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by polpo 7y ago
The first public beta of Q3Test was released on MacOS first: https://web.archive.org/web/20000229083216/http://macweek.zd...
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by polpo 7y ago
I want to thank you for this page! It really helped me understand how X11 worked when my job at the time required some rather esoteric (to me) X11 knowledge. I had to write a very specific purpose window manager (in JavaScript, which really
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by polpo 7y ago
The $50/mo rate is for charter members who signed up within the first 3 months of it being available. New customers have to pay $70/mo, which drops to $60/mo after the first year. So not everyone is paying the $50/mo rat
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by polpo 7y ago
Longmont, just south of Fort Collins, was the first city in Colorado to build out a municipal ISP, and it’s inspired surrounding cities to do the same. It’s where I live and it was a not-insignificant reason why I chose to move here. So far
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by polpo 7y ago
It’s a big deal for Homebrew, which is written in Ruby and uses the version shipped with macOS to install itself.
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by polpo 8y ago
Ask MetaFilter: https://ask.metafilter.com/ It costs $5 to get an account that lets you ask or answer, and they have paid moderation staff that keep answers on-topic and high quality. The signal-to-noise ratio is quite high
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by polpo 8y ago
The SSID for the WiFi at SFO is called “#SFO FREE WIFI”. It’s named as if someone has a wireless hotspot in their backpack running on a battery pack trying to steal the login information for your bank. I had the same reaction the first ti
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by polpo 8y ago
Occipital (The Spatial Computing Company) | Full-time | ONSITE | Boulder, CO & San Francisco, CA At Occipital, we’re working on spatial computing - using computer vision to 3D reconstruct and understand your surroundings so that softwar
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by polpo 8y ago
Also interesting is that Dave Cutler, architect of NT and VMS, was the first lead on Azure.
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by polpo 8y ago
Reminds me a bit of glades where I grew up in Missouri: areas where the topsoil is just a thin layer above the bedrock and can't hold much water. This creates small arid ecosystems, complete with prickly pear cactus and tarantulas. ht
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by polpo 8y ago
Look at that screen, indeed: it has a 3:2 aspect ratio, which is practically unheard of in recent Windows laptops. It's good to see someone going for something taller than 16:9 (or even 16:10).
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by polpo 8y ago
Cloudflare operates a public DNS server on 1.1.1.1 that has gotten a lot of attention since it was launched a few months ago. If a bad actor hijacks it, they can answer DNS queries with malicious answers, similar to the Amazon Route53 hijac
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by polpo 8y ago
Here's a source on Twitter showing some documentation of the self-signed certificate that myetherwallet.com users ignored warnings about: https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/988785871188045825
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by polpo 8y ago
It means just that. Since they had control of DNS, they could have easily gotten a DV certificate, but in this case, they didn't and people clicked through certificate warnings.
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by polpo 9y ago
On the other hand, it is a bit crazy and impressive that OS X/macOS has had to support 32-bit x86 binaries for >12 years because they sold 32-bit Core Duo machines from January 2006 (introduction of Core Duo iMac) until August 2007
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by polpo 9y ago
Interesting to see this is from zcbenz, who was the initial creator of Electron. Slack's desktop app, which is based on Electron, is often criticized for its memory and CPU usage, so I'm wondering if the creation of Wey and its un
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by polpo 9y ago
Occipital (The Spatial Computing Company) | Full-time | ONSITE, INTERNS | Boulder, CO & San Francisco, CA At Occipital, we’re working on spatial computing - using computer vision to 3D reconstruct and understand your surroundings so tha
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by polpo 9y ago
I don’t trust Vizio since they watched people’s viewing habits without people’s permission: https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/7/14527360/vizio-smart-tv-tr... That’s worse than the Samba.tv app in the OP si
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by polpo 9y ago
Imagine my surprise when I clicked the "a mineral water calculator" link and my browser downloaded an Excel spreadsheet. It'd be cool to port this to the web.
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by polpo 9y ago
A literal tab character is equivalent to 8 spaces in Python source (or 1-7 spaces if the tab is preceded by a number of spaces that is not an even multiple of 8). This follows well-established Unix standards. So the following lines are at e
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by polpo 9y ago
Well, there's GNUstep... I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has used it recently and how complete it is.
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by polpo 9y ago
Yes, they support SMTP and IMAP just fine. In fact, they're one of the few providers that actually support IMAP push with iOS's Mail: https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/12/21/what-we-talk-about-when...
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by polpo 9y ago
This is an entry in FastMail's series of Advent Calendar blog posts that they do every year. I'm glad to see them continue the tradition this year, and it's valuable to get this level of insight into a company that I trust wi
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by polpo 9y ago
There was a period in late 2014-early 2015 where NW.js stagnated, but since then it's been very actively developed. I found this 2016 comparison pretty even-handed and comprehensive; it'd be nice to see an updated version for 2017
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by polpo 9y ago
They could use NW.js instead, which stays up-to-date with the latest Chromium version, including security updates. They usually release on the same day as Chromium. https://nwjs.io/blog/
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by polpo 9y ago
Occipital still produces the Structure Sensor [1], which uses similar technology to the 1st generation Kinect. They've also recently introduced the Structure Core [2], a new generation, miniaturized depth sensor designed to be embedded
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by polpo 9y ago
I thought it was shady as hell when I got an explanation of benefits letter from my vision insurance (branded Aetna) with a return address of 4000 Luxottica Place.
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by polpo 9y ago
It's good to see a nice easy script to do this. I can confirm that mounting the SD card as read-only works great. For a couple years, I used a Raspberry Pi as an AirPlay receiver hooked to a set of speakers, and whenever I was done lis
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by polpo 9y ago
If you want something to hack on, check out the Structure Sensor ( https://structure.io ). While it's mostly iOS-focused, you can get a USB hacker cable and interface it with a computer. (Disclaimer: I work for Occipital, mak
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by polpo 9y ago
The arcade hardware (MVS) and home hardware (AES) on the Neo Geo have the exact same specs. And in the linked article the author is applying the fix to an MVS cartridge (which can be used in an AES system with an adapter).

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