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by raminf 2y ago
Started as a Fusion user, then Parallels on the Mac. Then back to Fusion. Each Windows or MacOS update would break something. Toggled back and forth maybe 5-6 times. Finally settled on Parallels and stopped upgrading Fusion. Haven't ha
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by raminf 2y ago
Went down the voice assistant rabbit-hole with Home Assistant. To integrate with an LLM, you will need a separate processor (or connect to the cloud service). Wondering if CM5 will offer enough of a boost to allow on-device LLM processing o
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by raminf 3y ago
"Super Apps" raise two technical issues: 1. Allowing such apps to handle their own payment processing across multiple applications. This means Apple doesn't get to force everyone through the in-app purchasing funnel and colle
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by raminf 3y ago
FWIW, just started a digital subscription ro PrivateEye via PocketMags. It's essentially a PDF of the magazine inside a basic reader (i.e. lots of zooming and scrolling). In the U.S. it runs $6/month.
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by raminf 3y ago
I would add: - Gravity's Rainbow (which I did enjoy, but so many people raged against) - Infinite Jest - Finnegan's Wake - War and Peace - Divine Comedy - Remembrance of Things Past Didn't feel the same way about Catch-22. Re
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by raminf 3y ago
Have a 2023 ID.4. There are three things I do most frequently: - Connect my phone via CarPlay (as only user). - Adjust AC depending on outside temperature and passengers. - Plug car in at home to charge after midnight (cheaper rates). In al
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by raminf 3y ago
One of the unusual things Swift did during its transition to a real programming language was to promise that there would be breaking changes. This way, everyone knew what to expect. Customers, co-workers, contractors, and management knew wh
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by raminf 3y ago
The trouble is finding a "reputable" dealer and a trustable path of provenance. I've been looking around for a set of specific coins from the 6th Century. They show up in searches but range from $20-$500. You can't tell
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by raminf 3y ago
Comparing highly optimized code (including total algorithm rewrite and relying on unsafe and SIMD operations) without doing the same on the other side is a pointless exercise. It's like showing how much faster you can get your handcraf
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by raminf 3y ago
- Gödel, Escher, Bach ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel,_Escher,_Bach ) - Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline.
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by raminf 3y ago
https://invisqi.com/blogs/all-about-qi/wireless-charging-at-... Regular Magsafe can start charging at 40-50mm. Power has to go through a lot of packaging layers. If they make an extra-strong in-store charger cradl
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by raminf 3y ago
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-aws-protects-custo... https://www.nginx.com/blog/http-2-rapid-reset-attack-impacti...
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by raminf 3y ago
Life goals. RIP Mr. Feeney.
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by raminf 3y ago
"The project came together shortly after the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act was signed into law last August." "Was signed." Nice use of the passive voice, there. The tech sounds a bit d
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by raminf 3y ago
The 2.4GHz spectrum is shared between Bluetooth and WiFi 802.11b/g. A few years ago, I was doing some work using an Ubertooth-One scanner ( https://greatscottgadgets.com/ubertoothone/ ). It was showing the traffic o
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by raminf 3y ago
In dotcom days, I used to work in SF with a developer from Australia. He liked to stay in youth hostels in SoMa. They were cheap and offered easy commute to downtown. He got to hang out and socialize with traveling expats and save a ton of
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by raminf 3y ago
With the dropoff of local networks and cable-cutters,the sports leagues are going to start direct-streaming the games themselves and capture advertiser and viewer revenue directly. MLB.tv is a primary example. They already have the technolo
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by raminf 3y ago
More from the SF Chronicle: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/flannery-renderi... Read somewhere the land acquired was 2x the size of the City of San Francisco.
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by raminf 3y ago
Remember the transition of text to Unicode? 32 to 64-bit? Intel to ARM? Y2K? No-GIL is a much smaller shift. It can follow the same transition path without radically breaking things. And if some things do break, there would be a well-define
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by raminf 3y ago
What happens if you need to dynamically discover a service and invoke it? Or does it only work if both ends are known and you can push out change to both end of the wire? Also, wouldn't something like MessagePack, ION, RION, or CBOR gi
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by raminf 3y ago
I agree with almost everything said here, especially the value of curiosity and experimentation. A few thoughts: - Every project is at its most exciting right in the beginning when it's new, and toward the end where the end is in sight
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by raminf 4y ago
Went to a Kia dealer in San Jose to look at the 2023 EV6 in early February. It was getting great reviews in magazines like Car and Driver. Sales guy said they had only two of that configuration on the lot. Wouldn't let us sit in them o
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by raminf 4y ago
Still no support for Web Bluetooth in Webkit: https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth Only major browser not to support it. If they enable it and put hooks for BLE event callbacks, we would no longer need a custom app per-device.
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by raminf 5y ago
Realtek RTL8720DN and RTL8721DM claim 5GHz wifi as well as 2.4GHz and BLE 5. Finding a decent dev-board for them is not easy. Seeedstudio's Wio Terminal is one of the few. The ESP32 ecosystem, though, is much larger.
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by raminf 6y ago
One alternative with both 2.4/5GHz wifi+BLE is the RTL8720DN. More here: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/01/17/realtek-rtl8720dn-du... Until recently, the only devkit you could find was the Seeedstudio
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by raminf 6y ago
Great idea, but it would work much better as an educational tool if the text was also presented, with text highlighted to show the conceptual connections.
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by raminf 6y ago
One of the interesting side-effects of everyone working from home has been that group videoconference meetings have been more equitable, instead of those in a physical meeting room vs. those calling in.
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by raminf 7y ago
You do get to write-off your gambling losses, though. Not sure why, but there it is: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/jobs-and-career/can-you...
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by raminf 9y ago
My dad hired me when I was 14 to help with an engineering project that required calculating thousands of structural tolerances. The job was pretty repetitive once I figured out how to run the formulae using a slide-rule. At some point a rel
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by raminf 11y ago
The issue with the 'nothing to hide' argument is that it puts the burden of proof and determination of whether something is 'hide-worthy' on the target of the inquiry. If you subscribe to the 'presumed innocent&#x27

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