and operate an imagining (MRI, X-Ray, etc.) machine? Do you know how much it costs to maintain staff (doctors, techs, office assistants, etc.) As someone that used to think the same way as you, and
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by barkerja 3y ago
> Apple lacks the server side chops to build super low margin services https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin... Has much materialized from this?
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by barkerja 3y ago
I don't believe that would be possible. At worst, it could be locked behind an iCloud authentication.
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by barkerja 3y ago
Apple Maps is actually really good these days. It doesn't have feature parity with Google Maps, but I don't necessarily consider that a bad thing. The core things: directions, POI and overall design are just as good, if not better
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by barkerja 3y ago
It really depends on what and how you use it. I know that's not saying a lot, but Siri is genuinely good at some things, and incredibly terrible at others. I know the same can be said about Assistant, Alexa, etc.
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by barkerja 3y ago
https://github.com/aesmail/kaffy
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by barkerja 3y ago
I don't have the new design yet in any of my servers, but this sounds nearly identical to the iPad layout, which I've grown accustom to and don't mind.
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by barkerja 3y ago
My goto these days is: - homage.com - whereimfrom.com - neweracap.com - 47brand.com
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by barkerja 3y ago
They are likely referring to features such as iOS' parental controls, which can limit adult websites. To take things even further, some ISP providers provide parental controls which block at the DNS level. Pornhub is correct; they shou
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by barkerja 3y ago
FWIW, Apple provides both national and local feeds for audio for games. It's not a well-known fact as it's kind of hidden, but while watching, there is an option to change the audio feed.
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by barkerja 3y ago
Using escript, I am able to almost halve the startup time. But it's still ~4x slower than ruby. hyperfine "./derp" Benchmark 1: ./derp Time (mean ± σ): 241.0 ms ± 7.4 ms [User: 146.9 ms, Syste
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by barkerja 3y ago
> My biggest criticism of Elixir has been the difficulty of writing quick scripts Curious what you find to be the biggest pain point(s) here. Is it runtime containment? Library access? Etc.
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by barkerja 3y ago
Does Google/Android have the same level of integration?
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by barkerja 3y ago
Thank you for your contribution and for this video! Going to give this a try in the near future.
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by barkerja 3y ago
How's the svelte + LiveView integration been working out for you thus far? I still find a lot of issue with trying to do a bit of work in JS-land for things where I want to have no latency, but find it can sometimes be a challenge mana
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by barkerja 3y ago
> I would love to see government IDs be available as a form of auth on the internet This kind of already exists: https://login.gov I have to use this to login to the VA.
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by barkerja 3y ago
> Apple are total morons for not allowing crowd source of information on their maps. This leads to false information and scams. There's a huge issue right now with Google Maps and airports; scammers update the phone numbers for airl
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by barkerja 3y ago
I'm in a rural area and find Apple Maps is generally always consistent with the real life conditions when it comes to traffic and road closures. iOS devices report the flow of traffic, they just do it in an anonymized way. I'm als
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by barkerja 3y ago
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?hl=en&ref_t... According to this support article, you can store original quality. Assuming that is what you meant by "lossless".
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by barkerja 3y ago
I believe it does. Elixir with quite a few Rust NIFs is my understanding.
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by barkerja 3y ago
Knowing the origin of the function is a huge benefit, but also imports create compile time dependency. In this case, it's not an issue, but when you're importing a lot of things across your codebase, it can become an issue.
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by barkerja 3y ago
How large is a "large portion"?
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by barkerja 3y ago
I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted, but if you have a better source for reading and discussing: - TV/Movies - Gaming - Sports - Technology - Politics - Mixology - Lawncare - Home DYI Please tell me, because I am genuinely i
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by barkerja 3y ago
I am the same, but I often find I am a purist. I prefer the native apps for most all services (Reddit, Twitter, etc.).
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by barkerja 3y ago
I'm no fan of Reddit's management and the choices they've made in recent times, but I've yet to find anywhere else where I feel a true sense of community and source of knowledge. Reddit is one of the first places I searc
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by barkerja 3y ago
I'm on Spectrum with 1 gig down, 25 Mbps up. It's not difficult to saturate my upstream.
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by barkerja 3y ago
Passkey support has been on iOS since the release of iOS 16 -- so more than a half-year! Google has actually had support for passkey for many many months now, but for whatever reason, waited to formally announce it until just recently. Cros
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by barkerja 3y ago
Does Google do on-device processing? Or do they have to pander to the lowest denominator, which happens to be their biggest marketshare? If the answer is no, then does it make sense for them to allocate those resources for such a small segm
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by barkerja 3y ago
> In many cases, they're not 'perfectly good'. Apple does backwards compatibility longer than most, but at some point, those old phones can't function as smart phones. Banking and health apps will require newer OS, an
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by barkerja 3y ago
If that is a concern of yours, there is an option on Apple devices to disable iCloud syncing for passwords/credentials. This would limit passkeys to strictly device-only.

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