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by kalleboo 1y ago
Classic! Reminds me of animating Bad Apple on the pixel canvas (although this was heavily rate-limited and required a team of dozens of people collaborating) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grp6m57IRdg
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Physical media is what pioneered "stepping on" the product with things like Pan & Scan
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I only have their single sample in the blog post to go by, but the original source frame also looks just like RGB noise? And the recreation looks really close if I swap between them. Looks fine to me. So as long they're analyzing the s
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by kalleboo 1y ago
What's crazy is the US actually does have a decent proportion of multilingual speakers thanks to its history of immigration (a quick search reveals 20% of American residents are bilingual). Even Google staff should be a pretty multicul
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by kalleboo 1y ago
2005 is when I got a second-hand Sony Ericsson K750 phone that had been reflashed to the W800 Walkman phone firmware (the hardware was the same) and I started using my phone as my MP3 player. It was also my only usable digital camera (the o
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by kalleboo 1y ago
They even make retrofit CarPlay head units designed to fit in their classic cars both physically and design-wise https://9to5mac.com/2020/04/23/porsche-carplay-classic-head-...
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by kalleboo 1y ago
There's certainly a long tail of IPv4, but the last time IPv4 broke at home, my wife didn't even notice since Google, Facebook, Apple/iCloud, and most CloudFlare-hosted properties all still worked over IPv6.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
What Apple does is load all images in all emails on their server, instantly when they arrive, before you open the email or not. So the sender can't know if you saw the email and track email open rates. I think Gmail does the same now t
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Just being able to do it via mail sounds like luxury, to renew a Swedish passport you need to visit an embassy in person. And then in 2 weeks go back in person to pick it up. Really fun when the embassy is on the other side of the country a
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Ah yeah, the ones that were sold at the time would work if you passed through USB to an emulator that supported USB hardware, or reverse-engineered their proprietary protocol. I was only thinking of the modern options when I wrote my commen
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by kalleboo 1y ago
All of the ADB to USB adapters I know of only support mice and keyboards and have internal firmware that maps to USB HID. You'd have to write a custom firmware to make a raw pass through to an emulator... It would probably be easier to
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Another big chunk of "Services" revenue that people usually don't think about is AppleCare.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Yeah, Apple released the Jony Ive-designed eMate 300, translucent green plastic and all, under Gil Amelio https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_Ne...
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Apple even still hosts a download of the Disk Tools floppy for MacOS 8.1! https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Sof...
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by kalleboo 1y ago
OS X could do it, they actually used to support enabling fractional rendering like this through a developer tool (Quartz Debug) There were multiple problems making it actually look good though - ranging from making things line up properly a
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Cocoa/Quartz 2D/Core Graphics uses floating-point coordinates everywhere and drawing is resolution-independent (e.g., the exact same drawing commands are used for screen vs print). Apple used to tout OS X drawing was "based o
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Since iOS 17, Apple already uses a transformer language model that trains on your input in the keyboard.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The music nonsense is bundled because YouTube is full of music videos and music in the backgrounds of videos and they have to pay the record labels to play the music in. They have "YouTube Premium Lite" that doesn't include m
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Yeah you could do things like set timer interrupts, and starting in somewhere like MacOS 8.6 there was an actual multitasking (and multi-CPU) nanokernel running beneath everything that allowed you to schedule tasks in a more modern way. But
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The classic Mac OS (Toolbox) menu routine took over exclusive use of the machine when it was tracking the mouse in the menu - all multitasking stopped running. So an extension could draw whatever fancy effect it wanted when the menu was dow
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by kalleboo 1y ago
We kind of did have an equivalent situation back in the day - you used to have A-law vs μ-law
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by kalleboo 1y ago
> The sites don't receive much traffic, because only privacy nuts visit them, so any conclusions that you're "unique" (in the world?) is suspect at best Very much this. For example, according to that amiunique.org l
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The Palm menubar wasn't permanently visible, the Palm had as close as you can get to a hamburger menu to reveal it https://kalleboo.com/linked/palm-burger.jpg
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by kalleboo 1y ago
> it isn't It is though. Videos with "limited ads" (as it's technically called in YouTube Studio) applied to them still get paid out of Premium views.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Isn't that most of Hacker News as well? "Oh that's an interesting technical solution - which is completely irrelevant to the work I'm doing"
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by kalleboo 1y ago
There's a Swedish Star Trek-themed band that has been continually active since 1988 and are popular enough that they still do festivals in Sweden, Germany and other European countries every year https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The age makes sense, but Swedes are definitely into Star Trek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.P.O.C.K
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Now that the FIDO alliance transfer protocol has been hashed out, Passkey transfer has been announced to be coming in iOS/macOS 26, I assume it's also coming to the other password managers
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I live in Japan outside of Tokyo and over COVID about a quarter of the taxi drivers retired/quit the business, now on a weekend it can be impossible to get a cab at all. Waymo would be a godsend here!
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Doesn't Subaru collaborate pretty closely with Toyota anyway? Toyota owns 20% of Subaru and they have several models which are outright rebadged or use shared platforms.

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