cosmotic

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by cosmotic 1y ago
Google maps is a mess these days. Its glitchy, slow, has broken navigation, and is overloaded with unpredictable dynamic content. It's even worse in the native android app. Id totally go for the original version but with the more recen
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by cosmotic 1y ago
The article says they have made peltiers 75% more efficient than existing ones.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
I compared a thousandth of their net worth to the anual. A tenth any of their net worths would sustain the anual budget indefinitely.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
We have multiple single humans with net worths over a thousand times their budget. The only thing that's staggering is what's getting priority over these monumental scientific achievements.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
What were the housing prices like when they had that 15% mortgage? People loan money out at lower interest rates for homes because it's low risk because of the colateral of the house.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
Or Docker migrate to the new API, like they did with QEMU to Virtualization Framework.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
Oh, I see my mistake. Those are payload sizes not intance sizes in the heading for each table.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
I can tell from a photo of a book that uses dark gray ink on light gray paper that that book would be hard to read, without actually having a copy of the book in my hand. As far as I know, there's nothing about the physical display of
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by cosmotic 1y ago
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/good-lly/s3mini/dev/perfor... It gets slower as the instance gets faster? I'm looking at ops/sec and time/op. How am I misreading this?
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by cosmotic 1y ago
I have looked at the screenshots and videos. I can tell from those that text is hard to read and icons are hard to differentiate. iOS has a long history of these gaffes.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
Looking at Apple's curated headline hero image on https://www.apple.com/os/ios/ Every single example of the five are hard to read, especially the second. At least half of the example screenshots and videos I&
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by cosmotic 1y ago
Docker desktop on macos uses the Apple virtualization framework to run a Linux VM these days. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization
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by cosmotic 1y ago
Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Using this new design language as an example, things are now harder to read, identify, and understand. That's a huge loss to productivity and ease of use.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
For many corporations, there are probably perverse incentives against making it easy to report bugs.KPI of reported bugs as an indicator of software quality, for example.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
I remember when buttons in the control panel did what the labels said they would do along with help buttons that opened local help documentation that was accurate, concise, clean, interlinked, organized, searchable, and instant. Now the but
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by cosmotic 1y ago
One benefit of the separate on/off controls is that you can press off 10 times in a row, in case the first 9 times the signal encounters interference, without concern that subsequent presses turn it back on. With a fan, this is more tr
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by cosmotic 1y ago
All these things are easy to say in hindsight. However, the same outcome could have happened if the opposite strategy were taken (Don't clarify requirements, do bare minimum); someone could just as easily post a response saying the can
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by cosmotic 1y ago
That list would be practically endless. It might make more sense to list what wasn't used.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
I thought this the first few days I was in Japan. I was only giving it 30sec or so. Apparently you're supposed to spray for a minute. Never had a problem after that.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
Have you considered adding a web-driven print and scan interface? Some canon printers have a webserver where you can upload PDFs, JPEGs, etc, and print them without ever invoking a print driver or operating system print feature. Another pag
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by cosmotic 1y ago
My understanding is that Chrome has been doing this for years. ChatGPT agrees and links to https://ihaveapc.com/2024/10/understanding-chromes-continue-...
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by cosmotic 1y ago
I solved this by decompressing the whole file into memory as PCM.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
Another issue is seeking in compressed audio. When seeking (to sync), some API's snap to frame boundaries.
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by cosmotic 1y ago
Looks like the wikipedia page needs a bit of updating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn%27t_Steal_a_Car
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by cosmotic 1y ago
I can't remember the last time I had a "reasonable time frame" to build something for a business.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
When new fonts are released, they always include what they tried to improve: readability, comprehension, etc. Just once I'd like to know what they sacrificed.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Funny the bulk of the server is vestigial client code.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
Finish online?
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by cosmotic 2y ago
There are a lot of good photoshop alternatives. Most are better at individual use cases than photoshop. For example, nearly all the alternatives are better at designing website comps because they are object-based instead of layer-based.
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by cosmotic 2y ago
One thing many dont understand about GDPR is that consent for cookies is only needed if its a nonessentual cookie, or in other words one used for ad tracking or analytics. Using a cookie to store user session for login is the use of an esse

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