erinaceousjones

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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
Can I chime in as a regular user, even though I'm a developer? I looked at the website on my big 1440p monitor. It looked cool. I resized the window to a still reasonable size (1280-ish width). Now some of the text is waay too small
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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
Nah, the product page is a gentle rib at smartphone manufacturers, whenever they release a new device and have a flashy video to go with it. Check out the video on the product page. It's definitely "you're a grown-ass adult
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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
What's the Breeches and Leather Uniform Fanclub got to do with it? :-) Five seconds is rather impatient, and this notion that everything has to be a "product" which we immediately must know everything about makes me distinctl
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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
"This won't work with the commodity technology I use" (wireless LAN) "Here's some ways in which it can work using a slightly different but still as widely used commodity technology" (wired LAN) "No, that i
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by erinaceousjones 5y ago
If you look at the github readme, it becomes clear that this technique can't infer _real world_ locations from wireless signals (which is already very much possible and in widespread use), it's applying abstract labels to differen
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
Vaguely relatable, there is/was stuff like Photosynth [1] which (as far as I recall, from researching this stuff as a CS undergrad) was making use of Bundle Adjustment [2] and detecting landmarks in images using Scale Invariant Featur
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
Should be noted that our _perception of time_ is subtly different to _sensing of time_; consider our circadian rhythm, relating to the latter [1]: > The daily light-dark cycle governs rhythmic changes in the behavior and/or physiolo
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
There's also "Notify & Fitness for Mi Band" for Android [1] which I used, which was ace. Packed full of advanced features like ability to change what calorie / basal metabolic rate calculations were used, export of t
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
> Counter backlash then. You don't have to support people that don't support GeForce Now over Stadia. GeForce Now is no different than renting some server and streaming to another device. Can't really backlash considering
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
JMAP does solve the same problems, and then some -- looking at the specs, it's more of a 1:1 mapping between IMAP+SMTP. I'd say that if you're looking at implementing _all the functionality of a modern email client_ you might
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
Awesome! I'm having to maintain some IMAP+SMTP handling code and having to deal with the intricacies / non-standards / quirks of different mail servers (Office365.......) has been such a time sink. This would be perfect in ou
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
Really like GFN, unfortunately the developer backlash renders it pretty useless since I can't play most of the games I want to on it - pretty much only Ubisoft games in my Steam library show up these days. Wanted to play Borderlands 3
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
> Almost noone bothers to develop platform spesific apps, and native applications are dying. If we don't stop squabbling about native look and feel, we will get no native applications at all. Well, unless you're talking open so
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
> Why are your games breaking on a Windows update? Windows 10 'N' Editions ship without a Media Feature Pack which some games rely on - i.e. Rockstar games (GTA V, Red Dead Redemption 2). You can install the media feature pack
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication Beware of hyponatremia - you're aware of your salt intake, sure, but it's not just salts in blood that are important! Hyponatremia can also remain asymptomatic
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
The point is that they want further assurances that the "curl https://totally-not-evil.example.com/install.sh " part won't, in certain environments, screw up some pointer arithmetic and write the buffer into e
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
"because it was a convenient way for their developer to include it" implies it was a deliberate choice also, when there's no way in hell someone didn't do this as a mistake lol. PLUS, "using as a CDN" is what t
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
Yup, this kind of stuff is very much based on preference. I think some people have tighter comfort deadbands and others are tolerant of anything. These can be the same person, on different days / differing amounts of sleep / diffe
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
> The SRP JavaScript demo has been tested successfully under the following browser environments: > > Mozilla 1.x, Netscape 6, 7 > Netscape 4.x - JDK 1.1.5 w/bignum support required > Internet Explorer Wind
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
Very impressive! Seems to have trouble with my address in the UK, but accepted postcodes just fine. The ability to select not just different transport types but sub-types (i.e. normal bike or e-bike) is very nice. Loving the wheelchair opti
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
I think open-core can work well, when done right - as long as you're not necessarily crippling your FOSS offering compared to the paid version(s). When the code is likely to be used by other businesses, for example. There's gene
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
socat + "everything as a file" lets you network up stuff only designed to be used over a serial link too, which I've found super useful. Wireless calibration of a drone using software that only supports USB serial? Hook it
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
They could do though. All the smarts of Spotify comes from their APIs. There's been a bunch of third party low-resource clients / integrations for spotify; despotify, mopidy, recently this thing: https://github.com&#x
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
> I suspect this app, in this form, is DOA and will be quickly replaced. Even if they do somehow roll it out widely, there are concerns in [2] about its effectiveness working in the background. That particular issue is a bit of a niche c
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
According to the repo [1] they're using: apply plugin: 'com.google.firebase.crashlytics' com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging [1] https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/search?p=1... I
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
Which they're using to track a couple of events, i.e. when the app fails to register with the API: https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/blob/maste... (Though that analytics platform itself d
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
> Are there editors that actually overwrite the original file, instead of creating a new file? Yeah, I've been bitten by this before. I use vim though! Does ":w" have different behaviour to ":wq"? I'm pretty
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
I suppose it depends on what your intentions are: * "I want to run my stuff from home indefinitely, in the background": Don't use kubernetes. You'll spend ages setting up your cluster, you'll be fighting to keep it
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
Owning an Alphabet Corp Branded Espionage Hockey Puck (tm) myself, I must admit I'm fairly impressed at how far voice recognition and natural language processing has come, despite this. I remember when you really had to talk in that st
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by erinaceousjones 6y ago
(After re-reading my own comment, I don't think I'm particularly rebuking what you said, it's turned into a "I hate computers" vent :-)) In my eyes, how Windows and Linux deal with third party software is identical.

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