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   by merelysounds 1y ago

   How much of this can be turned off or otherwise reduced? And a follow up question: did anyone test whether reducing liquid glass effects improves battery life?
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   The overlooked benefit of publishing unfinished pet projects(lab174.com)

   1 points by merelysounds 1y ago|0 comments
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   by merelysounds 1y ago

   This is a popular question, the most common answer I’ve seen is: > Commas exist mostly to help JSON be human-readable. They have no real syntactic purpose as one could make their own notation without the commas and it'd work just fi
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   by merelysounds 1y ago

   Relevant info from the article: > the second developer beta of the upcoming iPadOS 26.1 adds Slide Over support back into the operating system > The new version of Slide Over isn't quite the same as the old one; only one app can
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   Newest beta backtracks on an iPadOS multitasking decision (SlideOver added back)(arstechnica.com)

   3 points by merelysounds 1y ago|1 comments
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   by merelysounds 1y ago

   Interestingly, rotational ambigrams can also occur naturally, e.g. “OHIO”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram#/media/File%3AAmbigra...
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   by merelysounds 1y ago

   Love it; editable patterns are my favorite feature. I also like that in general it is a very configurable editor - being able to customize each tool is extremely user friendly.
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   by merelysounds 1y ago

   I guess it’s an even bigger generalization; not just: “is this a fetch toy or not”, but: “which of the available objects me and the human can use for a given activity”. Also, I now suspect that dogs that selected “pull” toys for fetching (o
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   by merelysounds 1y ago

   Nonoverse (iOS, free, offline, no ads), a nonogram puzzle game: https://apps.apple.com/app/nonoverse-nonogram-puzzles/id6748... I’m working on some more QoL and adding more puzzles, I’m surprised how quickly every
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    I was curious about differences between EUPL and GPL Affero, I found the following: > the EUPL could therefore be described as an “affero-like” licence (AGPLv3). > The EUPL covers SaaS (Software as a Service): if an internet service p
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    Thanks for sharing and congrats!
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    Spoiler warning, this comment contains a solution, this is your chance to stop reading, especially if you didn’t have a chance to play yet. With 8 moves and rows only: 2->1, 1->2, 2->1, 3->2, 2->3, 4->3, 4->1, 1->4.
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    > I miss the time when computers did what you told them to, instead of trying to read your mind. This could be an illusion, or at least something difficult to evaluate; the operator is less likely to notice the situations when the comput
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    For people who want to read more, a JoCaml intro: “Better (concurrent) living through chemistry. Tutorial on JoCaml and join calculus, part I”, https://chaource.livejournal.com/77262.html (2012)
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    Join-calculus(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by merelysounds 1y ago|1 comments
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    > What's the purpose of RAW+jpg though? Seems rather redundant? You get to keep out of camera jpg files. Some people might like how their camera processes jpg files and might also want the raw file for a scenario when a more complex
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    Duplicate; earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45200118
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    For what it’s worth, text formatting unrelated to color (font weight, italics, underline, etc) can provide some additional style variations.
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    https://archive.is/tFaAq
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    Feature request, very nitpicky: currently there is a grid overlay that simulates display pixels; but the content behind it is high resolution - as a result one “pixel” consists of multiple colors, which can break the illusion; this is espec
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    If it helps, it is not a new thing - we’ve experienced that with e.g. “cloud” before (and “ajax”, “blockchain”, “metaverse”, etc). Eventually buzzwords fall out of fashion; although they do get replaced by new ones.
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    > We constantly hear of spreadsheet errors making their way into critical projects. Are there any examples, i.e. spreadsheet mistakes in engineering projects that wouldn’t have happened if a slide rule was used? This sounds interesting.
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    I’m surprised I didn’t see royalty free music as a default source; e.g. jamendo offers an API with a free tier for non commercial apps[1]. Then again, there is a way to add custom sources, perhaps that would work anyway. [1]: https:/&
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    This is not a custom ROM but a hardware solution (installed on a windshield, with its own camera).
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    https://archive.is/lCNgp (original url sometimes times out)
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    Note that there is a section about self hosting: https://landchad.net/selfhosting/
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    Yes, this permission allows that. Docs say: “Allows applications to open network sockets.”[1], full description seems to be[2]: > Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applicatio
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    For iPhone users, the last point in the article’s FAQ addresses iOS; excerpt below: > No evidence of abuse has been observed in iOS browsers and apps that we tested. That said, similar data sharing between iOS browsers and native apps is
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    Yes, the Wikipedia article mentions that and includes links to more sources: > Both journalists and security experts have suggested that The Intercept's handling of the leaks by whistleblower Reality Winner, which included publishin
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    by merelysounds 1y ago

    This might be enforced in some trivial way, e.g. by requiring AI models to answer with at least a sentence. The constraints may not be fully published and the obscurity might make it more efficient, if only temporarily. Printer tracking dot