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by mceachen 2y ago
Firefox on Windows autoplayed the music, fwiw
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by mceachen 2y ago
Unsurprising considering Anker doesn’t pay for basic UL listing for many of their AC power taps.
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by mceachen 2y ago
I've always heard it as a shorter alternative to "holy hell this tool is horrible but I'm unaware of an alternative, or cannot apply an alternative solution."
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by mceachen 2y ago
I don't think this project was actually meant for production use, and especially not under decidedly hostile conditions. I'd suggest existing tooling like `exiftool` to do mimetype detection and metadata stripping.
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by mceachen 3y ago
You got your kids to pass a ham license test? Kudos.
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by mceachen 3y ago
I don't know who you've talked to about this, but just because it's electric and robo-driven doesn't mean they get to skip aerodynamic drag. Air resistance increases at the square of velocity. 4 miles/kWh at 55 beco
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by mceachen 3y ago
More like $13b. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/since-elon-musks...
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by mceachen 3y ago
I dunno, I read someplace that there’s no sure-fire way to do that.
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by mceachen 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone had a camera on every corner of the front screen.
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by mceachen 3y ago
I had the privilege to work at a company that _actually_ had "blameless postmortems." That phrase is easy to say, but when you're on-call and get woken up at 3 in the morning to deal with someone else's mess, let's
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by mceachen 3y ago
Just like other wrist-based heart rate monitors, I've found the Apple Watch will be within 10% of a good chest strap HR monitor (like the POLAR H10), but only during rest. During high intensity interval training, the AW (and Garmin) c
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by mceachen 3y ago
It’s both. Plug and charge (sometimes referred to as P&C) is the full stack of systems and interactions involved in driving up to a charging station, plugging in your vehicle, transferring electrons, and getting charged for it, all with
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by mceachen 3y ago
Careful with the JPEG-XL re-compression, though--depending on how you're re-encoding, jxl may use SSIM to evaluate for visual losslessness, and the whole point of TFA is that SSIM is blind to posterization, but (some) humans aren'
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by mceachen 3y ago
The same image rendered with different os/hardware will almost always look different. Different operating systems and monitors have different default gamma curves for rendering brightness and black levels. Monitors are most likely eith
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by mceachen 3y ago
Howdy, I'm the author: have you tried the latest alpha build? (My personal library is 500k assets, so 134k should be fine, especially if the library db is on SSD). Literally every PhotoStructure version has made improvements to avoid s
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by mceachen 3y ago
I'm the author of PhotoStructure (which is still a web-based UI, like Immich), but has a strict requirement of not being the "system of record" for any metadata. I built a prototype for a "curator" plugin API, but c
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by mceachen 3y ago
Nickel cadmium AA batteries (what was available in the 90s) were not great. They self-drained to flat after a month, and had "charge cycle memory," so if you discharged them a couple times to, say, 60%, that became the cell capaci
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by mceachen 3y ago
Oof, I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I hope no one follows this guide. Google Photos json files include metadata that Google may have been stripped from the original photo or video. Future You will want that metadata. Just use software
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by mceachen 3y ago
Absolutely agreed. It's 10+ hour differences that can be rough for everyone involved--async communication is low bandwidth, and it can be brutal and erosive for either party to get up early or stay up late just to have some common work
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by mceachen 3y ago
I feel like people are misremembering POTS voice quality--it's roughly equivalent to AM radio. POTS truncates to 300–3,300 Hz and downsamples to 8kHz (if it goes through a digital switch, which it has for 50+ years) The improvement wit
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by mceachen 3y ago
...timezones
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by mceachen 3y ago
You could write a short PowerShell script that recursively deletes shortcuts and symlinks, but I'd certainly take a full backup and have it offline before I kicked out off.
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by mceachen 3y ago
Bluetooth is also non-ionizing. The frequency is close frequency to WiFi: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Health_concerns
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by mceachen 3y ago
It has an esim and cellular connectivity, so you can leave your phone home on an outing, but there are things you can configure on your watch only when paired with an iPhone.
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by mceachen 3y ago
NP! FWIW, I sucked it up and added a text version to my PhotoStructure emails. I didn’t want to give GOOG an single excuse to not deliver my email. (Also: I suspect you need to escape your <img> tag in “ensuring that every has an alt
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by mceachen 3y ago
Expect everything you send to go straight to spam unless you do a bunch of work with deliverability, which he didn’t really touch on. https://www.mail-tester.com/ (no affiliation) is a good place to start.
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by mceachen 3y ago
FWIW, those door handles are a copy of the Tesla Model 3 door handles (along with their usability issues). It’s very similar to everyone copying Apple’s auto-hiding scroll bars—usability be damned.
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by mceachen 3y ago
Know that although ExifTool is written in perl, you can run it in "batch mode" which makes it quite fast--only a couple of ms to parse a file. I've written an open source library to manage the subprocesses for you if you&#x27
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by mceachen 3y ago
@dang can you merge these? Also, both are just repost summaries of this source: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...
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by mceachen 3y ago
That's an odd* implementation decision. Gpg is well established and eminently applicable here. Both the camera hardware as well as the photo journalist could sign the image data payload, and embed the signature in metadata, especially

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