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by gardaani 5y ago
It would be really neat if we had a robot on Mars that could just drive over, pick something up and put it under a microscope and in a test tube. Where are Curiosity and Perseverance when they are needed??
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by gardaani 5y ago
"Disqus breached the accountability principle by wrongfully considering the GDPR did not apply to data subjects in Norway" Interesting that Norway isn't part of EU, but they implement GDPR.
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Facebook’s Oculus, EA and Respawn Win Game Industry’s First Oscar(variety.com)
2 points by gardaani 5y ago|0 comments
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by gardaani 5y ago
Which one is better for accessible menus: <details> or using a checkbox hack? I assume both require some aria attributes to mark that the element is a menu.
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by gardaani 5y ago
Ouch. We have come to the point where rendering a favicon requires a full web browser rendering engine.
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by gardaani 5y ago
Underwear should be washed on 60 degrees to prevent any germs spreading.
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by gardaani 6y ago
Here's an interesting performance comparison of PostgreSQL with PostGIS and MongoDB. PostgreSQL outperformed MongoDB in almost all their cases. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10707-020-00407-w I&#
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by gardaani 6y ago
When I connect my external SSD to my MacBook, wifi dies because it operates at 2.4 GHz. I fix it by placing a metal plate (such as a mobile phone) over the wire between MacBook and SSD. It also helps to switch from the left side USB port to
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by gardaani 6y ago
Early Symbian apps are an excellent example how to write apps so that they don't crash when storage or memory becomes full. They just show an error dialog and the user can still use the system to free storage or memory. Modern phone ap
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by gardaani 6y ago
"the dealbreaker for me was dropping 32 bit support" Funny. I decided to drop Ubuntu Linux because they dropped support for 32 bit CPUs. I switched to FreeBSD.
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by gardaani 6y ago
Would it make sense to skip AVIF and add JPEG XL instead or wait for WebP2? JPEG XL and WebP2 have better image features, such as progressive loading.
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by gardaani 6y ago
I totally agree. I love Swift's guard let. It makes early returning [1] easy: guard let value = optvalue else { return // optvalue is none } There has been several proposals [2][3] to fix it in Rust but t
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by gardaani 6y ago
Creating your logo yourself will protect against copyright claims, but it won't protect against trademark violations. Apple sued Prepear because Prepear's logo looked too much like the Apple logo [1]. Prepear spent lots of money t
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by gardaani 6y ago
W3C is defining SVG Native [1], which is a subset of the full SVG spec. The plan is to use it in font files and it should be a nice format for native apps. It removes support for CSS, the style attribute and lots of extra syntax. Even the X
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by gardaani 6y ago
At the moment, there's a story about github1s.com on the front page of HN and people are asking how to give it access to their company private repos [1][2]. Scary. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26087017 [2]
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by gardaani 6y ago
Linux can be run on Virtualization.framework on Mac M1 without qemu [1]. Would it be possible to run FreeBSD similarly without qemu? [1] https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
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by gardaani 6y ago
Yeah, Apple documentation isn't always so great. A month ago HT210980 still claimed that MacBook Air M1 can't play HDR on external displays [1]. It nice that they have now updated that document. [1] https://web.archive.
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iCloud for Windows Gaining Support for iCloud Passwords Chrome Extension(macrumors.com)
2 points by gardaani 6y ago|0 comments
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by gardaani 6y ago
Safari already supports playing MP4 in <img> tags [1]. I think that's how "animated GIF" type of animations should be handled in the Web. It's silly that there are video formats with excellent compression but image
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by gardaani 6y ago
uBlock Origin is GPL licensed software. GPL isn't compatible with the App Store Terms of Service: https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance
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by gardaani 6y ago
Apple seems to want to show privacy labels even for anonymized data which isn't linked to the user. Here's their App Store app showing category "Data Not Linked to You": https://support.apple.com/en-us&#x
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by gardaani 6y ago
Another strange one is "Browsing History: Information about content the user has viewed that is not part of the app, such as websites" Apple requires apps to have a web site for customer support. Almost every web server logs anony
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by gardaani 6y ago
> The problem is sources of color data that don't have a tag. CSS is a big offender. CSS doesn't specify the colorspace of colors, so typically browsers will just send whatever is in there directly to the display. CSS defines t
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by gardaani 6y ago
Macs can also play HDR content on external displays, such as HDR televisions and projectors. This document lists Mac models supporting HDR: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210980 I seems that the new MacBook Air with
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by gardaani 6y ago
The huge Windows flaw is that it isn't color managed by default. It means that colors in most applications look extra saturated on wide gamut displays. I wonder if it the same flaw applies to HDR.. apps would look extra bright. Macs an
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by gardaani 6y ago
A year ago, a Chrome update (its Keystone auto-update agent) corrupted system files in Macs which had SIP disabled [1]. The result was that they didn't boot anymore. Mac users who had SIP enabled were not affected. I won't disable
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Apple outages affecting Mac apps, Big Sur updates, iMessage, and more(9to5mac.com)
217 points by gardaani 6y ago|77 comments
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by gardaani 6y ago
Go to Software Update, click on the text area and press Command+R to force a refresh. That did it for me. But, the download speed is very slow (it says "About 2 days remaining" for me). So, it doesn't matter if you can&#x27
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by gardaani 6y ago
The look of Big Sur could be better. Rounded text fields look exactly like buttons in the light mode, which is bad. They differ slightly in the dark mode, which is great because I'll be using the dark mode. Also, I don't like how
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App privacy details on the App Store(developer.apple.com)
1 points by gardaani 6y ago|0 comments

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