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by s1mon 6y ago
Eternal September may have come long before that. I was at Carnegie Mellon from 86-90 as a student and until 93 as an employee. It was a very big deal to Usenet when they turned on Usenet access for anyone at CMU with an andrew.cmu.edu acco
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by s1mon 6y ago
Location data may be necessary for the simple reason of following the local laws for WiFi channels. Different countries allow different channels to be used at different strengths. If that’s the case, Sonos should make that more clear.
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by s1mon 6y ago
Came here to post essentially the same thing. Considering how much of most people's Excel usage (in my work experience) is basically making very simple tables/databases, the stuff in here should be required.
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by s1mon 6y ago
PLA really is a mess. So many of the containers and things made from compostable (but only in high temperature industrial composts) plastics are so poorly labeled that even if you're trying very hard to do the right thing, you're
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by s1mon 6y ago
Agreed. I was trying to imply that you could almost do something like a very simplified wireframe, if the prebaked images happened to be close enough to the layout of your intended pages on your site. But part of the point of a wireframe is
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by s1mon 6y ago
Did Google manage to convince Netflix to allow them to monitor what you watch on Netflix? This is one of the biggest holes in Apple TV (the app, on Apple TV, the box) - it knows most of what you watch and can make recommendations for Hulu,
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by s1mon 6y ago
A "flowchart" has very specific meaning in programming contexts [1]. This tool is for wireframing [2]. It's also really just for the flow between pages, as the pages themselves are all pre-baked. There don't seem to be a
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by s1mon 6y ago
Skimming the patent, this looks to be a docking connector, not just specifically a headphone jack. I believe you're looking for this patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
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by s1mon 6y ago
People are allowed and encouraged to speak freely about anything on the internet, but people seem to forget that this is the world wide web, and writers can't control who in the world shows up to their blog or site. With a little hel
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by s1mon 6y ago
There’s a continuous flow of air through a permeable felt mat. The fabric (or cardboard, or plastic or whatever) doesn’t get stuck like with a suction cup, it’s more like how a vacuum cleaner will pull fabric and it’s difficult to remove.
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by s1mon 6y ago
I can't get to the site either, but there are digital die-cutting machines which use a vacuum bed and very precisely controlled knives to cut all kinds of thin flat materials, including textiles and leather. These machines are not chea
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by s1mon 6y ago
Shapr3D on iOS is free or $240/year for the pro version. I've barely used it (I use Solidworks for work) but it does use the same Parasolid kernel as Solidworks, Onshape, NX and many other serious CAD packages. https://
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by s1mon 6y ago
While this may be somewhat tongue in cheek, I often think of this post from Anil Dash: "I talk to a lot of consultants, freelancers, and small businesses who do web work, and I used to be a freelancer myself, so sometimes I get asked f
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by s1mon 6y ago
There are still plenty of 1-bit displays in the world. Consumer electronics with small OLEDs, and various low-power signage have low bit depth. Just because our modern phones and laptops have high bit depth doesn’t mean that dithering goes
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by s1mon 6y ago
I remember following Steve Roberts at the time (probably on USENET). It's entertaining to think how much of the tech on BEHEMOTH could be replaced by a smart phone or tablet. There are a few things like the HAM radio, printer, and some
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by s1mon 6y ago
The article title is missing the key word "camera". "Smart Streetlights" just sound like they intelligently control when the lights turn on and off, and saying that they would be turned off sounds like San Diego would be
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by s1mon 6y ago
It's not built into MacOS, but you may find Magnet to solve some of your window management issues, depending on how you like to work. https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/
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by s1mon 6y ago
Ok, so maybe I'm being a bit flippant. It seems like he's done a bunch of pioneering work, but I ask to what end? I've worked on VR hardware development a couple times over the years. I'm still waiting for VR to actually
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by s1mon 6y ago
Is is just me or is Jaron Lanier the Kim Kardashian or Paris Hilton of VR? Journalists seem to dig him up every few years for some puff piece, but I have never really seen what he's done other than managing to be available when someone
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by s1mon 6y ago
There are a bunch of TikTok wannabes (Byte, Dubsmash, or the various attempts by Facebook), none that I've seen are as fluid or addictive. TikTok's ability to navigate around with a bunch of responsive swipe gestures and keep show
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by s1mon 6y ago
Where? I've only managed to read about it in the media. Zero ads.
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by s1mon 6y ago
Fair enough. I remembered the limited menus, but I had forgotten that part of the story about the food being already on the delivery vehicle when you ordered. The marginal costs for additional orders still applies. Unless you're taking
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by s1mon 6y ago
Sprig's food and delivery was pretty good at times, but the whole thing was so archetypical of venture backed insanity in SF and Silicon Valley. "We're going to throw a ton of money at X and disrupt it with our complete lack
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by s1mon 6y ago
I love how this post is about the US elections, but fails to mention anything until the fourth paragraph ("...largest voting information campaign in American history..."). Facebook is one of the largest worldwide platforms, yet th
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by s1mon 6y ago
Interesting. They've done the same for a number of companies including Nokia, Ducati, Lush, Intel, etc... https://www.daltonmaag.com/work
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by s1mon 6y ago
You can request a call sign along with getting your license from the FCC. The process has changed over time, but many (most?) call signs have some sort of historical connection to something: e.g. KRON was broadcast from the SF Chronicle new
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by s1mon 6y ago
OneNote can be collaborative. It also runs reasonably well on an iPad with Apple Pencil. I used this combo for a remote meeting recently while we were all on teams for audio. Some people were using OneNote on Windows and drawing with a mous
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by s1mon 6y ago
This article is somewhat out of date. Grindr was sold by its Chinese owners after some of the concerns about privacy/security. https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/06/grindr-sold-china-national...
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by s1mon 6y ago
Yep. One of the more memorable NYTimes article titles, from 1994: "Porn, the Low-Slung Engine of Progress" https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/09/arts/porn-the-low-slung-e...
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by s1mon 6y ago
The article is almost half done before it begins to explain the basic mechanics of the service, and I still didn't really get it until I read elsewhere. If it was easy for anyone to sign up and/or it had been around for a while, t

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