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by mmebane 4y ago
I don't have one myself yet, but the Power-Z KM002C [1] looks like it can do most/all of that. There's an example on their unboxing video [2]. [1]: https://www.chargerlab.com/power-z-km002c-is-now-available-o.
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by mmebane 4y ago
If you're still interested in that sort of thing, Benson Leung is another Google engineer who's done a lot of work similar to Nathan K. He's u/LaughingMan11 on Reddit [1], and engages in a lot of technical discussions on
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by mmebane 4y ago
Driver source code/detailed hardware documentation for all the components. Signing keys to enable proper persistent installation of custom firmware. In a perfect world, source to whatever the final version of iOS to run on it is. Basi
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by mmebane 5y ago
With Face ID, there's also the risk that a malicious viewer who is holding your phone could point it at you and get it fully unlocked before you are able to react. A cop who is standing at the window of your car would absolutely be cl
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by mmebane 5y ago
JDownloader [1] is a pretty good all-purpose download tool. It's a GUI tool, though, so it fills somewhat of a different niche than youtube-dl. [1]: https://jdownloader.org/
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by mmebane 5y ago
yt-dlc was forked off of youtube-dl during the youtube-dl takedown last year, but has itself been largely unmaintained for months. yt-dlp [1] appears to be by far the most active fork. [1]: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt
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by mmebane 5y ago
Ugh, yes. The MagSafe silicone case I bought last fall got nicks in the corners within a few months of use, and they've been slowly but steadily growing ever since. Supposedly the case has a one-year warranty and I can take it in to
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by mmebane 5y ago
I would love having a slightly thicker phone. The iPhone 12 Pro Max is good enough for most days, but having around 25% more battery would be welcome, especially for weekends when I'm not sitting at a desk with a charger. Just make th
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by mmebane 5y ago
There's at least one more: Rachel Bryk, a developer working on the Dolphin GameCube/Wii emulator [1], was driven to suicide back in 2015, likely in part due to transphobia and harassment [2]. [1]: https://dolphin-emu.or
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by mmebane 5y ago
It hasn't been confirmed by authorities, but may never be, since almost nobody knew his real full name or exactly where he lived. However, it definitely doesn't look good. :-(
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by mmebane 5y ago
Of course they could always add something like PIN/QR code/plugging the iPad into the MacBook for local connections - but that will never happen with an Apple that prioritizes simplicity over functionality.
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by mmebane 5y ago
> Holds it back from what? Being a full-fledged computer. > Why not use a laptop if you want these? What if I want a tablet I can dock and turn into a laptop or workstation? The M1 iPad Pro would be a perfect competitor to the likes
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by mmebane 5y ago
Unfortunately, the sideloaded-JIT support seems to have been an accident, as Apple killed it off in 14.4. https://twitter.com/altstoreio/status/1354096048650809349
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by mmebane 5y ago
I have a couple of those, and they work fine. The only downside is you can't use wired charging and wired headphones at the same time unless you use a third-party splitter, none of which have great reviews. The MagSafe charger kind of
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by mmebane 6y ago
Another recent study [1], discussed on This Week in Virology [2], also found T-cell immunity to be robust against mutations. However, there seems to be an open question of how well natural T cells, trained on the whole virus, will compare
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by mmebane 6y ago
Sadly, Apple removed the JIT support in 14.4, so not even sideloaded apps can use it any more. https://twitter.com/altstoreio/status/1354096048650809349
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by mmebane 6y ago
Is that the Best Buy right next to the Irving Fry's?
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by mmebane 6y ago
How do you deal with cleaning the handle part of the tank? It looks like the end can pop off, but I haven't tried.
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by mmebane 6y ago
I bought one last fall and have been using it quite regularly during the winter. The humidity in my bedroom has been dipping down to 20-30%, and I prefer it to be 40-50%. I started with distilled water, and it worked great - the wick/
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by mmebane 6y ago
Heating element replacement? The Honeywell HCM-350 I got has a UVC bulb which will eventually need to be replaced, but there's no heating element since it's an evaporative humidifier.
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by mmebane 6y ago
There's one screenshot in their blog [1]. Unfortunately, it's not clear from the announcement just how flexible this is. It would be fun if it's capable of effects like cool-retro-term[2]. (EDIT: There was a "retro term
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by mmebane 6y ago
The emphasis was more on the "no web interface" part. In 2020, I feel like Subversion is significantly less common than git, so having to install SVN + possibly learn SVN commands is a moderate barrier to browsing the code.
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by mmebane 6y ago
I think it is OSS [1], although all the code is in Subversion and I don't see a web interface. I haven't dug through it much, but poking around inside the "trunk" module, I see files with headers that say they're G
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by mmebane 6y ago
Beyond Compare [0] has manual alignment. It works within files as well as within directories, allowing you to match up files with different names when comparing directories. I don't think it has syntax-aware alignment, though. [0]: h
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by mmebane 6y ago
How common is the ? operator in modern Rust code? I feel like if you reach a point where almost everything returns Result and almost every call is qualified with a ?, the pattern has turned into something that's not much different fro
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by mmebane 6y ago
Nintendo fixed that loophole back in August 2018, didn't they?
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by mmebane 6y ago
I was disappointed, too, but they added an update in a comment[1]: > Right, the Pinecil is coming along; Ben Brown who’s porting his firmware to the RISC-V chip ran into some problems with the prototype we sent him (our fault), so a new
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by mmebane 6y ago
Absolutely. It feels like we're finally almost back to the level of functionality browsers had in 2010 with Flash/Java Applets.
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by mmebane 6y ago
Is it not possible that they give people _almost_ all of what they want, while making one or two changes that are detrimental but not quite dealbreakers?
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by mmebane 6y ago
That's the single remaining killer feature of RAR for me. I think the last time I actually used it was years ago when pulling a backup off of a degraded DVD-R, but it still provides a bit of peace of mind for long-term storage.

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