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by smitelli 2y ago
Same. I always marvel at how my phone can decode a badly lit, blurry, 1/4 out of frame QR code as quickly as it does.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Ah, envoy. Now that is a name I have not missed.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I genuinely thought I was the only person on the planet who remembered that one.
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by smitelli 2y ago
There are some downright neat things in the iOS accessibility options. Example: you can set it so that a triple tap on the rear of the phone turns the flashlight on/off. People think it’s witchcraft how fast I can pull the phone out an
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by smitelli 2y ago
Or… a compiler?
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by smitelli 2y ago
I would hazard a guess that most iMessage users don’t associate blue == E2EE. Even if it were made explicit, how many would care?
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by smitelli 2y ago
‘CQK’ sounds like piece of trivia I would’ve had to memorize for an amateur radio license exam.
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by smitelli 2y ago
16,781,312 is the answer I got too. One hex digit (0-F) is four bits. Six hex digits is (4 6) 24 bits. 24 bits is (2^24) 16.7 million combinations. It is also legal to use three-digit colors in CSS, where (e.g.) #28d expands to #2288dd. In
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by smitelli 2y ago
Threes was (I believe) the first iOS game I actually paid money for. You could tell that the author was a true craftsperson who really cared about every detail of the product. It always felt unjust that the clones got all the attention, and
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by smitelli 2y ago
They’ve historically been quite open about needing help on the macOS front. For example, https://inkscape.org/news/2021/06/22/seeking-macos-dev-contr...
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by smitelli 2y ago
I've long held the opinion that many audio compression codecs have outlived their usefulness, and now simply introduce latency and reduce audio fidelity to preserve bandwidth that is no longer in short supply. Every internet connection
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by smitelli 2y ago
> If you put the source code for Windows 95 online, you'd be sued into a pile of ashes by MS within 10 minutes. The Windows NT 4 source code exists in multiple public repos on GitHub, and the one from the first Google result has bee
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by smitelli 2y ago
Honestly, the last thing I want is to allow randos unfettered access to deface my personal site. Maybe it brings value to somebody somewhere, but my mental health got better when I finally turned them off for good.
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by smitelli 2y ago
> "DO NOT SUBMIT" Kinda verbose, ain't it? Just speaking from my own personal experience, usually when I resort to print-debugging I'm already pretty punchy and more likely to use a quick "ASDFASD" or simila
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by smitelli 2y ago
Possibly “visitation” in the American south, unless I’m misremembering or misinterpreting the parent comment.
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Google Calendar: This is [my dead grandmother]'s special day!(scottsmitelli.com)
3 points by smitelli 2y ago|0 comments
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by smitelli 2y ago
[PSA] Firefox has this built in already: Hold Shift while right-clicking. Been a while since I tested on a fresh profile, but I don’t believe this requires any preference tweaking or about:config stuff.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I'm right there with you. I write short and medium form articles for my personal site (link in bio, follow it or don't, the world keeps spinning either way). I will never use AI as part of this craft. If that hampers my output, or
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by smitelli 2y ago
Not that long ago I was tasked with cleaning up a Git repo, created on a case-sensitive Mac, that had multiple files with names that collided when checked out on a case-insensitive Mac. That ordeal made me want to hang up my keyboard, move
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by smitelli 2y ago
And sometimes they rip the display cable while they’re trying to swap out the battery, and you end up with an entirely new SE2 in the end. Happened to us about 1-2 months ago.
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by smitelli 2y ago
You can absolutely scan the QR code with multiple authenticator apps (or copy paste the seed value into them) and they will all produce the same codes in the same order going forward.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Not the parent, but I look at it this way… Something I have: the database file. Something I know: the master password to that file. I figure the sprit of the advice is preserved for the most part. (Doesn’t keep me awake at night, anyway.)
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List of Chronometers on HMS Beagle(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by smitelli 2y ago|0 comments
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by smitelli 2y ago
Truthfully, I don't know. But I suspect I'm not the only one who feels a kind of debilitating ennui about the way things have gone and how they continue to go.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I can only speak for myself, and some of the reasons why K8s has left a bad taste in my mouth: - It can be complex depending on the third-party controllers and operators in use. If you're not anticipating how they're going to make
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by smitelli 2y ago
Up until not long ago, you could get away with this test: "Do I, as the driver, have to stop, think, and make some choice to command the car to change some setting that governs whether or not I get across this patch of terrain?" T
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The Network Time Protocol: What Times Are It?(scottsmitelli.com)
2 points by smitelli 2y ago|0 comments
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by smitelli 2y ago
In the US it’s currently $35 for the FCC renewal, which comes up every ten years.
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by smitelli 2y ago
They're basically hazardous waste. Even if they have plenty of tread and a possible long life ahead of them, no shop wants the hassle or comeback risk that comes with installing parts that don't have a fresh warranty.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Duke Nukem 3D had a stock level (E2L11, "Lunatic Fringe") that did something similar. The main structure of the map was a 720-degree loop. I remember it took me a good long while to figure out what was going on the first time I pl

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