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by mceachen 7y ago
It has the same camera as the pixel 3, but no separate fixed zoom or wide imaging unit like in newer phones. It has the same CPU as the pixel 2, which can be pokey. All the computational imaging features in the pixel 4 are not in the pixel
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by mceachen 7y ago
I have an SE as well, but the camera is a potato, roughly on par with $200 Android phones from 3 years ago. Ok outside with good lighting, but a muddy mess everywhere else. I also find typing on it to be much more inaccurate than larger pho
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by mceachen 7y ago
(sorry, it was an obscure inverted reference to the saying "not if, but when")
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by mceachen 7y ago
Oh look at you and your fancy vt100 the lot of us are stuck on vt52s
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by mceachen 7y ago
Newton's second release of hardware and software was actually pretty solid. It needed some user training (there were many features that simply weren't discoverable, but were slick one you knew), and it was expensive. It certainly
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by mceachen 7y ago
I've had a server become unbootable after applying a curl|sh (and I actually wget'ed, skimmed the script, then executed), and it errored out. I'd just taken a backup so I didn't do much forensics before I restored. I kno
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by mceachen 7y ago
s/when/if/ Fixed that for you.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Rails in 2010 was just coming around to adopting foreign keys, and the rubygem Foreigner made it happen before it was a proper rails feature. The idea of rails enforcing unique constraints and FKs back then was... Optimistic. The design con
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by mceachen 7y ago
Yeah, it's surprisingly well-hidden. There are references in their forum. https://alfred.camera/forum/t/alfred-premium-alfred-plus-unl... It's $4/mo for "premium" for US customers ( https:
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by mceachen 7y ago
FWIW, by 1988 the shared servers on UC campuses were sufficiently provisioned to happily run vi, compiler toolchains, and MUDs for several hundred concurrent users.
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by mceachen 7y ago
I'm on Firefox on Android 9. The cube and all font weights and styles rendered as expected. Kudos to the FF team!
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by mceachen 7y ago
The preview release announcement for this version made FP on HN already, but it's a biggie: * Optional Chaining & Coalescing * Assertion Functions * .d.ts Emit From .js Files * Smarter Control Flow Analysis * Flatter Error Messages
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by mceachen 7y ago
Just FYI, Google Photos backups will not retain most of the metadata in your images and videos when you try to recover your originals using Google Takeout.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Please do not use SD cards as a long term backup. Most cards will suffer bitrot in 5-7 years, and may be completely unreadable in 10+ years. None of my several handful of cards that are 10+ years old are viable anymore (and they were stored
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by mceachen 7y ago
May I ask, how are you saving the tags? Are you writing to sidecars? Be careful with overwriting your originals. Many years ago I used jpegtran to rotate losslessly, but didn't realize it was removing all the metadata as well. I added
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by mceachen 7y ago
I've struggled with this for the last 18 years, and quit my tech job to build a solution. It's in closed beta right now, but I'm going to send out another wave of invites next week. Read more and sign up here: https:/&#
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by mceachen 7y ago
No financial connection to jetpens, but I've ordered from them a number of times and always are delighted.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Wirecutter, like Consumer Reports, initially had sterling recommendations. Well-researched, well-tested, and following the reviewer through the process was half the fun. Lately the reviews I've seen are selecting for what Amazon link w
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by mceachen 7y ago
Some password managers (like bitwarden) allow for N URL patterns for a given credential, for exactly this purpose.
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by mceachen 7y ago
This is most likely due to Finder initially showing the embedded preview image in the original image, and then switching to a resized version of the original. It's much (much) faster to show the smaller 4MP preview than resizing the 25
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by mceachen 7y ago
...If only there was a way to serendipitously browse through hundreds of thousands of images and videos... (spoiler: check my profile)
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by mceachen 7y ago
Hah! Take my upvote. Also: s/2019/2006/ https://gcemetery.co/2006/
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by mceachen 7y ago
I really appreciated and missed Scala's `Some`/`None`/`Option` [1] and `lazy` constructs, so much so that I brought them with me to TypeScript. Option provides an elegant way to handle parameters or results that may or may no
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by mceachen 7y ago
Or, worse, "who was the idiot that wrote this?" ... git blame ... oh. me.
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by mceachen 7y ago
TL;DR: 1. It isn't a Picasso quote 2. The source of the quote, T.S. Eliot's _The Sacred Wood_, literally suggests the opposite intent: "...bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at l
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by mceachen 7y ago
https://caniuse.com/#search=Flif is sad, tho.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Here's an example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station
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by mceachen 7y ago
Just FYI, unless the company is eminently filing for an IPO, or is already public, I would not include RSU as a liquid benefit. It is (unfortunately) likely that the stock will be worth something approximating zero in a couple years, rather
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by mceachen 7y ago
Are there any other media outlets covering this? The analysis is decidedly one-sided: basically asserting that no lawyers will copyright-troll, because patent trolling is no longer a problem. As if. https://www.congress.gov/
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by mceachen 7y ago
Only if you have Google Photos installed and have configured it up to backup your photos and videos.

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