sholladay

9 ms·

91.
by sholladay 1y ago
The author might not be aware of this, but DNA databases from companies like 23andMe are already being used for mass surveillance and police work. They don’t need the entire gene sequence, they already have enough to identify you and invade
92.
by sholladay 1y ago
Correctness > performance, almost always. It’s easier to notice that you need more performance than to notice that you need more correctness. Though performance outliers can definitely be a hidden problem that will bite you. Make it work
93.
by sholladay 1y ago
I will re-frame it for you with emphasis. I do not want the complexity of npm compatibility in Deno. However, if they insist on it, then I at least want to be able to use my existing linting setup for consistency. That is the one silver
94.
by sholladay 1y ago
As a human, I’ve had a bunch of positive experiences with Cloudflare Turnstile. It always seems to correctly identify me as a human faster than I could solve a CAPTCHA, without me having to do anything. I can’t speak to how effective it is
95.
by sholladay 1y ago
I was excited about Deno precisely because it was a greenfield approach without backwards compatibility. Early on, they focused on reducing complexity and it worked. There were definitely some new pain points compared to Node, but I found t
96.
by sholladay 1y ago
It’s worth noting that, on its own, dynamic range compression (DRC) merely reduces the volume of loud sounds above a certain threshold. But it’s not usually used on its own. The added headroom provided by DRC enables the use of additional m
97.
by sholladay 1y ago
I’ve thought about doing this, or at least a markdown file on GitHub. The problem is, most of the bookmarks I want to save are of the “finish reading later when I’m not on mobile” variety. And I tend to leave them as open tabs, because if I
98.
by sholladay 1y ago
Comcast is also opt-in. Except, in many areas there are no real alternatives. I doubt Worldcoin will actually manage to corner the market. But the point is, if it did, bad things would happen. Though, that’s probably true of most products.
99.
by sholladay 1y ago
I’ve been struggling to make a simple “door left open too long” alarm. The first problem I ran into was weird inconsistencies between personal shortcuts that run on your device vs home shortcuts that run on HomePod. For example, there is no
100.
by sholladay 1y ago
Better off with Bluetooth is something I never thought anyone would say.
101.
by sholladay 2y ago
I think you’re right to a degree. Certainly there is a lazy approach to estimates in software compared to other fields. But I think that’s because the estimation is hard enough to feel hopeless at times. Unless the task is truly something m
102.
by sholladay 2y ago
Use LLMs for what they are good at. Most of my prompts start with “What are my options for … ?” And they excel at that, particularly the recent reasoning models with the ability to search the web. They can help expand your horizons and anal
103.
by sholladay 2y ago
Maybe. There are certainly companies doing this, such as SUN Mobility and BYD. But I think battery swapping will remain fairly niche, unless and until a few standardized battery shapes, sizes, and connectors emerge. Fixed route buses might
104.
by sholladay 2y ago
The tank weighs at least 10x what the hydrogen weighs, so yes it’s relatively little per trip, but it does add up over the lifetime of the vehicle and I thought it was worth mentioning. Same goes for very high voltage in BEVs. There’s weigh
105.
by sholladay 2y ago
They keep falling for it because fixed route busses are the one use case where hydrogen could theoretically make sense. The bus can fill up far faster than it could recharge an equivalent battery. The bus gets lighter and more efficient as
106.
by sholladay 2y ago
So many questions around this that need answering, such as: 1. What happens if I have ADP enabled and then visit the UK? Will photos I take there still be E2E encrypted? If not, will I be notified? I realize that at the moment the answer is
107.
by sholladay 2y ago
I would pay a lot of money to have an Apple Silicon native install of Star Trek: Armada. Amazingly, it still runs on recent versions of Windows, though Windows itself has become a lot more annoying over the years.
108.
by sholladay 2y ago
You blame the sales-oriented CEO for the problems but then point to a list of highly technical changes as the ultimate cause. A salesman knows nothing about these architecture decisions and would have trouble asking for them to be implement
109.
by sholladay 2y ago
ChatGPT Plus user here. The following are all fresh sessions and first answers, no fishing. GPT 4: The 10.01-pound bag of fluffy cotton is heavier than the 9.99-pound bag of steel ingots. The type of material doesn’t affect the weight compa
110.
by sholladay 2y ago
I predict that Apple will do this. Supposedly, they are considering making a TV, after years of not wanting to. And it makes sense with the landscape of today, where TVs have become a privacy nightmare and their interfaces are arguably wors
111.
by sholladay 2y ago
Credit where it is due, if Joe Schwarcz discovered the error “a few days ago” or even within the last week, then he wasn’t the first. The earliest I know of is Adam Ragusea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58HUM40gDPU
112.
by sholladay 2y ago
Agreed that fresh honey and store honey are very different. You would think that, given how different they are, it would be easy to detect the fake honey. But apparent lyrics not.
113.
by sholladay 2y ago
How does that work with apple trees and such? My understanding is you could have a fantastic apple seed, grow it into a fantastic tree with fantastic fruit, but then the next generation grown from its seeds might be nearly inedible. And tha
114.
by sholladay 2y ago
Once again, VoiceOver + Apple Pay blows them all out of the water. No secret numbers need to be read out loud, including your phone passcode if you use Face ID. And even if you don’t have Face ID set up, earbuds can be used. There’s so much
115.
by sholladay 2y ago
If you have an iPhone, go into Settings > Control Center and add the Apple TV Remote to the list. Now your phone can act as a remote. Just swipe down from the top right to access the control center and tap the TV remote icon. I personall
116.
by sholladay 2y ago
Would you count group hunting as “highly complex social behavior”? It’s not just a numbers thing, they communicate and coordinate with the group. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5120912/octopuses-and
117.
by sholladay 2y ago
I wasn’t suggesting anything about driving. I brought up the car as an example of where, yes, touchscreens have gone too far and physical controls are often preferable. TV remotes are among the most inaccessible consumer electronics devices
118.
by sholladay 2y ago
I thought so too at first, but in hindsight this is a bad take. Pinch-to-zoom was revolutionary for people with low vision. VoiceOver was revolutionary for people with no vision. Blind people ended up being early adopters of iPhones because
119.
by sholladay 2y ago
Correct, I meant that client-side validation driven by JS became popular because of UX issues when using pure HTML. There have always been plenty of other reasons to use JS with forms besides validation. But it’s notable because forms and f
120.
by sholladay 2y ago
This is one of the main reasons people started using JavaScript, to show errors only after a form has been “touched” or right before it is submitted.

More ›