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by m_eiman 11y ago
Off topic, kinda: is anyone else having problems with nature.com not resolving? Firefox and Safari both fail to load it, but for some reason Chrome manages to find the server. OSX, latest.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
These are awesome, IMHO: https://usa.denon.com/us/product/portableaudio/noisecancelin... Too bad they're expensive. Interestingly they're $275 here in .se, but listed as $399 on the US page.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
That takes you towards HTML- or XAML-style UI definitions. I'm doing something like this in my (experimental) layout lib for embedded devices. I've written a bit about it: https://www.eiman.tv/blog/posts/
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by m_eiman 11y ago
I like Arq, use it as a "real, offsite" backup complement to Time Machine. Not quite as fire-and-forget as Time Machine, but darn close! And the format of the stored data is available, which is a nice safety feature in case of maj
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by m_eiman 11y ago
There's a Firefox plugin that does (parts of) this: https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes
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App Store upgrade pricing is already here(eiman.tv)
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by m_eiman 11y ago
You should also be able to detect Retina/normal DPI, in addition to the reported resolution. A bit of "responsive" CSS and checking what was selected using JS should be enough?
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by m_eiman 11y ago
That would probably be doable using a PGP-style trust system. Don't know if it'd add much security in practise though, since the "trust these declarations of trust" decision would most likely be automated.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
They expose a virtualization API that allows this on Mac App Store: http://veertu.com/ Don't know how robust it is compared to e.g. VMWare or VirtualBox, but it seems to be working well enough in my simple tests.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Way back when we used to scoff at softmodems! Perhaps using the same encodings as modems do would increase effective bandwidth? Edit: never mind, looks like it already kinda does.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Yes. Docs here: http://sv.gravatar.com/site/implement/hash/
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Quote the readme: "B-trees were originally invented in the 1970s as a data structure for slow external storage devices. As such, they are strongly optimized for locality of reference: they prefer to keep data in long contiguous buffers
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Agreed, it should feel familiar. But also respect the platform conventions. Nobody ever said UX was supposed to be easy, did they? :)
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Also, why do the OS X and Windows versions look so different?!? The buttons aren't even in the same places! Different platforms have different conventions and guidelines. Having both versions look and act the same will make it alien
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by m_eiman 11y ago
You also want to minimize Flash usage/code size; if your microcontroller has 8KB Flash, a more complex allocator might not be the best use of that Flash. Especially if you've got a allocate-once pattern.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
as unlikely as it might seem, we've found the best gender neutral toys are at Ikea Why would that seem unlikely? We up here the North are the cutting edge of equality, after all...
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by m_eiman 11y ago
The Swedish equivalent to Paym, called Swish, has been really successful. Probably an interesting case to study for those trying to create the next Paypal.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
I think Apple has a reasonable approach: if a child is discovered working where they shouldn't be the supplier is required to: pay for the kid's education, continue paying kid's salary during education, offer a job after grad
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by m_eiman 11y ago
It also makes it hard to do things like Thunderstrike or whatever the "read secrets in RAM via DMA from attached devices" issue is called.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
1) transforms all RAM into ECC RAM Not quite; it doesn't correct errors, just detects them.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Why only Dropbox and no iCloud..?
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Caching server I'm kinda surprised they haven't done P2P content distribution. or at least sold caching servers 'Appliance'-style. OSX Server has iCloud caching, that caches both updates and user data.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Top score: if all players have them same seed for the RNG, they'll be playing the same sequence of games - unless you've played more games than any other player there'll be a high score. Need to keep track of RNG state betwee
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Easy actually: because a well-defined restricted subset of HTML can be machine-audited and there is no way to abuse it. Also, Google can save resources at indexing. But AMP isn't a subset of HTML, is it? They've replaced a bunch
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Seems a bit inefficient to scan through all files all the time, doesn't it? I suppose with SSD:s and enough RAM it won't do terrible things to the usability of the computer while doing a scan, but still. If I did something like th
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by m_eiman 11y ago
It's fairly obvious that this will followed by XMS.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Same for me on Firefox/OSX.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Why is that important? What might be important is whether the level of chemicals is high enough to pose a risk, not if something else is worse.
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by m_eiman 11y ago
I find it weird that it might be cheaper to extract metals from the ground than to reuse the stuff we've already dug up once… Shouldn't it be cheaper to separate the metals much the same way as it's done at a mine, just with
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by m_eiman 11y ago
Mass transit is usable as a commute solution. It cannot reasonably replace a car. It can't replace all uses of a car. But what causes rush hour traffic isn't that you sometimes want to go shopping, or that you sometimes stay l

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