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by cbhl 7y ago
Another "it doesn't instantly start playing from that timecode you just selected" is to jump to a nearby I-frame, and just start playback from there, instead of going exactly to the selected timecode. (How well this works dep
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by cbhl 7y ago
given name != surname surname = "last" name = family name
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by cbhl 7y ago
If I remember correctly, the ActiveX widget provided home-grown encryption, because in the 90s, 40-bit encryption was the most you could export from the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th..
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by cbhl 7y ago
1. For export, takeout.google.com lets you export your emails in mbox format. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190 Third-party email services may also have flows for importing email from GMail, for e
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by cbhl 7y ago
There are two kinds of safety: collisions between cars and cars, and collections between cars and everything else (pedestrians, bicycles, children). For a limited-access road or grade-separated road (especially electronic toll roads), simpl
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by cbhl 7y ago
Politics. Wired high speed internet requires shorter distances between the ISP's box and your house, and so in suburbia they need to put little boxes down the street at closer interviews for high speed internet. Local city councils blo
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by cbhl 7y ago
I recommend Episode #857 of Planet Money, which talks about how postal rates are set by the UPU, and the impact on e-commerce. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/epis... Tr
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by cbhl 7y ago
I think the differences will be stark and obvious to those who remember the world pre-convergence. But a new generation will not know the differences, nor will they care. For my parents' generation, TVs were a big deal. For me, I can h
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by cbhl 7y ago
I highly recommend Episode #760 of Planet Money, which talks about what happened to ReadyReturn, which was a proposal to have the government send you a pre-filled tax return. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019
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by cbhl 7y ago
Here's what I don't want: I don't want ethics exams and accreditation requirements to constrain software development to people with traditional software backgrounds. The cost of a traditional college education in the United S
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by cbhl 7y ago
Looking at these numbers, I wonder whether the FDA process is a bit too conservative with respect to safety. There were the articles yesterday about diabetics yesterday creating closed-loop feedback systems out of old insecure parts, becaus
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by cbhl 8y ago
What are your thoughts on Uber Select / Uber Black / Lyft Lux / Lyft Lux Black?
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by cbhl 8y ago
The one time when this happened to me (they thought I was ineligible for a refundable tax credit; I mailed them both a check for the amount they thought I owed and proof that I was indeed eligible for the tax credit) the IRS did actually co
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by cbhl 8y ago
Their operating expenses are likely dominated by the three types of people: software engineers (listed as R&D), sales/marketing, and administrators. Profitability will probably come post-IPO in some form of a hiring freeze (or quot
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by cbhl 8y ago
One of the things I love about React and React Native is that it's possible to use them from "plain old JavaScript" (React.createElement and friends). And I work at le Goog; my org has mandated Polymer 2+TypeScript for all
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by cbhl 8y ago
Coca Cola and Pepsi don't strike me as obvious targets -- most folks can switch to buying aluminum cans (or, in some markets, glass bottles) that contain literally the same drink and definitely are a net profit to recycle. In my opinio
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by cbhl 8y ago
I feel like banning the sale of fresh vegetables would do a whole lot more to reduce waste. Every grocery store talks about "shrink" in their Form 10K. They buy extra fruits, vegetables, and meat so that the consumer has a full sh
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by cbhl 8y ago
I also found this surprising, until I realized that property taxes come from and city councils consist of the very people who like their neighbourhood and want it to stay exactly the way it is.
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by cbhl 8y ago
I would start by looking at the current space of math software: TeX and LaTeX, MathJax, R, Wolfram Alpha, GNU Octave, MATLAB, Microsoft Excel, Omnigraffle. Plus decades of bespoke math educational video games (originally distributed on flop
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by cbhl 8y ago
The URL is now where you'd expect it -- in the address bar. Copy and paste it to a new tab and you're off to the races.
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by cbhl 8y ago
I really think you and pg are saying the same thing? The dichotomy is between people who actually roll up their sleeves and get things done, and people who just talk and "play house". You, like many farmers, are very clearly the f
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by cbhl 8y ago
I've seen other farmers become co-founders. The domain expertise was definitely an asset, but (like anyone else) they also needed to learn additional new skills involved in running a business. That definitely sounds like an unfair and
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by cbhl 8y ago
Some non-technical founders do legitimately bring value to a start-up. From a technical person's point of view, a lot of non-technical folks come asking with nothing of value to offer to the relationship. No customers, no market valida
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by cbhl 8y ago
If I recall correctly, Open Sans was commissioned by Google.
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by cbhl 8y ago
Google literally already has one product cancellation in the EHR space: Google Health was introduced in 2008 and canceled in 2011. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Health Apple has had consumer-facing health softwa
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by cbhl 8y ago
Reading this piece, it feels like the logical next leap is for someone to come up with "Personal Lambdas", where the lambda is able to run offline, with even lower latency than the edge.
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by cbhl 8y ago
Maybe try specifying host:port to --bind? (This is a wild guess from skimming the sources, without any knowledge of Rust.)
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by cbhl 8y ago
Yubico is probably doing fine selling security keys to billion-dollar tech companies, who simply need compatibility with the existing ssh-yubikey-certificate setup.
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by cbhl 8y ago
In my experience, the one place where educational signaling affects outcomes in tech is the visa application process for immigrants. As in, can you get a visa at all, and how easy it is to cross the border (both to start work, as well as to
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by cbhl 8y ago
Having followed these instructions before, they're not quite suitable for making a Chromebook run an alternative operating system for the average user. A developer, sure. But every time you boot up the computer, you hear an annoying be

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