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I’m so hurt by how Edge has turned out. I was ready for a tier-1 browser experience on Windows comparable to Safari on Mac. Microsoft has utterly wasted its leadership opportunity here, cramming in scammy garbage. Firefox, god love it, is a
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Sirksh?
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Only with our enemies can we make peace, I guess.
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Gen X forgotten again? Figures. Whatever, I guess.
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Same here, but with muttering profanities
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Thank you — very much the kind of info I was hoping for. You’re touching on one of the reasons I was asking. Modern usage relies on lots of round trip connections that are bound to make a number of applications unusable. And yet people use
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Right, so I guess I’m wondering, out in the real world, who has an example of this and other factors contributing to excessive latency? Are there people dealing with multiple-second latency daily? What are some example latency figures?
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Ah yes, another good example. 5G home internet and long-range rural WISPs would also be interesting. I imagine some of the rural providers would hesitate to post any real-world numbers, but maybe someone here is a customer who won't mi
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Ask HN: What is the worst latency currently suffered on the Internet?
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PoE ESP32 for DIY IoT, fyi: Non-isolated: https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32/ESP32-POE/open-sou... Isolated: https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP32/ESP32-POE-ISO&
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Yeah the article skips past the multiple access (hub) era for sure, and I haven’t thought about it in many years myself (!). I don’t know for sure how directly the IPG was related to multiple access. Early Ethernet would wait for silence, a
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It’s funny cos it’s kinda true? While the preamble allows the devices to sync their clocks, the gap allows them to reset. The assumption is that there will be some drift between the clocks over the course of a transmission. A period of elec
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Oh my god. I was on the phone with him not that long ago discussing a red team project. I had no idea what was going on. He was always generous and kind yet professional, despite us kind of fanning out. He had the ease of someone who knew w
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Apple Maps first caught my interest with its walking directions, which are great (in major cities at least, which is where it’s most useful anyway). I started using it more for public transit and driving directions as well, and now that it
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Oof. Suction cups? I can already hear it coming loose and hitting the floorboards. I’d be pushing for something more robust like a clamp-on/bolt-on RAM mount or something. We put RAM mounts on forklifts for iPads and barcode scanners,
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That is fair, and I’m with you. I gather from the thread that my comment above seems presumptuous, condescending, and mansplainy. I do think I overstated my thoughts. I only meant to say, “It looks to me like just a beta thing. Let’s hope i
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As a function of a beta release, I would consider the possibility that the alerts are not fully intended for consumers, and that they might in fact be included in the beta only for the benefit of developers who are presumably testing with S
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“The best camera is the one you have with you” I have extrapolated to a great many tools. What matters is doing the work. If you have crap tools, you’re going to have a hard time doing the work and a harder time growing your skills (althoug
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I'm afraid consumers have grown leery of this kind of thing, though, between power companies messing with our cloud-enabled thermostats and appliance manufacturers harvesting data and good lord, nagging us with ads and popups and inces
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Unless you have an EV charged only with renewable energy, I'm not sure there's any way to charge it with your car in a carbon-neutral way anyway...
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Summary: > When Clean Energy Charging is enabled and you connect your iPhone to a charger, your iPhone gets a forecast of the carbon emissions in your local energy grid and uses it to charge your iPhone during times of cleaner energy pro
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There's a push and pull; ansible and terraform both have some facilities for doing what you describe, but of course if you're using both tools, then you wind up where you are, needing yet another layer of abstraction common to bot
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> In an email to The Post on Wednesday, National Geographic spokesperson Chris Albert said staffing changes will not affect the company’s plans to continue publishing a monthly magazine “but rather give us more flexibility to tell differ
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It’s stable and it performs well and it works on all my devices with hardly any fuss. It works better than the HBO app. I’m not saying you’re wrong or your issues are invalid, but I do think it is stable and capable, and they’ve done a lot
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Banked on free, ad-supported content, then the ad market stumbled. I don’t know the solution for Plex. I haven’t agreed with all its decisions, but I use the product every day and get enormous value from my lifetime subscription. What would
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I think any trustworthy physician is going to include diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes as part of a comprehensive obesity treatment plan. Pharmaceuticals can be a valuable tool as well. A patient and their doctor are going to kno
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Further: programs should use well-defined libraries to manage config and data file location. As easy as it is to roll your own, a library can and should handle cases you don’t need to worry about. Python has platformdirs for this. It handle
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This is a style guide for work done in CS at Columbia. Sometimes there are more than one way to do something and you just have to make a choice. Whatever choice you make, it should be documented. That documentation is called a style guide.
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For this, I would consider UniFi Protect. Their doorbell cam is nice, their other cameras are nice, their software isn't the worst by a mile. With some simple detours, you can set up a Protect system -- cameras and "console"
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Change can bring happiness. I don’t know about blowing things up, but finding something that’s under your own control and doing something with it can help get out of ruts or create adventure. Work/relationship/city sucks? Change i

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