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by billti 4y ago
I recall one day seeing the red banner on the top of the CNN site that read, “BREAKING NEWS: No update on the…” followed by whatever was the hot story at the time. For real. It was both comical and tragic.
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by billti 4y ago
Wow. I knew Apple was an investor in ARM, but the specifics are crazy. For those that won't read the linked story, this I found to be fascinating: > Newton was not successful, but Newton actually made $800 million dollars because Ap
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by billti 4y ago
Same. I tried the “dual monitor” setup for a couple years and just went back to one. The second was just causing distractions and context switching. It’s easier to focus on what’s right in front of you than look around for stuff.
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by billti 4y ago
I was actually thinking the opposite. I got quite a way through the article before I realized "Hang on - None of the paragraphs and sentences start with uppercase letters!" As a father trying to teach two small children to read an
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by billti 4y ago
Being from the UK I tend to use milk rather than cream in coffee. One pack of raw sugar is 20 calories. One ounce full fat milk the same. Being I only drink a cup or two a day, 40 calories a cup is a reasonable price to pay to avoid artific
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by billti 4y ago
Having lived in the same house for 10 years and done a bunch of work on it, what I find fascinating is the age of the photos they stitch together. I can look at the arial view and it's from when I had the swimming pool, switch to 3D an
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by billti 4y ago
I love the idea of PowerShell, especially as scripts become more complex, having something closer to a “real” language and with decent debugger support is great. However it’s just unintuitive enough, with enough sharp corners, to be a real
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by billti 4y ago
I joke about my procrastination with my team: "I looked at my TODO list for the day and there's no way I can get to 90% of it, so I might as well just not get to 100% of it". Sometimes there's a lot of truth to the joke,
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by billti 4y ago
If you scroll to the bottom, you'll notice all 3 authors are part of the "Crypto investing team" at a16z. Just in case you're wondering why every "essential ingredient" always happens to be one of; Blockchain,
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by billti 4y ago
I think part of the problem is that video calls make it super-easy to context switch and do something else the minute the meeting becomes uninteresting (e.g. a topic that doesn't apply to you, or just a very dry discussion). Once your
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by billti 4y ago
And likewise with YouTube. I often see folks complain about the junk YouTube is feeding to them or their kids, but I find nearly all their recommendations are fully in line with the stuff the family does regularly seek out and watch. To the
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Ask HN: How does Apple achieve both secrecy and quality for a release?
99 points by billti 5y ago|87 comments
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by billti 5y ago
I notice this pdf and most of the links in this discussion are for x86 architectures, and deal a lot with BIOS, getting out of 'real' mode, etc. Are there any such resources for ARM (preferably ARM64) that would cover similar &quo
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by billti 5y ago
> great code is well documented so that anyone who hasn’t been part of the evolution, trial & error process and requirements that led to the current status can be productive with it. Just the other day I was doing a code review where
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by billti 5y ago
I hate it when swipe is inconsistent. Even using two Microsoft products (Todo and Outlook) on my iPhone, in Outlook you swipe right to delete a message from the list, in Todo you swipe left to delete a task from the list :-/ . Lucky &q
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by billti 5y ago
I have the Quest I and Quest II. Thrill of the Fight is my main "workout" game, so now I use the Quest I exclusively for that (works just as well), because I do worry about the amount of sweat I get on it. I use the Quest II for t
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by billti 5y ago
Great article. I saw myself a lot in it. I find myself on this orange site multiple times a day largely for some of the reasons outlined. > She dwells in puddles for fear of the ocean woah. Beautiful line. Great writing can really make t
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by billti 5y ago
As a 20-something I spent some time in India when backpacking from England to Australia. One of my strongest memories was a safari we did out into the desert on camels, and just laying beneath the night sky. I never would have guessed at th
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by billti 5y ago
> but the screen is going to be much better back in your real living room. You don't want to watch Netflix in VR because the screen door effect sucks Some of the stuff that’s done well today (e.g. some of the Oculus originals) I alr
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by billti 5y ago
> How does WASM handle different architectures? The same way JavaScript or C#/Java do. It's a bytecode format (typically the first stage in today's JavaScript engines is to turn into a bytecode), which the different engine
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by billti 5y ago
That the approach I've settled on that works best for me. I used to get frustrated that there wasn't "one source" of information that could take me on the journey from novice to expert, and that there was "so much t
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by billti 5y ago
Sounds about right. The “direct” part being key. I think the framework I was using (Vue 2) was adding some “async” intermediary stuff the way I was using it between the DOM click event and the msal.js window.open call. Once it’s in a callba
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by billti 5y ago
It doesn’t cover configuring scopes, on-behalf-of flows, getting tokens for different resources, etc. That’s half the stuff I’ve been struggling with lately (that and popup blockers when trying to avoid the redirect flow). It’s a nice in-de
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by billti 5y ago
The OAuth terminology can be confusing, and many write-ups assume you already know some of it, which doesn’t help. In OAuth, an “app” is considered a “client”, even if it’s running in a web server in a data center, as it’s a “client” of the
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by billti 5y ago
Kids are a whole different amazing experience though. I’m glad I got wasted and partied in my youth. I’m glad I travelled and saw different countries. I’m glad I dated a bunch and fell in love with several women. I’m glad I held a few jobs
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by billti 5y ago
But is Facebook the product or it’s social/recommendation algorithms open source? Is Google’s search engine or ad platform open source? Companies are open source where it’s of value to them, but they don’t give away the family jewels i
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by billti 5y ago
If you watch the linked video, six mins in he has a “bow score” based on strength and flex. Osage Orange was 2nd, after Dogwood.
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by billti 5y ago
And then to really mess you up and ensure you handle parens properly, threw “(x86)” into the mix. (A real pain on some REPLs as well as dealing with environment variables).
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by billti 5y ago
I’d hazard a guess the VR development for platforms like Quest, where you’re effectively trying to render stereo at 90fps on mobile chipsets AND deal with the physical environment, is bringing back a lot of those “get every last cycle out o
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by billti 5y ago
I use Quizlet for exactly this ( https://quizlet.com/ ). Works great. I paid for the "Plus" plan and am happy with it. (I can't recall if I needed the paid version or just wanted to support the project, but rec

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