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Architecting for user (and engineer) happiness during Stadia Controller setup(stadia.dev)
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Why is hardware setup in the cloud hard?(stadia.dev)
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by devadvance 6y ago
Fantastic post that builds up knowledge along the way. A fun case where this type of knowledge was relevant: when creating emoji short links with a couple characters (symbols), I made sure to snag both URLs: one with the emoji (codepoint +
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by devadvance 6y ago
This could be helpful to some folks. I appreciate the clear distinction between "salaried" and "exempt", as that's something I've seen many folks misunderstand. It's worth noting that, if you're in th
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by devadvance 6y ago
If you're referencing the GIF of the terminal: it's a small docker image[0] I use to have a consistent demo environment. In this case, I'm running it within iterm on macOS. [0] https://github.com/devadvance&#x
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by devadvance 6y ago
The hover previews is an awesome example. Thanks for sharing! I like collections of commands. However, the challenges that seem unsolved are (1) keeping the example in sync with the CLI options, and (2) making it easy to dig into parts of e
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by devadvance 6y ago
Are you using FFmpeg or directly using libavcodec (or similar)?
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by devadvance 6y ago
Author here. This is the same journey I went through and I 100% agree! It can be intimidating at first, but FFmpeg is a a worthwhile utility to begin learning. I've also added some shell functions[0] to my dotfiles to make it a bit eas
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by devadvance 6y ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15340729 As an engineer, I appreciate the depth of this post. However, I'd also appreciate a more approachable version that I could share with a broader a
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by devadvance 6y ago
Ah, I didn't realize that! Looking at this [0] issue thread, it seems like the minimum version with AVIF support is v7.0.25. The suggestion to use Docker in that thread might be useful for you as well, if you are interested in a couple
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by devadvance 6y ago
I used ImageMagick [0] just now to create a couple test images. magick testimage.png testimage.avif magick testimage.png -quality 60 testimage60.avif [0] https://imagemagick.org/script/magick.php
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by devadvance 6y ago
Great work on this! I especially appreciate the use of the limited-input device flow, after seeing many device projects that use flows intended for servers :) > Support & configuration for time zones Are you referring to this? [0] Mi
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by devadvance 6y ago
The native mobile app does not use a web view.
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by devadvance 6y ago
The native app uses Flutter [0]. Disclosure: I work on Stadia, and am speaking only for myself. [0] https://9to5google.com/2019/11/08/google-stadia-app-play-sto...
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by devadvance 6y ago
I agree that the support for uncommon resolutions is less than ideal. That said, I've gotten it to work. Caveat: sample size of one. On a 2019 MacBook Pro 16" with the dedicated GPU, I've had success connecting a 5120x1440 Sa
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by devadvance 6y ago
When building for the web, I use a combination of Lighthouse (Chrome Dev Tools audit) and the axe extension to do a first pass at validating the accessibility of the site/app/etc. Of course, there's an art to this as well. Fo
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by devadvance 6y ago
In principle, I like it. A lingering question, however: how would this work from a search engine indexing standpoint?
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by devadvance 6y ago
Hi folks! This idea came to life after a friend asked for a guide to get started using the terminal on their MacBook. Though there are sites/pages that are workable, none quite matched the goals of approachability, accessibility, great
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Show HN: Terminal Cheat Sheet – get started using terminal(terminalcheatsheet.com)
5 points by devadvance 6y ago|2 comments
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by devadvance 6y ago
Two kinds of data may be interesting: 1) where fiber may be run but not offered for residential service. E.g., future offerings. 2) where business fiber is offered. This would cover the dedicated internet (DIA) option.
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by devadvance 6y ago
Wish I had known about this months ago! Any more info you can share on data, plans, etc.?
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by devadvance 6y ago
Maybe a quick cache in front of Plaid for now? Even in-mem might be a decent short term solution.
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by devadvance 6y ago
Cool idea, though I couldn't get it to load yet. Will look after the deluge of interest goes away! I'm curious: do you see any risk of folks indirectly tracking you via your transactions?
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by devadvance 6y ago
Interesting collection. Between the veritable homages (AV notification included) [0] and reinterpretations for various purposes (e.g., music player [1]), it's a fun mix! It also reminded me of the Nielsen Norman article exploring flat
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by devadvance 6y ago
Very cool. It's pretty interesting to see the various failure modes. Some seem straightforward (e.g., the font is missing the glyphs) while others seem to be parsing limitations. As an aside, this finally convinced me to explore using
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by devadvance 6y ago
For purely aesthetic purposes, this might be a fair point. However, there are many reasons to use custom fonts beyond that. One example is accessibility in a very broad sense. In some circumstances, it reasonable to use a font with more leg
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by devadvance 6y ago
This makes for an amusing read, but it would be helpful to have evidence. While threads (kernel or user space) have their tradeoffs, there are tradeoffs to using multiple processes as well. What's the cost? > On a long enough time-s
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by devadvance 6y ago
Based on the README, it looks like it's a partial fork/mod of this upstream repo [0], which is essentially set of tooling that "uses PCIe hardware devices to read and write target system memory". So if I'm reading t
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by devadvance 7y ago
I didn't realize this existed, thanks for the link! It'll be a great codebase to look through :)
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by devadvance 7y ago
Awesome write-up and a great way to dig into the inner-workings of BitTorrent. Nice work! Glancing at the wiki page for BitTorrent[0], I'm a bit surprised that there isn't more of an effort to create cross-platform libraries and c

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