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by rgovostes 10mo ago
I don't know if it exists in other models, but the Lincoln Nautilus steering wheel features thumb trackpads. On touch it pops up radial menus on a display in the driver's primary line of sight. Although I find the wrap-around disp
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
Amazingly, The New Yorker wrote an article about it: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-thor...
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
Related: How Apple’s ad targetting works https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin...
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
Hah, in California I used to have HX. The short plate came back to bite me: Years after I had moved to another state, an automatic license plate reader on a toll road (91 Express Lanes) in Los Angeles misread someone else's plate as mi
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Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years(japantimes.co.jp)
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
This is the lord’s work. It’s ridiculous that in 2025 my $500 gaming PC GPU cannot tell the receiver to change inputs. Even my Apple TV, which is considered a model citizen here, steals the receiver’s input every few hours if I have another
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
No: I did not say that they sell maps of anyone's home. They floated the idea of "shar[ing] maps for free" with other companies in a Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-irobot-strategy-idU
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
A simpler signal: Did I buy the $250 Roomba 105 or the $900 Roomba Max 705?
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
One of the privacy fears stoked about iRobot years ago was about them "selling maps of your home to the highest bidder" for advertising purposes. E.g., https://gizmodo.com/roombas-next-big-step-is-selling-maps-of..
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
Aside from having parts available, I was unexpectedly impressed that my RoboRock self-emptying dock (c. 2023) was clearly designed for painless serviceability. The ducts are easily accessed via removable panels, and you need only a Phillips
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
It seems he moved on to a different project instead: > In 2017 I crossed the Vatnajokull, the largest glacier in Europe (Iceland) with skis and a sled in 15 days.
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
Your comment makes me understand the product even less. So it’s SaaS where you have to develop it yourself? What exactly is the company providing? Why do its customers simultaneously want to outsource this to a vendor and then spend resourc
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
Yeah, and there's no search field, either. Surely, this is my misunderstanding and I should click the "Show Help" icon for a product tutorial, right? This pops up a window saying: > Now Assist offers real-time guidance and
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
I work in a department that has been using ServiceNow for at least 5 years, and I still do not know how to look up a ticket by ticket number. I just pretend I'm following along when my colleagues reference a ticket. I just spent a minu
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by rgovostes 10mo ago
A guest logged into Wi-Fi on a Vizio of mine and there was conveniently no way to disconnect/forget it without a factory reset back to motion smoothing hell.
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by rgovostes 11mo ago
Does the search feature work for you? Mine gives me about 2 seconds to enter a search term, but once it has fetched results for the partial input, it keeps reverting the search field as I try to enter more, even if I delete to try again. I
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by rgovostes 11mo ago
Awesome. I refer to https://bourdain.greg.technology/#food-im-thinking-about about once a year. One of my favorite vacations was going to a different hawker stall on his list each night in Singapore. Unsurprisingly, his pic
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by rgovostes 11mo ago
I made a brief attempt of splitting each character into a separate <span style="transform: scale(<random>, <random>)">c</span>, but it doesn't look good because the transform is applied after the
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by rgovostes 11mo ago
The technique applied is not randomly selecting a different typeface per paragraph, but tweaking the glyph shapes when a character is repeated. Glancing at the LibreOffice extension, it seems to slightly vary CharScaleWidth by 90–110% and C
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by rgovostes 11mo ago
Emphasizing a central concept/theme is common with Japanese brands, restaurants, events, etc. The translation is often slightly peculiar. For example the Osaka Expo theme is "Designing Future Society for Our Lives". Or the re
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by rgovostes 1y ago
I was working for a marine biologist applying computer vision to the task of counting migrating river herring. The data set was lousy, with background movement, poor foreground/background separation, inconsistent lighting, and slow exp
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by rgovostes 1y ago
Suppose you always want to be running the latest iOS release, but you want to replace your phone as infrequently as possible. You would "only" have to have purchased 4 iPhones since 2007: | Model | Launch date | O
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by rgovostes 1y ago
> No longer providing updates to the device after just a few years when it's still perfectly fine. This is a weird one to complain about because Apple leads the industry in supporting older devices with software updates. iOS 26 supp
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by rgovostes 1y ago
The last code block scrolls, by the way. It's 166 kB. Note that S and K are curried functions which take one argument at a time. Further reading: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36321/
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by rgovostes 1y ago
I thought that, in light of this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45621067 , we're only a few days from seeing the solution. However, the auction now reads > Upon being notified, the Smithsonian immediate
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by rgovostes 1y ago
I encountered an interesting snag with the new UI while scrolling through Slack. Suddenly the glass Huddle button was glowing with a golden-yellow hue which drew my eye, but I wasn't sure why, it didn't seem like anyone had star
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by rgovostes 1y ago
There's also an open source implementation of the Riven game engine for modern macOS, https://github.com/jfroy/rivenx . Though the Myst series has since been re-released.
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by rgovostes 1y ago
As a teenager I reached out to the authors of RoboWar and asked if I could have the source code to help port it to Mac OS X. A trifling detail I omitted was that I had no clue how to write C, whoops. How hard could it possibly be? Nonethele
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by rgovostes 1y ago
I'm hopeful this makes Nvidia take aarch64 seriously for Jetson development. For the past several years Mac-based developers have had to run the flashing tools in unsupported ways, in virtual machines with strange QEMU options.
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by rgovostes 1y ago
How does the platform even allow a single tap on an ad to install an app? Edit: Discussed somewhat here https://www.benedelman.org/applovin-permissions/ . Seems like it's abetted by garbage from the carrier. Someth

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