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by cmckn 6y ago
I think I get less interested in self-driving cars the closer we seem to get to them. It honestly just stresses me out. Driving is something I enjoy doing. I’m not sure I will ever feel comfortable taking my hands off the wheel. This has li
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by cmckn 6y ago
I love his Bond films, just pure fun. And, god, he was sexy. They don’t make ‘em like they used to! Few favorites: - You Only Live Twice (1967) - Never Say Never Again (1983) - Goldfinger (1964)
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by cmckn 6y ago
Not sure when this happened, but many credit cards offer an additional year of warranty protection if you purchase electronics on them. I had a $750 motherboard replacement reimbursed on a MacBook recently when it was 2 months out of warran
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by cmckn 6y ago
Totally, just run things on 8080/8443 in the container and then use your privileges outside the container to map 80/443 on the host. Don’t use low-numbered ports until you truly have to, IMO.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Totally agree; many cars in the 20-30k range have plenty of “auto-pilot” features already. Sure, my Honda doesn’t stop at lights that are green[0], or ignore stop signs in parking lots[0], so I guess there’s still work to be done. [0] http
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by cmckn 6y ago
In the past I’ve been a dev at a company that didn’t understand software development at all; and fighting these battles is exactly why I left. Different strokes for different folks, but it’s great to work somewhere that gives me the tools I
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by cmckn 6y ago
Aw man, my 2019 doesn’t. I rarely need to charge in the car, and it’d be so nice to use CarPlay without having to buckle my phone in
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by cmckn 6y ago
Upon further reflection, the magnets might have been a necessary tweak to the AirPower concept. They couldn’t get it working with a large matrix of coils, on which you could lay the phone/watch anywhere. Instead, the combo charging mat
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by cmckn 6y ago
Fair enough, but I bit the bullet on AirPods Pro earlier this year and have been really impressed.
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by cmckn 6y ago
SAM templates are a subset of CloudFormation templates; that PDF could be three times as long and still not have the content I needed. Yes there are examples, but there wasn’t one at the time that mapped to what I was trying to accomplish.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Seconded, her videos and papers are fantastic. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22994420
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by cmckn 6y ago
True, the alignment help would be great. I had a Palm in like 2006 that had a magnetic wireless charging dock. Ended up modding a Galaxy Nexus to use it in the car.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Totally! Apple is amazing at getting the tolerances on magnets, hinges, etc just right, but I don’t see how you could get by without a suction cup or something on the bottom of the hockey puck. A downside to wireless chargers has always bee
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by cmckn 6y ago
I guess my confusion is basically that: if I want to use my phone while it charges, I just plug it in with a lightning cable. I don’t need it to “wirelessly” charge if I’m having to connect something to the device anyway. It seems to be a w
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by cmckn 6y ago
True, the wallet and pop socket support is a great point.
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by cmckn 6y ago
MagSafe wasn’t flush, no; but I don’t think this is an inherent requirement. I think it’d be possible to make something flat on both the cable and device side. > swapping the lightning port with a MagSafe one would make the phone pretty
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by cmckn 6y ago
Depends how the magnets work; sometimes these types of things are pretty opinionated about the orientation. I think a “smart connector” approach like the iPad could also be used one-handed, but point taken.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Car mounts are a great point, thanks! I hope those magnets are strong though.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Let’s talk about the return of MagSafe! It seems...kinda dumb. Instead of plugging in a lightning cable, I can now stick a hockey puck to the back of my phone? The “safe” in MagSafe came from its “yankability” without sending your device fl
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by cmckn 6y ago
Mostly off topic, but cotton candy grapes are super delicious.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Couldn’t agree more, the dev experience was awful. You basically have to develop against public AWS services, my dev machine became a glorified terminal. They do seem to be iterating on the tooling quickly, but I wouldn’t use it again if I
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by cmckn 6y ago
I disagree with the constitutional angle. I do think enforcement is possible, it's really no different from enforcing the law IRL. I don't think having no terms and/or requiring private companies to have no terms is a better
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by cmckn 6y ago
I think the “how” is pretty simple: the company is made up of people, the people define a set of principles, and adhere to them. They don’t have to accommodate everyone (and in my opinion, shouldn’t). I think the hard part is doing this in
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by cmckn 6y ago
I think they’re just proud of this design; and it definitely got me excited for my pre-order. The drawer to store the vertical stand’s screw...that’s good stuff.
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by cmckn 6y ago
What TV’s fall into the “dumb” category these days? I can’t go back from OLED and I don’t think anything at that price point will lack the “smart” features, unless it’s a commercial offering.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Mine is an Android OLED model from 2019 — I guess it’s more correct to say I haven’t _noticed_ an ad. I use my Apple TV exclusively for “smart” functions, and the TV wakes up and goes to the correct input whenever a connected device wakes.
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by cmckn 6y ago
Totally agree, my Bravia was worth every (numerous) penny. I do update to get features like Airplay, but have never seen an ad. The $400 Samsung in my bedroom, however, starts streaming an ad-laden TV Guide equivalent automatically when I t
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by cmckn 6y ago
> average compensation at normal companies is $120k-$160k/yr This also doesn't like up with my experience. It's hard to get true averages for things like this in America. Also, 250k is a lot less than 500k. It's still
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by cmckn 6y ago
To make sure I have this right: Graphemes are comprised of code points, code points are comprised of code units, and code units are a chunk of binary of variable length depending on the UTF flavor. UTF-8 uses smaller code units so that stri
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by cmckn 6y ago
> Is $500k really "average" engineer compensation at top tech companies? (from my own experience) Absolutely not.

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