skygazer

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   by skygazer 3y ago

   I was on iOS 17 beta, and saw, like almost every other beta tester, that their betas caused thermal issues that didn’t exist in iOS 16 on the same hardware. Our phones were just hot for no reason, and battery life tanked. It was the major c
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   by skygazer 3y ago

   Sure, not when unfounded allegations scratch that same itch.
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   by skygazer 3y ago

   I have much automated, but my favorite is a $20 multicolored hexagon WiFi light with a long usb power cable I nestled along the door frame from power to the light above my wife’s office door. I wrote a swift daemon to monitor her work mac’s
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   by skygazer 3y ago

   Also they cannot see password fields or your keyboard when using them, and the like, at least on iOS and iPadOS. Apple hides sensitive inputs in regular screen sharing as well, and occasionally when airplaying to a TV, for PIN codes for ins
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   by skygazer 3y ago

   I think "everything we learned is a lie" is also a "lie." The news media seems to be full of people that are very similar to "normal people," like our parents and prior generations, that were and are trying to
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   by skygazer 3y ago

   This tool looks very interesting, and seems to work well, but being utterly unfamiliar with geospatial vector embeddings, their purpose or use, I had no idea what I was looking at, or why. It seems to show areas of similarity, within a radi
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   by skygazer 3y ago

   I have ADHD. My intended habits are very fragile, and if a single visual cue goes missing, I'll skip a step -- if my wife removes my antiperspirant from the counter, then I just unwittingly skip that step that day. I rely on rube Goldb
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   by skygazer 3y ago

   I’m scratching my head wondering why there was a passenger list at all for a private flight, and beyond that, why he would put his name on it if he were actually on the flight, given he uses doubles and disguises and fake names. Was he over
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   by skygazer 3y ago

   https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stability-ai-losing-executive...
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    by skygazer 3y ago

    Even his “stellar reviews” also contain a list of immediately planned mods. I think that’s his nature. He appears to love the purchase and not regret it at all, even despite the $2,500 price tag. He praised the tolerances and interchangeabl
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    by skygazer 3y ago

    I've been using a "neutered" ad blocker since 2019, 1Blocker, and it's not so neutered. I haven't seen a single ad in Safari in that time -- well, except for promoted tweets, but I created a userscript that removes
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    by skygazer 3y ago

    For those not familiar, on an iPhone the green background only occurs on the messages the iPhone user has previously sent, and not those they have received from others. Also, whilst they’re typing, they do not have a green background in th
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    by skygazer 3y ago

    I thought the same thing, but apparently "HTM" is a JSX like javascript string template representation of HTML, and it can be found here: https://github.com/developit/htm -- it is used by rehtm, which is the
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    by skygazer 3y ago

    I just read Gruber's review. When he says "field of view" he's not talking about total degrees of arc, he's talking about what one might think of as "zoom," in this instance. He says things don't appe
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    by skygazer 3y ago

    Summary: Apple apparently helped Bechtel (a nuclear security contractor contracted to USG) build a one-off spy device out of an iPod in 2005 -- Bechtel provided hardware mod, Apple provided technical support for developers adding a buried m
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    by skygazer 3y ago

    Well, apparently there are several people that agree with you, but I watched season 1, and I don't remember anything that could be called "woke," or was in any way pertaining to American liberal-vs-conservative or racial divi
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    by skygazer 4y ago

    I wouldn’t mind one triaging my email, voice mail can calls. Yesterday I just tested a stream of conscious rambling paragraph of things I need to do with chat GPT, then asked it to extract tasks, infer importance and interdependencies, and
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    by skygazer 4y ago

    Right, it’s not termed to be understood from the user perspective, a common trait in naming. It increases the jumble within the pool of next possible word choices, as heat increases Brownian motion. That’s the way I think of it, at least.
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    by skygazer 4y ago

    I think this was the premise of the Innovator's Dilemma, which showed examples where disruptive competition comes from below, and catches big companies off guard, toppling them, all the while prior they were successfully optimizing the
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    by skygazer 4y ago

    Vinegar has the option to force 1080p, via adaptive bitrate streaming, with the possible downside that the stream may start at lower quality, although I haven’t experienced that downside for some reason. Although perhaps that caveat only ap
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    by skygazer 4y ago

    Also, from an awakened lock screen, as an alternate to the long press of the camera button, you can just swipe left on the screen, revealing the ready camera app, which saves a second or two.
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    by skygazer 4y ago

    Interestingly, the search index in iOS Settings is not based on localized UI strings, as one would assume or hope, but on keywords that are updated independently of the UI as a neglected afterthought. So, while it’s technically “reliable,”
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    by skygazer 4y ago

    I didn't know whether studies had shown them effective or not, so I quickly googled "do mask mandates work study" and pursued the first handful of results. https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=e
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    by skygazer 4y ago

    Russia seems less like a state and more like a mafia. “Nice wind farm you got there. Would be a shame if something were to happen to it. Maybe you better buy some more oil.”
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    by skygazer 5y ago

    I trust that Apple isn't doing anything nefarious here, but at the same time, I'm quite grateful that others aren't so trusting. I want the "white hat" suspicious and skeptical rooting through everything. In fact, I
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    by skygazer 5y ago

    This seems to be the same 1998 document: http://w3.salemstate.edu/~cmauriello/pdfEuropean/Paxton_Five... On page 11 they're listed as: (1) the initial creation of fascist movements; (2) their rooting aspart
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    by skygazer 5y ago

    Bank balance and cash flow are different, as well, but obviously one has a strong influence on the other. Likewise, airplanes have both altimeters and vertical speed indicators. Your VSI tells you what your altimeter will read in the future
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    by skygazer 5y ago

    Try “cootys rat semen” — it stands up on its own, no explanation necessary. If you don’t mind the looks of disgust.
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    by skygazer 5y ago

    I once give a laptop as a birthday present on a weekend trip with my girlfriend, traveling in a small two-seat convertible. I struggled somewhat to figure out how to pack presents without it being obvious I was bringing presents. Fortunatel
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    by skygazer 5y ago

    The blue sky spectrum presents across 450–485 nm, the wavelengths of the color blue. Violet is 380nm. Although, perhaps I’m being too literal and your comment went over my head. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_s