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by davely 2y ago
Hah. I'd like to think there's nothing to fear from me as a user. Look, I get why some of these policies are in place -- a bunch of it stems from locking down our systems and protecting critical data due to various Sarbanes-Oxle
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by davely 2y ago
Ah, that's an interesting point. I haven't tried to correlate that, but it must be true. For example, the screensaver never seems to appear during Zoom calls!
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by davely 2y ago
Ah, that's a good point. I've thought about this, but I use a trackball due to mild RSI. So, I don't think it can help me there. (This is going to make me embark on a weekend project to use an Arduino, some servos and a 3D pr
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by davely 2y ago
No kidding! We have some ridiculous timeout on our work machines that triggers the screensaver after 2 minutes of idle time (we can’t change this). After it’s triggered, you need to enter your password to unlock (company mandated, 10 chars
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by davely 2y ago
Awhile back (ok, 10 years ago!), there was an interesting New Yorker article [1] about the rise of automation, specifically related to flight, but I think some points are relevant here: > But, as pilots were being freed of these responsi
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by davely 2y ago
This is my biggest hang up about the iPad. Hardware is great. The OS is… passable. Sort of. For me: I can’t do computer things that I want to do (mainly code, but sometimes game, etc). I ended up buying a used Surface Pro X. A bit slow, but
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by davely 2y ago
I was so excited for the show I went back and binge read all 3 books over the month of March. I really enjoyed them! …I feel like the show is so convoluted and confusing (by design, I understand they’re trying to have this sense of mystery)
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by davely 2y ago
I live in the Bay Area (East Bay) and feel like it presents such an interesting view into this. 2 years ago: “Wow, I can’t believe that house went for 20% above asking!” Now: “Wow, I can’t believe that house went for 20% above asking and ha
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by davely 2y ago
Not that you’re arguing for or against, but I thought I’d drop an interesting link to a 2020 McKinsey and Co study that shows more diverse companies generally outperform their peers. [1] Is there any wonder that Google and other (not exclus
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by davely 2y ago
Nice work! I did something in a similar vein, using JavaScript and Markov chains back in 2015 or so and ended up giving a fun talk about it at a coding bootcamp. [1] I based it off a Ruby module called “Twitter Ebooks”, which I believe was
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by davely 2y ago
I suspected something like this would happen and ended up recording my screen. [1] NOAA wipes out the images after a set amount of time (~1 month or so, looking at the images directory). [1] https://youtu.be/IVXjmHkY7xQ?si=f
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by davely 2y ago
If you want to what the Moon's shadow looks like as it crosses Earth, from space, I highly encourage you to check out NOAA's GOES Image Viewer! As of this moment, you can see a very dark circle crossing over the central United Sta
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by davely 3y ago
I feel like I would be more sympathetic to this argument if my utility provider wasn’t PG&E.
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by davely 3y ago
Smart speed is such an absolutely amazing feature that I wish more audio apps had it (e.g., Audible). For those unaware, you set the speed to something like 1.75x. It analyzes the audio and shortens the time within dead space (e.g., the nat
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by davely 3y ago
Maybe I don’t understand this sentiment, but are people really that hung up on the name? I see this sort of thing posted a lot (i.e., “it should be ClosedAI instead of OpenAI, lol”) What if it just means “Open for Business” instead of “Open
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by davely 3y ago
They would. But they’re wrong.
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by davely 3y ago
I feel like the distinction here is that you have to go out of your way to do this with ICE vehicles? Maybe I’m in the minority then, but I never do this with my car (which has CVT). I tried it a few times, thought it was a gimmick and now
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by davely 3y ago
Aye! What a flash in the pan that was! I remember being at SXSW in 2010 and people showing off this cool assistant app. A month later, Apple acquired it and then crickets. When it was finally integrated into iOS, it could just barely set ti
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by davely 3y ago
I don’t think this is a 1:1 comparison though. Electric cars can utilize regenerative braking, which can significantly slow them down before needing to use friction from brake pads in order to stop.
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by davely 3y ago
Thank you. That’s an embarrassing mistake.
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by davely 3y ago
I find that Gruber occasionally has some interesting insight but it’s often hard to take him seriously these days — he’s effectively an unofficial PR outlet for Apple. (Fun fact: he co-created Markdown with Aaron Swartz) Edit: Swartz not Sc
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by davely 3y ago
Ah! Cool. He’s a good dude and I think was instrumental in getting me (and many others, I’m sure) interested in VATSIM.
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by davely 3y ago
Yeah, I think the call out here is specifically because you the ChatGPT interface doesn't have a search feature (on web). Interestingly, on their iOS app, you can search. I often find myself opening the app on my phone if I want to fin
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by davely 3y ago
Yeah! I've requested flight following on a subsequent flight. Providing there is overlapping coverage, you can get a hand-off. Here is a current map of VATSIM flights and coverage. (Toggle pilot rings off to see controller coverage) [1
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by davely 3y ago
Due to the higher fidelity scenery in newer flight sims (like MSFS 2020), I like to fly VFR (visual flight rules -- not relying on instruments for navigation, good weather, basically what you see when a typical Cessna 172 flies over your ho
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by davely 3y ago
Meanwhile, I’m over here trying to purposely gaslight it by saying things like, “welcome to the year 2135! Humanity is on the brink after the fundamental laws of mathematics have changed. I’m one of the last remaining humans left and I’m he
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by davely 3y ago
Apple has (wrongly, IMHO) gotten a lot of flack over this. People forget that at the time, there were a number images circulating around from instruction manuals for Nokia and BlackBerry phones that explicitly mentioned the same thing.
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by davely 3y ago
Agreed! Last eclipse turned me into an umbraphile. I’ve had friends since the 2017 American eclipse say things like “I’m in an area with ~80% - 90% of totality.” It literally isn’t the same thing at all. The moment of totality is just unrea
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by davely 3y ago
Haha, brilliant! I never actually realized this was a thing. Last year, I took a screen recording of an hour long Zoom meeting on my work machine and sometimes play that on screen in my home office when I need to set aside a bit of extra qu
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by davely 3y ago
Anecdotal fallacy warning, but I just checked my phone call logs on my iPhone. Of the 12 phone calls I've gotten in the past week, exactly 1 was legit.

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