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by mcast 5y ago
Are the list of names shuffled? Even adding a pseudo shuffle UI action would provide some good mental feedback to the user.
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by mcast 5y ago
I wonder if they'll buyback tech bro company-branded jackets which you can spot all throughout Seattle and SF.
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by mcast 5y ago
People said the same cynical comments about not being able to build skyscrapers alongside the coast of New York City, which would be impossible to excavate deep underground without flooding the city. We should look into improving the infras
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by mcast 5y ago
There are many root causes for burnout, but companies not properly valuing and appreciating their employees is definitely a big one!
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by mcast 5y ago
I've always wanted to run a traffic simulation to see if traffic is eliminated if the highway was partitioned (5-10 rows of car per partition) into several chunks going at a precise speed and requiring cars to maintain some distance b
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by mcast 5y ago
iOS has battery level APIs and it doesn’t require any permission from the user (last I tried using it).
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by mcast 5y ago
Many of them in Florida on the east coast are also buried to lessen hurricane damage to infrastructure, but of course the main arteries coming from the power plants are always above ground.
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by mcast 5y ago
If you ever catch his live streams on Twitch it's interesting to watch how his brain works and how focused (yet distracted) he is coding.
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by mcast 5y ago
Unfortunately I couldn't find the video either but it was fairly similar to the TED talk you linked (just longer and had slightly more "internal" details).
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by mcast 5y ago
Cool, that led me to a really good article on Pixar's open source project: https://graphics.pixar.com/opensubdiv/docs/subdivision_surfa...
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by mcast 5y ago
When I attended WWDC 2018, one of Pixar's lead lighting engineers gave a high-level presentation on the intertwining of math/physics/art to shade animated scenes in their movies. I would love to walk through one of their inte
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by mcast 5y ago
That's untrue, a manager can put their employee into a performance improvement program (without even needing to inform them) which would block them from any internal transfers.
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by mcast 5y ago
Good thing the American people got their $600 stimulus to help pay for those last few months of rent! /s
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by mcast 5y ago
I only have anecdotal evidence for this, but before I started using YouTube Premium, I noticed I always got 1-3 minute ads before playing videos. But when I had videos playing in the background without using the TV remote/mouse (e.g. f
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by mcast 5y ago
It seems the 2019 hybrid model used to come in a more powerful V6 engine, but the latest Toyota hybrids seem to downgrade back to V4 engines to improve efficiency.
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by mcast 5y ago
The Highlander Hybrid gets 36/35 mpg, but that’s not much better than the all-gas model at 21/29 mpg. But if you drive in constant traffic the regenerative braking gives you better mileage than coasting at a constant speed (someti
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by mcast 5y ago
The iPod reflection on a white page brought me back to Apple's late 2000s marketing pages before they became so interactive.
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by mcast 5y ago
I've noticed a trend where university libraries are being more closed off to the public and only students with valid IDs for safety reasons.
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by mcast 6y ago
Let's be honest, Google still contributes more heavily to OSS, whitepapers, and security research than Apple does.
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by mcast 6y ago
I tried to sign up for Parler out of curiosity when I heard it was being removed from app stores, but as soon as it required a phone number for account registration I deleted the app. I'm surprised it also didn't require a social
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by mcast 6y ago
I've heard that SawStop's patents are expiring soon, so it seems we'll have some competition in the next 5 years. In the meantime, since there are no other saws which protect your fingers from being sliced off, it's the
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by mcast 6y ago
SawStop for the win!
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by mcast 6y ago
Would be great to add a quality binaural microphone and listen to the sound of Mars. Apparently the Mars 2020 Rover ( https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/microphones ) will have that capacity when i
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by mcast 6y ago
> It was the laziness that got him. > Sabu had always been cautious, hiding his Internet protocol address through proxy servers. But then just once he slipped. He logged into an Internet relay chatroom from his own IP address without
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by mcast 7y ago
This is the standard I've encountered at coffee shops and school libraries, no one seems to mind. However, it would be easy to build an app that alarms when the battery becomes disconnected (i.e. someone walks away with your stuff).
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by mcast 7y ago
Instagram and personalization feeds if I had to guess
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by mcast 7y ago
I agree this is too high, but a better question is, will this service even be solvent in 50+ years? I don't even expect my Gmail account to last to my death. Maybe at that point, maintenance and support engineers will be entirely autom
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by mcast 7y ago
It opened up to iMessages (blue and white conversations), it's an iPhone
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by mcast 7y ago
I've used LimePod in Seattle, you can't lock your car without cell service, which guarantees you'll only be able to unlock your car if you had service prior. The key is permanently attached to the ignition, so you could leave
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by mcast 7y ago
Zero to One

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