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by jws 4y ago
Exactly! They run into "that other guy" who tells them "Oh, you should delete Safari and Mail and always use these other programs!" Then I get to help them with why "other browser's" keychain integration i
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by jws 4y ago
It depends. It is enough to turn yourself into an experienced software developer, then you can get a job and afford the annual developer fee. But it sort of sucks if you are, say, retired and don't keep up your identity but would like
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by jws 4y ago
Well of course you need a computer to run the IDE. Xcode only runs on Macs. It is possible to develop and sign code without Xcode if you have access to a different sort of computer, but that is a level of masochism unrelated to productivity
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by jws 4y ago
Not true [see edit below, retraction]. The apps I write and load onto my own devices outside the store stay on my devices until I get a new device. I think there might be a profile that has an expiration of one to three years, but in practi
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by jws 4y ago
So the first 1.8 million apps plus the ability to use the free development environment to compile and load any program you want (necessarily open source) on your devices wasn't enough? I suppose there are people just itching to install
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by jws 4y ago
The long and narrow is a different aesthetic. A dweller will likely dwell in a dwelling with a view of the desert or sea unbroken to the horizon. When you come home you will look out upon a large natural world with a stunning unobstructed
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by jws 4y ago
The atmosphere blurs the starlight in the last miles of its journey. We’ll need a astrophotographer here, but I’m pretty sure Capella, in October, in the norther latitudes is larger than a human eye pixel equivalent. The atmosphere really
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by jws 4y ago
I find it to more about a thin line being rendered as a little bit of color in two adjacent lines of pixels. The result is a messy blur instead of a crisp line. If any layer of the libraries and APIs doesn’t pass up the coordinate system m
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by jws 4y ago
He touches on line graphics as having the same problem rendering. I run into that when making strip charts. In general, the higher level your graphics API, the harder it is to get horizontal and vertical lines to draw on the physical pixels
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by jws 4y ago
When sailing, you more or less choose your angle of heel (subject to trade offs of speed and heading). In any kind of respectable wind you do not “slosh”, the angle of heel affects the effective area of the sail to the wind and forms a sort
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by jws 4y ago
No. They have to use the head.
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by jws 4y ago
In general, arming a boat is a huge nuisance if you are going to travel between countries. You might have a fantastic super yacht, but it’s like every country thinks they can make their own rules and tell you what you can and can’t do in th
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by jws 4y ago
There is a timing problem with geotagging. If I am going to turn on my camera, snap a photo, and expect a geotag, then the GPS had to be already running. It takes a while, seconds to minutes, to get a location from power off. That leaves a
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by jws 4y ago
Back in the day before IP killed everything else, DECnet was nice. You got to use short names for connecting to remote hosts where IP uses port numbers. You could make a listener on a name without having “root” access to the machine. Becaus
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by jws 4y ago
I totally agree! The truck was recently safety inspected for the state, and brake systems are supposed to fail front and back independently. Front and the rear failed in different ways, though the front failure was precipitated by the extr
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by jws 4y ago
For someone considering this, to expound on I don't need any tech except… • depending on your era the radios are easily replaceable with something that has aux in and bluetooth. • towing insurance, the kind that actually pays for t
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by jws 4y ago
One reason to use a key change is to move the lead vocalist to a different part of their range. You can get a different sound to a too often repeated chorus or let them do a variation on the melody which would have been undelightful in the
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by jws 4y ago
Maybe a dispensing system which more selectively targets the weeds should instead of using less killer, use a less effective killer. Instead of some clever bit of selective plant killing molecular wizardry, just spray the weed with lye (NaO
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by jws 4y ago
Agreed. If there is room for N baskets on your rails you put N-1 baskets in each layer except the bottom where you can use N. In practice you keep “the gap” over the part of the floor with the greatest cooling capacity and put your quick t
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by jws 4y ago
I see people comparing the Sprinter class RVs to the class C frequently. The parent comment is absolutely the reason. a $90k RV is a great value for space, but it is built out of ticky tacky and will be begin rusting, breaking, and leakin
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by jws 4y ago
There are 38,000 1mx2m perforated aluminum panels out there. I would pay a nice premium for them as a wall covering. Maybe not $50m/38000, but a good chunk of that. Having a section of the iconic telescope would be worth it. Now, are
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by jws 4y ago
”removal of cpio and, uh, tar” They’ve finally figured out how to make people use pax .
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by jws 4y ago
That's an average acceleration around 2g. This seems beyond the limits of tires and friction. Do aerodynamic down forces kick in fast enough to make more force usable against the road at these relatively low speeds? Do the tires have m
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by jws 4y ago
Itanium was a bet that seemed the way forward at the time. Making an x86 instruction set processor that did on the fly analysis and conversion to a superscalar computation core sounded really hard , so VLIW was the safe "we'll do
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by jws 4y ago
I moved them to the ground. The roof pitch is about 1:1 and I’m not feeling like trying to stick to it any more. The pole puts everything at a comfortable working height.
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by jws 4y ago
It's not as bad as this. In climates where you will have a bed of snow during the winter months, your optimum tilt angle for a fixed solar panel is something like 30° off of vertical or steeper. I find that on mine the snow falls off s
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by jws 4y ago
As usual, Europe is complicated… Some of Europe fluoridates tap water. Much of Europe has adequate fluoride levels naturally. Some countries supply fluoride in table salt instead of water. Some have insufficient natural fluoride levels and
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by jws 4y ago
A better answer is three phase power. That reduces the size of inductors and capacitors needed in the DC converters while still letting you use a transformer to drop from the highest acceptable line voltage (to minimize copper use/mini
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by jws 4y ago
The feature is sold as a two year free subscription to the service, not a feature of the device. That suggests to me Apple isn't committed to this forever. They want do be able to abandon the technology and human staffed relay infrastr
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by jws 4y ago
UWB would provide plenty of bandwidth at close range with better energy efficiency, but it will not match bluetooth for distance. With sufficient software complexity you could switch back and forth between them depending on conditions… so t

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